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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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Seixas wants the rainbow jersey or nothing on Sunday, Xavier has a false flat too
Paul Seixas, France’s team leader and bronze medallist in the time trial behind Remco Evenepoel, wants the world road race title on Sunday in Montreal. He said as much at a press…
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Three Red Bull-BORA riders in Belgium’s squad, Myriam checks no quota is exceeded
Belgium’s squad for Sunday’s World Championships in Montreal includes three Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe riders: Maxim Van Gils, Remco Evenepoel and Gianni Vermeersch. Van Gils denies forming a clan and says he is ready…
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Motor-paced racing returns in 2027, Rik admits it’s his sport
The UCI’s Management Committee has added motor-paced racing to the 2027 UCI Track World Championships programme in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Absent from the Worlds since 1994, the discipline, where a rider shelters behind a…
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Nico Denz joins his fourth team, Rik sees a bidon changing vans
Tudor Pro Cycling Team have announced the arrival of Nico Denz, 32, on a three-year contract running until the end of 2029. The German leaves Red Bull-BORA-Hansgrohe, whom he joined in 2023;…
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Evenepoel hands out places before the time trial, Myriam fills in nothing before the finish
The world championship time trial takes place on Sunday in Montreal, over 39.2 flat kilometres, the same distance for women and men. Four Belgians are on the start list, and their places…
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UCI approves fifth leader’s jersey, Myriam counts podiums, not sponsors
The Professional Cycling Council has approved adding a fifth leader’s jersey, for the best rider from the host country, in stage races that already permit four. The rule will be introduced this…
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Van Aert checks in just before closing, Myriam classifies the time, not the man
On 22 September 2026, the Belgian squad flew from Brussels to Canada for the world championships. Wout van Aert checked in just before closing.
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World Champs Speakers Explain ‘Jambon Scrap’, Rik Spots His Gruppetto
Randy Ferguson and Jacques Galarneau are the speakers at the Cycling World Championships in Montreal. Every day they call the finish line and the podiums with Quebec expressions such as “dans la…
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Vierstraete took up cycling out of boredom at the roadside, Xavier gets it
Luca Vierstraete, 20, from Heule near Kortrijk, took bronze in the under-23 time trial at the World Championships in Montreal. It is Belgium’s second medal of these Worlds, after Remco Evenepoel’s.
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Bissegger regrets having only half a road, Rik has never had more than that
After the World Championship time trial, held on Sunday 21 September in Québec, Stefan Bissegger told DirectVelo that the course had only one lane in places, and that this made it more…
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Evenepoel fastest at every time check, Myriam fills in her whole column
Remco Evenepoel won the world championship time trial in Montreal on 20 September 2026. It is his fourth consecutive world title in the discipline, a first in the history of the event.
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Reusser still doubted her plan an hour before the start, Xavier knows that conversation
Marlen Reusser won the elite women’s time trial at the World Championships in Montreal in 50:24.44 over 39.2 km. It is her second straight world title in the discipline, after Kigali last…
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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.
They are characters. They have a profile, tics, obsessions and no legal existence whatsoever. Meet them.