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Pogačar, Ferrand-Prévot, Evenepoel, Dygert headline historic and brutally hilly Kigali road worlds. Here's all you need to know to follow along.

Vingegaard tells MARCA victories at the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España would be nice, but he can live without: 'I'm happy with what I've already achieved.'

From Vingegaard and Kuss through Pidcock and O'Connor: How the favorites, outsiders, and wildcards stack up for the 2025 Vuelta a España.

We’ve combed through hundreds of race results and power files from the Vuelta favorites.

Analysis: Vingegaard needs a statement win to reassert authority in the GC landscape and settle the scales after another Tour defeat to Pogačar.

Vingegaard, Kuss, Ayuso will battle for the Vuelta's red jersey across the hardest grand tour parcours of the year.

UAE Emirates-XRG is redefining super team dominance in 2025, winning across every terrain with unprecedented depth and firepower. How much is enough?

Analysis: Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe just made cycling's biggest gamble. The pressure is on to see if Remco Evenepoel can deliver the yellow jersey jackpot.

Breaking down who won what at the Tour de France Femmes, and how it does – or doesn't – stack up to the men's race.

From the Van Aert-Montmartre mash-up to the sucky queen stages: 5 hot takes from a hit 'n' miss Tour de France.

Ferand-Prévôt and Niewiadoma shine on uphill finish to stage 1 of women's Tour.

Would Tadej Pogačar winning the green jersey of sprinters and puncheurs be Tour de France overkill? Sort of, but this is Pogi's world.

Huge division in fortunes at the Tour de France as minnow teams struggle to win enough to cover their fuel bills.

The hyper-speed modern peloton is powered by as many as 5 gels per hour. Is that radical 120g carbohydrate rate a quick ticket to a personal best?

'My stomach couldn't handle the effort. I vomited five times': Rickaert's Strava reveals the gut-churning power of an epic stage 9 escape.

Two super-flat sprint stages on a Tour de France weekend? WTF? Race officials push back against bubbling discontent from a peloton of keyboard critics.

How 'super teams,' TV coverage, the decapitation of the time trial, and the scientific evolution of the Tour de France shrunk the yellow jersey battle to the finest margins.

Who has a better support crew, Pogačar or Vingegaard? Here are the stats, stakes, and hot takes underlying the biggest Tour de France team brawl of the century.

Pogačar, Vingegaard, Evenepoel or Roglič? These are the stages of the Tour de France that will blow up the GC battle and blow you off the couch.

João Almeida climbs the Tour de France power rankings after an impressive Tour de Suisse comeback confirms his podium possibilities.

Is it possible to bring a rider to the level of Pogačar? Performance gurus across the WorldTour are still searching for the solution on the eve of the Tour de France.

Michael Woods, Jonas Abrahamsen lose out as the peloton chases a Tour de France peak while risking injury and illness in 'necessary evil' racing at the Dauphiné, Suisse.

Bobby J muses on which of Critérium du Dauphiné and Tour de Suisse works best, and recounts some juicy intra-team rivalries in the chase for Tour de France selection.

Tour de Hoody: Pogacar’s Dauphiné domination scrambles the Tour de France pecking order. Now it's not if he will win, but rather by how much.

Dauphiné brawl between Vingegaard, Evenepoel, Pogačar will paint only half the picture of Tour de France form: 'Nicer to need to make one more step.'

What the heck happened Saturday on the Colle dell Finestre? Bobby J unpicks the historic raid and shocking standoff that decided the Giro d'Italia.

Here are the stats that make some sense of a crazy, chaotic Giro d'Italia.

We dig into the incredible power file from Derek Gee in the Giro's queen stage: If it wasn’t for a disastrous start in Albania, the Canadian would be a half-minute to the 'maglia rosa.'

Tour de Hoody: Why UAE Emirates-XRG needs this Giro d’Italia victory to prove it can dominate grand tours without Tadej Pogačar.

Giro week three primer: Historically hard final week puts pink jersey in peril as Del Toro takes on climbing veterans across 20,000 meters of mountain ascent.

Tour de Hoody: This Giro won’t give us the fireworks-a-minute Pogi Show we’ve grown accustomed to, but it will deliver tension, suspense, tactics, a hard-fought race, and maybe even a surprise winner.

'This is not a joke. It’s not a rumor. It’s for real.' Reports suggest the Giro will go Down Under in 2027, and race officials aren't denying it.

Tour de Hoody: How the Giro d'Italia could be the most exciting race of the season without Tadej Pogačar to obliterate the field.

'It can be interesting for the race without such a dominant rider': GC contenders forecast a wild and wide-open race in absence of peloton pulverizer Pogačar.

Roglič rides into Giro d'Italia with Pogačar as a reference and the pressure to paper over Bora-Bull's miserable spring: ‘He can totally turn around our season.’

Who gets the Giro d'Italia gold stars? We pick the pink jersey contenders for what could be the most wide-open grand tour of the year.

Analysis: WorldTour relegation/promotion tightens up as the action shifts into the points-rich grand tours. For teams on the bubble, every sprint is now a race for survival.

A shock upset for Pogačar at Amstel and a golden Easter resurrection by Evenepoel throw kinks into the narratives of their 'Big 4' brawl this summer with Vingegaard, Roglič.

Unsung heroes, rising rookies, and the new 'Big 5' of one-day racing: We assess the big dogs and bigger disappointments of the northern spring.

'Scary how much better he is': Peloton in shock after Pogačar tore their legs off in Tour of Flanders, but Roubaix will put notion of 'greatest of all time' to a far tougher test.

