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.
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…
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?
Happy New Year. Here’s the pro cycling calendar for 2025, free to download for your diary or phone.
It’s packed with all the men’s and women’s pro road races. So whether you’re scouting for that late season 1.Pro race to score points or just need to book sofa time or schedule a work “meeting”, here it is in a user-friendly format.
At the start of the year there were some predictions and it’s often worth reviewing to see what became of them… better than deleting the post if they all proved wrong.
40 questions and loyal readers will know the drill. Some are easy, several will defeat Google and even the best AI chatbot, plus a few of the answers give us a sideways look at the sport…
1. Dressed in red and white but it’s not Santa. Name the rider pictured above and what team he’s joining in a week’s time.
The fourth pick of the season is the Tour de France Femmes and its conclusion on Alpe d’Huez.
Henri “Rik” Van Looy has died aged 90. Van Looy is cycling’s best classics rider for the absolute reason that he won hundreds of races and among them every genuine classic and prime one-day race on the calendar at the time, a feat nobody has since matched.
In a land where champion cyclists are venerated, Van Looy went from hero to celebrity, with his family part of this too. In retirement he distanced himself from his imperial glory, avoiding the limelight and content to watch classics and grand tour stages from his sofa.
The 2025 Paris-Nice route has been released. No surprises for the start outside Paris and the finish in Nice. In between there are some familiar stops and some novelty.
It’ll run between Sunday 9 March and Sunday 16 March. Here’s a closer look at the eight stages…