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5 things to know about the UCI’s overambitious, overcrowded new calendar

Overlapping Grand Tours and Monuments, a calendar that stretches into November, rule changes to lineup sizes for some races (but not all of them) – there’s plenty to digest from the UCI’s Tuesday unveiling of its new WorldTour calendars for 2020. Condensing more than 40 events into little more than three months, the redesigned schedules …

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Forget Flèche: The case for replacing the worst classic

There's a much more #ClassicClassics option to watch during Ardennes Week: the case for Tro-Bro Léon

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The Secret Pro Lockdown Edition

Hello CyclingTips readers, First off I want to acknowledge that we’re all going through this together in our own ways under our own circumstances. I hope I don’t come off as some self-entitled pro athlete and my complaints here are minor and the least of the World’s worries. Needless to say these are strange times. Where …

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Power analysis: The Virtual Tour of Flanders was seriously hard racing

With road racing on hold amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of riders from around the world have been moving their training indoors. The rise of Zwift, BKool, FulGaz, and many other virtual riding platforms, means there is no limit to how far you can pedal through virtual worlds both real and imagined. Both professionals …

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Harsh realities of women’s cycling, part two: Expectations and control

Molly Weaver raced as a professional from 2015 to 2018 on several teams based in the UK and Europe. She was a trusty domestique who spent much of her career riding in the support of others. Weaver stepped away from the sport in mid 2018 after “a lifetime’s worth of misfortune” in one year — …

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