Tour de Hoody

Explainer: Why pro cycling’s biggest contracts are breaking — money, ambition, ownership shifts, and the race for the yellow jersey.

No power vacuum this year: Visma enters the Vuelta a España with the strongest team and Vingegaard as the undisputed GC leader.

Tour de Hoody: Let's take 'silly season' to a new level with these audacious, closer-to-the-truth transfers that would blow up cycling's hierarchy.

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.

The most complete rider in cycling? Multi-discipline queen Ferrand-Prévot just proved it at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.

Tour de Hoody: Remco Evenepoel needs two key changes to even have a chance against Pogačar or Vingegaard, and even that might not be enough.

Tour de Hoody: Sure, Montmartre might look good on TV, but the best way to wrap up the Tour de France is with a drag race down the Champs-Élysées.

Why does the Tour de France keep producing one unstoppable champion who bends the world’s toughest race to their will? Pogačar is just the latest tyrant to rule the Tour.

Tour de Hoody: Will this Tour de France be the pivot point of the Pogačar era or Vingegaard’s revenge? All I want is a race that burns into week three.

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

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.

The Tour de France is cycling’s Super Bowl, but the Critérium du Dauphiné offers a more relaxed way to get closer to the biggest stars.

Warning signs are blinking red after Pogačar gives up big swaths of time to Evenepoel and Vingegaard, but was there something else to it than ‘pacing’? Ex-pro Tom Danielson raises some interesting points.

In a rare superstar alignment, Pogačar, Vingegaard, Evenepoel square off only for the sixth time in their careers in pre-Tour de France tug-of-war of egos and form. Here's why it matters.

Tour de Hoody: Simon Yates' raid elevates Visma-Lease a Bike into class of its own and saves the 2025 Giro d’Italia from itself.

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

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.

Tour de Hoody: Roglič hits new milestone, Vollering reclaims GC throne, Pedersen sprints into record books, plus yellow cards, goats, and chaos in Albania.

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

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.

Life in the bike lane: Few places are as bike-friendly as Belgium, especially when you're on a city bike exploring pathways, cafés, beer halls, and cycling museums.

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.

Tour de Hoody: Paris-Roubaix weekend saw records fall, yellow cards doled out, fines imposed, brutal crashes, flying highs, and riders missing time cuts.

The Pogačar Express is thundering toward Paris-Roubaix but what if the best thing for the sport is that he doesn’t win Sunday?

Tour de Hoody: MVDP and Pogi are neck-and-neck in the race for monument glory, so who is the best one-day racer?

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.

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.

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.

Lappartient's IOC candidacy is one of the biggest backroom power plays in cycling history. What will it mean for cycling in the Olympics and beyond? We dive in.

From tour groups to DIY, here's the ultimate guide to chasing the spring classics. Bikes, bergs and beers, it's cycling's version of March Madness.

Pros from Magnus Sheffield and Cian Uijtdebroeks to Paul Magnier and Elisa Balsamo couldn't hold back the emotion in a weekend overflowing with wins, crashes, elation, and frustration.

Tour de Hoody: Big money is pouring into cycling, but is anyone asking if it's good for the sport and cycling's fans?

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.

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

Tour de Hoody: Alaphilippe refuses to let data override his unbridled racing style and that’s something every cycling fan can cheer for in 2025: 'Panache and aggression can always beat power numbers.'

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?

Tour de Hoody: The stakes are high in the early season races, even if the prestige is not. Here are the hottest story lines and hype I'm most stoked about to open 2025.

Breaking down the highs and lows of cycling’s biggest transfer moves in 2024, and what's in store for 2025 in cycling's never-end game of musical chairs.

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: What's fueling cycling's newest financial stampede and is there anything that should be done to stop it?

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

Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, Vuelta a España: Here are the likely key grand tour showdowns for the ‘Big 4’ in 2025.

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'.

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?

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.

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.

American women dominate Paris Olympics with record-breaking medal haul for Team USA: 'There's nothing better than this.'

Tour de Hoody: From the Eiffel Tower to Sacré-Coeur, road racing in Paris will be hard to match in scale and grandeur in future Olympic Games.

