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Features, Opinion and analysis, Racing, UCI - May 7, 2020

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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The Roadmap Episodes: How lockdown is shaping the future of cycling

In unprecedented times for the sport, when every race on the calendar is postponed or cancelled and WorldTour teams face extraordinary challenges, we’re partnering with Rapha to create a podcast series to consider the future of professional cycling. This first episode includes insight from Ineos’ Dave Brailsford, EF’s Jonathan Vaughters, and Rapha’s Simon Mottram. We …

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Finally, ASO announce a women’s Paris-Roubaix

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For the first time ever, a women’s Paris-Roubaix has hit the UCI calendar. Race organizer ASO announced on Tuesday that a women’s Roubaix will take place ahead of the men’s race on October 25th, as part of the UCI’s revised calendar. Details of the race, including start location, distance, and timelines, have not yet been …

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The photo that got me kicked off the Tour Down Under for a day

A few weeks ago we reached out to our photographer Tim Bardsley-Smith, asking him to write about some of his most memorable cycling photos and the stories behind them. Having travelled to Mt. Everest Base Camp, Kyrgyzstan, New Zealand, Switzerland, Bali and many more places for CyclingTips, Tim’s certainly got some stories to tell. You …

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Features, Learn, Racing, stretching, Training - April 28, 2020

7 mobility exercises to improve your cycling performance

In this post we look at how you can improve your cycling performance with seven key mobility exercises. You’ll find that these will also reduce any ‘working from home’ aches and pains and improve the general performance of your muscular system. First, what is mobility? The dictionary definition will give you ‘the ability to move …

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