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Road World Championships winners and records: every elite road race and time trial champion

2026 champions, Montréal: Brandon McNulty won the elite men’s road race and Demi Vollering the elite women’s road race. Remco Evenepoel retained the elite...

A brief history of Bretagne Classic

The Bretagne Classic is one of the oldest surviving one-day races in professional cycling, although its modern name hides much of that history. For...

A brief history of ADAC Cyclassics

The ADAC Cyclassics has become one of Germany's most important one-day races by doing something relatively unusual in European cycling: building a modern Classic...

Beginner’s guide to ADAC Cyclassics 2026

The ADAC Cyclassics returns on Sunday 16 August 2026 as Germany’s biggest men’s one-day race and one of the fastest events on the UCI...

The greatest Tour de France sprinters

At a glance: Mark Cavendish holds the Tour de France stage-win record with 35 victories. Peter Sagan leads the points-classification record with seven green...

Rabobank men team history: Dutch consistency, Classics depth & years of reinvention

Rabobank was never the loudest superteam in men’s cycling, but it was one of the most recognisable. For more than 15 years, the orange-and-blue...

A brief history of the Men’s Milano-Sanremo

Milano-Sanremo has always occupied a slightly unusual place in cycling. It is one of the sport’s great Monuments, but it does not behave like the...

Greatest Spring Classics Races – Brabantse Pijl

Brabantse Pijl had its first edition in 1961, the race started and finished in Brussels. The first winner was Pino Cerami, who now has a race named after him - the GP Cerami. Pijl is the Flemish word for arrow, making it the Brabant version of Flèche Wallonne.

Greatest Spring Classics Races – Milan San Remo

La Classicicissima is another old old bike race, starting up in 1907 (and an amateur 2-day version in 1906). The soon to be 2-time Tour de France winner Lucien Petit-Breton won the first race. The 1920s were dominated by Costante Girardengo who won the race 6 times and had 5 further podium places. The Italian dominance continued into the 1940s with heavyweights like Alfredo Binda, Gino Bartali & Fausto Coppi all winning the race.