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'I've got 30 guys behind me, I feel quite responsible for them' – Geraint Thomas recounts chaotic ride alongside buses on Giro route in Bulgaria
Thomas told the Watts Occurring podcast how a casual training spin on the race route turned into a 40km/h convoy with amateur riders, honking team buses and a growing sense of unease.
Tour de France record-holder Sir Mark Cavendish to wave start flag at 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans
The 40-year-old Manxman joins a line of global sporting icons chosen to start the world's most famous endurance race, following Roger Federer in 2025.
Images purporting to show leaked Specialized Tarmac SL9 spread online - but are they real?
Side-profile shots of what appears to be the next-generation Specialized Tarmac surfaced online on 12 May, revealing an evolutionary update that retains the SL8's nose cone while reshaping the seat tube and seatpost.
'I couldn't eat': Arnaud De Lie forced to sacrifice Giro sprint hopes after Belgian outbreak
Lotto-Intermarché's lead sprinter was dropped on the road and missed both opening sprint finishes after gastro-enteritis struck following the Famenne Ardenne Classic. The team says recovery should come, but the timeline remains uncertain.
'I have never recovered so smoothly from a Classic', Wout van Aert makes surprise return at Marly Grav gravel race
The Paris-Roubaix winner lines up in Valkenburg on Sunday for his first race in four weeks, joining gravel world champions Florian Vermeersch and Lorena Wiebes on the UCI Gravel World Series startline.
The damage done: four abandons and a Giro d'Italia GC race reshaped by Veliko Tarnovo crash
A major pile-up on wet roads during Stage 2 of the Giro d'Italia held up around 20 riders, with Lidl-Trek offering a cautiously positive update on their GC leader while UAE Team Emirates-XRG lost two riders to the race.
'It will only be snow and ice': the IOC’s decision on cyclocross is a loss for both the sport and the Winter Olympics
IOC president Kirsty Coventry has shut the door on cyclocross at the 2030 French Alps Games. With 2034 now the earliest option and the sport's biggest name unlikely to still be racing, the Olympic dream looks increasingly distant.
'I want to try to win stages', Giulio Ciccone targets Giro stage wins as Lidl-Trek split ambitions between GC and sprints
Speaking two days before the 2026 Giro d'Italia start, Ciccone said he's completed two altitude blocks and will hunt stages while Derek Gee-West focuses on GC and Jonathan Milan leads the sprint charge.
'I want to do better than 10th', Michael Storer to share Tudor leadership with Mathys Rondel at 2026 Giro d'Italia
The Australian has finished 10th at the Giro in both 2024 and 2025. Now he and rising talent Mathys Rondel will co-lead Tudor's GC charge on a climber-friendly route, with the podium fight behind Jonas Vingegaard wide open.
'There's a lot of hard stages here', Jonas Vingegaard arrives at Giro d'Italia debut with Grand Tour set in sight
Vingegaard confirmed his readiness for his first Giro d'Italia, saying his preparation since Volta a Catalunya has been strong, while downplaying his status as sole favourite.
Pro cycling takes another step behind the paywall as Belgian broadcaster drops Giro d'Italia free-to-air coverage
VTM's decision to stop sublicensing Giro stages from Eurosport ends three years of open-net access in Belgium, the latest Grand Tour to lose free-to-air visibility in 2026.
Fewer races, same winners: Is the WorldTour peloton becoming structurally ‘anaemic’?
Patrick Lefevere wants a lower limit on race days, arguing that too many riders are imitating the selective calendars of superstars without the results to justify it. He stopped short of naming a threshold.
The Giro d’Italia starts without any Slovenian participants for the first time in 26 years
A training crash on Thursday ended Matevž Govekar's Giro hopes. With Luka Mezgec already sidelined by fractured ribs from Scheldeprijs, Slovenia faces its first absence from the Italian Grand Tour since 2000.
Assos x EF Pro Cycling 2026 Giro d'Italia kit: Why the alien 'Ride In Peace' design nails it
The first Giro alternate kit of EF's new Assos partnership leans into a cosmic theme and lands as a limited-edition retail collection alongside the race pieces.
'We don't ask those questions about Léon Marchand', Hinault accuses French critics of double standards over Pogačar doping suspicion
The five-time Tour de France winner used a Ravito interview to compare scrutiny of Pogačar's dominance with the absence of suspicion around French swimmer Léon Marchand, and defended UAE team boss Mauro Gianetti's right to work in cycling.
'The debate has gone backwards', former Team Sky CEO Fran Millar calls for cycling reform as Rapha reissues its Roadmap
Rapha has republished its 2019 reform blueprint on the final day of the UCI's consultation deadline, with CEO Fran Millar arguing that seven years of diagnosis has produced almost no structural change in professional cycling.
'Visma are not strong enough', Danish ex-pros suggest Jonas Vingegaard should jump ship to Netcompany-Ineos
Bjarne Riis has publicly challenged Jonas Vingegaard to consider leaving Visma for the newly funded Netcompany-Ineos project, while Danish cycling insider Per Bausager says he has heard repeated rumours of Ineos interest and suspects contact has already been made.
'ROUVY will continue to be the ROUVY you all know and love', Zwift completes acquisition of indoor cycling rival
Zwift has acquired real-route cycling app ROUVY, but both platforms will keep separate roadmaps and subscriptions. Zwift Ready trainers and Zwift Ride frames work with ROUVY from today.
103 riders and the looming cancellation possibility - The Tour de Romandie’s fight for survival
The 79th Tour de Romandie starts Tuesday without a title sponsor on its yellow jersey. Race director Richard Chassot says reserves cover 2026, but a 450,000 CHF budget gap must be filled before 2027 or the WorldTour stage race may not survive.
Netcompany INEOS Cycling Team – When the rebrand happens, and what the €100m AI deal means
The team will race as Netcompany INEOS Cycling Team from the Giro d'Italia on May 8, with Danish IT firm's AI platform PULSE embedded across operations as the squad targets a return to Grand Tour contention.