pro racing

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…

Well, here we are on the eve of the Tour of Flanders, the legendary race of Flandrian cobbled climbs (as opposed to Paris-Roubaix which races over flat…

First of all, these are not all the spring races, and not even all the spring races that some people consider classics, like E3 Harelbeke for example. This is…