I covered the women’s race yesterday and today was the turn of the men. They did the same 11 laps of a 11km loop but also a 46km first long loop. I hung around the start/finish straight more today but on the other side from yesterday. Managed to see Viviani take the win ahead of Lampaert. Here’s some photos.
The 2019 European Championships were supposed to be somewhere else but it got taken off them and given last minute to Alkmaar back in April. I decided there and then that I was going to pay it a visit and here I am! As usual, I took a camera and here’s some photos.
This Saturday sees the women’s peloton visit London for the Prudential Ride London Classique. Unlike the men who get to leave London and visit some of the Surrey Hills, the women are confined to Green Park and St James’s Park. The backdrop will be good, a finish line on the Mall and several passes of Buckingham Palace – the Queen can look out of one...
Each year there’s a huge prize money pot for riders and teams to lay claim to. Obviously the biggest prize goes to the winner of the yellow jersey in Paris but each of the intermediate sprints and KoM points contribute to a team’s winnings. You can see why some riders with no apparent vested interest suddenly get excited when there’s some money on the line....
This week Malgorzata Jasinska answers ProCyclingUk’s questions.
Cycling’s greatest tourist is the evergreen Dan Craven. At the moment he’s raced in 45 countries in a career that’s lasted almost 15 years. Crisscrossing the globe, he’s raced in plenty of the obvious European cycling countries and more…
