Alpecin-Deceuninck's Timo Kielich has taken the win at the Volta NXT Classic 2024, outsprinting Pascal Eenkhoorn in a two-man battle for the victory.Nine men tried their luck in the break today, including most notably, Gianluca Brambilla and Frank Van den Broek among them. Strongest of them seemingl...

UAE Team Emirates' Brandon McNulty has survived a late comeback from Maxim Van Gils to continue his impressive start to 2024 with victory at GP Miguel Indurain.Seven men managed to work their way into the day's breakaway and as the peloton gave them some leeway, their advantage quickly built up to o...

The big one! The Tour of Flanders is the second monument of the season and the queen of all Flandrien classics. It is one of the most important and exciting days of the season, where the biggest classics specialists face off on the steep cobbled climbs to fight for a prestigious win. We take a look...

On the 31st of March the women's peloton tackles one of the most important races in the calendar. The Tour of Flanders is on the road, and the best classics specialists in the world will be looking to grab this prestigious win. We take a look into the startlist. The startlist has riders such as: Shi...

Brandon McNulty has been very impressive in the early portion of 2024. After bright performance at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, UAE Tour and Paris-Nice, the American has now added victory at GP Miguel Indurain.Attacking clear solo in the last 10km, McNulty seemed to have completely blown up...

Julian Alaphilippe continues what looks like his final year at Soudal - Quick-Step this Easter Sunday at the Tour of Flanders. The reason it's probably his last year at the team? The constant public criticism from his boss, Patrick Lefevere. As Alaphilippe has searched for the kind of form that saw...

On the 31st of March the women's peloton tackles one of the most important races in the calendar. The Tour of Flanders is on the road, and the best classics specialists in the world will be looking to grab this prestigious win. We take a look into it's profile.  162 kilometers on the menu starting a...

After months of sacrifice, preparation and optimism, Wout van Aert's 2024 racing calendar was thrown into chaos earlier this week by a disastrous crash at Dwars Door Vlaanderen that left the Belgian superstar with broken ribs and a broken collarbone.According to Rudy Heylen, van Aert's formal mental...

— Some bollards are being removed in areas of high CCTV coverage. Cork City Council should report criminal damage to bollards protecting cycle lanes to the Gardaí, just as the council did with the removal of paving bricks on footpaths, a local campaigner has said. In 2020, Cork City Council tweeted: “Cork City Council has reported criminal damage to the Gardai after paving at four different locations in the city centre were dug up over the weekend. An investigation is underway. In some instances, cut flowers and greenery were placed in the dug out sections.” Sam McCormack, a member of the Cork Cycling Campaign, said: “It’s hard to comprehend why they are focused on just replacing them over and over with the same result.” He said some of the bollards might be accidentally damaged but that there is a lot pointing towards intentional damage in at least some cases. McCormack posted on Twitter that at least some Cork City Council officials also believe that the cycle lane protectors have been deliberately damaged, but Cork City Council did not respond to requests for comments made by IrishCycle.com before this article was published. “Back in 2020, Cork City Council tweeted about reporting dug up paving to Gardai as criminal damage. And rightly so,” McCormack said on Twitter. In response to a complaint about missing bollards on Washington Street, he posted a response from a Cork City Council official, which said: “We have previously replaced a number of bollards on this street, but unfortunately, it is an ongoing requirement, both at this location and across the city. Some of the bollards seem to have been removed deliberately.” McCormack said that the money spent replacing the bollards repeatedly after they are damaged intentionally or otherwise would be better spent on hard protection on these lanes, either in the form of kerbing or solid bollards. “Money would be better spent investing in more secure forms of cycleway protection than just doing the same thing over and over and yielding the same result. This is costing the city more money in the long run too, considering the issue of some individual purposefully removing them is ongoing everytime the bollards are replaced,” he said. He said: “I appreciate the council replacing the bollards, of course, but it seems an awful waste of time and money to simply replace with the same ‘screw-type’ bollards which any member of the public can simply walk over to, twist and remove.” McCormack also said that metal bollards were recently installed to protect a bike share station on the same street where plastic bollards protecting cycle lanes are being damaged and pointed out that solid bollards would be harder to remove without tools. But it’s understood that there’s a safety issue in using solid bollards in cycle lanes, especially where cycle lanes are narrow. “It is also strange they haven’t reported these issues to Gardai. It is clearly criminal damage and theft. They have done so previously. It would be easy to monitor and catch those responsible as the street is filled with both public and private CCTV,” he said. McCormack added: “It took years to get Cork City Council to install protection on these lanes and how they are letting those responsible get away with it is really disappointing for everyone who relies on these cycleways to get to and from work, home and school safely.” IMAGES: Sam McCormack.

There is no doubt about who enters the 2024 Tour of Flanders as pre-race favourite... Mathieu van der Poel. With that standing comes extra pressure however, something Fabian Cancellara knows well. "Mathieu’s situation before this Ronde is similar to mine in 2011 when I was with Leopard. I was the fa...