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‘Visma are the indisputable favourites’: UAE Team Emirates-XRG forced into Giro d’Italia rethink after João Almeida ruled out
Joxean Fernández Matxin tells Rouleur that UAE will now back Adam Yates who will be vying to keep the maglia rosa in the family after...
Paul Seixas gets close to the sun – and doesn’t burn. Tadej Pogačar has a new rival
The 19-year-old Frenchman finishes second to the world champion at Liège-Bastogne-Liège
Tadej Pogačar-esque: Demi Vollering is looking unstoppable this spring
As if the Tour of Flanders wasn't proof enough of resounding form, the Dutchwoman flew to victory yet again at La Flèche Wallone. The gap...
One crisis ends, another extends: Remco Evenepoel's Amstel Gold triump inflicts more pain on Lidl-Trek
What does Evenepoel's Amstel win mean for the bigger picture?
A star is born: Paula Blasi announces her arrival with convincing Amstel Gold win
Rouleur tells the cycling story of 23-year-old Paula Blasi, who outrode the favourites in another unpredictable edition of Amstel Gold.
Fortune favours and punishes the dreamers at Dwars door Vlaanderen
Filippo Ganna triumphs at the Belgian Classic despite a series of misfortunes, while Wout van Aert's left dealing with yet more heartache
'I would discourage my child from entering the sport' – Dan Bigham on the dangers of cycling
Rouleur discusses safer bike racing and much-needed changes in the sport’s approach with former pro Adam Blythe and former Hour Record holder Dan Bigham
Pubs, building sites and Fortnite: how Dillon Corkery finally reached the WorldTour at 27
Irishman Dillon Corkery has taken quite the convoluted journey to cycling's big league, but now he is here he is determined that he'll be around...
Doubt him at your peril: Wout van Aert is in Classics-winning form
Jasper Philipsen won In Flanders Field, but the headline act was Wout van Aert. He's back from his broken ankle, and is knocking on the...
A monumental failure: how did E3 Saxo Classic chasers let Mathieu van der Poel win?
A rudimentary victory turned into something very different. Mathieu van der Poel can't believe his luck, and the chasing foursome can't believe their errors
Is Visma's Nienke Veenhoven the successor to Lorena Wiebes? 'I believe we will come close to beating her'
Rouleur talks to the rising Dutch star
'It's on me to do it': Canada's Michael Leonard is on a mission to fulfil his promise
EF Education-EasyPost have signed former Ineos Grenadiers young hope Michael Leonard on a three-year deal. The Canadian is determined to come good on his potential
New name, new backers, new era of success? Optimism is returning to Ineos Grenadiers
It won't be easy for Ineos Grenadiers to be the sport's most pre-eminent team once again, but fresh investment from Danish company Netcompany ought to...
The WorldTour promotion-relegation system is being gamed once more – leaving some in perplexing positions
Jonathan Milan can't stop winning for Lidl-Trek, but take a look at the teams classification and the German team are one of the sport's worst...
Tower of power: Ganna eyes success at Milan Sanremo and Paris-Roubaix
We all know Filippo Ganna for his Olympic and World titles, his Hour Record and Grand Tour stage wins, but who really is Italy’s gentle giant? Rouleur meets a man striving to achieve greatness while also staying true...
Anton Schiffer: the sports scientist and coach who is Visma-Lease a Bike’s latest late-starter
Keen sports scientist student and coach Anton Schiffer is Visma-Lease a Bike's latest 'newbie'. Just a few years after switching from triathlon to cycling, the...
The undefeated boxer who's just become a professional cyclist: 'It's in my DNA to win'
Canyon Sram zondacrypto’s development team, Generation, have recruited the most eye-catching signing of the year, landing Germany's most feared boxer, Sophie Alisch. This is her...
Tao Geoghegan Hart is preparing his next chapter: ‘We use the word ‘leader’ in a weird way in cycling’
The Lidl-Trek rider has endured a difficult few years after a horror crash at the 2023 Giro d’Italia, but he believes he still has a...
Elise Chabbey, FDJ's Plan B, shocks Strade Bianche: 'It should have been for Demi, but today it’s for me'
A thrilling race and even more thrilling finale flipped the Strade Bianche script on its head
Peloton downbeat after another Tadej Pogačar masterclass: 'It's not really that fun'
World champion stormed to his fourth Strade Bianche title in a typically dominate performance
The Tadej Pogačar conundrum: are you marvelled or desensitised by his continued greatness?
Eddy Merckx knows his GOAT title is no longer his. 2026 is set to be the like the last half-a-decade: dominated by Tadej Pogačar
‘Last year I was a MTB rider; this year it’s different’: Pauline Ferrand-Prévot promises greatness from the get go at Strade Bianche
When Pauline Ferrand-Prévot lined up at Strade Bianche 12 months ago, she was the great unknown. Her return to road racing after a six year hiatus at UAE Tour...
Obsession, loyalty, and savviness: how former mechanic Ralph Denk became modern cycling’s blueprint manager
The German talks to Rouleur about his journey through the sport of cycling
Wunderkind Albert Philipsen can do it all but preaches patience: ‘I don’t think about what everyone else wants me to be’
Albert Philipsen has been paraded as cycling's next superstar, and every WorldTour team were set to be in for his signature when he was only...
'I feel like it really touched a lot of people' – Simon Yates and the miracle of the Finestre
Five attempts at the Giro d’Italia and Simon Yates was still no closer to winning the maglia rosa than back in 2018 when he blew...
Carb ratios, heat training and sprinting: how UAE Team Emirates-XRG plan on getting Tadej Pogačar 'towards perfection'
Now 27 and supposedly at his peak physical fitness, is it even possible to make Tadej Pogačar an even better athlete? His team think it...
'It's changed me as a man': Lenny Martinez – France’s Tour hope doing things his own non-French way
France's pocket-rocket climber is forging his own path away from his ancestral home. Will it lead him to eclipse the achievements of his father and...
Remco Evenepoel wants to break the Hour Record 'at some point': will he smash Filippo Ganna's time?
The three-time time trial world champion isn't planning an imminent attempt, but he has declared his intention to one day break Filippo Ganna's record. Dan...
The Ineos exodus and the attraction of Red Bull: why cycling’s best minds are all making the same move
As one team is weakened, another is strengthened: explaining the exodus from the fading superpower to the sport's coming powerhouse.
Paul Magnier, cycling's next top sprinter: 'Why can't I fight for the rainbow jersey?'
The Frenchman is the current and the future of a Soudal Quick-Step team that has gone back to the future.
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