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‘I stressed I’d never win a bike race’ - How Lewis Askey has finally become a winner

‘I stressed I’d never win a bike race’ - How Lewis Askey has finally become a winner

The Briton is likely to be a contender in a breakaway and punchy stages of the Tour de France, should as expected he be selected...

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I know what I’ll be doing after retirement: I’ll be on the chicken farm, by Pieter Serry

I know what I’ll be doing after retirement: I’ll be on the chicken farm, by Pieter Serry

Soudal Quick-Step’s current longest-serving rider, Pieter Serry, was born and raised on a chicken farm in Flanders, Belgium. Though he'll leave the team at the...

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Tour de France 2024

Tour de France 2025 predictions: who will be the stand-out riders in the 112th edition?

Best guesses at who will come out on top during the three weeks in France

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Julius Johansen

The incredible comeback story of Tadej Pogačar’s new teammate after WorldTour rejection

He won a world road race title before Tadej Pogačar, but the blonde-haired Dane had to suffer a painful rejection before finally reaching the top

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First blood in the mountains: What does Pogačar's crushing Dauphiné stage win tell us about the Tour?

First blood in the mountains: What does Pogačar's crushing Dauphiné stage win tell us about the Tour?

Time trial gains for Jonas Vingegaard, first mountain domination for Tadej Pogačar. Are we set for a close-fought Tour de France?

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Giro d'Italia 2025 peloton

Giro d'Italia 2025 team ratings: The best and the worst performances

Assessing the success of the 23 teams that took to the start of the Giro d'Italia this year

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Mads Pedersen

‘Not a lot of teams will ever do this’ - The inside story of Lidl-Trek’s Giro greatness

Rouleur went behind the scenes with one of the most successful squads of this year’s race to find out how the magic happens

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Simon Yates, Olav Kooij at the Giro d'Italia

‘This is the pinnacle’ - Visma-Lease a Bike and an unwavering strive for perfection

A victory on the final stage for Olav Kooij alongside Simon Yates’ general classification win is a dream come true for the Dutch team –...

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Gianni Bugno: 'Pogačar's dominance isn't going to be good for the sport in the long run'

Gianni Bugno: 'Pogačar's dominance isn't going to be good for the sport in the long run'

Gianni Bugno was a rider of immense class, a Giro, Sanremo and Worlds winner, who was also engagingly human, flawed and fragile. Rouleur catches up with the...

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La Reina: Demi Vollering is exactly where she belongs

La Reina: Demi Vollering is exactly where she belongs

The Dutchwoman’s victory in La Vuelta España Femenina is a product of exemplary teamwork from FDJ-Suez

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Richard Carapaz

Richard Carapaz: the perennial underdog

Richard Carapaz will head into the 2025 Giro d’Italia as one of the pre-eminent GC riders of his day, a former winner of the race...

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Writing history: Why Kim Le Court’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège win is so important

Writing history: Why Kim Le Court’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège win is so important

The Mauritian trailblazer took the biggest victory of her career on Sunday after a challenging road to the top of the sport

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Amstel magic ushers in a topsy-turvy, unpredictable week of Ardennes Classics

Amstel magic ushers in a topsy-turvy, unpredictable week of Ardennes Classics

Lidl-Trek’s Mattias Skjelmose takes shock victory at Amstel Gold Race, beating Tadej Pogačar and Remco Evenepoel in three-up sprint

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‘He will be like Merckx’ - Paris-Roubaix is proof that Tadej Pogačar will win all five Monuments

‘He will be like Merckx’ - Paris-Roubaix is proof that Tadej Pogačar will win all five Monuments

The world champion narrowly missed out on a victory at his Hell of the North debut – his performance is a menacing sign for years...

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Mountains, mud, cobbles: There is nothing Pauline Ferrand-Prévot cannot do

Mountains, mud, cobbles: There is nothing Pauline Ferrand-Prévot cannot do

The Visma-Lease a Bike rider won by almost a minute in the Roubaix velodrome. Her weighty palmarès has another glorious victory.

