🚲 Riders on the Lotto shortlist 🇫🇷 Valentin Madouas 🇫🇷 Emilien Jeannière 🇧🇪 Mauri Vansevenant 🇧🇪 Stan Dewulf The right riders who could fill the gap that De Lie leaves behind? #cycling

The Tour de Feminin is one of the oldest races on the women's calendar. Since 1988, the race is building a strong legacy with many well known names on the palmares. Get an unique insight behind-the-scenes through this interview 👇 cyclingbottle.blogspot.com/2026/05/inte... #cycling

The breakaway survived very long, but it's the sprinters who take it in the 🇧🇬 Bulgarian capital. Paul Magnier takes the victory in Sofia. He will arrive with a smile at the rest day in 🇮🇹 Italy tomorrow. Jonathan Milan will have to try his luck on home soil. #GirodItalia #cycling

First 🇺🇾 Uruguayan in the pink jersey 🩷 #cycling #ciclismo #Giroditalia

A rider who has shown some sparks of talent in the youth categories already Since turning pro, Stiasny has been growing steadily with more & less prominent results Today, she made her breakthrough and took the biggest victory of her career so far An emerging climber #cycling

🚴🏻‍♀️ Paula Blasi 🏆🔴 La Vuelta 🇪🇸 Already at the age of 23, Paula Blasi wins her first Grand Tour. This girl has everything to become a regular grand tour winner & hill classics winner in the future. The dawn of a new protagonist in the sport. #LaVueltaFemenina #cycling

🙂 Already winning her home grand tour this year? 🇪🇸🔴 #LaVueltaFemenina #cycling

Forever number 108. You'll never be forgotten, Wouter Weylandt. 9th May will always remind us of you. #cycling #GirodItalia

A new strong block of 🇩🇰 Danish dynamite has arrived in the peloton. 21-years old Olympia Norrid-Mortensen already won a race against experienced sprinters this season and continues collecting close results. Read more about her in our interview cyclingbottle.blogspot.com/2026/05/inte... #cycling

Golden oldie Anna van der Breggen won the stage against the new kids on the block today. The SD Worx rider is in pole position to win a new grand tour Very promising results by Blasi & Brunel. Underwhelming performances by Ferrand-Prévot & Niewiadoma #cycling #LaVueltaFemenina

So much strength, so much talent. Shined already in the Ardennes, but now she also proves herself in higher mountians in grand tours as well 🏔️ Very curious what she can do on the Angilru tomorrow. This rider has so much potential. #cycling #LaVueltaFemenina

A New big day in the career of Paul Magnier. He takes the stage victory and pink jersey in the 🇮🇹 Giro d'Italia After a Spring with many ups & downs, Soudal-Quickstep started their grand tour season well now. Perhaps with important points for 🟣 as well #Giroditalia #cycling

OPINION : The IOC identity crisis The fact that cyclocross won’t be at the 2030 Winter Olympics says more about the IOC’s identity crisis than about whether the sport actually belongs there. Read more in this article 👇🚴‍♂️📰 cyclingbottle.blogspot.com/2026/05/opin... #cycling

Lotte Kopecky & Wout van Aert have a few things in common. Two very strong riders & champions, but way too kind through their whole career. #cycling #LaVueltaFemenina

🧵 Jonas Vingegaard - potential records 🇮🇹 Giro-TDF 🇫🇷 double 🇮🇹 Fausto Coppi 🇫🇷 Jacques Anquetil 🇧🇪 Eddy Merckx 🇫🇷 Bernard Hinault 🇮🇪 Stephen Roche 🇪🇸 Miguel Indurain 🇮🇹 Marco Pantani 🇸🇮 Tadej Pogacar #cycling #Giroditalia

🔟 years ago Peter Sagan was ruling the sport 3 years ago as Worldchampion 🌈👑 A rider who started a new era in cycling and changed the sport in a way that we can still notice today. Read more about him & his impact here 👇📖🚴‍♂️ cyclingbottle.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-... #cycling

