The Pro Cycling Blog

  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...

  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...