Rouvy has announced a 'two-week global cycling festival' to kickstart the indoor cycling season with a host of pro cyclists.The inaugural Rouvy Fest runs from 12-25 October, with headline riders including Wout van Aert, Victor Campenaerts, Mattias Skjelmose, Derek GeeWest and Andrew Feather.Triathlete Kat Matthews will also participate, alongside Watts Occurring podcast hosts Luke Rowe and Manon Lloyd. You may like: 8 top-rated turbo trainers for every budgetRouvys vice president of product, Marek-Martin Matyska, says: The start of the indoor season is more motivating with others rather than riding alone, so to kick things off this year were bringing everyone together.Share riding all of the best elements of ROUVY within a two week celebration of indoor cycling. Pro-led group rides, daily featured routes, racing, exclusive kit, giveaways and boosted rewards weve got it all in one place to enjoy.Rouvy Fest is free to everyone with a Rouvy subscription. A subscription will give you a Fest Pass to join all the activities.A full schedule and more details can be found on the Rouvy Fest webpage.Rouvy recently announced several updates ahead of the indoor training season, including expanded support for Zwift hardware and integration with TrainerRoad workouts.Zwift bought Rouvy in April 2026 and said the indoor cycling platforms would maintain their independent operations.

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Unibet Rose Rockets founder Bas Tietema is set to step away from the sporting side of the team ahead of the 2027 season. Part of the growing team's founding, the former rider will focus instead on non-sporting duties as the team continue to evolve. Since its founding in 2023, the team has risen thro...

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Valentina Cavallar had been enjoying a successful season since signing for SD WorxProtime at the beginning of 2026, with a top-10 place in the Giro d'Italia Women, but after pulling out of the Tour de France Femmes just before the final stage, the Austrian stepped back from racing for what were reported as personal and family reasons. The 25-year-old Austrian, who represented her country at the Olympics as a rower before changing to cycling, has just revealed more details about what led to that decision, and her words look certain to spark a debate about the application of testing protocols for riders, and how best to balance the need to deter cheating with some basic human discretion.Taking to social media, Cavallar said the devastating death of her mother was what led her to pause racing, but she went on to state that her grief was exacerbated by the way she was treated by cycling authorities immediately after her loss, when she was subjected to a drugs test in the very house where her mothers body lay, just hours after she had passed. "Losing my mum in September has changed the way I see life forever," Cavallar wrote on Instagram. I have always known how important my family is to me, but I dont think I ever truly understood just how much until I had to experience life without my mum.What made this experience even harder was that just a few hours after my mum had passed away, I had to undergo a doping control at home, in the room next to where she lay.The UCI insists that professional riders supply details of their movements and locations between 6am and 11pm, on the understanding that the International Testing Agency (ITA) can test them for illicit substances at any time. In exceptional circumstances, if they have permission from World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), they can also target cyclists outside of those hours. Out-of-hours drug testing was a topic of much conversation during this year's Tour de France, when multiple riders including eventual winner Tadej Pogacar and two-time champion and best-placed challenger Jonas Vingegaard were both tested in the middle of the night, before big stages, with no clear explanation ever made public as to why this was done. Vingegaard crashed out of the tour the day after his test, and broke his collarbone.A post shared by Valentina Cavallar (@cavallar.valentina)A photo posted by Cavallar was tested in daytime hours, but during a time of extreme personal distress, when she was not involved in a race, which raises questions about the ethics behind the decision to proceed with the test. The Austrian was very clear that she recognised the right of the cycling governing body to test riders, but urged the authorities to use some discretion and show a bit of basic compassion in circumstances such as hers. "I understand the importance of clean sport, and I have always respected the responsibility that comes with being a professional athlete, she explained. But in that moment, I was clearly not thinking about cycling, competition or my responsibilities as an athlete. I was a daughter who had just lost her mum."Having to navigate a doping control in those circumstances felt deeply painful, profoundly out of place and disrespectful towards my family. It was a moment that made me reflect on how easily we can forget that behind every athlete, there is a human being with a life, a family and emotions that do not simply disappear when the responsibilities of professional sport begin.

Unibet Rose Rockets rider RonanAug has admitted that his life has changed after a serious crash on stage six of the Tour de Langkawi on October 2nd. The French rider was put in an induced coma, and five days after being brought out of the state, has a long list of injuries and a lengthy recovery a...