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Posted by: MvG501 1st January 2021, 12:48 PM

A 2021 thread to discuss all things cycling related such as upcoming tours, world championships, debates and news anything to with the world of cycling.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 7th January 2021, 07:15 PM

My parents got me a subscription to ProCycling magazine this Christmas and the first one arrived today so reading through that now!

Mark Cavendish has re-signed for his old club Deceuninck-Quickstep for one year, apparently more because of the sponsorship money him being on the team will bring rather than his actual ability as a cyclist which is interesting. Meanwhile, his last team NTT do indeed ride on into 2021 as Qhukeba-Assos, although they still seem to be lacking in black African riders (in fact looking at the roster they seem to be lacking in any African riders, there are only two in the whole team )

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 5th February 2021, 06:02 PM

The biggest cycling news from January includes UAE Team Emirates being the first team to be vaccinated, and seven Bora-Hansgrohe riders being hit by a car, including Kelderman and Andres Schillinger.

The French Cycling Federation will also start issuing licenses to top-tier female cyclists for the first time in 2021, which is a big step in the right direction for womens' cycling!

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 6th March 2021, 10:49 PM

Paris-Nice starts tomorrow! Highlights on ITV4 at 7pm with the usual commentating team.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 9th March 2021, 09:57 PM

After two days of sprints, Stefan Bisseger takes a shock win in the time trial (shock because I've never heard of him before) to take yellow! Always love a good surprise victory

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 10th March 2021, 09:55 PM

Finally an interesting day in Paris-Nice! Roglic takes the yellow after attacking with 3k to go.

Tao Geohegan-Hart is also out after suffering concussion, meaning that Ineos have lost both of their leaders four stages in whoops.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 11th March 2021, 10:06 PM

Another dull day in Paris-Nice, the most exciting thing happening being a 11-man Belgian-only attack which went off at 70km to go and was reeled back in by 67km to go! Bennett wins the sprint, Roglic still in yellow.

Posted by: Mack. 12th March 2021, 10:24 AM

Former Team Sky chief doctor Richard Freeman has been found guilty of ordering testosterone for another rider.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 12th March 2021, 08:46 PM

Not a great look given this raises eyebrows over both Team Sky/Ineos and Cycling GB, this incident occurred in 2011 just before Wiggins' Tour win and the London Olympics which is slightly worrying as well. Here's hoping it's all just something of nothing.

Another relatively uneventful day in Paris-Nice, even with an uphill finish. Roglic wins the stage and increases his lead on everyone else in the GC.

Posted by: Mack. 13th March 2021, 12:54 AM

Indeed not great for the reputation of Team Sky and UK Cycling.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 15th March 2021, 07:39 PM

The final few days of Paris-Nice really had it all!

Saturday: Race leader Primoz Roglic attacks in the final kilometre and overtakes Gino Mader, who had been in the break right from the start of the day, with 50km to go.

Sunday: Roglic is involved in two crashes, the other teams (potentially after seeing his ruthlessness the day before) all go on the offensive and leave Roglic to lose 3 minutes and tumble out of the Top 10. The rider who climbs up to 10th in his place is... Gino Mader

All of that means that Max Schachmann defends his title from last year in the bizarrest of circumstances!

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 8th April 2021, 04:44 PM

Paris-Roubaix is on this Sunday! Including the first ever womens' edition of the race which is exciting. Here's hoping I can find some way to watch it on the train.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 17th April 2021, 08:46 PM

^the above appears to have been postponed until early October The Amstel Gold Race tomorrow looks like the most exciting thing on the schedule for this month.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 19th April 2021, 06:25 PM

Tom Pidcock takes silver in the Gold Race, behind Van Aert and ahead of Schachmann. I'm wondering whether he may become the next b ig thing in terms of British cycling with the results he's getting (and I've recently discovered that he's a Leodensian so all the better )

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 17th May 2021, 06:44 PM

With all the Giro excitement I seem to have missed the fact that Mark Cavendish has ended his win-drought in style with 4 wins in Turkey! Showing he's worth more than just his sponsor income

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 31st May 2021, 07:47 PM

Back to this thread for the Dauphiné! Highlights on ITV4 (at 10pm thanks to the French Open but they're on ItvHub earlier).

