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Women's Tour de France: Is ASO backing or slacking? The 2022 Women’s Tour de France is officially on, but will it be the race the women’s peloton deserve? The much-fêted revival of a women’s Tour de France seemed to be one more (barely-perceptible) baby-step closer to reality this week after race director Christian Prudhomme confirmed to The Guardian that: “It will take place next year, that’s certain.” That the event will take place was just about the only information that Prudhomme gave away about the race itself. The Frenchman took a nebulous line, coming out with vague pro...

Already have an account? Mathieu van der Poel won the most recent Amstel Gold Race, which was held in 2019 Photo: Getty Images Time waits for no man or woman, and neither does the cycling calendar. Now that the cobbled classics have been dispatched with, the caravan moves onto the Ardennes, Spain, and Turkey. Here’s your insider’s guide for the races going on for the week of Monday, April 12 through Sunday, April 18. Tour of Turkey Monday, April 12 – Sunday, April 18 What to know: The Tour of Turkey returns to the cycling calendar after it was forced to cancel last year’s event due to...

Well, the 2021 cobbled classics season was fun while it lasted. Wednesday’s Scheldeprijs officially marked the end of the northern classics. And what a ride it was. It’s a shame we lost Paris-Roubaix for the second spring in a row, but as pandemic conditions stubbornly hang on across Europe, it’s nothing short of a spring miracle that the Flemish classics went off without major disruption. “Racing behind closed doors” beats racing virtually any day for me. Sunday’s tremendous editions of both the men’s and women’s races at Ronde van Vlaanderen, even if muted without millions o...

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. Yes, things are getting dicey in Europe and the return of normalcy might get pushed back on both sides...

What Are We Learning This Week? Share this story Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images Five days into the 2021 Cycling season, can I just say... OMG we are five days into the cycling season! And only one brush with catastrophe! The “preseason” (aka FSA DS signup season) is behind us and shit has gotten kinda sorta real, but my Belgiophilic brain can’t get past the importance of this weekend’s races as the event that really signals the imminence of spring. And I’m not apologizing. Part of this has to do with races being in the Arab world, which looks lovely and has roads, and which is a...