7 January, 2025
Wout Van Aert plans to do Giro and Tour in 2025
Multi world champion and Olympic runner-up, Wout van Aert, unveiled his racing calendar for 2025. A planning in which he will resume what he could not do in 2024 because of the serious fall he suffered in Dwars door Vlaanderen with the Flanders-Roubaix double and his participation in Giro and Tour as key points. Wout van Aert repeats the plan he had planned for last year, which was ruined by the serious crash he suffered
2 January, 2025
Isaac del Toro will race the Giro d’Italia next spring
Isaac del Toro had a brilliant breakthrough at the end of the 2023 season with the unexpected victory in the Tour de l’Avenir and then was signed by UAE Team E3mirates XRG. In 2024 he raced some lower level races quite successfully, but struggled in his Grand Tour debut. However, 2025 there is a new year to impress. The Mexican will race the Giro d’Italia this coming spring, alongside Juan Ayuso and Adam Yates. However,
1 January, 2025
Message from the President of COPACI for the new year
The President of COPACI, José Manuel Peláez, conveyed congratulations to the entire cycling family for the new 2025, in a message published on his social networks, in which he valued as important the results achieved in the previous 12 months and the recognition won by the entity he leads before the International Cycling Union. HAPPY 2025 FOR THE CYCLING FAMILY In the first hours of 2025 I want to congratulate the entire cycling family in
Advances in the technologies used in road cycling tend to be very subtle from year to year, and it is only when several years have passed and we look back that we become aware of how much bikes have changed. Looking ahead to 2025 there are several trends that we could see if we look at what manufacturers have been presenting in the final part of the year. The road bike market seems to follow
29 December, 2024
Jonathan Narvaez: “I dream of winning a cobbled classic with UAE
Ecuadorian Jhonatan Narvaez has shown a clear evolution in recent years at INEOS Grenadiers and has become a quality puncheur, beating Tadej Pogacar outright in the opening stage of this year’s Giro d’Italia. However, now with UAE Team Emirates XRG he hopes to gain freedom in the cobbled classics and battle with the likes of Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert. “I would like to win more and I dream of winning a
Cycling stole the show on the fourth day of the Cali Fair, where Santiago Buitrago and Diana Peñuela were victorious in the cycling circuit that was disputed through the streets of the capital of Valle del Cauca, in an event called Cali Grand Prix 2024 and organized by the Jarlinson Pantano Foundation. The Bogota-born cyclist won in the elite category and succeeded Sergio Higuita, winner of the last edition in 2021. In second position came
27 December, 2024
Asunción will host the Junior Track World Championships in 2028
The 193rd Congress of the International Cycling Union (UCI), held in September of this year 2024 in Zurich, Switzerland, defined the next venues of the 16 world championships from 2025 to 2030, in which America will have a leading role with Asuncion, capital of Paraguay, chosen to host the universal track event for juniors in 2028. The Congress brought together representatives of 119 UCI member National Federations from the five continents, who were able to
At the beginning of December, Remco Evenepoel suffered a bad accident while training. The Belgian set off all the alarm bells after crashing into the open door of a postal truck. The injuries sustained in the crash have left the Soudal Quick-Step star out for several months. Recently, Evenepoel has spoken about his recovery. The double Olympic champion has definitively confirmed his absence from the Giro d’Italia 2025. He has also revealed the race in
25 December, 2024
The economic gap divides the road cycling peloton
The ever-widening gap between the super teams that dominate the peloton and hoard the best riders and the large middle class who have to make do with the crumbs they leave behind continues to draw criticism. Inequality continues to grow in cycling. We see it with mega-structures such as UAE Team Emirates-XRG, Visma-Lease a Bike or Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe that, at the stroke of a cheque, no longer hoard the best riders in the world, making
24 December, 2024
Tadej Pogacar’s possible 12 victories at the Vuelta a España 2025
The announcement of the route of the Vuelta a España 2025 has been on everyone’s lips in recent days. Since the 21 stages were presented, opinions about it have multiplied, especially with a certain favoritism towards Tadej Pogacar. In fact, the figure of Javier Guillén, director of La Vuelta, has been criticized more than praised. The main reason for these criticisms revolves around the idea that it will be a “monotonous” race, clearly oriented towards