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Never off the podium: Lucinda Brand is dominating CX and eyeing off Roubaix

Lucinda Brand hasn’t finished lower than third in a cyclocross race this year, and she’s won the last three races she started. And all in a matter of eight days. It’s time to catch up with the former Dutch road race champion who now focuses on cyclocross full-time. Or does she? “That is a bit …

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Five-time world champion: To make bunch sprints safer, borrow track racing rules

The way to make bunch sprints safer, according to five-time world champion track sprinter Theo Bos, is to borrow sprint rules from the velodrome, specifically from keirin racing. The 2020 race season saw a number of horrific sprint crashes and injuries, the worst of which came at the Tour of Poland, where Fabio Jakobsen was …

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Could AI be the future of bike race coverage?

Bike race coverage has changed a lot in recent years. Gone are the days of simply sitting down to watch a basic race feed. Nowadays, we have more information at our fingertips than ever before, helping to augment the viewing experience. We have second-screen apps that allow us to track the position of every rider …

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Stop broadcasting crash replays before we know the fate of the rider

I’d just sat down with my Sunday morning coffee and casually flicked on this weekend’s Formula 1 Grand Prix when the fireball lit up my TV. It came just three corners into the race, in the usual first-lap chaos. Romain Grosjean clipped another car and went careening into a row of Armco barriers that sliced …

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Shoddy investigates: Retirement plans of the pros

The announcement that Vital Concept-B&B Hotel rider Tom-Jelte Slagter was planning on calling it a day on his racing career and venturing into the world of selling agriculture equipment, or more precisely tractors, got me thinking. What the heck are all the pros up to that I used to admire? What has happened to some …

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