Brent Van Mur took an incredible win from the breakaway on Stage 1! Didn't see it coming at all, he also picked up lots of other points and held all the jerseys going into Stage 2.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 31st May 2021, 08:47 PM

Another win for the break as Lukas Postlberger takes the stage and the jersey. Interesting to see ex-teammate Shane Archbold helping him though, a real insight into the unofficial friendships/alliances of the peloton!

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 1st June 2021, 08:00 PM

Sonny Colbrelli takes Stage 3 after finishing second on the last two stages. A very hilly sprint I have to say!

Good to see Omer Goldstein in the break, the actual Israeli riders in Israel Start-Up Nation seem to fade into obscurity in these races so good to see him get some screen time.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 2nd June 2021, 08:05 PM

An incredibly unpredictable and exciting Time Trial today! Alexey Lutsenko took the win despite the race cameras not covering his ride, and Ion Izaguirre takes second despite the cameras not covering his either. The ride of the day though has to go to Lukas Postlberger who finished 9th and managed to hold on to yellow by a single second Certainly makes tomorrow interesting!

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 3rd June 2021, 08:04 PM

Geraint Thomas wins a sprinters' stage by attacking on a hairpin bend on the last kilometre. The 10 second bonus sends him flying up GC but Postlberger holds on to yellow.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 4th June 2021, 08:00 PM

As expected, Postlberger falls off GC today and Lutsenko climbs a place to take yellow. Slightly less expected was 41 year-old Alejandro Valverde winning the sprint so easily!

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 5th June 2021, 08:15 PM

An excellent win for Mark Padun there - 30 mins down on GC but managed to attack the main group at a key point! Porte finishes second and takes the yellow jersey from Lutsenko (although he's still in second after a good result from him)

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 7th June 2021, 06:02 PM

Mark Padun does the near-impossible and wins two Alps stages in a row so there's a name for the future there! The rest all come in together, giving us a Porte - Lutsenko - Thomas top 3.

Also must have gone under my radar but we're getting a women's Tour de France in 2022! Let's hope ITV4 actually broadcast it.

Posted by: Mack. 15th June 2021, 10:00 PM

Chris Froome will race at this month's Tour de France, but only as a domestique.

His Israel Start Up Nation team announced Canadian Michael Woods will instead try to win the Grand Tour event.

Four-time winner Froome will be road captain in the eight-man squad for the race, which begins on 26 June.

Posted by: Mack. 19th June 2021, 08:52 AM

Geraint Thomas will lead Ineos Grenadiers' bid for Tour de France victory in a squad which also contains Tao Geoghegan Hart.

Ecuador's Richard Carapaz will also be a leading force in the British team, which could win the yellow jersey for an eighth time.

"We have changed our race philosophy to being more open and aggressive," said team boss Sir David Brailsford.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 19th June 2021, 04:38 PM

I'll create a thread later but Ineos' decision to send four Grand Tour podium finishers to the Tour is certainly an interesting one. Yes, since they don't have either of the two strongest riders they will need a strong team to beat them, but surely there are going to be power struggles within the team? Particularly if Thomas doesn't come out of the first few days ahead of the others.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 6th August 2021, 05:50 PM

Random thought - I've just realised that Annemeik Van Vleuten is 38 years old, which surprised me a bit as I always thought of her as the younger of her and Anna Van Der Breggen!

Posted by: Mack. 26th August 2021, 03:49 PM

Mountain Bike World Championship currently be shown on the BBC Sport website:


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/cycling/58251269

Posted by: Mack. 28th August 2021, 11:13 PM

Great Britain's Evie Richards won gold in the women's cross-country at the Mountain Bike World Championships.

She finished in one hour, 23 minutes and 52 seconds to claim the rainbow jersey in Italy and become the first British female cross-country world champion.

The 24-year-old finished ahead of the Netherlands' Anne Terpstra (second) and Sina Frei of Switzerland (third).