Opinion: If Pogačar wants to add San Remo, Roubaix, and the Vuelta to his palmarès, he first needs to unpick MVDP.

Tour de Hoody: Crashes, comebacks, and questions — Roglič is last man standing in the Big 4’s rocky start to 2025.

Tour de Hoody: The moment is now. This won't be his last chance to win Milan-San Remo, but if Pogačar misses out again, the race could become his albatross.

'It's a long journey': The dormant powerhouse squad has come out swinging after a winter reboot, but longer-term issues remain in its quest to catch back to the 'super teams.'

Strade Bianche’s grueling new route sparks debate after crash-fest and no-shows: 'It's more of a climber's course.'

There's nothing better than hitting max speed, swapping off in perfect unison, and ending atop the podium.

In a Strade Bianche peloton resigned defeat, Pidcock refused to leave it to Van der Poel and Vingegaard to beat Pogačar – and it nearly paid off.

Former champions, mad professors, and a super-wildcard make our pick of the outsiders for Strade's Tuscan dust-up.

Tour de Hoody: Headwinds, controlled dynamics, and a few misfires meant that 'Opening Weekend' didn't deliver the satisfying sparks it usually does.

Tour de Hoody: Rivalries, ambitions and underdogs — here are the top stories I’ll be watching at Omloop.

The road to Flanders and Roubaix begins with cycling's greatest double-header. Here are the courses, storylines, startlists, and TV schedules for Omloop, Kuurne, and Hageland.

A look at some of the key storylines to emerge from this year’s edition of the UAE Tour.

Vingegaard narrowly prevented a UAE grand slam last week, but peloton prankster Pogačar and his kindergarten of future crushers made the dominance 'acceptable.'

Tadej Pogačar sets the early-season standard while the other 'Big 4' are left gasping: 'Still some work to do.'

Faceoff: Jim Cotton and Andrew Hood argue the potential and pitfalls of Pogačar rewriting his 2025 race program and braving the 'Hell of the North.'

Tour de Hoody: The 'Big 4' have never faced off in a TTT in the 'super team' era at the Tour de France, who doesn't want to see that?

Face Off: From big budget WorldTour juggernaut to upstart second-tier crew, we debate whether Pidcock made the right call to leave Ineos Grenadiers.

Pidcock traded the sure bet of the WorldTour for the chance to start something new at Q36.5. How did the deal go down? ‘We all knew it was a game-changer.’

Marc Hirschi, Marlen Reusser, and Jhonathan Narváez all win in their first races after high-pressure transfers. We dive into why these early successes matter.

Governing body made a statement last week with new regulations at TDU, but skeptics are pointing to possibility of 'professional fouls,' convoy stresses, and more.

The Tour Down Under served as a stage for some young riders to break out, as well as for one big name to remind us what she's capable of.

The Ineos Grenadiers re-boot has now become an annual ritual. Amid talk of an urgency to 'win races' and a hunt for new sponsors, Jeremy Whittle wonders how much time they really have left.

Can Kuss kick back after an off-key '24? Will Vollering vanquish SD Worx? Can Pogačar possibly get better? Here's what we're watching for in 2025.

Rogla revenge, Pogi on the pavé, a French Tour de France winner: Here are 5 wacky race predictions for 2025 that might just happen.

Tour de Hoody: Today's generation has big ask to revive British cycling's dominance as Cavendish's retirement marks end of an era.

The Tour goes 'back to the future' in 2025 with leg-sapping mountain sufferfests and few modern gimmicks - is that a good thing?

Tour de Hoody: Rivals wary to follow Pogačar's wheel, Poole breaks through, Lefevere laments UAE's financial muscle, and tweaks to the '3km rule'.

Analysis: Sunday's long-distance raid appeared spontaneous, but Slovenia's textbook setup for Pogačar reveals it was more than instinct and bravery.

Tour de Hoody: How many more rainbows for Pogačar, can USA Cycling ever end its men's medals drought, and what was Michael Woods slurping down?

From Van der Poel and Evenepoel to Powless and Pidcock: Ranking the five-star uber-favorites down to the one-star dark horses for the rainbow jersey.

Tour de Hoody: A Pogačar solo attack seems inevitable at the world championships. Will any rider dare to try to go with him?

Tour de Hoody: From brutal heat to near-record attrition, a chaotic Vuelta delivered non-stop thrills, but missed out on a larger narrative to make it great.

Opinion: The Vuelta a España was a wide-open thrill-ride in the absence of Pogačar and Vingegaard. But grand tour racing will be all the better when they're back.

After Sunday's climbing chaos, it's still impossible to say who will win the Vuelta and who will step onto the final podium September 8 in Madrid.

Analysis: The absence of the Tour de France dominators creates a power vacuum at the top of a wide-open classification pack that should bring wild, dynamic racing.

Can Sepp Kuss strike twice? A wildly unpredictable GC field and a mass of mountaintop finishes will determine his title defense.

After flying to victory in the second edition of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, Demi Vollering faces some new rivals this year.

Who will deny Demi Vollering in the race toward the infernal bends of Alpe d'Huez? Here's all you need to know about ASO's showstopper stage-race.

Will a Dutch 'triple threat' of Vos, Vollering, Wiebes run riot in Paris on Sunday? A whole rabble is raring to ruin Team NL's party. We rate them all.

Can Van Aert usurp Van der Poel? Will Alaphilippe deliver panache to Paris? We rate the five-star favorites and wildcard outsiders for Saturday's road race.