Stage 3 of the 2024 Giro d'Abruzzo should by all intents and purposes, ended in a UAE Team Emirates win as the took on the final few kilometres of climbing dominant at the front. Sadly for them, it was Alexey Lutsenko who took the win and moved into the leaders jersey.With the Kazakh National Champi...

Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) claims to be taking quite a detached approach to Amstel Gold Race on Sunday, saying he is so unconcerned about how anyone else might ride on the day that he has not even checked the start list. He said while he did a reconnaissance ride of the course on Thursday, […] The post Van der Poel hasn’t checked Amstel Gold start list, isn’t concerned about rivals appeared first on Sticky Bottle.

Despite UAE Team Emirates taking a stacked lineup to the 2024 Giro d'Abruzzo, they simply couldn't dislodge the imperious Alexey Lutsenko. Nevertheless, Pavel Sivakov managed to end the race on a high for the team with a stage win.“The plan was to make it hard for Astana on the run-in and we managed...

After months of speculation about his future, the latest transfer talk on the rumour mill seems to indicate Jasper Philipsen will turn down interest from elsewhere to extend his contract with Alpecin-Deceuninck. "I think Philipsen fits perfectly with Alpecin-Deceuninck as a result, he finished 2nd i...

After achieving a prestigious treble with victories at the Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 2023, Demi Vollering will be looking to kick-start her season with another successful Ardennes Classics campaign this year.The SD Worx-Protime rider has struggled to hit the sa...

With stage wins at both the Étoile de Bessèges and the Volta a Catalunya already in 2024, Axel Laurence is having a great first season with the Alpecin-Deceuninck WorldTour team, as he has taken part in the first Monuments of his career at Milano-Sanremo and the Ronde van Vlaanderen, which were won...

At the age of just 18 years old, Andrew August has been thrown into the deep-end this season, as he entered the WorldTour with INEOS Grenadiers and has already ridden in his first Monument at Paris-Roubaix last weekend, where he reached the finish, albeit outside the time limit.In an interview with...

At 21 years old and in her second season with Team Visma | Lease a Bike, Fem van Empel is continuing her development on the road after a dominant season on the cyclocross field, in which she won 19 out of 21 races. After racing in her first Monument at the Ronde van Vlaanderen a couple of weeks ago,...

The Tour of the Alps was a successful race for EF Education-EasyPost last season, as Hugh Carthy finished second in the general classification, narrowly missing out on the overall victory by just 22 seconds to Tao Geoghegan Hart, whilst Simon Carr took his first win for the team on the final stage o...

Why is Elisa Balsamo using custom SRAM shifters on her Classics setup?