"We didn't have Menno [Huising], he got smacked up by a kangaroo" says Brennan. There was a big crash earlier in the stage after a kangaroo hopped into the peloton, Jay Vine was among those involved

Top-10 on Stage 5 of the Tour Down Under

Matthew Brennan (Visma-LAB) wins Stage 5 of the Tour Down Under and Jay Vine (UAE) wins the race overall

Maëva Squiban (UAE) wins the Trofeo Felanitx

Michael Matthews (Jayco) wins the GP Castellón-Ruta de la Cerámica, said his wounds were sore after crashing out of yesterday's Classica Camp de Morvedre.

Dauphiné (now Tour of Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes) route due to be presented in a few days' time but a start town has pulled out at the last minute meaning all the route details, presentation materials have to be binned and reworked www.leveil.fr/vals-pres-le... (🇫🇷) ...

Ethan Vernon (NSN) won Stage 4 of the Tour Down Under. Top-10 on the Stage + GC without Narvaez after he crashed out

New stage profile for TDU's Stage 4 after the route change. Also the stage starts earlier to reduce exposure to heat and the forecast finish time is now 1.22pm in Adelaide (3.52am CET, 21.52 EST)

Christian Scaroni (XDS-Astana) wins the Classica Camp de Morvedre

Keep thinking "which Decathlon rider is that" for a few seconds each time a Bahrain team rider is in shot as the 2026 Bahrain kit has some of the tones of Decathlon's kit from last season. Screenshot from Classica Camp de Morvedre

Hot weather and forest fire risk means no Willunga Hill, the men will use the same hilly circuit used on Stage 1 in the Women's race with the uphill run to the line in the town of Willunga

Welsford makes two sprints, one to get up to the front and then another kick to the line

Top-10 on Stage 3 of the Tour Down Under

Sam Welsford (Ineos) wins Stage 3 of the Tour Down Under

Wondering what others here make of UAE going 1-2 in the Tour Down Under and taking a minute on the field… at least they don’t have a world class sprinter who scores double digit wins every season

Top-10 on Stage 2 of the Tour Down Under + GC

Jay Vine (UAE) wins Stage 2 of the Tour Down Under and is the new race leader, Narvaez finishes second

Vine and Narvaez in the lead. Once they get to the top of the Corkscrew climb the road dips but then soon starts climbing further as the race takes a different route from previous years

Strade Bianche routes released, the men's edition has fewer kilometres and gravel, distance now 201km. Racing is on 7 March and still no news on what TV channel it'll be shown on outside Italy for now with the rights sale deal still in the works

Maggie Coles-Lyster (Human Powered Health) wins the Tour Down Under Women's Race, a new one day 1.Pro event

Lund lead out by Tord Gudmestad. Welsford with a seated sprint on the left along the barriers and Brennan closing fast as Lund gets his first World Tour win

Top-10 on Stage 1 of the Tour Down Under with Lund also taking the overall lead

Tobias Lund (Decathlon-CMA CGM) wins Stage 1 of the Tour Down Under

Sam Watson (Ineos) wins the Tour Down Under prologue. Top-10

Good news: the Tour Down Under prologue is live on TV Bad news: the clock has broken so viewers and commentators don't know what time the riders cross the line Windy out there and Sam Watson of Ineos leads

Bookmaker's odds on the eve of the 1989 Tour de France

Noemi Rüegg (EF-Oatly) wins Stage 3 of the Tour Down Under and wins the race overall

Top-10 on Stage 2 + GC at the Tour Down Under

Picnic-PostNL team trialling the use of air bags designed to inflate in a crash www.bikeradar.com/news/aerobag...

RIP Thierry Cazeneuve, a journalist at the Dauphiné Libéré newspaper co-founded by his uncle, he became the long time organiser of the Critérium du Dauphiné race and later a historian of the sport. L'Equipe pays tribute in 🇫🇷 at www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur...

Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).

Women's Tour Down Under starts soon. Three stages (NB + separate 1.WWT 1-day race on Wednesday). Stage 1 goes to Willunga & finishes in town where Bryan Coquard won in 2023. Stage 2 has 2500m of climbing to make life hard for sprinters. Stage 3 features the steep Corkscrew climb to settle things.

2027 Tour de France Femmes start and finish locations unveiled, exact route of the 9 stage race will be unveiled at a later date

Stage details of the 2027 men's Tour de France grand départ in Britain unveiled, Edinburgh-Carlisle and Keswick-Liverpool look like sprint finishes, then Stage 3 from Welshpool to Cardiff is hillier and has the Côte de Caerffili near the finish

Tour de l'Avenir race for U23 riders is changing format to allow development teams. For the last 20 years it's had national teams but now Bahrain, EF, Ineos, Lidl-Trek, Picnic PostNL, Red Bull, Soudal QS, Visma-LAB, Tudor and UAE will send their U23 teams, via tourdelavenir.com/le-tour-de-l... (🇫🇷)

Confirmation that Jonas Vingegaard will target the Giro d'Italia and then race the Tour de France, "My mind now is on the Italian race, then I'll think about the Tour. They are my main targets" he says www.gazzetta.it/Giroditalia/... (🇮🇹)

Another pro cycling reform project in the works? There have been several in recent years and they all flopped for similar reasons so we'll see if lessons learned. You'd think so... but if this is billionaire team owners demanding more money then can hear an alarm bell already. One to watch...

//INRNG: Neo-pros to watch for 2026 inrng.com/2026/01/neo-...

Tim Merlier carrying a knee injury, no Al Ula Tour and his season start pushed back to the "openingsweekend" at the end of February with Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne if he recovers www.nieuwsblad.be/sport/wielre... (🇳🇱)

Simon Yates to retire with immediate effect. It is sudden and looks to have surprised the Visma-LAB team as he was picked to pose with colleagues to show off the 2026 kit and the team shared the photos on 30 December

Getting ready to tackle the Stelvio

🎤 X-lab bikes are lightning fast, Any hill we climb with speed, Our rivals lose the chase, We're in front, we take the lead! 🎤 XDS-Astana start the year with a new rap www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mbv...

Draft law in Italy proposing compulsory helmet use if cyclists ride with cleats/automatic pedals, and also to use a rear light day and night among other things. It has bipartisan support so could be passed this year www.ansa.it/sito/notizie... (🇮🇹)

This was a key element of One Cycling hoping to start in 2026. They thought they'd have an immediate advantage by being able to share out RCS's new broadcast rights. Alas, it hasn't happened. History tells us rights typically last for four to five years.

2026 and normally the WarnerBros-Max-Eurosport international rights deal to the Giro & RCS's other races has expired. Sportbusiness.com reported media agency IRIS Sport Media has been appointed to sell rights outside of Italy but no news yet so unclear for where many will be able to watch 🇮🇹 races...

//INRNG: 2026 pro cycling calendar, free to download or sync with your diary / phone inrng.com/2026/01/pro-...

//INRNG: the Christmas Holiday Quiz answers inrng.com/2025/12/chri...

Pogačar wins L'Equipe newspaper's "Champion of champions" trophy ahead of Duplantis and Alcaraz. Only the second cyclist to win it after Greg LeMond in 1989

//INRNG: Christmas holiday quiz inrng.com/2025/12/chri...

Two page interview with Mathys Rondel (Tudor) in L'Equipe after a promising first full season. He's moved to the Pyrenees with his family (sister Léa is pro too) to find better training roads. They've renovated a house where he has a Thibaut Pinot-style animal collection with rabbits, a pet pig...