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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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Worlds time trial course noted like a rally, Myriam opens her folder
The individual time trial at the road World Championships, in Montreal, runs over more than 39 kilometres. Klaas Lodewyck told Sporza his team had noted the course the way a rally crew…
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Kopecky lists the stop signs and traffic lights, and Xavier finally has his column
Before the World Championship time trial in Montreal, Lotte Kopecky had said training in Canada was no fun: stop signs, traffic lights, poor road surface. After riding the course, the Belgians came…
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Ganna led by four seconds in Glasgow, Myriam only notes the twelve at the line
Klaas Lodewyck has looked back, in Sporza, on Remco Evenepoel’s three world time trial titles. In Glasgow, in 2023, Filippo Ganna led by four seconds at the first intermediate check; Evenepoel won…
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Pauwels says one pick stayed “under the radar”, Sandrine hears it in the housing
In Belgium’s squad for the U23 World Championship, Bert Bolle and Viktor Soenens go as domestiques for the other four. Serge Pauwels explained his choices to DirectVelo.
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Willems wants a “luxury lieutenant” for Kopecky, and Rik knows that job
Naming his Belgian women’s squad for the World Championships in Montreal, Ludwig Willems said that if a good group goes clear, someone has to be in it “in a luxury lieutenant’s role”.…
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Ganna sticks to the classic position for 45 minutes, Xavier raises his stem
Filippo Ganna has told La Gazzetta dello Sport that he will not use his new time trial position, lower on the handlebars, in the World Championships time trial, an effort of around…
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Two chairs for three Belgian time triallists, and Rik starts counting seats
At the start of the Belgian press conference, only two chairs had been set out for the country’s three time-trial specialists. Remco Evenepoel, world champion in the discipline, told the other two…
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Lefevere says the 2027 roster was locked too early, Xavier has the same space problem
In his column for Het Nieuwsblad, Patrick Lefevere criticises the squad-building policy at Soudal Quick-Step under his successor Jurgen Foré. He writes that a boss should never tie himself down this early,…
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Evenepoel runs an eight-to-nine-hour protocol, Xavier leaves at twenty past nine
A three-time world time trial champion, Remco Evenepoel goes for a fourth title on Sunday. His national selector Serge Pauwels describes the way he builds up to a time trial as an…
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Ten Dam calls Ljubljana an Ardennes classic, Sandrine reaches for the cassette
Laurens ten Dam has named the Dutch squad for the European Championships, held from 3 to 7 October. Demi Vollering, the defending champion, will defend her road title in Ljubljana and also…
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Van der Poel plays down Montreal, and Rik notes the missing race radios
Mathieu van der Poel has played down his chances of a second road world title in Canada on Sunday: he finds the Montreal course « a little too difficult » for him, and points…
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A deer halts the Belgians’ course recon, and Myriam notes the order of events
On 17 September 2026, in Canada, the Belgians selected for the world championships rode the course together, around three hours at an average of 36 km/h. In the video Tiesj Benoot put…
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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.