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Lorenzo Finn turns pro in 2027, Myriam checks the categories were taken in order
Lorenzo Finn, junior world champion in 2024 and under-23 world champion in 2025, joins Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe in the WorldTour for 2027. At 19, he has already made his elite world championships debut, in late September.
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Meeus signs for Lidl-Trek until 2028, Myriam reads the contract and files it
Jordi Meeus, 28, will join Lidl-Trek in 2027 on a two-year deal, the team announced on Monday 28 September 2026. He will ride in support of Jonathan Milan, with his own ambitions…
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A Slovak masseur rides the Worlds, Rik wonders who handed him his bidons
Vladimir Kovacik, 28, the Slovak squad’s regular masseur, was the only Slovak rider at the start of the road race at the Worlds in Montreal on Sunday 27 September. A former pro…
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A beer “fermented in the final sprint” for Poulidor, Xavier has a sprint too
Mathieu van der Poel, third at the World Championships in Montreal, shared on Instagram a photo of a Canadian session IPA called “Allez Pou-Pou”, dedicated to his grandfather Raymond Poulidor. The label…
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“The course did not lie,” says De Cauwer, Sandrine checks the pressure anyway
Tipped as the big favourite, the Belgian squad watched Remco Evenepoel finish 12th at the Montreal Worlds, a result the American Brandon McNulty made the most of. For José De Cauwer, on…
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Evenepoel calls it a bad day at the Worlds, Xavier has one every Sunday
World champion in the time trial, Remco Evenepoel was nowhere near the front of the road race won by Brandon McNulty in Montreal. He spoke of a “bad day” and is due…
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Van Aert says the lights went out, Sandrine goes looking for the fuse
Wout van Aert finished 28th at the elite men’s road race world championship, raced over 270 km in Montreal and won solo by American Brandon McNulty. Remco Evenepoel came home 12th, 25…
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Lefevere wants an egoless domestique for the Worlds, Rik knows the role
In his column for Het Nieuwsblad, Patrick Lefevere argues that Alec Segaert is not the right rider to control the first 112 kilometres of the Montreal Worlds, because he is “too good…
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Reusser says she was the only one riding flat out, Xavier knows the feeling since twenty past nine
Marlen Reusser finished fourth in the elite women’s road race at the world championships in Montreal, won by Demi Vollering. The Swiss rider said she was the only one riding flat out…
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Slovakia enters its masseur at the Worlds, Myriam checks the licence and notes
After the withdrawals of Matthias Schwarzbacher, Lukas Kubis and Martin Svrcek, the Slovak federation lines up Vladimir Kovacik, 28, the delegation’s masseur, on Sunday in Montreal, the country’s only rider in the…
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Yellow card for Vollering’s position, Xavier revisits his own on the Kwaremont
Demi Vollering, world champion in Montreal after a sprint against Katarzyna Niewiadoma, was fined 1,000 Swiss francs, given a yellow card and stripped of 25 UCI points by the jury for an…
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Ma Petite Entreprise sign ex-handballer Charlène Clavel, Rik thinks of bidons
Charlène Clavel, 35, joins French ProTeam Ma Petite Entreprise for 2027, the club announced on Sunday. A former professional handball player and long-distance triathlon world champion, she turns professional in a third…
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Vollering crowned in Montreal, Myriam classifies the finish-line congratulations
Demi Vollering won Saturday’s women’s road world championship in Montreal, her first world title. Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney finishes second, Elisa Longo Borghini third, four seconds back.
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Four columnists, zero press cards, zero pro contracts
Xavier
Rides out on Sundays at nine, twenty past nine in practice, from the square in Lasne, and has a time on every climb the pros ride. He never says he would have won: he says he has the segment.
Sandrine
Sells bikes in Mouscron during the week and fixes the kermesse club’s at the weekend, from a van that follows the cyclocross races in winter. To her, everything that happens in cycling has a mechanical cause, statements included.
Myriam
Regional commissaire, rules on Walloon kermesse races on Sunday and on the UCI’s agenda on Monday, article by article. She does not judge the race: she judges compliance.
Rik
Former professional, “two and a half seasons” in the early nineties, best result a hundred and twelfth in the Ronde, inside the time limit. He tells the race from the back, where you see everything.
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