Netherlands

2020 Women’s Spring Classics Race Dates and Favourites

Just like the men's peloton, in the early part of 2020, there are a collection of races known as the spring classics. The women's cycling calendar loosely follows the...

2020 Spring Classics Race Dates and Favourites

In the early part of 2020 are the collection of races known as the spring classics. These races all have lots of character and tradition and for the most...

Women’s Tour of Guangxi 2019 Preview – Tips, Contenders, Profile

The Women's Tour of Guangxi isn't just the last women's WorldTour race of the 2019 season, it's the last women's race on the calendar. Once the race on 22nd...

Boels Ladies Tour 2019 Preview – Tips, Contenders, Profile

The Boels Ladies Tour starts today. It begins with a tiny tiny prologue of 3.8km at the Tom Dumoulin BikePark in Sittard. It will create some time gaps. There's...

Men’s European Championships Road Race 2019

I covered the European Championships women's race yesterday and today was the turn of the men. They did the same 11 laps of an 11km loop but also a...

Women’s European Championships Road Race 2019

The 2019 European Championships were supposed to be somewhere else but it got taken off them and given last minute to Alkmaar back in April. I decided there and...

Men and Women’s Amstel Gold Race 2019 Preview – Tips, Contenders, Profile

Sunday's Amstel Gold Races see the men and women take on the hilliest part of the Netherlands - the enclave of Limburg tucked away in the very bottom corner...

Women’s Ronde van Drenthe 2019 Preview – Tips, Contenders, Profile

Compared to some of more recent races, this Sunday's Ronde van Drenthe (17th March) has more of a history in the women's racing calendar having been raced since 2007....

Amstel Gold 2018 Preview – Tips, Contenders, Profile

Done are the Flemish classics, we've now moved onto the Ardennes region. These races follow a different pattern to what we've seen already this year, cobbles are pretty much...

2018 Spring Classics Dates and Favourites

In the early part of 2018 are the collection of races known as the spring classics. These races all have lots of character and tradition and for the most...

The Dutch Yellow Jersey Drought

The Netherlands has a rich cycling history with various Grand Tour winners and at home, a cycling infrastructure that is the envy of the rest of the developed world....

Miffy at the Tour de France

Miffy the Rabbit This year the Tour de France starts in the Dutch city of Utrecht - home of Dick Bruna, creator of Miffy (or Nijntje in the original Dutch)...