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Tadej Pogačar and Mathieu van der Poel at Tour of Flanders 2025

We are in the Pogačar-Van der Poel era, but who is more likely to win all five Monuments?

Rouleur takes a look at the stats behind the rivalry between the two best Monument riders of the peloton

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Lorena Wiebes wins Gent-Wevelgem 2025

Sprint Queen: Lorena Wiebes reaches career century milestone

Dutchwoman lives up to favourite tag by winning Sunday's Gent-Wevelgem, her fourth Classic win of 2025

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'He blew us away': The extraordinary, rapid rise of British super-talent Matthew Brennan

'He blew us away': The extraordinary, rapid rise of British super-talent Matthew Brennan

The two-time junior track world champion is emerging as one of Visma-Lease a Bike's brightest talents, and one of Britain's future superstars

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Lorena Wiebes, Milan-Sanremo

Closing in on a century of victories: Lorena Wiebes is unstoppable

SD Worx had multiple cards to play at Sanremo Women, but it was Lorena Wiebes who came out on top

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Mathieu van der Poel, Milan-Sanremo 2025

'It's not something that is normal': Mathieu van der Poel basks in the absurdity of another Monument victory

Worryingly for his rivals, the Dutchman claims he's in career-best shape as he targets more Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix titles

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Milan-Sanremo Donne 2025

Heartache and frustration as Sanremo Women returns: 'Next time they're not gonna catch me'

Lorena Wiebes won the first women's Milan-Sanremo in 20 years, but it so could have been Elisa Longo Borghini celebrating

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Meet the new aggressors: The Ineos Grenadiers have finally moved with the times

Meet the new aggressors: The Ineos Grenadiers have finally moved with the times

Two GC podiums and two stage wins show that a change of tactics can bring results 

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Meet Matthew Riccitello: America’s future Grand Tour champion?

Meet Matthew Riccitello: America’s future Grand Tour champion?

The 23-year-old rider has already shown his potential to climb with the best and believes that with patience and steady progression, he can one day...

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‘The competition is higher than ever’ - Can Demi Vollering maintain her dominance over the women’s WorldTour peloton?

‘The competition is higher than ever’ - Can Demi Vollering maintain her dominance over the women’s WorldTour peloton?

Although the FDJ-Suez rider looked stronger than ever in this year’s recent edition of Strade Bianche, the progression of her rivals will ensure she does...

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The view from the back wheel: Inside Tadej Pogačar's shocking Strade Bianche crash

The view from the back wheel: Inside Tadej Pogačar's shocking Strade Bianche crash

Rouleur speaks to Connor Swift, Tom Pidcock and Pogačar himself about the dramatic moment in Tuscany on Saturday

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Opinion: Unless other teams step up, Alpecin-Deceuninck are about to dominate this Classics season

Opinion: Unless other teams step up, Alpecin-Deceuninck are about to dominate this Classics season

Good luck to the rest of the peloton, because the Belgian team are on track to be stronger than ever in 2025

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Lotte Claes wins Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

Stalemate: How the breakaway took advantage of an FDJ-Suez and SD Worx-Protime standoff at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

Lotte Claes of Arkéa-B&B Hotels Women profited from politics in the peloton behind to take the biggest victory of her career

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Fabio Jakobsen: This is how you make sprints safer

Fabio Jakobsen: This is how you make sprints safer

As the first big sprints battles of the year take place at the UAE Tour, Picnic PostNL’s Fabio Jakobsen has an idea of how to...

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New riders, new mentality: Are there finally positive signs for the Ineos Grenadiers?

New riders, new mentality: Are there finally positive signs for the Ineos Grenadiers?

The opening race of the WorldTour saw promising performances from the British team who say that big changes have been made ahead of the 2025...

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Simon Yates ready to find 'real improvement' in a new phase of his career

Simon Yates ready to find 'real improvement' in a new phase of his career

The British rider has spent his whole career so far with Jayco-Alula, but is now hoping the support of superteam Visma-Lease a Bike can spur...

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