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Features, Giro d'Italia, Mathieu van der Poel, News - January 17, 2020

Giro d’Italia announces 2020 wildcard invites

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Giro d’Italia organizer RCS announced the wildcard invites for this year’s Giro d’Italia and a handful of other races on Thursday, confirming the participation of all three Italian ProTeams in their home Grand Tour this May. Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec, Bardiani-CSF, and Vini Zabù-KTM (previously known as Neri Sottoli) earned the three available bids to join the …

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Pro bikes of the 2020 WorldTour: part one

The new race bikes of EF Education First, Ineos, Team Sunweb, Movistar and Deceuninck-QuickStep.

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The bunch sprint that nearly wasn’t – Hosking wins at WTDU after Chapman solo

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MACCLESFIELD, Australia (CT) – It ended the way it was always likely to — with Chloe Hosking (Rally) winning a bunch sprint. But it very nearly didn’t. It was very nearly a single rider that stole the show on stage 1 of the 2020 Women’s Tour Down Under. “Everyone’s like ‘It’s going to be a …

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From tragedy to triumph: Christian Ashby’s return to life

At last week’s Australian National Championships, amongst the procession of Mitchelton-Scott victories and elite road skirmishes, there was a quieter, more unassuming, but altogether more extraordinary achievement taking place in the men’s paracycling C2 division. In Wednesday’s time trial and Saturday’s road race, Ballarat local Christian Ashby claimed dual national championships, a year on from …

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anti-doping, Culture, doping, ethics, Features - January 16, 2020

Why an ‘ethics of fairness’ is a better way of looking at doping

As another decade in cycling begins with WorldTour doping investigations (Operation Aderlass) and news of Bjarne Riis returning to the WorldTour, occasional CyclingTips contributor Craig Fry offers a different way of thinking about doping. In the article below, Fry proposes an “ethics of fairness” that can help us understand how the real victims of doping …

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