Tweets of the Week 2020: BatChamps, season’s dreaming and bye-bye Bernie
The season is about to start with the Tour Down Under but first there was the Australian #BatChamps as well … Continue reading
FINAL KM: Bat Champs Aussie style
The Northern hemisphere may still be wrapped up in cosy knitwear, but it’s the height of summer down under and … Continue reading
Tweets of the Week 2020: Happy new year, happy new jerseys!
After a little bit of a holiday after the end of the 2019 season, we’re back with the first TWEETS … Continue reading
A to Z of Men’s Cycling 2019 : From New stage winners to Zdenek (part 2)
We finish our round-up of the 2019 men’s pro cycling season – it’s N through Z …
A to Z of Men’s Cycling 2019 : From Alaphilippe to Monuments (part 1)
It’s the traditional end of year round-up of the cycling season – yes, it’s the VeloVoices A to Z of … Continue reading
VeloVoices Podcast 150: The 2019 Velovoices Award winners revealed!
Kathi, Midge, Luke and Euan get dressed up in their glad rags, open a bottle of something special and announce … Continue reading
VeloVoices Podcast 149: Romain’s little whiskey
It’s awards time! Kathi, Midge, Luke and Euan get together round the Velovoices dining table and discuss all the nominations for the 2019 Velovoices Awards.
Highlights include:
- Kathi taking on the team that tackles itself
- The Tour de France stage that changed Luke’s whole outlook on cycling
- Just how damn hot is Julian Alaphilippe?
- And the Tirreno-Adriatico stage that time seems to have forgotten (by everyone except Midge)
There’s a lot of laughs along the way and some poignant moments too.
To see all the nominations and to cast your votes click here
And #StayAlert for the next podcast when we reveal your winners.
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VeloVoices Awards 2019: Lifetime achievement award
This particular award is always hotly contested. This year we have an interesting list – big name retirees, a couple of cycling legends, a super domestique and a race itself. To be honest, they all deserve this award …
Voting ends on 14 December 2019 at 11.59PM, GMT. If you think there’s someone who should be on the list, there’s a write-in option on the poll at the bottom of the post!
VeloVoices Awards 2019: Rider of the Year (Male)
It’s been a great, great cycling season! We had five different winners of the Monuments, three brand new winners of the Grand Tours – all from countries that have never won a Grand Tour before … what more could you want? The coveted VeloVoices Rider of the Year is for the rider whose presence in a race makes it more exciting, who rides with guts and who is gracious in both victory and defeat. Last year’s Rider of the Year was Julian Alaphilippe – can he double up this year? Here are our nominations …
Voting ends on 14 December 2019 at 11.59PM, GMT. If you think there’s someone who should be on the list, there’s a write-in option on the poll at the bottom of the post!
Videos
Davide Formolo (Cannondale-Garmin) delivered for the team at this year’s Giro d’Italia with a popular solo win on stage four. Called up only a fortnight before the start, he hadn’t specifically trained for the race, which leaves us wondering whether he might have bettered his overall 31st place if he’d targetted this race. Keeping the pink glow going, he looks back at his first Grand Tour.
Created in 1993 to enable amateur cyclists to personally experience a stage of each year’s Tour de France, L’Etape de Tour is THE cyclosportive. This year’s event takes place on Sunday 19th July over 142km from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to La Toussuire.
All places are taken for this year’s Etape (unless you get a place with a tour operator or through a charity). Places go fast as soon as registration opens so if you want to get a jump on proceedings for next year, take a minute to register with ASO Challenges. Registration details are here. Also, follow l’Etape on Twitter and Facebook for news all year round.
Links: Official website
Images
To many of us, the Grubers’ work really epitomises the Belgian Cobbled Classics. If you haven’t seen their gallery for Cannondale-Garmin, go now!
http://slipstreamsports.com/2015/03/30/gallery-gent-wevelgem-gruber-images/
“We’ve tried to go down roads and go through places that are far more interesting than the number of watts we’re putting out and the speed we’re averaging.” Gus Morton
The Australian cycling site, Cycling Tips, just goes from strength to strength in my book. Up on the site now is Thereabouts, a 45-minute documentary made with Gus and Lachlan Morton about their experience riding from Port Macquarie to Uluru – riding over 2,000km in just 12 days. Why did they do it? To reconnect with the reasons why they started riding in the first place. Click here to read more about their story.
Read about it, watch it, get inspired by it.
Asides
All of the history and excitement of the world’s most famous one-day bicycle race in one coffee-table book. Paris-Roubaix: A Journey Through Hell is an essential read for anyone interested in this spectacular race.
Want your own kit or need something special for your cycling club? Contact G4 who provide a custom service!
http://www.calameo.com/read/003111411e32746b42755
Links
It was a stage of action and drama at Tour Down Under. The GC leaders battled for bonus seconds. A first WorldTour victory went to Jasper Philipsen after Caleb Ewan was relegated for head butting. Race leader Patrick Bevin was involved in a crash and had to chase to get back with the peloton.
Quotes
“Riders like me and Cancellara don’t think about the points, just the win.”
Vincenzo Nibali bemoans the lack of fierce joy in the riders of the peloton, many of whom he believes play it safe and ride just for points, not the win.
Read his straight-talking interview on Velonews.
When asked what animal he would like to be, Bernie Eisel answered ‘My cat. She has the best life you can imagine!’
I happen to know that there are a whole lotta ladies out there who would kill to be Bernie’s cat. I’ll leave that there …
The face a million women love (Image: Team Sky)
Here is Team Sky’s 20 Questions to the Ladies Favourite
