EF Education-Nippo will be known as EF Education-EasyPost for the 2022 season and beyond after American shipping company EasyPost joined as title sponsors. Japanese construction material company Nippo will remain with the team as a secondary sponsor. This additional funding is more good news for a team that looked like...
AG2R Citroën manager Vincent Lavenu has set high targets for his squad heading into the 2022 season, with the Frenchman ambitious for a Monument victory and a competitive rider in the general classification of the Grand Tours. The French team enjoyed a relative amount of success last year, finishing eighth...
Dame Sarah Storey is seeking three female riders aged 18-24 to join the Skoda DSI Cycling Academy. Applications are open for “passionate” amateur riders to join the year-long, inclusive programme, that seeks to maximise young female potential within the sport. Cyclists can apply through Skoda’s website, and are asked to...
Michael Woods wants to use Israel-Premier Tech to “really try and put Canadian cycling on the map”. With Canadian company Premier Tech joining the Israeli team for 2022, Woods explained that it “really does feel like this is Canada’s team”. Speaking at the team’s launch last Thursday, the 35-year old...
Marc Hirschi will once again be “one of cycling’s spectacular riders” and return to the level of performances that he demonstrated two seasons ago. That is according to his UAE-Team Emirates boss Joxean Fernández Matxin who brought the Swiss to the team last January following the termination of his contract...
At almost any other point in cycling history, a 23 year old who had finished 4th and 6th in his first two grand tours would be seized upon as the next prodigy. João Almeida must therefore feel unfortunate to be born into the era of Tadej Pogačar and Egan Bernal,...
Chris Froome‘s 2022 season is likely to be delayed because of a knee injury he picked up in training in December, he revealed on Thursday. Speaking at Israel-Premier Tech‘s launch, the four-time Tour de France winner expanded on the knee injury he announced he’d picked up last week. “In mid-December...
Tour de France champion Tadej Pogačar is to ride the Tour and the Vuelta a España in the same season, the Slovenian confirmed on Monday. It will be the first time that he will target two grand tours in the same season. In 2019 he came third at the Vuelta...
Rohan Dennis has said that he moved to Jumbo-Visma from Ineos Grenadiers because his former team were “copying Jumbo with a lot of stuff”. The time-trialist, who was speaking via a video message to the Jumbo-Visma team presentation on Tuesday, said that his new squad was technically better. “There’s a...
Israel Start-Up Nation: Revolutionizing Cycling with Innovation and Passion Cycling has evolved from a simple mode of transportation to a global phenomenon, blending sport, technology, and sustainability. Among the most exciting developments in professional cycling is the rise of Israel Start-Up Nation (now Israel-Premier Tech), a team that embodies the spirit...
Four riders have graduated from Dame Sarah Storey’s development academy to take their first steps into the pro scene. The Skoda DSI Academy is set up to support young women on their journey towards the professional peloton, led by Dame Sarah Storey. The four riders that have graduated from the...
French brand Lapierre has released the 2022 edition of its signature road bike, the Xelius. First launched in 2010, the latest Xelius SL, now in its third generation, is the lightest yet, despite it being disc-brake only. Lapierre says that while the Xelius maintains the bike’s original philosophy of being...
Alexey Lutsenko has said he will aim for a podium at the Tour de France. The Kazakh riding for the Kazakhstani team of Astana has been very consistent on all terrain in various types of races, but has struggled to go that one step further and to win or compete...
If Tadej Pogačar had finished his season this year in April, he could still have walked away happy, such was his win-rate, with two stage race wins at Tirreno-Adriatico and the UAE Tour, getting on the right side of his team sponsor from the off, at the underlined by victory...
Following the truncated, scrambled and often spectator-free 2020 season, 2021 was about as much a return to a normal racing calendar as we could have hoped for while still in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Pretty much all the major races took place, back mostly in their usual order,...
