Time of Changes

It started with a great pilot episode (Tour de France 2021 Grand Depart)

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I’m pretty sure, you all know the good old cycling bon mot, that one-day races are like thrillers and grand tours (a. k. a the big three week long events) like soap operas. Indeed, it seems to be a witty remark considering how thrilling the last few kilometres of the Milano-Sanremo can be or how … Read more

3 takeaways from the first racing weekend

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No escape from the reality Do you use tho watch cycling races (a.k. a. epic sport battles with beautiful landscapes in the background) to escape from your everyday trouble? Well, it will be harder for the next time. I mean, the pandemic affects the life all of us, and it’s normal to be anxious and worrying … Read more

Time of Changes: Strade Bianche 2020 Review

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It’s happening people, it’s happening! The World Tour series returns after a hiatus of five months. In March, the cycling world stopped due to the pandemic just right before the Strade Bianche. And now this is the race the rescheduled calendar restart with.

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A Closer Look at the Italian One-Day Races

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Cycling Who’s Who: Luis Herrera

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First Columbian cyclist to win a Tour de France stage - Luis Herrara -Alpe d'Huez 1984

Luis Herrera was born on 4 May 1961 in Fusagasugá, Colombia.  He was the first Colombian to win a Tour de France stage. The victory on the top of Alpe d’Huez in 1984 was Herrera’s first notable triumph, he achieved it as an amateur rider. Although amateurs were time to time part of the peloton … Read more

Five promising changes in the structure of Tour de France

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The Tour de France is going to be something different in 2020 than it was before. Race director Christian Prudhomme called it “a race for the millennials” and spoke about the basic principles of the changes: it shouldn’t be harder, but more varied, due to the changed habits of the television audience in the recent time.  Let’s take a closer look, what it exactly does mean.

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