Author: Alex
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Primoz Roglic finally gets round to winning | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia
Primoz Roglic famously lost the Tour de France in a mountain time trial. He was first overall at the bottom but only second by the top. This time he did the reverse, albeit with a gut-churning pause halfway up when he dropped his chain and came to a complete standstill. That stationary moment must have…
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Riders v weather | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia
A rapid descent on soaking roads with equally wet clothing in one degree temperatures anybody? No, I wouldn’t fancy it either. The case for the Giro to be considered the most gruelling of the three Grand Tours has a little to do with the terrain – which never truly eases – and a lot to…
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Geraint Thomas second-places himself into the lead | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia
When you plot the route for a three-week bike race, the ideal scenario on the first rest day is for one rider to be faster in the time trials, another rider to be faster in the mountains, and whichever one’s behind to have more opportunities coming up in the rest of the race. The 2023…
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Evenepoel, Roglic and a bunch of other people – a 2023 Giro d’Italia preview
Last year Jai Hindley became the first Australian winner of the Giro d’Italia. Cycling being cycling, he has rewarded the race by skipping it in favour of the Tour de France this year. So who does that leave us with? Remco Evenepoel The last time there was a three-week race, Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel won…
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Demi Vollering? Imagine a full one! | a 2023 spring classics recap
Some people really don’t like surprises. These people will no doubt be lapping up the 2023 road cycling season thus far. Let’s start with the women’s races and specifically 2021 Liege-Bastogne-Liege and La Course winner, Demi Vollering, who has – let’s not beat about the bush – won everything. Okay, not everything. She came second…
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Pogacar is unlike Vingegaard – a springtime state of play update
Spring is (sort of) here. Tadej Pogacar is winning bike races. Gauntlets are being thrown down. Where are we with everything? Shall we try and take stock? The WorldTour (the UCI still hasn’t found its space bar) officially began in January with the Tour Down Under, but road cycling’s deep-rooted eurocentrism means it never really…
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Well you could say that Remco Evenepoel was without rival | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2022 Vuelta a Espana
Preview Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week 3 recap Well, I’ve got to be honest, that kind of petered out a bit. The week began with Remco Evenepoel leading Primoz Roglic by 1m34s after the latter had repeatedly snatched small chunks of time and chipped away at the Belgian’s lead. The decisive moment Stage…
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Everyone’s fading but you | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2022 Vuelta a Espana
Preview Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week 3 recap Remco Evenepoel went into the second week of the Vuelta a Espana with a 1m12s lead, then he won the time trial by a mile, then he started fading a bit. Fortunately for him, his most obvious rival seems off the pace too. The TT…
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Remco Evenepoel deploys his tactic | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2022 Vuelta a Espana
Preview Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week 3 recap A few months after dropping the entire field at Liege-Bastogne-Liege by riding slightly took quickly for them all, young Belgian mega-hope Remco Evenepoel has carved himself a 1m12s lead in the Vuelta a Espana by deploying the same unsubtle but so far unanswerable tactic. The…
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Favourites for the 2022 Vuelta a Espana
Preview Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week 3 recap Grand Tour contenders often target the Vuelta a Espana as a second-choice after primarily aiming for the Giro d’Italia or Tour de France earlier in the year. A weird by-product of this is that it can often end up with the strongest field of the…