Posted by: Mack. 1st September 2021, 02:06 PM

The Tour de Yorkshire cycle race has been cancelled for a third year in a row, its organisers have announced.

Posted by: Mack. 4th September 2021, 11:27 AM

Irish cyclist Dan Martin has announced that he will retire at the end of the season, calling time on a 14-year career.

The 35-year-old has won stages of all three Grand Tours.

Martin will compete for Israel Start-Up Nation at the Tour of Britain, which begins on Sunday, but confirmed his retirement at the end of the season.

"After 14 seasons as a professional cyclist, I have decided to call it a day," he said.

"Though this huge decision has taken much thought, I feel that the time is right to move on as I want to achieve so many other things in life."

Martin has won stages of all three Grand Tours, including the Tour de France in 2013 and 2018, the Vuelta a Espana in 2011 and 2020 and the Giro d'Italia in May 2021.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 7th September 2021, 07:21 PM

That's disappointing, it is such an event and one of the few that they still showed on ITV4 Let's hope they'll air the Women's Tour de France to make up for it.

Posted by: Doctor Blind 13th September 2021, 08:27 PM

Love this! *.*

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58503012

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 14th September 2021, 04:10 PM

A touch of class there - and to think that earlier in the year they tried to ban giving bottles away!

Sadly I've not been following the Tour of Britain this year, too much going on and the coverage never grabs me as much as the Tour/old Vuelta coverage!

Posted by: Boycie 19th September 2021, 05:41 PM

Danish former professional cyclist Chris Anker Sorensen has died at the age of 37 after being hit by a vehicle during a ride in Belgium, the International Cycling Union (UCI) says.

Sorensen was due to commentate on the Road World Championships, which begin in Flanders on Sunday.

A stage winner in the 2010 Giro d'Italia, Sorensen retired from professional cycling in 2018.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 20th September 2021, 09:02 PM

Wasn't aware of him as a rider but always awful to see a cyclist pass away like that

World Championships underway now! Looking forward to catching up with them.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 27th September 2021, 06:07 PM

Caught the Time Trials from the Worlds - enjoyed watching them a lot, it made it more interesting that some of the bigger riders were earlier starters so it didn't feel as though you were watching a 2-hour preamble before the final three riders inevitably ended up being the top 3!

Posted by: Mack. 5th October 2021, 01:24 PM

Marta Bastianelli sprinted to a first-ever stage win in the Women’s Tour of Britain in Banbury, as a last-gasp breakaway was reeled in after attacking on the final climb of stage one, to Sibford Ferris.

The Italian, fifth in Saturday’s Paris-Roubaix Femmes behind race winner Lizzie Deignan, was the fastest finisher after the peloton had caught a five-rider attack on the run-in to Banbury and will now defend the leader’s jersey in Tuesday’s second stage, a circuit starting and finishing in Walsall.

Posted by: Mack. 6th October 2021, 12:30 PM

General classification of Women's Tour of Britain

1. Clara Copponi (Fra/FDJ Nouvelle Aquitaine Futuroscope) 6 hours 22 mins 34 secs
2. Amy Pieters (Ned/SDWorx) Same time
3. Sheyla Gutierrez (Spa/Movistar Team) +6 secs
4. Demi Vollering (Ned/SD Worx) +9 secs
5. Juliette Labous (Fra/Tream DSM) +10 secs
6. Elise Chabbey (Swi/Canyon SRAM Racing) Same time
7. Aude Biannic (Fra/Movistar Team)
8. Pfeiffer Georgi (GB/Team DSM)
9. Nina Kessler (Ned/Team TIBCO/-SVB) +38 secs
10. Marta Bastianelli (Ita/Ale BTC Ljubljana) +40 secs

Stage two results:

