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Tearful Evenepoel suffers to finish seventh on Giro dItalia comeback Issued on: 08/05/2021 - 20:07 Remco Evenepoel returns nine months after horror crash. Luca Bettini AFP 2 min Turin (Italy) (AFP) Belgian star Remco Evenepoel described his suffering Saturday on his way to finishing seventh in the opening time-trial at the Giro dItalia on his comeback nine months after a horror crash. The 21-year-old fractured his pelvis after hitting a bridge wall a...

2021 Giro dItalia preview: Examining the three-week race for pink A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size After the COVID-19 pandemic forced the 2020 edition out of its usual spot in early May and transplanted it into October, the Giro d’Italia is back in its rightful place as the opening grand tour of the season, and the 104th edition of the race is sure to torment every one of its 184 participants. With a rel...

The 21-year-old, who has been dubbed the heir to the legendary Eddy Merckx, fractured his pelvis after hitting a bridge wall and plunging 10 metres into a ravine during the Italian race last August. The youngster came off crutches in September but his return to racing has taken longer than initially expected. “This is my first race since last August, we will have to see how my body reacts”, said Evenepoel on his team’s website ahead of the Giro which starts in Turin on Saturday.  “We ...

Vlaanderens Mooiste... Your Comprehensive Flanders Preview Share this story Photo by Nico Vereecken - Pool/Getty Images It’s the Mooiste Wonderful Time of the Year! Corona or no, spring is upon us, and there is no stopping the feel of spring from seeping into our bones. As a sports-watching-guy, this weekend mashes up college basketball’s crowning event, the return of baseball, and of course the Cobbled Classics — all of which are happening to some extent from the American perspective. Ye...

Tirreno Tidbits and Nice Notes Share this story Photo by Bas Czerwinski/Getty Images It’s Ronde van Vlaanderen season, don’t you know? So yes, I am here to write about the week’s ongoing races, all of which are nice little practice events for the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Tirreno-Adriatico Best Bet I am guilty of writing off these races, even one that goes through central Italy, for lack of interest and need of sleep, but the fact is that both races have provided plenty of reasons to stay tun...

Denis Smith WE must practise the distant early warning technique to raise awareness of coming events. Now that the COVID threat seems to be shrinking to manageable proportions we should turn our thoughts to the traditional show season and the need to present trotting/harness racing in one form or another - actual racing or exhibitions - at these traditional, annual fairs. In the not too distant past, trotting was the excitement factor at these gatherings, which were very heavily supported b...

 28 Feb 2021 - 9:30 Germany’s Christian Ahlmann, the CHI Al Shaqab Grand Prix winner who captured major honours on the final day of the Commercial Bank CHI Al Shaqab Presented by Longines, receiving his trophy from Event Director and Organising Committee Member Omar Al Mannai. Ahlmann guided Dominator 2000 Z to a memorable victory at the Longines Arena at Al Shaqab yesterday. Rizwan Rehmat/ The Peninsula Germany’s Christian Ahlmann is considered a calm rider with soft hands.  That very c...

Just deserts: racing in the Middle East Edward Pickering © Provided by Cycling News UAE Tour stage 4 The Middle East races have been a part of cycling’s landscape for 19 years. Procycling looks back at their history and place in the sport. This article was taken from . Only die-hard cycling nerds will remember Ivan Quaranta. A larger-than-life Italian sprinter at a time when shares in larger-than-life Italian sprinters were soaring in value, he made headlines when he outsp...

Froome comeback bid to gather pace at UAE Tour Issued on: 3 min Paris (AFP) Chris Froome will be part of a top-drawer line-up as the four-time Tour de France winner gets his second injury comeback rolling when cyclings first major race of the season, the UAE Tour, starts on Sunday. The reigning Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar, Quick Steps rising star Joao Almeida and the winner of the UAE race last year, Adam Yates, should feature strongly in what is expected to be a tight struggle in t...

2021 Team Trends: A Superficial, Relative Assessment Share this story Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images Just busting through the offseason doldrums, wondering when racing is going to... oh wait, there’s racing right now? Kinda maybe? Something in New Zealand? Well, hope springs anew and the GP La Marseillaise hasn’t said no yet. Also the Volta Valenciana is insisting on carrying on. So it won’t be the offseason much longer. This means little time is left for us to put out a raft of offse...