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Fabian Cancellara, Features, Racing - February 7, 2020

An hour of softball questions and amazing answers with Fabian Cancellara

A couple of weeks ago Fabian Cancellara sat down with a selection of cycling media in the corner of a media centre, and dropped some of the greatest quotes in the recorded history of human speech.

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Shannon Malseed on her Bay Crits crash and the importance of staying positive

Shannon Malseed’s season didn’t start as planned. On January 4, she crashed heavily on the final lap of stage 2 of the Bay Crits, fracturing her scapula and a vertebra. It looked like it could have been a lot worse — the 2018 Australian champion spent more than an hour on the ground as paramedics …

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british cycling, Features, News, Racing - February 6, 2020

In allegations of institutional racism, a black-British rider’s quest for change

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In his athletic prime, Russell Williams was a multi-time national champion, a sprinter, powerful on the track and the road. The type of rider who, under different circumstances, might have been pulled onto Great Britain’s national track program, supported in his training, been called up for the world championships or Olympics. He was, he claims, …

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Preview: Your guide to the 2020 women’s and men’s Herald Sun Tour

We’re nearing the end of the Australian summer of cycling, but it’s not quite over yet. This week the women’s and men’s pelotons head to regional Victoria for the Jayco Herald Sun Tour. Here’s what you should know about the races. The women’s course Now in its third edition — and now promoted to UCI …

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The Chaos Tour: The bike race that had it all (but almost never happened)

Media motorbikes causing crashes. A star rider penalised for a crash he never caused. That same rider almost leaving the race in protest. Riders sent off course. The emergence of an Aussie great. The 2005 Jayco Herald Sun Tour had it all, and all in a race that almost never happened.

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