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Dead or alive? What is the future of One Cycling?

Chris Marshall-Bell explains the latest developments in the One Cycling project

'I do enjoy winning' - Bella Holmgren on beating the best, targeting Grand Tours and juggling it all

The Canadian was not expecting to be winning road races while still a teenager, but already she's demonstrated that she's one of Lidl-Trek's strongest climbers.

‘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...

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

From ski star to GC hope: Florian Lipowitz's convoluted journey to becoming Germany's biggest cycling talent

Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe's young German didn't start out cycling, but he showed promise from the moment he first started taking the sport seriously. Now he's one...

From WorldTour rejection to Giro d'Italia stage hunting: Mark Donovan is back at cycling's top table

The Q36.5 rider has had a near-three-year hiatus from cycling's Grand Tours, but now riding better than ever he's once again looking to be in...

Mads Pedersen is at the peak of his powers

A second stage win and a return to the maglia rosa is a fitting reward for a rider in some of his best ever form

The Dilemma: Should Primož Roglič give away the Giro d'Italia pink jersey?

The Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe rider will next be able to take time on his rivals during stage seven's mountain-top finish and stage nine's gravel. Does he...

The Giro's opening stage was as chaotic and stressful as the peloton had predicted

It's the first time that Albania has hosted top-level cycling, and most teams and riders had been unimpressed by the host country in the days...

Insatiable Mads Pedersen keeps Classics momentum going at Giro d'Italia: 'I'm hungry for more'

The former world champion credited his latest victory to the tireless work of his Lidl-Trek teammates. Continue in this manner, and the Dane could rack...

XDS Astana's Great Escape is definitely on: 'Why shouldn't we be confident?'

Alexander Vinokourov's team are making the impossible rather quite possible

Joe Pidcock's lonely solo ride at Paris-Roubaix: 'The cobbled sectors were full of people walking'

The Yorkshireman was the last rider to cross the line at Paris-Roubaix, 53 minutes and 40 seconds after the winner

'It's quite exceptional' – Is Mathieu van der Poel this century's greatest Classics rider?

The Alpecin-Deceuninck rider has now won eight Monuments, and next year will be looking to equal the record number of Paris-Roubaix victories.

'He’s going to be a big champion': António Morgado is Tadej Pogačar's new favourite helper

Tadej Pogačar has a new domestique to rely on – and he's tipped for greatness in the Classics himself.

Paris-Roubaix's youngest rider Carys Lloyd is still at school: 'My teachers can't get their head around it'

The Movistar rider was one of two British 18-year-olds representing the Spanish team, with Cat Ferguson also making her debut in the Hell of the...

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.

Pfeiffer Georgi and a Paris-Roubaix obsession: 'Your whole life can change in one lap'

The British champion will lead Picnic-PostNL in the Hell of the North, looking to finish on the podium for the second successive season.

'I don't think we made many mistakes': Visma-Lease a Bike almost nailed the Tour of Flanders

Wout van Aert is without a victory in a cobbled Classic this season, but the Belgian and his teammates did everything they could at the...

'We Can Do It': How a €4 gift made Lotte Kopecky the Queen of Flanders again

The world champion is up and running for the season and is now chasing a Flanders-Roubaix double

SD Worx-Protime v Elisa Longo Borghini: the Tour of Flanders mind games have begun

Both Elisa Longo Borghini and Lotte Kopecky are looking to win De Ronde for a record third time. Can anyone spoil the party?

Mads Pedersen might go long at Tour of Flanders again: 'I can’t wait to see what the others do'

The Lidl-Trek rider finished second in De Ronde in 2018, and has been trying ever since to elevate himself onto the podium's top spot. To...

Tour of Flanders CEO is changing cycling like no one has before: ‘There’s no such thing as a rule'

Former basketball player Tomas Van Den Spiegel has revolutionised Flanders Classics, creating a model of bike races that could become the benchmark for all. And...