Mads Pedersen is Latest Pro Cyclist to Sign ‘Forever Contract’: What’s Driving the Peloton’s Career-Long Deals
Cycling’s latest craze? Lifetime contracts. Pedersen joins Wout van Aert and Marianne Vos in the peloton's newest elite club.
Tadej Pogačar is a Slovenian professional cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates. He won the 2020 and 2021 editions of the Tour de France, winning three different jerseys during each Tour, a feat unseen in nearly four decades. Wikipedia
Tadej Pogačar is a Slovenian professional cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates. He won the 2020 and 2021 editions of the Tour de France, winning three different jerseys during each Tour, a feat unseen in nearly four decades. Wikipedia
Cycling’s latest craze? Lifetime contracts. Pedersen joins Wout van Aert and Marianne Vos in the peloton's newest elite club.
Footage emerges of Pogačar and Vingegaard laying the founations for the next chapter in their sprawling Tour de France rivalry.
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.
Under the name 'super_bock,' a cycling fan is lighting up social media with a string of hilarious and delirious AI-generated reels.
Assessing the world’s best rider and his rivals in cycling’s top one-day races this spring.
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.’
Can Ayuso become Spain's first men's grand tour winner since Alberto Contador in 2015? 'Juan is ready to win a grand tour.'
Watch video: Tadej Pogačar has been popping some outrageous wheelies when he’s not crushing monuments or tuning for the Tour de France.
Performance and menstruation, bike checks, and proud papa moments in this week's Social Digest.
Riders refuse race in downpour at the Tour of Turkey, while Geraint Thomas left gobsmacked by Tadej Pogačar at Liège-Bastogne-Liège: 'He's at another level.'
With 8.4 w/kg climbs and a 7.4 w/kg late in the race, Pogačar’s LBL numbers are straight up absurd.
Trainer backs controversial altitude-heavy, race-lite approach as Vingegaard scrambles back from concussion: 'We know this works.'
5 takeaways from the cobblestone and Ardennes classics, including the inevitability of Pog, the potential of Puck, and why Paris-Roubaix always rules.
Podium finishers Giulio Ciccone and Ben Healy had a common strategy going into Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
Remco Evenepoel fades to 59th at Liège-Bastogne-Liège after under-cooked star becomes undone: 'I haven't trained much, and that showed today.'
Pidcock leaves the Ardennes empty-handed and will reload for the Giro d'Italia: 'Quite disappointed about that actually.'
World champion Pogačar solos home after La Redoute stomping, Evenepoel cracks and is dropped.
Both riders are double winners of Liège-Bastogne-Liège but have never truly gone head to head in race.
The episode in which we discuss how surprised Mattias Skjelmose to win Amstel Gold and much, much more.
Bobby Julich is a former Team Sky race coach who had an inside view to trying to beat Contador at his peak.
Brutal weather at Flèche Wallonne served as a stark reminder that cold, rain, and cycling's outdoor arena can upturn any marginal gain in an instant: 'I was wearing too much, or too little.'
Liège-Bastogne-Liège preview: Closing out the spring classics campaign of 2025, La Doyenne should be a thrilling capstone to a wild season of racing.
After crashing out of Paris-Nice with a concussion, Vingegaard says he's fully recovered and focused on a Tadej Pogačar rematch: 'Leaving nothing to chance.'
Amstel Gold Race was hands down one of the best battles of the season.
Coming off second places at Paris-Roubaix and Amstel Gold Race, an unforgiving Pogačar reminded everyone he's still king of the hill.
Past Flèche winners clash on one of the steepest climbs in cycling on the Mur de Huy, precise timing needed on wall-like ascent.
Tour de Hoody: Is winning the only thing that matters in professional cycling? Probably not, but it's usually the only thing that anyone remembers.
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.
Evenepoel pins lost chance of Amstel victory on mid-race fall: ‘I had to push 100 watts more to come back’
Shock result after world champion Pogačar goes solo but cracks and is caught with 8km remaining.
Pogačar takes another run at one of cycling's milestones with the 'Ardennes Treble.' With the Cauberg slotted in as the final climb at Amstel Gold, who can stop him?
Comebacks, world champions, and super-deep startlists drive the narratives as Pidcock, Longo Borghini, Evenepoel, Kopecky take on the peloton's two prime puncheurs.
Q&A with longtime coach Kurt Bogaerts on Pidcock's unbridled ambition, Giro plans, and the Ardennes rematch with Remco and Pogi.
Flamboyant double Olympic champion reveals he hit rock bottom after being 'doored' in December: 'I doubted a lot of my future.'
Watch: Check out new videos of the Pogačar crash and of a mechanic taking out a former Paris-Roubaix runner-up.
Shoddy Dave takes us through the latest tech, trends, and insights to handle the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix.
Tour de Hoody: Paris-Roubaix weekend saw records fall, yellow cards doled out, fines imposed, brutal crashes, flying highs, and riders missing time cuts.
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.
Van der Poel flew blind to Hellish triple after cobblestone sparring match with Pogačar: 'It is exceptional what he does.'
Pedersen philosophical after having good legs but bad luck: 'I was unlucky to puncture when I did.'
Details on the teams opting for a 35mm wide tyre, Josh Tarling's massive 62t chainring, and one of the best top tube cue sheets we've ever seen.
