Hopefully you’ve all been watching the bevvy of cycling available over the last few weeks. We’re in the final week now of this year’s Tour de France, and last Sunday saw the finale of the Giro d’Italia Women. Personally I got in about 6 hours over Saturday and Sunday, watching Pog vs Jonas (cheering Jonas, … Read more
We start this week with two deaths in the cycling world. Both stories got very little coverage outside of the cycling press, and even then not every site picked them up. And of course there is plenty of Tour drama unfolding – overshadowing everything else. It’s been a busy week so far for me, and … Read more
There’s a bunch of things happening this week, but most of the big headlines went – quite rightly – to Sir Mark Cavendish and his record breaking 35th Tour Stage win. Beyond that, we have the Women’s Giro d’Italia kicking off this weekend, and the Eurobike show happening in the background. Which ultimately means a … Read more
With the Tour de France 2024 due to set off this Saturday, very unsurprisingly the big cycling news sites have been going into TdF overdrive this week, even more so than last week. Is it a foregone conclusion that, incidents and accidents omitting, this one is practically in the bag for Pog before a single … Read more
Racing settled down a bit this week after the end of the Tour de Suisse, giving all the big news websites time to publish all their back catalogue of Tour de France preview articles. Well, I say all the big news websites. Not all. In fact, not my favourite. Yes, this week saw the very … Read more
Opinion pieces abound this week, mostly around the Tour de France. Here’s my opinion: I’m seeing no one who can challenge Tadej Pogačar on an individual basis based on both the Dauphiné and the Tour de Suisse. Either Jonas comes back from injury souped up, or there is going to have to be the most … Read more
A mega crash. That’s what dominated the cycling news this week. What would the Dauphiné Stage 5 wipe out mean for the Tour? At the time of writing, it’s still hard to say. But it feels like Pog and Geraint are currently the only big name GC riders to be going into the Tour without … Read more
The Giro is over, and all eyes are looking forwards to what that means for the Tour. Will Jonas make the start, and if so, will he be fit enough to fight against Pog? Speaking of Pog… well, it’s less news than last week on his front. But the news that has come out has … Read more
Unsurprisingly, mostly Giro news this week. Pog has been something, hasn’t he? His win on the Queen Stage was absolutely nuts. Just mindblowing to be able to drop his nearest competitors with 15 minutes to go, like he was just riding along whilst they were at their limits. Crazy. It’s such a shame Jonas isn’t … Read more
It’s a bit of a shame that Pog has the Giro basically in the bag already. It would have been better to see Jonas and Wout in the mix for Visma to shake things up. But fingers crossed for the tour, eh? Still, I love Grand Tours as there is cycling to watch every single … Read more