Mega-long courses, no race radio, tiny teams, and super-sized egos will produce unpredictable, chaotic, and ultimately spectacular road races.

From Cavendish's 35th to high-speed bunny-hops, to Jorgensen's MVP ride and Girmay's breakthrough, here are the best moments of a Tour de France that never stopped delivering.

'If you have under $50 million you have no chance to win the Tour de France:' Rising salaries, space-age back-room support, and urgent talent-hunt all driving up budgets to unprecedented levels.

Sepp Kuss started his career on a mountain bike, is there now a through line from gravel to the yellow jersey at the Tour de France? 'We will see some young kid to come out of gravel to become a big star.'

Remco's rise, Pogi's double, Girmay's history, Vingegaard's enigma: Here are the big narratives to follow for the dramatic climax of the Tour de France.

Tour de Hoody: The wild dust-up was the best day of racing so far and confirms that Strade Bianche-inspired sector-based gravel stages deserve a place in the Tour de France. 

Tour de Hoody: Don't count Matteo Jorgenson out as a podium outsider, and it would be a mistake to say that he cannot win this Tour de France.

Tour de Hoody: A unique course, four favorites on uncertain form, and a peloton chasing history will make this Tour de France one for the ages.

Tour de Hoody: Will they or won't they start? Visma-Lease a Bike is on egg shells if Jonas Vingegaard or Wout van Aert will be ready to race the Tour de France.

Pogačar is halfway to history to become the first rider since Marco Pantani to complete the Giro-Tour double, and there's no one who can stop him.

Tour de Hoody: There is nothing humdrum about Pogačar's winning panache, even if this Giro's GC fight was essentially a done deal.

Tour de Hoody: Pogačar is so far ahead the only thing that can stop him now is sickness, a crash, or the UCI kicking him out for wearing the wrong colored shorts.

Tour de Hoody: Demi Vollering on a spring roll and Americans head home from Europe for US nationals.

Tour de Hoody: Vollering stamps name on La Vuelta and North Americans continue to light up results sheet.

Tour de Hoody: Will the arrival of big hitters like Nike mark a new era in professional cycling? Red Bull's Tour de France jersey leaked?

Analysis: A relatively thin GC start list could tempt Pogačar and Co. to drop their guard, and that would be a mistake UAE cannot afford.

Tour de Hoody: The classics served up delicious portions of drama and heartbreak, with Skjelmose personifying the one-day extremes: 'If you come too close to the sun, you get burned.'

Analysis: The question is not if but when Pogačar will attack. Does Van der Poel or anyone else have the legs to follow?

Tour de Hoody: The Dutch classic was just a taste, and 'Ardennes Week' brings a shift in vertical to close out the spring classics. Who will step up?

Tour de Hoody: Americans keep impressing, Lidl-Trek is cycling first 'super team,' and heartbreak and heroes abound in fastest-ever Tour of Flanders.

Tour de Hoody: Will Van Aert's high-stakes bet pay off for Flanders? Americans keep rocking the cobbles, and Egan Bernal keeps clawing back.

Tour de Hoody: Pogačar stymied, 'Bling' shows his class, and MVDP is MVP again after cycling's 'hardest race to win' delivers another sizzler.

Tour de Hoody: More Americans win in Europe, Chris Froome's long goodbye, and giving Milan-San Remo the respect it deserves.

Analysis: Not even Eddy Merckx could sweep all the spring monuments, but that's exactly what 'MVDP' is hoping to do in audacious calendar.

Tour de Hoody: Kopecky and Vollering splitting up could be the best thing for women's racing, and Americans banging on monument's door.

Tour de Hoody: Sheffield planning 2028 Olympics, Martinez sneaks in for the win, Del Toro surprises again, Van den Broek-Blaak back after pregnancy in a busy weekend.

Tour de Hoody: Cycling's 'Mick Jagger' exits stage left, the growing Middle East footprint, Kopecky's on fire, and American fans might finally have the sprinter star they've been waiting for.

Tour de Hoody: Why Egan Bernal needs to win Colombia Tour, the 'Big 4' and the pathway to the Tour de France, and Strade Bianche goes to 11.