Steff Cras fractured an elbow at the 2023 Criterium du Dauphiné and only weeks after abandoned the Tour de France after colliding with a fan. Unfortunately for the TotalEnergies rider his bad luck has not ended; he suffered very extensive injuries after falling at high-speed at Itzulia Basque Countr...

After his stage win on Wednesday, Quinten Hermans was in good spirits pre-stage 4 of the Itzulia Basque Country. Following a mass crash which left Jonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel and more hospitalised however, the Alpecin-Deceuninck star had some harsh words. “I didn't see a lot of it, but I was t...

Many riders have gone down today at Itzulia Basque Country in what was one of the worst and most damaging crashes in recent years in pro cycling, and Jay Vine was one of the worst affected riders. The Australian climber will be forced to miss the Giro d'Italia after fracturing three vertebrae. "Jay...

EF Education - EasyPost have suffered two casualties in today's mass crash at Itzulia Basque Country. The worst off from those was Sean Quinn who spent large minutes next to Jonas Vingegaard in a ditch in the hills of the Basque region, who has been confirmed to suffer a fractured sternum. Sean Quin...

#RegionTour Etapa 3 Victoria de Alberto Dainese del Tudor al sprint. pic.twitter.com/4nS5k1uEOe — Streams de Ciclismo (@CicloStreams) April 4, 2024 Sam Bennett was a long way back as the sprint began and though he came through very strongly at the last, he had left it too late Sam Bennett (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) has taken […] The post Sam Bennett finishes strong but leaves it too late in France | Video appeared first on Sticky Bottle.

Comment & Analysis: Back in 2018, IrishCycle.com covered how Culleens NS on Killala Road in Ballina was moving its school from one side of an 80km/h road to the other. The new school will be on the side with no cycle or footpath, and there’s no traffic calming or formal crossing on the road. Culleens is my old national school, and I live nearby. After I spotted the plan for the new national school and another new secondary school in the town, I used them as examples of fig leaf cycle lanes continuing to be built at new Irish schools (see part one and part two). Back in 2018, I wrote: “The council reply to the school in the planning file seems to indicate that they will be providing a footpath [to the school]”. There was no mention of a shared path for cycling, but children could at least use the footpath. Fast-forward six years, and the new Culleens school is to open soon, but there’s still no path of any kind on the main road outside of the school. The sad fact is that Mayo County Council has not made any tangible progress in creating a safe walking and cycling path ahead of the opening of the new school building. (article continues below video) We’re talking about a gap of just 300 metres between the current footpath, which stretches out from the town centre, and where it would need to be extended to serve the school and the housing estate beside it. Two housing estates were built on either side of the road, so there’s also a demand for children to be able to cross the road to the school. Ahead of a more substantial change in the road’s design and a lower speed limit, the council could add a central median so that at least schoolchildren wouldn’t have to run across the full road all at once. While councillors agreed to a motion to extend the footpath to the school, officials have not followed up on this. Mayo County Council gave planning permission for the school, the two housing estates, and a number of business units outside the town boundary, mainly when the town council was still in place. The council has an obligation to the people living there and to the children going to school there. What’s worse is that while residents on Killala Road were left without a footpath on a busy road, other footpaths have been built in the town in locations which did not have even a faction of the need for footpaths. Far less busy roads with lower speeds where paths aren’t as vital to safety. For example, national walking and cycling funding was spent on a 230-metre-long footpath between the Belleek Gate Lodge and the park across from the Belleek Manor housing estate. The new footpath opposite the houses in Belleek doesn’t even make sense because what was needed was a few smaller but well-placed interventions. That would include a raised crossing from the existing footpath to the park and an accessible entrance into the parkland beside the soccer club. Towards the town, traffic calming would help people to walk safely under the Gate Lodge. Then, a section of footpath and a crossing to meet the existing one on Castle Road would be needed towards the town centre, where more traffic calming and another crossing are badly needed. I’m only mentioning this because most or all of these interventions are still needed. Back on the Killala Road, senior council staff can still act quickly on this. They could find the funding and use their powers under Section 38 of the Road Traffic Act to build a footpath and cycle path along the main road and reconfigure the work already done to add a central median to make it safer to cross. The time to act was years ago, the best time to make up for that is now. ***** A previous article included a proposal for a Killala Road Safety and Accessibility Scheme. The following is the relevant section of that proposal which could be built quickly as a stand-alone section: Culleens NS to Belleek Crossroads (333m) Current Suggested Possible traffic calming/crossing with central refuge (trees would be visible here but not shown in the image) Possible roundabout at Culleens NS / Oaklawn Even if the council wants to continue to treat the area at Culleens NS / Oaklawn as a higher-speed road, there is still a requirement to make the road safer for people crossing it. 

On the 6th of April the women's peloton takes on one of its toughest races. The recently-created Paris-Roubaix Femmes has proved to be a great success and this year it should provide a lot of emotion and action once again with a number of big names on the startlist.The preliminary startlist for the...

Primoz Roglic has had the bad luck of crashing hard two days in a row. Itzulia Basque Country was not the best of weeks for the BORA - hansgrohe rider who started off the week with a powerful win in the time-trial but has now abandoned the race injured. However, the worst has been avoided. "Examinat...

Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), Primož Roglič (Bora-hansgrohe) and Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) are all out of Itzulia Basque Country after a very heavy crash on stage 4. A number of riders came down on a sweeping left hander, overshooting it and crashing into or over an open, concrete-lined, storm drain by the roadside. A total […] The post Vingegaard, Roglič, Evenepoel all crash out of Itzulia Basque Country | Video appeared first on Sticky Bottle.

Remco Evenepoel was one of the many victims of today's crash at Itzulia Basque Country which is certain to mark the season. The Belgian has suffered two fractures and abandoned the race as a result; and provides himself an update on the injuries and his spirits. "Hello everybody it's Remco here. I w...