pro racing

The tale of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes is mainly another chapter in the splintering of talent in the women's pro peloton. Where Team SD Worx was once all…

It's less than two weeks from the Grand Departe in Lille for the start of the Tour de France 2025 on July 5th, and so here's a brief preview to orient you, in…

No matter what happens in the remainder of the men's pro road season, the most significant moment of the year will have been a catastrophic crash during the…

Maybe you just watched Tadej Pogačar win the Giro d'Italia, though 'win' hardly describes what he did over 21 racing stages. Pogačar won 6 stages, including a…

Holy week is over, the seven days from the Tour of Flanders to Paris-Roubaix. If you missed those races and/or their highlights, I'll just say they seldom…

In bygone days (and still sometimes at bizarre theme restaurants), kings and other royalty called local knights and other chancers to compete in martial arts…

The wife and I were Netflix-n'chillin' the other night, when I proposed we start a new series. I'd watched the first couple episodes earlier in the week and…

I like a good sports documentary. Sports themselves, I always contend, are just extended, character-driven narratives. They're improvisational to a degree, but…

Annemiek van Vleuten is retiring at the end of this season, and you could forgive her if she just used the 2023 races as a victory lap on one of the great…

Paris-Roubaix is less a bike race than a sort of Mad Max Roller Derby. Oh, there are bikes, and there is strategy, but what you get more often than not is…