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2026 Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes race preview: Ardennes climbs & long selective run to Liège shape the Spring finale

Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes stands as the deepest endurance test of the women’s Ardennes week, the race where the repeated climbing of Amstel Gold Race Women...

Men’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2026 contenders preview

Men’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2026 arrives with exactly the kind of field a Monument should have. Tadej Pogačar and Remco Evenepoel still sit at the top...

2026 La Flèche Wallonne Femmes race preview: the Mur de Huy returns as the decisive Ardennes test

La Flèche Wallonne Femmes is one of the clearest tests in the women’s spring calendar because the race never hides what it is building...

Men’s Flèche Wallonne 2026 contenders preview: who can master the Mur de Huy?

The men’s Flèche Wallonne 2026 arrives with a very different feel to some recent editions. With Tadej Pogačar not expected to start, the Mur...

2026 Amstel Gold Race Women race preview: Cauberg repeats and Limburg climbs open the Ardennes week

Amstel Gold Race Women opens the Ardennes week with a race identity that sits neatly between the cobbled Classics and the steeper Ardennes tests...

Men’s Amstel Gold Race 2026 contenders preview

Men’s Amstel Gold Race 2026 looks like one of the more open major one-day races of this spring, not because there is a shortage...

2026 Brabantse Pijl Women race preview: punchy climbs and repeated laps set up a selective finish in Overijse

Brabantse Pijl Women has grown into one of the most useful markers of the women’s spring, even without the formal weight of Women’s WorldTour...

2026 Paris-Roubaix Femmes race preview: the pavé, the pressure and the race every Classics rider wants to win

Paris-Roubaix Femmes has already become one of the defining races of the women’s spring, a Monument built not around climbs or repeated accelerations, but...

Men’s Paris-Roubaix 2026 contenders preview

Paris-Roubaix always tempts people into over-simplifying the race. It is easy to frame it as Mathieu van der Poel versus Tadej Pogačar and stop...

2026 Ronde de Mouscron contenders preview: who can handle the late chaos in Wallonia?

Ronde de Mouscron rarely needs much encouragement to turn messy. The roads are typically exposed, the racing is stop-start, and the finale has a...

Women’s NXT Classic 2026 contenders preview

Women’s NXT Classic 2026 takes place today, Saturday 4th April, in and around Eijsden in South Limburg, and it is the kind of race...

Men’s Itzulia Basque Country 2026 contenders preview

Men’s Itzulia Basque Country 2026 looks set to be one of the strongest stage-race fields of the spring, and the route gives that field...