6⃣2⃣ days without competition for Evenepoel Perhaps he could use all this freshness to target a second win in 🇪🇸 La Vuelta, as podium success in the Tour de France seems unlikely. That could still add a major glance to his new transfer to Red Bull #cycling

The MVP of this Vuelta is now also in the lead🔴 Finally all pieces of the puzzle fell together well today. Let's hope that she can now also take the lead for🟢 tomorrow. She would deserve that after so much consistency during this week. #cycling #LaVueltaFemenina

Abdel-Kader Abbes became the first African rider to take part in the Tour de France. He was born in 🇩🇿 Algeria, which was still an integral part of 🇫🇷 France when he took part in 1936. The first African team would take part, 14 years later in 1950. #cycling #Algeria

I must give compliments to the designer of this stage. The final had about everything and this made that many types of riders could win. This led to a really dynamic final where everything could happen Kerbaol often knows when to pick her moment. Kopecky again close #cycling

Dimitri Konyshev is the only male Soviet rider who won a medal at the Worlds. The Soviet women took 21(!) medals, including 3 titles and are still 7th in the overall medal table, despite not existing anymore for 35 years. #cycling

Would be a remarkable transfer In 2019, she was the next big thing. Without any race experience in Europe, she immediately finished the top 10 of the World's road race. In the time trial she blew everyone away. A big injury severely disrupted her road to dominance #cycling

After her strong results in the previous weeks, Adele Normand will now make the move up to Team Abadie Magnan. You can read more about the young 🇨🇦 Canadian talent in our interview 👇🚴‍♀️📖 cyclingbottle.blogspot.com/2026/04/inte... #cycling

📊 The new women's rankings #cycling

📊 The new men's rankings #cycling

Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes (Dauphiné) Not a single rider from the Tour de France podiums of the past 2 years will take part, this year. ❌ Pogacar ❌ Vingegaard ❌ Lipowitz ❌ Evenepoel It must have been a long time since that happened #cycling

❌No Auvergne–Rhône-Alpes/Dauphiné for Evenepoel The rider & team decided that they will prioritze freshness ahead of the Tour de France and will choose for a lighter program to prepare ahead of their main goal. #cycling

It's sometimes questionable indeed that certain riders skip races indeed, to be good in a race where Pogacar & Van Der Poel take the first podium spots anyway Taking your chance in the remaining races to shine too would be more effective to get more out of your career #cycling

As you could read earlier here, Seixas will prepare the Worlds in the 🇨🇦 Canadian races The grand tour dilemma has been decided too. The teenager will immediately make his debut in the ✅🇫🇷 Tour de France, so no ❌🇮🇹Giro He will have long rest periods between his goals #cycling

It has not been the season of Marianne Vos yet 😢 #cycling #LaVueltaFemenina

🏆 The winners of the Spring Classics #cycling

❌ WT Stage races that Tadej Pogacar didn't win yet 🔸 Tour Down Under 🔸 Itzulia 🔸 Tour de Suisse 🔸 Tour de Pologne 🔸 Renewi Tour 🔸 La Vuelta a Espana 🔸 Tour of Guangxi Maybe this can be his schedule for 2027? 😉 #cycling

The performance curve of Arnaud De Lie remains a mystery to me . But he's taking his victories every year, so at the end of the season, you can never complain about him. It's just always quite unpredictable when he will strike. #cycling

So glad that we still had an intermediate sprint in this stage. Otherwise there wouldn't have been any other action so far. It's remarkable how so few teams are interested in getting more publicity today. #LaVueltaFemenina #cycling

🇪🇸 La Vuelta - Riders to watch ✨ 🇳🇱 Marianne Vos 🇧🇪 Lotte Kopecky 🇵🇱 Kasia Niewiadoma 🇫🇷 Pauline Ferrand-Prevot 🇪🇸 Paula Blasi 🇩🇪 Franziska Koch 🇫🇷 Julie Berthet 🇳🇱 Anna van der Breggen 🇺🇸 Kristen Faulkner 🇩🇪 Liane Lippert 🇮🇹 Letizia Paternoster #LaVueltaFemenina #cycling

