Roubaix Tweets of the Week : The mud, the blood, the caked crusaders
It was a Weekend in Hell – for the first time, we had women’s Roubaix on Saturday and men’s Roubaix … Continue reading
VeloVoices Podcast 185: The mud of Roubaix and the glory of the Worlds
Take your seat at the VeloVoices table and revel in the joy of Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. Kathi, Midge, … Continue reading
Worlds Tweets of the Week : Double rainbow for LouLou
It was the best Worlds EVER and Sunday’s men’s road race was absolutely mad and majestic and … well, 6 … Continue reading
Worlds Tweets of the Week : Hi-diddly-ho Bruges!
It’s time for the World Championships and we’ve already had a few races. We have the tears, the disappointment, the … Continue reading
VeloVoices Podcast 184: In person, Wout looks very dewy
The band is back together! Kathi, Midge, Luke, Issie and Euan pull up their chairs at the VeloVoices conference table and chew on … Continue reading
Tweets of the Week : Tour of Britain edition
This last week saw a lot of great racing in the Tour of Britain – as well as a few … Continue reading
Vuelta Tweets of the Week : Roglic’s reign in Spain
Our last Vuelta outing of 2021 made all the more sparkly by contributions from the Twitterstream. Another big shoutout to #Couchpeloton for keeping us all in high spirits through the last week …
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VeloVoices Podcast 183: Champoussin is like Animal from the Muppets!
Kathi, Midge, Luke, and Euan come together to pick over the final week of the Vuelta a Espana and the other cycling action.
- There’s love for Egan Bernal
- Why the Vuelta’s stage 20 will live long in our minds
- MAL goes MIA, what went wrong?
- And who did win the Giro????
Plus, all the love for Golden Kilometres and windswept stages at the Benelux Tour and the excitement starts for Paris-Roubaix.
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Vuelta Tweets of the Week : All smizes, boiling heat and burning cars!
Vuelta a Espana 2021 : Stage 16 – Jakobsen takes the sprint, Odd still in red
Vuelta a Espana 2021 : Stage 17 – Bernal and Roglic put on a show, Roglic takes red
Vuelta a Espana 2021 : Stage 19 – King Cort rules; Roglic still supreme
Vuelta a Espana 2021 : Stage 20 – Champoussin steals a stage stacked with drama
Vuelta a Espana 2021 : Stage 21 – Roglic win the stage and the whole damn race
Vuelta a Espana 2021 : Stage 21 – Roglic win the stage and the whole damn race
Primoz Rogic (Jumbo Visma) won the final stage of Vuelta a Espana 2021 and sealed the deal on his overall victory. Magnus Cort of EF Nippo set the benchmark on the time trial but could only look on from the hot seat as the Slovenian proved again that he’s the fastest man at the race. Elsewhere, very little changed as the race came to a drama-free conclusion.
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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
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Stage 13, the longest of this year’s Vuelta, came down to a messy, chaotic sprint and a beautiful win by Deceuninck QuickStep’s Florian Senechal. The Frenchman gave it everything to deny Matteo Trentin (UAE-Team Emirates) after teammate, and red hot favourite for victory, Fabio Jakobsen found himself out of position on the run to the line. The red jersey stays on the shoulders of Odd Christian Eiking (Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert) and everyone else remains as they were on the GC, prior to the climbing action this weekend.
I cannot imagine riding a bike, at speed, in 41°C heat, on slippery tarmac, due possibly to dirt, grease or olives, for hours. But that’s what the peloton did today in Stage 12 of this year’s Vuelta. But as yesterday, the race caught fire in the last kilometre and, again, it was EF’s Magnus Cort who showed he was on the form of his life as he took to the front in the final 800m. But this time, there was no Roglic and Mas chasing him, and he took a MAJESTIC win half a wheel ahead of Andrea Bagioli (DQS), with Michael Matthews (BEX) in third. The red jersey stayed with Odd Christian Eiking (Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert) and the GC hasn’t been stirred at all and all the jerseys stay put.
Asides
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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