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Tour de France 2025 route will put Pogačar/Vingegaard rivalry back in the balance
The mountain-heavy 2025 Tour de France route will be the battleground for the fifth Pogačar v Vinegaard duel
Tour de France 2025 route: Summit finishes, time trials and a return to Paris
All you need to know about the route of the 112th edition of the Tour de France
Tour de France Femmes 2025 route: A diagonal route to a grand finale in the Alps
The fourth edition of the Tour de France Femmes promises to be the biggest yet, featuring nine stages, a Grand Départ in Brittany and a...
Aileen McGlynn: Blazing a trail in para-cycling
Part of our series of articles on British Cycling's Hall of Fame inductees, the Scottish paralympic tandem champion cyclist reflects on a lifetime of success in her...
Let the transfers begin: The biggest movers and shakers for the 2025 season
With the transfer window officially open as of August 1, we look at some of the most intriguing moves in the men’s and women’s WorldTour...
Does men's professional cycling need a budget cap?
An increasing dominance by a handful of superteams has spurred the UCI into considering limiting expenditure, but the idea is already facing some resistance
Presents, pranks and power training: What it’s like being Tadej Pogačar’s right-hand man
Rouleur speaks to Domen Novak, one of the key lieutenants in his compatriot's historic season
Maddy Nutt: The less trodden path
In the past three years, Maddy Nutt has gone from being a City finance analyst to the winner of a UCI Gravel World Series race....
How the UCI's relegation system is leaving riders unemployed: ‘I’ve not had the chance to score points’
The Cofidis rider is only in his second year in the WorldTour, but is already facing question marks over his future
'He also wants to chase his own ambitions': GC Kuss, on or off?
Sepp Kuss stunned the cycling world with his Vuelta a España victory in 2023, but his 14th place finish in 2024 left fans wondering: Was...
My weight battle en route to a breakthrough Tour de France, by Jonas Abrahamsen
Uno-X Mobility’s Jonas Abrahamsen had a summer he will never forget, leading the Tour de France’s polka-dot jersey for 10 days and catapulting himself into...
From triumph to turmoil: How the Women's WorldTour teams performed in 2024
SD Worx-Protime continued to dominate the Women's WorldTour, however, it didn't always go the Dutch team's way
‘Everything is in the brain’ - Cédrine Kerbaol on daredevil descending, her breakthrough season and yellow jersey dreams
The Ceratizit-WNT rider talks to Rouleur about winning a stage of the Tour, shouldering pressure and keeping a level head when it matters most
Success, struggle and surprise: How did each men's WorldTour team fare in 2024?
For some teams, it has been an up and down season, but for others, the wins kept coming throughout 2024
Was Tadej Pogačar's 2024 racing season the greatest in cycling history?
After adding a fourth Il Lombardia title to round-off his stellar year, Rouleur looks at how the Slovenian's 2024 racing season stacks up against cycling's best
'Hopefully the luck will come back' - Reflections on a hard Tour de France for Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe
Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe had high hopes going into the 2024 Tour de France, with a realistic target of finishing on the podium with Primož Roglič, even...
At least they tried: Was Il Lombardia’s star-studded breakaway a taste of things to come to confront Tadej Pogačar?
The world champion took another convincing Monument victory, but other teams at least thought out of the box in trying to beat him
‘No-one else is helping you find a job’: The cycling champions still without a contract for 2025
There is an estimated 100 WorldTour riders still without a confirmed contract for next season
Il Lombardia 2024: Route, prediction and contenders
Can anyone stop Tadej Pogačar taking a fourth consecutive win in the race of the falling leaves?
Opinion: What is the point in the Gravel World Championships?
Both the men’s and women’s races were won by seasoned road professionals who will barely compete in the rainbow stripes next year
'There’s almost no team tactics': Van der Poel overpowers the field in show of strength at Gravel World Championships
The Dutchman adds to his collection of rainbow jerseys with a dominant display in Belgium
A showdown the UCI would have longed for - Vos and Kopecky face-off lights up the Gravel World Championships
Lotte Kopecky impressed in her first-ever gravel race, but in the end there stood the familiar sight of Marianne Vos in the rainbow bands
Gravel World Championships 2024 preview: route and key contenders
Taking place on October 5 and 6, Rouleur evaluates the top contenders for the men's and women's titles
The long and the short: Inside the rise of cycling's mega-contracts
Rouleur speaks to those inside the transfer merry-go-round to find out why men's WorldTour riders are being handed longer and longer contracts
We will never be here again - a book by Svein Tuft
Richard Abraham shares more on his new book with former professional cyclist Svein Tuft
A World Championships in mourning
Rachel Jary reflects on a difficult week in Switzerland marked by the tragic passing of 18-year-old Swiss rider Muriel Furrer
‘A whole new can of worms’ - Will Ben O’Connor tackle one-day races after his breakthrough second place at the World Championships?
Usually not considered a one-day racer, the Australian rider finished with an unexpected silver medal in Zurich
Mathieu van der Poel: This is just the beginning of the Pogačar era
The dominance of the Slovenian rider at the World Championships gave little hope to his rivals who are still trying to work out how to beat...
How do you stop Tadej Pogačar? Rivals remain at a loss to cycling's most unanswerable question
Tadej Pogačar's rivals had no idea how to react to his 100km attack in Zurich, and they were left remonstrating with one another, cursing a lack...
A missed alarm, a ‘stupid’ attack and a dream come true - Tadej Pogačar is champion of the world
Inside the newly-crowned world champion's remarkable 100-kilometre solo attack on the roads of Zurich
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