Pro Cycling Opinion & Analysis
Robbie McEwen was the fastest man in the Tour de France in the mid-2000s. One of the very few that could go toe to toe with Alessandro Petacchi and Fassa Bortolo’s machine-like lead-out trains. The Australian was one of the very few sprinters that was on Petacchi’s level, even beating the Italian several times, despite…
Read my thoughts on the most disappointing teams of the 2021 season through the following link: World Tour Team Rankings: The Disappointments. It is the first of two articles grading each team’s season. I wrote this article in The Podium Cafe, which is a very insightful cycling website with a vibrant community of cycling fans….
Guido Bontempi was one of the best sprinters from the 1980s and early 1990s. His crowing achievements are the twenty six Grand Tour stage wins he amassed throughout his career. Therefore, it was fitting that, after he retired, he would manage (arguably) the best sprinter of all time, Mario Cipollini. Their relationship in the Saeco…
Seems like, once again, pro cycling is the scapegoat for doping in sport. I didn’t plan to post an article about this but since I see a lot of media outlets picking up this story here it goes. It’s important to mention that I will focus solely on the sporting aspect of this issue. Whether…
The rider who made Great Britain dream about a Tour de France win. In fact, Wiggins not only won it but, in the process, achieved one of the greatest seasons of all time by any road cyclist ever. In 2012, the British rider won the Tour de France, the gold medal in the individual time…
The first entry of this list epitomizes the saying “quality over quantity”: Roger Lapébie won the 1937 Tour the France (in controversial fashion as we will see below), placed 3rd in the 1934 edition of the race, and won 9 stages in the Tour from 1932 to 1937. He won the 1937 Paris Nice and…
My first thoughts when I analyzed the 2022 Tour de France route (keeping in mind that some stage profiles still haven’t come out) is that it looks very exciting from the last day of the first week onwards. My main worry is that no contender is knocked out of the race on the cobbles of…
After the introductory article for this project about the Greatest Cyclists of All Time, I think it’s appropriate to start with the riders that barely missed the cut. To be frank, it’s hard to argue that these riders aren’t just as skilled that the ones that are going to be mentioned later. But 100 names…