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2025 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race Reports

  Happy Wednesday, cycling fans! I’d like to start off by apologising for the late running of this week’s post. I had a busy weekend so didn’t get a chance to watch the races until yesterday and today. Starting off with the women’s race, which took place on Saturday, Kim Cadzow was the first rider to launch an attack, but she then returned to the peloton. Her EF Education-Oatly teammate Babette van der Wolf then launched an attack of her own and was joined by Stine Dale. While this was going on, a crash occurred which included Australia’s Maeve Plouffe, riding for the national team. Marit Raaijmakers was then involved in another crash shortly after. Stine Dale ended up taking the first Queen of the Mountains points with just over 30km to go, with van der Wolf coming second and Amber Kraak coming third on the climb. Babette van der Wolf was then caught by the peloton with around 26km to go, and a while later with 18.8km to go, Dale was also caught by the peloton. Tiffany Cromwell tr...
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2025 Tour Down Under Report

  Happy Monday, cycling fans! The Men’s WorldTour season began with a bang in Australia last week as the Tour Down Under took place in and around Adelaide. Stage 1 went from Prospect to Gumeracha in a stage which saw Bastien Tronchon of Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale go on an early attack. He was joined by Zac Marriage and Fergus Browning - both Australians - as they looked to make a statement on home roads. Eventually Tronchon left the Aussies to it and returned to the peloton. Marriage and Browning continued in their two-man breakaway for much of the rest of the stage before they themselves returned to the peloton with 23km to go. There was a crash towards the end of the stage, which involved current Australian national champion Luke Durbridge, however it was nothing too serious and he carried on. Sam Welsford - who won three stages at last year’s Tour Down Under - took the victory on day one. Britain’s Matty Brennan of Team Visma-Lease a Bike came second in his WorldTour debut. Stag...
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2025 Women's Tour Down Under Report

  Happy Monday, cycling fans! As the 2025 UCI WorldTour and UCI Women’s WorldTour seasons get UNDER way (see what I did there?!) I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy New Year, which sounds odd on the 20th January, but there we go. The Women’s WorldTour season got underway over the weekend with the Santos Tour Down Under Women - a race made up of three stages in and around Adelaide, South Australia. The first stage was mostly just a warm-up for the riders after their winter break, with many taking it easy, but Australian Alyssa Polites clearly wanted to make a mark on home roads and as such took the Mountain Classification jersey after stage one. The first stage itself was won by Daniek Hengeveld in her first WorldTour win, which was also the first win of the season for Ceratizit Pro Cycling Team. Her teammate, Canada’s Sarah Van Dam, finished fourth on the day, with eventual TDU winner Noemi Rüegg finishing sixth. Hengeveld also took the first Points C...
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Last post of 2024 PLUS some news about 2025...

 Happy Thursday, cycling fans! I started this blog just in time for the Vuelta a Espana earlier this year, but didn't really know what I was doing, so just sort of let my brain go with the flow. As such, I basically just did a small bit of writing and then posted the podiums for each stage. Over the last few weeks, however, I've decided to change things around a bit for the 2025 season (which kicks off in Australia in January with the Tour Down Under for both the men's and women's seasons). I will be doing a longer and more informative write up of each race (or each week of a multi-week race such as the Grand Tours). I will endeavour to have this published each Monday through the cycling season, however there may be some weeks in which it ends up being on the Tuesday or later. I started this blog because I am an aspiring sports journalist and broadcaster and I do also follow other sports - particularly football (I'm a season ticket holder at my local football club a...
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2024 Track World Championships Results

 Happy Monday Tuesday, cycling fans! Last week our attention turned from the road to the track with the UCI Track World Championships. Denmark played host this year, with the velodrome just outside of Copenhagen giving us plenty of action over 5 days of thrilling racing. Below are the results of each race. Women's Team Sprint 1st: Great Britain (Sophie Capewell, Emma Finucane, Katy Marchant) 2nd: Netherlands (Kimberly Kalee, Hetty van de Wouw, Steffie van der Peet; Kyra Lamberink replaced) 3rd: Australia (Kristina Clonan, Alessia McCaig, Molly McGill) Men's Team Sprint 1st: Netherlands (Jeffrey Hoogland, Harrie Lavreysen, Roy van den Berg) 2nd: Australia (Thomas Cornish, Ryan Elliott, Leigh Hoffman) 3rd: Japan (Yoshitaku Nagasako, Yuta Obara, Kaiya Ota) Women's Scratch Race 1st: Lorena Wiebes, Netherlands 2nd: Jennifer Valente, United States of America 3rd: Ally Wollaston, New Zealand Men's Keirin 1st: Kento Yamasaki, Japan 2nd: Mikhail Yakovlev, Israel 3rd: Kevin Sant...
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2024 Il Lombardia and Simac Ladies Tour Results

 Happy Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday, cycling fans! Today I have two races to bring you the final results of - firstly Il Lombardia from Italy and then the Simac Ladies Tour from the Netherlands! Il Lombardia Il Lombardia marks the end of the men's road season that I'll be covering, and many teams and riders sign off their season with it themselves. It took place on Saturday (12th October). Here is the podium: 1st: Tadej Pogacar      | UAE Team Emirates | 6h 4m 58s 2nd: Remco Evenepoel | Soudal Quick-Step       | +0h 3m 16s 3rd: Giulio Ciccone       | Lidl-Trek                      | +0h 4m 31s
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2024 Paris-Tours Results

 Happy Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday, cycling fans! First off, I'd like to apologise for the late publishing of this week's post which I always try to get published on a Monday. I had a busy few days and it kept getting put back. But today has been a bit quieter for me, so I've had time to publish the podium from the Paris-Tours which took place on Sunday (which seems like an age ago, now!). So here is said podium: 1st: Christophe Laporte | Team Visma-Lease a Bike | 5h 0m 27s 2nd: Mathias Vacek           | Lidl-Trek                             | +0h 0m 0s 3rd: Jasper Philipsen         | Alpecin-Deceuninck            | +0h 0m 21s Although we're approaching the end of the season, we're not quite there yet. This Saturday (12th October) is Il Lombardia in Italy which is the final men's race that I will be covering on the ...
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