First 🇩🇪 German victory since 2019 at home soil in Frankfurt 🏆 The last German winner of the Cyclassics in Hamburg was in 2015. #cycling

🇧🇪 Last Belgian victories (Men) 🏆 🔸 Milano-Sanremo : 2024 🔸 Tour of Flanders : 2017 🔸 Paris-Roubaix : 2026 🔸 Liege-Bastogne-Liège : 2023 🔸 Il Lombardia : 2010 🔸 Giro d'Italia : 1978 🔸 Tour de France : 1976 🔸 La Vuelta : 2022 🔸 Worlds : 2022 #cycling #Belgium

🇩🇪 Eschborn-Frankfurt Traditionally organised on Labour Day and the last Spring classic. The parcours became a lot more challenging. This year, we can look out for riders like Pidcock, Ackermann, Del Grosso, Verstrynge, Van Poppel, Lund Adresen,.... #cycling

After a strong start of the year between several ProTeam riders in El Salvador,Irene Cagnazzo has also hit the top 10 on European soil The young Italian rider aims to establish herself further in the biggest races in the future Read our interview here 👇 cyclingbottle.blogspot.com/2026/04/inte...

✍️ Longest running contracts in women's cycling 🇪🇸 Alejandra Neira 🆕 till 2029 🇧🇷 Tota Magalhaes till 2029 #cycling #ciclismo

🇩🇰 Last Danish victories (Men) 🏆 🔸 Milano-Sanremo : - 🔸 Tour of Flanders : 2021 🔸 Paris-Roubaix : - 🔸 Liege-Bastogne-Liège : 2019 🔸 Il Lombardia : 2020 🔸 Giro d'Italia : - 🔸 Tour de France : 2023 🔸 La Vuelta : 2025 🔸 Worlds : 2019 #cycling #Denmark

The Women's Tour de Pologne 🇵🇱 will be at the ProSeries level for the first time. A great step forward for a country that has been one of the strongest countries in women's cycling for years now. Let's hope that this can further boost cycling in Poland 🚀🚴‍♀️ #cycling

🇫🇷 Last French victories (Men) 🏆 🔸 Milano-Sanremo : 2016 🔸 Tour of Flanders : 1992 🔸 Paris-Roubaix : 1997 🔸 Liege-Bastogne-Liège : 1980 🔸 Il Lombardia : 2018 🔸 Giro d'Italia : 1989 🔸 Tour de France : 1985 🔸 La Vuelta : 1995 🔸 Worlds : 2021 #cycling #France

The new Netcompany Ineos kit It looks like a decent jersey. If they would have extended the white part from the left to the right end of te shirt and add these small orange tweaks on both ends, it would have looked slightly better in my opinion. #cycling

The Tour de Romandie had 78 editions so far. They usually attracted some of the best Giro & TDF riders, which led to a beautiful list of winners Nowadays, when riders race fewer, the race struggles to still find big sponsors Let's hope we can keep this historical race #cycling

An imprsssive stat 📊🏆 Lotte Kopecky has won a Monument in each of the past five years She is already one of the legends of cycling. #cycling

Paul Seixas will prepare the the 🌈 Worlds in the 🇨🇦 Canadian races (Montréal, Quebec). He & the team agreed to ride one grand tour this year. The overalapping 🇪🇸 Vuelta is exclused this way ❌ So that makes that only the 🇮🇹 Giro or 🇫🇷 Tour de France are left as options #cycling

Magdeleine Vallieres couldn't really confirm her world title during this Spring. Not a single podium spot this season so far, which has been rare for a Worldchampion on most occasions after 4 months of racing already. Will the 🇪🇺 keep shining harder than the 🌈? #cycling

5th place today Best result in a monument for 🇨🇴 Egan Bernal since 2019 ✨ What a great day for him 💪 Well done! #cycling #ciclismo #LBL

👑 Queen of this Spring First women to win Flanders & Liège in the same season since 2018 #cycling #LBLWomen