Tadej Pogačar overcooked a corner, crashed and lost Van der Poel's wheel: 'If it wasn't for that mistake it would have been the two of us on the velodrome.'
Pogačar overshoots corner and crashes deep into the final of wild ride through 'Hell of the North,' holds off chase group for second place on debut.
What was the elixir that put the legs back onto Pogačar's wild ride Sunday at the 'Hell of the North?' It's not for those with a weak stomach.
Everything you need to know for Paris-Roubaix and the cobblestone bust-up with Pogačar, Van der Poel, Pedersen, Van Aert.
Nils Politt says Pogačar's horsepower will translate well to the pavé: 'If you can attack like this on Kwaremont, then you can also do it in Roubaix.'
The Velo team previews what is sure to be one of the most exciting Paris-Roubaix weekends in years.
Pogačar opts for the Colnago V4Rs for cycling’s toughest day with a near-identical setup he used to win Tour of Flanders, except for one major tweak.
The Pogačar Express is thundering toward Paris-Roubaix but what if the best thing for the sport is that he doesn’t win Sunday?
How evolutions in bike tech and Pogačar's wild panache could outweigh the brawn of his rivals in the cobblestone 'hell' of Paris-Roubaix.
Pogačar's tear through the pro cycling calendar continued with the fastest times ever posted on some of cycling's most famous roads.
UAE to unleash classics beasts Politt, Vermeersch, Wellens to support world champion Tadej Pogačar in Sunday's Paris-Roubaix debut: 'We have a very strong team.'
Pogačar, Kopecky, forecasts of rain, cobblestone pain: Here's your ultimate guide to the two-day thrill ride of Paris-Roubaix Femmes and Paris-Roubaix.
Explainer: How much do the winners earn for one day of racing in hell in cycling's most painful and grueling race at Paris-Roubaix?
From Pogačar's rulebook-defying debut and Kopecky's cobblestone flex to reports of rain and more – here's what to watch for in the wildest weekend of the year.
Posh crowd in Monaco jeer Pogačar after tardiness to tennis match, Allan Peiper says Paris-Roubaix the ultimate challenge for former pupil: 'Better suited for Van der Poel.'
T-shirts from Tadej, Fabio Jakobsen's road to recovery and Kristen Faulkner is coming in hot.
'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.
Lidl-Trek tandem of Pedersen and Stuyven head toward Paris-Roubaix with a tailwind after 'super magical' 2nd and 5th-place finishes in Flanders.
Stat attack: Tadej Pogačar smashed Strava KOMs, claimed his eighth monument and won in the rainbow jersey to join elite company, all in the fastest Tour of Flanders ever recorded.
'The Ronde doesn’t lie': Van Aert full of praise for Pogačar as last-chance saloon at 'Hell of the North' looms next.
Dutchman says three days of illness bothered his build-up but he hopes to go out with a bang in Roubaix.
'Tadej was simply the strongest': Pogačar unleashes attacking storm before launching decisive haymaker 18km from the line on the Oude Kwarement.
Quinn Simmons’ brother Colby steps up to WorldTour and makes debut in Flanders: ‘Just crazy to be here’.
Video: Paced into the climb at 60kph by UAE teammates, Pogačar exploded up Oude Kwaremont like it was race day: 'I need to try to open a gap.'
Pogačar rails against social media and says he's not racing for revenge or to carve his legacy by targeting Paris-Roubaix: 'When I retire, I will not have any regrets.'
Tour de Hoody: MVDP and Pogi are neck-and-neck in the race for monument glory, so who is the best one-day racer?
Sufferfests like Flanders and Paris-Roubaix are so energy-intensive that nutrition has become a sophisticated science. Here's how riders eat for the cobbles.
The world champion is ready to rumble in mega rematch with Van der Poel: 'It will not be easy to beat him. I need to find a moment to open a gap.'
Can 'monster Mads' win a monument? Where's Wout? Can Ganna gonna conquer the Koppenberg? Unpicking the chasing pack of the Tour of Flanders.
Tadej Pogačar stuffs two notorious cobblestone sectors into his collection of Strava KoMs; Lander Loockx wins bodyweight in a cheese he doesn't like.
Another yellow card, Pogačar seeing top support in Flanders return, Jorgenson slaps back at critics: 'Wout is one of the best in the world.'
Tour de Hoody: The spring classics are being rewired by space-age high tech, big data, carbo-loading, and fearless new tactics. Here's what's driving the monument makeover.
Spring has sprung in the world of road cycling.
It's not all about Tadej Pogačar: Jay Vine’s Coppi e Bartali stage win Saturday continues remarkable momentum of UAE.
Van der Poel outmuscles Pedersen and Ganna in chaotic E3 Saxo Classic that included 'unsporty' tactics and idiot fan behavior: 'We solved it quite well.'
Tadej Pogačar's decision to race cycling's most notorious race at Paris-Roubaix has triggered a debate that it might be too perilous for a Tour de France winner: 'Any race can be dangerous.'
In this classics era, a podium finish may become like a win for anyone not named Pogačar or Van der Poel.
Tour de Hoody: Flanders Week opens without cycling's superstar, but it's a chance to revisit the Mathieu van der Poel-Wout van Aert rivalry.