World Championships
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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,…
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“Mexico was already in sight”, says Benoot on Strava, Xavier watches the trace stop
Tiesj Benoot and Quinten Hermans rode out from the Belgian base camp before the Montreal World Championships, were stopped at the US border and held for a few hours. Benoot titled the…
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Niewiadoma says Lidl-Trek “had a plan”, Myriam asks for the attachment
Kasia Niewiadoma, 32, has signed with Lidl-Trek until the end of 2028 after nine seasons at Canyon-SRAM and its predecessors. The world championships runner-up says she felt straight away, talking to the…
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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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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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A Slovak soigneur on the start line at the Worlds, Xavier checks for a spare number
Vladimir Kovacik, a 28-year-old soigneur for the Slovak federation, will line up on Sunday for the elite road race at the Montreal Worlds. He replaces Lukas Kubis, Matthias Schwarzbacher and Martin Svrcek,…
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Slovakia sends its soigneur to the Worlds, Rik knows the way to the bidons
Robbed of its three selected riders, who pulled out at the last minute, the Slovak federation will send Vladimir Kovacik, 28, a soigneur and former rider, to the men’s elite road race…
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Evenepoel in room 226, Van Aert in 221: Myriam notes the numbers, no comment
At the Hotel Mortagne, Remco Evenepoel shares room 226 with Maxim Van Gils, Wout van Aert room 221 with Tiesj Benoot. Team manager Serge Pauwels takes both leaders into Sunday’s road race…
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Belgium to write on bidons in Montreal, Xavier already has his time on his
With no earpieces or radios allowed at the Montreal world championships, the Belgian squad will communicate on Sunday through stickers on the bidons, and perhaps chalkboards. Wout van Aert confirmed the plan…
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Belgium will write its race orders on bidons, Myriam checks the delivery
With earpieces and radio contact banned at the world championships, Belgian Cycling will print messages on its riders’ bidons on Sunday, handed out lap by lap in the feed zones known as…
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Neira wins by sitting on the wheel, Sandrine asks which one and at what pressure
Alejandra Neira, 18, is world champion 2026 in Montreal. Caught in the final kilometres, the Spaniard chose to sit on Maria Okrucińska’s wheel before passing her in the sprint.
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Merckx recalls Thévenet’s 1974 breakaway, Rik knows how it ends
Eddy Merckx told RTBF that in 1974 in Montreal, France’s Bernard Thévenet rode alone off the front for a hundred kilometres before being caught seven kilometres from the line, the year Merckx…