2012 Giro d’Italia, Grand Tour Preview Guide.
First Grand Tour of the season follows an unconventional start with three of the opening stages being held in Denmark, but a conventional three week format over some 3,500 kms and 21 stages in...
2012 Tour de Romandie stage race.
The 66th edition is a six-day race over some 696kms, without any significantly tough mountain climbs, and featuring a standard format which starts with a 3.3km prologue, and ends with a 16.5km time trial. B...
2012 Liege-Bastogne-Liege Preview Guide.
La Doyenne or ‘the oldest’ is the final race of the Ardennes Classics. The weather forecast is for cold temps, chance of rain, and perhaps some light winds – all-in-all a tough day in the...
2012 Amstel Gold Race preview guide.
Some 257kms over steep and narrow climbs, it’s essentially the Dutch classic, but is known as a race which is part of the Ardennes Classics. It is often seen to be a windy course, and with the current...
The 2012 Paris Roubaix has been won by Tom Boonen who has now won the race for the fourth time, the race was won in 5:55:22. We take a look at the top 25 finishers and times of the race in which Sébastien Turgot finished second after a photo...
Race favourite Tom Boonen has won his fourth Paris Roubaix after winning today’s edition of the race. Tom Boonen made an early move in the race that stretches 257.5km and it proved a winning one after holding off the peloton by one minute and...
Evergreen American George Hincapie has admitted that this year could be his last Paris-Roubaix as he prepares to compete in the famous spring classic for a record-equalling 17th time on Sunday.
Now 38, the likeable Hincapie arrived in France fresh...
The Paris-Roubaix one-day classic race is known as The Hell of the North, and is regarded as the queen of the Classics. Unlike the smaller and more tightly-packed cobblestones of the Tour of Flanders which give the riders a somewhat smoother ride,...
The Tour of Flanders, Ronde van Vlaanderen, Vlaanderens mooiste, Flanders’ finest, De Ronde – call it what you like, but over the years this one-day classic has established itself as a race of equal stature to Milan-SanRemo, or even the...
The UCI WorldTour moves to Flanders, Belgium – for the 55th installment of the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen – Harelbeke, a one-day classic race over some dozen hills, various cobblestone sections, and covering a total of 203kms. The atmospheric...
The 92nd Edition of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya is a stage race covering some 1200kms. Eight out of the last ten results have gone to Spanish riders, including the last four years. The most recent multiple winner was the Spanish great, Miguel...
The Milan-San Remo stage race on Italian soil literally means “spring” or “Primavera”. At 298kms it is the longest race on the UCI WorldTour calendar, and looking over the history of results it is easy to observe that...