Rider transfers are an integral part of the world of professional cycling, but how common is it to stay at one team for an entire career? We started pondering the question after a Cycling Weekly Facebook fan asked us exactly that, when commenting on our story about Gertaint Thomas’ contract...
The Big Issue’s e-bike team has taken delivery of 420 electric bikes, and is gearing up to launch its new hire bike scheme in January. The programme will see its first hub developed in Bristol, with a planned expansion to 14 further fleets over the next 24 months. The scheme...
In one short season our Domestic Rider of the Year, Abi Smith has domestic victories and notable international results, taking her from a novice to top 20 results in the WorldTour. All in her first year as a senior. After a pandemic enforced gap of 13 months without racing Smith’s...
The 11-time American track champion Christina Birch has successfully joined the latest US Astronaut programme by NASA. Birch has made it to the last 10 candidates to try and become the next group of NASA astronauts to be part of the team working on the International Space Station (ISS). The...
Gianni Moscon has said he has “been portrayed as a person that [he is] not” over the last few years, but adds that he has “matured”, ahead of a fresh start with Astana in 2022. Moscon is leaving Ineos Grenadiers after six years with the British team, as he heads...
Former mtb marathon national champion Tom Bell turned his attention to hillclimbing in 2020 and has since become a force to be reckoned with in the discipline. The 31-year-old is a full-time performance consultant, working alongside his wife Dr Emma Wilkins as High North Performance. Having finished second in the...
Dylan Groenewegen has left Jumbo-Visma and signed for Bike-Exchange, in a surprising December transfer move. The Dutch sprinter leaves the team he’s been with since 2016 to ensure he’s on the start line at the biggest bike races in the world. Jumbo-Visma’s roster includes a plethora of GC talent and...
Ineos Grenadiers have completed their lineup for 2022 with the announcement of five contract extensions on Tuesday. Those continuing to ride with the British team into the next season are Ben Swift, Brandon Rivera, Salvatore Puccio, Jonathan Castroviejo and Cameron Wurf. The five re-signings mean Ineos Grenadiers will have 31...
Sir Dave Brailsford has been made head of sport at Ineos, with the Ineos Grenadiers’ team principal maintaining his existing role and also now overseeing all of the company’s operations in sports beyond cycling. Brailsford has been involved in the management of the British cycling team since its inception, and...
Keith Lambert pauses at the piano in his living room and tickles a note-perfect étude from its keys. For the genial Yorkshireman this instrument is where a lifetime in cycling, from pro rider to manager to mentor, all began. Having found an old bike at a tip, the young Lambert...
Eddy Merckx has said he “wouldn’t have had a problem with it if Mark Cavendish had beaten [his] record” for the most stage wins at the Tour de France. The 2021 Tour was a magical one for Cavendish. Back with Deceuninck – Quick-Step and with the best lead-out man in...
Mikel Nieve is dropping out of the WorldTour and joining second division Spanish team Caja Rural-Seguros RGA for the 2022 season. Nieve, who has been part of the WorldTour for 13 years, is leaving Australian squad Team BikeExchange to return to the team where he started his racing career as...
DT Swiss is releasing a follow-up to its carbon disc-brake ERC road wheels that first debuted in 2016. The new line-up features the ERC 1100 Dicut and the ERC 1400 Dicut, with both available in 35mm and 45mm rim heights. As with the original wheels, the latest incarnations aim to...
Swiss brand Effetto Mariposa has launched a new line of environmentally-friendly cleaning and lubricating products in a bid to further sustainability in cycling. The range consists of a bicycle cleaner, a degreaser and a chain lube all made using plant-issued ingredients as well as a chain cleaning device and cog...
Ineos Grenadiers have revealed their new kit for the 2022 season. The new kit, made by Bioracer for the first time, has new-look red shoulders, a slight upgrade to the mostly navy jersey that the British team debuted in 2021. The team’s “iconic” line on the back of the jersey...
