If this doesn’t set the heart racing, it’s the only certain one this week and today’s postcard looks at the way sprinting opportunities are drying up and changing. Lucky Luke: a vexed start in the ...

Is Paul Seixas going to overhaul Tadej Pogačar? He came closer than most yesterday. It would be valuable to know but absent any predictive certainty just asking the question is enough to make Seixas ...

Paris-Nice starts this Sunday. Here’s a look at the GC contenders with Jonas Vingegaard and Juan Ayuso at the top of the bill but can their teams control things once the race heads into the hills?

Van der Poel will know nobody has ever won the Omloop and Ronde in the same year. These anecdotes tend to interest the media more than riders but with his first win in this race now done, his big goal ...

The Tour of Flanders is a cherished national event. Paris-Roubaix is a wild and unique conclusion to the cobbled classics. But the E3 Saxo Bank, aka Harelbeke, is often the best day’s racing. It’s a ...

Having looked at the financial fortunes and prospects for teams last year, the topic keeps coming up already in 2026 so here’s a fresh review of pitfalls ahead. Like last year’s post, the point here ...

Sponsorship has flooded in, team budgets expanded, rider pay soared and real gains have been made in safety, ethics and institutions. Today riders enjoy longer contracts while teams have become ...

The answer has two parts: legal and moral. Marie-Odile Amaury is the owner of the Tour de France, she owns Amaury Sport Organisation, the company created by the Amaury family to, ahem, organise sports ...

Much is made of ASO’s dominant position in the sport but how much money does the Parisian race owner make? Here’s a closer look at the finances of Amaury Sport Organisation. The chart shows data ...

Some predictions for 2026. Yes Pogačar is there, but inside the crystal ball there are foolhardy glimpses of sprinting, TV coverage, scandal and even bidons for the year ahead. Tadej Pogačar will win ...