1. Amy Pieters (Ned/SD Worx) 2 hours 38 mins 3 secs
2. Clara Copponi (Fra/FDJ Nouvelle Aquitaine Futuroscope) Same time
3. Sheyla Gutierrez (Spa/Movistar Team)
4. Audrey Cordon-Ragot (Fra/Trek-Segafredo)
5. Pfeiffer Georgi (GB/Team DSM)
6. Elise Chabbey (Swi/Canyon SRAM Racing)
7. Maaike Boogaard (Ned/Ale BTC Ljubljana)
8. Aude Biannic (Fra/Movistar Team)
9. Juliette Labous (Fra/Tream DSM)
10. Demi Vollering (Ned/SD Worx)

Posted by: Mack. 6th October 2021, 12:42 PM

Elinor Barker has announced she is expecting her first child. We're just 2 months past Tokyo, so she may well have been pregnant when she did the team pursuit there.

Posted by: Mack. 7th October 2021, 03:18 PM

Posted by: Mack. 7th October 2021, 03:31 PM

Second place for Adam Yates in the Milano-Torino.

Posted by: Mack. 22nd October 2021, 07:55 PM

GB's Katie Archibald wins all four women's omnium events to claim world title at the Track Cycling World Championships in Roubaix, France.

Posted by: Mack. 24th October 2021, 01:31 PM

Great Britain's Katie Archibald won silver in the women's points race at the Track Cycling World Championships.

The Olympic madison champion was beaten to the gold by four points by Belgium's Lotte Kopecky.

Archibald finished with 72 points, 12 points clear of third-placed Kirsten Wild of the Netherlands.

It is the 27-year-old's fourth medal of the week, having won gold in the women's omnium and bronze in the team pursuit and madison.

Archibald was in third place in the standings going into the final sprint, but crossed the line first to lift herself into the silver medal position.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 25th October 2021, 08:35 PM

I'd completely forgotten the Track Cycling Championships were on at the same time as the Road ones this year! Will definitely need to get caught up with those.

Posted by: Mack. 26th October 2021, 05:58 PM

The UK is to bid to host the 2026 Tour de France Grand Depart.

The government has also confirmed funding for the English Rugby Football Union's bid to host the 2025 World Cup, as the RFU plans to stage the "best-attended women's Rugby World Cup ever".

Posted by: Mack. 29th October 2021, 12:57 AM

Two-time Olympic gold medallist Philip Hindes has announced his retirement, aged 29.

As 'man one' in the team sprint event, Hindes helped Great Britain win gold at London 2012 and Rio 2016.

Hindes also won silver at the 2016 Track Cycling World Championships and at two Commonwealth Games (Glasgow 2014 and Australia 2018).

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 29th October 2021, 06:27 PM

I've been reading about Hindes in Chris Hoy's autobiography - an interesting character as he's actually German, and he also claimed he 'deliberately crashed' at the London Olympics so that they could get a restart!

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 8th November 2021, 07:45 PM

Finally got round to finishing watching the Track World Championships - some good races, that Madison at the end was incredibly exciting! A decent medal tally for Team GB and nice to see Nicholas Paul getting a silver for Trinidad & Tobago, happy a Carribbean country is becoming more prominent in the world of cycling.

Posted by: Mack. 24th November 2021, 03:23 AM

Mark Cavendish said he had been "overwhelmed" by messages of support after suffering two broken ribs and a collapsed lung in a crash at the Six Days of Ghent on Sunday.

The 36-year-old British cyclist was competing in the Madison when Olympic and world champion Lasse Norman Hansen crashed in front of him.

He then rode into the Dane's bike, sending him crashing to the floor.

After initial treatment, Cavendish was taken to hospital on a stretcher.

Posted by: Iceman501 5th December 2021, 03:57 PM

Katie Archibald claimed the women's endurance title in the inaugural UCI Track Champions League.

The 27-year-old Scot won the elimination race on Friday and secured her victory with second place in Saturday's scratch race.

Archibald's win was already assured before she powered to an impressive first place in the elimination race.

"It feels like a really big deal if I'm honest," said Archibald, who won Olympic Madison gold in the summer."

She added: "I'm so happy with the springboard of the Olympics and everything I've carried through from there."

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 8th December 2021, 05:59 PM

Have people seen the news about Cavendish being the victim of violent robbery? Very distressing.