A rare break in racing, yesterday and today don’t have a race on the calendar to time for a quick review.
Critérium du Dauphiné Route
A quick look at the route ahead while the headline is that this race should see the the first clash between Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard.
The 2025 Points Race
Crunch time for the World Tour with two teams facing relegation and two aiming for promotion. Here’s a closer look at the contest ahead this year. It’s not the biggest story of the season but it will regularly affect tactics, race programs for teams and riders alike and so shape the season. And can Lotto afford promotion?
Riders To Watch For 2025
Ten riders to watch in 2025. Some are picked as tips for their raw talent, others to see what paths they will go down.
UCI Points And Rankings Tables
Do rankings and points matter in cycling? Demonstrably not as the points tables are hard to find, they’re 70 pages into a 394 page PDF linked to on the regulations page of the UCI website.
But they do matter for this year’s promotion and relegation race. So here are the tables showing how many UCI points are available in each road race. It’s not a gripping read but at least here they’re all on one page and upcoming pieces about points and rankings can link back to this resource.
Tour Down Under Preview
The men’s season-opener and a chance to see all the kit and bikes sparkle in bright sunshine. This is often a surprisingly subtle race where the winning move can be a sprint for a time bonus rather than a blazing attack.
Here’s a look at the stages, the contenders and the daily finish times.
Giro d’Italia Route
The 2025 Giro d’Italia route was finally unveiled in a long presentation but since we’ve been waiting since December what’s an extra two hours? It’ll take place between 9 May – 1 June and has few time trials and few summit finishes but remains mountainous.
Here’s a stage-by-stage look with all the profiles on one page and some thoughts on each day and more.
Predictions for 2025
With plenty going on out there events in pro cycling seem pretty tame in comparison. But here are twelve predictions for the cycling season ahead…
Indecent Proposals
Every July the best cyclists take part in the Tour de France. You can have a few exceptions but they often just prove the rule. But what would it take to change this, could you launch a rival race using big appearance fees and a large prize pot?
Golf has seen this with the Saudi-backed Liv venture paying some star golfers hundreds of millions of dollars to drop the PGA Tour for Liv. What would it take to dethrone the Tour de France?