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Men's Cycling
A brief history of Il Lombardia
Il Lombardia is cycling’s great autumn Classic, a race shaped by the lakes, climbs and descending roads of northern Italy and by more than...
Pro Cycling
Road World Championships winners and records: every elite road race and time trial champion
The UCI Road World Championships have produced some of cycling’s most recognisable champions, from Alfredo Binda, Eddy Merckx and Jeannie Longo to Marianne Vos,...
Pro Cycling
A brief history of Great Britain at the UCI Road World Championships: Burton, Simpson, Cooke and Deignan
When the UCI Road World Championships return to Montréal in September 2026, Great Britain will arrive with another generation trying to add its name...
Men's Cycling
Beginner’s guide to Il Lombardia 2026
Il Lombardia is the final Monument of the men’s road season and one of cycling’s most distinctive one-day races. The Italian Classic is built...
Men's Cycling
A brief history of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
The Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal is one of the younger races on the men's WorldTour, but the roads around Mount Royal have played...
Men's Cycling
A brief history of GP Québec
The Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec is one of the youngest one-day races on the men's WorldTour, but it did not need decades to...
Men's Cycling
Brooklyn team history – De Vlaeminck, style and a team built for one-day violence
Brooklyn lasted only five seasons under the name that made it famous, but few teams from the 1970s are as instantly recognisable. The stars-and-stripes...
Men's Cycling
Tour de France 2026 in historical context
The Tour de France 2026 will be remembered first for Tadej Pogačar winning a fifth yellow jersey, but reducing the race to that one...
Men's Cycling
A brief history of the men’s Vuelta a España
The Vuelta a España is the youngest of cycling's three men's Grand Tours, but nearly a century after its creation it has developed an...
Men's Cycling
Orcières-Merlette: the climb that humiliated Eddy Merckx during the 1971 Tour de France
Orcières-Merlette is remembered for one of the most extraordinary attacks in Tour de France history.
On 8 July 1971, Luis Ocaña rode alone for approximately...
Men's Cycling
The greatest Tour de France sprinters
The Tour de France has never belonged only to climbers and general classification riders. Every July, the sprinters give the race its other kind...
Men's Cycling
The greatest Tour de France climbers
The Tour de France has always been shaped in the mountains. The yellow jersey can be won in time trials, defended on flat roads...
