Welcome to 2017, also known as 2016 – The Sequel. Here’s the pro cycling calendar for your organiser, phone or computer diary. All of the major UCI men’s and women’s pro races around the world are included and below there’s a quick explainer on how to subscribe, the meaning of the UCI labels and more.
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The Christmas Holiday Quiz
A Christmas quiz with 40 questions. Some are obvious, some odd, most can’t be Googled and a few are fiendish. By all means have a go and there’s a token prize for the winner but most will probably find fun in the answers that will appear here next week.
1: Name the “Santa” dressed in red pictured above.
2: Name the (sometimes) helper dressed in green(edge) kit below.
What Happened to the 10 Neo-Pros For 2016?
At the start of the year ten neo-pros were picked as riders to watch. How did they get on?
Friday Shorts
The Criterium International’s been scrapped. It began in 1932 and has ended up homeless so owners ASO have pulled the plug.
Thursday Shorts
Thomas Voeckler, la langue francaise, has announced he’ll retire at the end of the Tour de France next year. He’s not got the force he used to enjoy and the peloton are wise to his breakaway antics.
LA Confidential
Lizzie Armitstead has won an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport over three missed out-of-competition anti-doping tests that could have seen her banned for four years. Athletes regularly miss tests, these things happen but the hushed nature of her provisional suspension and the way her absence from races was reported by some as a choice raises a lot of questions.
Critérium du Dauphiné Stage 5 Preview
The race heads for the mountains and a hard ski station summit finish. Vaujany isn’t famous in cycling now a swank ski resort but it is a hard, selective climb and all this on an intense 140km stage.
Thursday Shorts
A power and politics edition below with on-board bike cams and the weight limits, handling data on TV, politics in France and Italy, snails, beetroot and more…
Thanks to Prendas Ciclismo
Sponsors of this website get an appreciative message of thanks on here and it’s time to say grazie mille to Prendas for their support during the Giro and beyond. The content on here doesn’t happen by itself and the generous backing from sponsors and readers through kit sales is essential to keeping the wheels turning. Thank-you to all.
New Supporter Caps
A fresh batch of supporter caps has arrived… with a new design that matches the jersey.
Buy one and you get cotton cap… and the content on this website too.