Whilst the weather may have been damp, cold and horrible atop the Vallter 2000 on stage 2 of the Volta a Catalunya, Tadej Pogacar was at his brilliant best, firing up the road to ignite the GC fight.Eventually winning by nearly a minute and a half, Pogacar took to his post-stage interview dressed in...

Tadej Pogacar didn't wait long to assert his authority on to the race at the 2024 Volta a Catalunya. After narrowly missing out victory on stage 1, Pogacar left nothing to chance on the stage 2 summit finish.When all was said and done, Pogacar now has gained a massive advantage in the general classi...

Itzulia Basque Country is one of the most explosive and exciting races of the year. The Basque race takes place from the 1st to the 6th of April and will feature many of the world's best climbers in a route full of climbs every single day. We take a look at it's startlist. The preliminary startlist...

Tadej Pogacar has dominated all his rivals at the first summit finish of the 2024 Volta a Catalunya, powering to victory atop a snowy and wet Vallter 2000 by a clear margin.With six attackers finding their way into the day's breakaway, the race quickly settled down into a traditional routine. At lea...

Marco Brenner has taken victory in a bunch sprint on stage 1 and moved into an early overall lead at the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali 2024. After four men had made the break of the day, they were all back in the bunch with around 12km to go to the finish line. With a downhill in the fina...

Mathieu van der Poel was outstanding in the E3 Saxo Classic. The world champion benefited from a fall of his great competitor Wout van Aert at the foot of the Paterberg. However, according to many analysts not everything is lost yet for the Belgian.The key moment was of course Van Aert's fall on the...

Comment & Analysis: “The C2CC Project costs €62m and is being largely funded by the National Transport Authority Active Travel Programme. The project is scheduled for completion in Q1 2024” — that’s a line in a Dublin City Council press release issued on March 28th 2022. The press release was issued as sod was turned on the Clontarf to City Centre Cycle and Bus Priority Project (aka the C2CC Project). The €62m price tag has been known since 2022; it’s not something new for the project, which includes major water main upgrades, greenery, new crossings, upgraded bus shelters, more continuous bus lanes and renewed footpath and road surfaces throughout. Yes, the work started in 2022. For the people claiming the work has been ongoing for three years, that’s just not true. And it wasn’t supposed to be finished by December 2023, at least not according to the council when the project started. The project, however, is highly unlikely to be finished by the end of the month. It won’t meet the original deadline. But that’s been known since late last year when the construction complete timeline was switched to “Q2 2024”. The monthly management report in October 2023 said: “Construction commenced in Q1 2022 and will continue until Q1 2024.” In the same report in November 2022, this was updated to state: “Construction commenced in Q1 2022 and will continue until Q2 2024.” Q2 2024 brings it up to the end of June, but it’s expected to be largely finished by the end of May. It’s surprisingly common to hear complaints that projects are not progressing when they clearly are. The photos below were taken on March 7th. Significant work was still left in some sections, mainly at junctions. But after hearing again that there was no progress, I was surprised at how much progress had been made since the start of the year. My first thought was that the people complaining don’t see the progress because if you’re looking at the work every day, then progress may seem slower. But maybe it’s that most people complaining about the lack of progress are the ones who were complaining about the project from the start: People in their cars who cannot see the progress very well when driving by.

Itzulia Basque Country is one of the most explosive and exciting races of the year. The Basque race takes place from the 1st to the 6th of April and will feature many of the world's best climbers in a route full of climbs every single day. We take a look at the race's profiles. We take a look at the...

Alex Aranburu has not shone as expected over recent years in Movistar Team and according to the latest reports, his time at the team could soon be coming to an end.This news comes from information of Daniel Benson at GCN, who gave a number of transfer updates this morning including the renewal of Al...

Visma | Lease a Bike had a bad day in the Volta a Catalunya. While Steven Kruijswijk pushed a hard pace on Coll de Pradell, his leaders Sepp Kuss and Cian Uijtdebroeks were unable to follow the best and lost four and six minutes respectively, moving out of the overall top 10.Sports director Marc Ree...