The Route: 168KM and 3,500m of vertical gain. It’s uphill for 7km at the start. Monte Urano is a steep climb but otherwise ...

“A day for the sprinters”, code for saying tune in for the finale. That Was Albania: it wasn’t Yorkshire or Slovenia. Just taking a race to a new country isn’t sufficient to attract media attention ...

Route summary Last year’s route was explicitly eased twice over to tempt Tadej Pogačar: reduced vertical gain of 43,000m and ...

A mountain stage? Yes, and Mads Pedersen has his work cut out if he wants the maglia rosa back. Primož inter pares: the stage win for Josh Tarling, the overall for Primož Roglič who fared the best of ...

A time trial, today’s stage accounts for a third of the Giro’s kilometres against the clock so this in an important day for the GC contenders. Monte Carlo simulation: Albania looked the part.

Roll up, roll up, the only grand tour of the year without Tadej Pogačar and there’s no Jonas Vingegaard nor Remco Evenepoel either. Primož Roglič back for more and Juan Ayuso as his main challenger ...

The Giro d’Italia starts with a hilly stage from the coast to the capital. The Route: 160km and after a spin along the sea front, it’s inland to Elbasan, once the home of Albania’s steel industry, now ...

Here’s a Giro d’Italia calendar for your phone or organiser with all stages listed along with a rating for their likely importance to the race or potential for action. These calendars seem popular for ...

A time trial, today’s stage accounts for a third of the Giro’s kilometres against the clock so this in an important day for the GC contenders.

The Tour de Romandie starts today with a prologue, the only World Tour race that still has one. It’s different from an ...

Addicted to Tadej Pogačar? Like many addicts you may not realise it or want to confront it but the Slovenian is becoming essential to the sport. Last Sunday saw Pogačar duelling Mathieu van der Poel ...