10 takeaways: did the Dauphiné unveil a potential Tour leadership issue at Jumbo?
Dig in to what we learned from one of the last stage races before the Tour.
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Critérium du Dauphiné: key takeaways from the Opening Stages
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Giro d’Italia review: Where Jai Hindley won the race & breaking down if Ineos blew it
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Giro final rest day: a cheat sheet for what/who to watch in the third week
The Giro enters its final week with an extremely close GC race.
What We Know About The Giro d’Italia’s GC Picture Heading Into the Second Week
Things are just heating up in the Giro d'Italia.
Ten takeaways: Giro d’Italia stages 1-3
What we learned from the opening weekend in Hungary.
Key Monday Takeaways: Tour de Romandie + Pre-Giro Thoughts
Going through what we learned during the key moments of the weekend.
Ten takeaways: breaking down the key moments of Liège-Bastogne-Liège
How the hardest one-day race of the year was won with positioning and timing perfection
Ten takeaways: breaking down a brutal edition of Paris-Roubaix
How a criminally underrated rider won one of the hardest-ever editions of Paris-Roubaix
TEN TAKEAWAYS: WHAT WE LEARNED AT AMSTEL GOLD AND ITZULA BASQUE COUNTRY
Breaking down another wild finish at Amstel Gold & Dani Martinez's surprising performance at Basque Country
Ten Takeaways From a Wild Tour of Flanders
Breaking down the key points from a king-making monument.
Ten Takeaways: A Cinderella Story at Gent–Wevelgem
The cobbled classic served up a stunning upset win & held plenty of clues regarding who to watch at next weekend's Tour of Flanders
Milano-Sanremo Breakdown: Pre-Race Favorites Foiled by Patience, Skill & Nerves of Steel
After the favorites are once again left with nothing to show for their efforts, we get yet another example that it is better to fly under the radar in modern cycling
Ten Takeaways: Strade Bianche, Paris-Nice & Tirreno-Adriatico
Pogačar crushes all comers at Strade Bianche while Jumbo flexes its collective muscle at Paris-Nice
The Rich Get Richer: Ten Takeaways From the Classics’ Opening Weekend
Plus what we learned from the finale of the UAE Tour & Primož Roglič's start to the season at Ardèche/La Drôme
Revenge of the Veterans: Wout Poels, Nairo Quintana and Mark Cavendish Strike Back Against the Youth Movement
Ten Takeaways from the action-packed racing weekend
Weekend Takeaways: Is Nairo Quintana Back?
Plus, Julian Alaphilippe showed us that while he might be one of the world's greatest single-day riders, he simply isn't a stage-race GC contender
Breaking Down Ineos’ Complex Strategy in Provence & QuickStep’s Struggles in Oman
Ineos can't stop winning at Tour de la Provence but keep slipping down the overall standings and Mark Cavendish looks great while his QuickStep team struggles at Oman
Volta Valencia Breakdown & Tom Pidcock’s Ceiling
The big takeaways from recent stages at Volta Valencia, Etoile de Bessèges & Saudi Tour, plus, wondering what Tom Pidcock's ceiling is, if it even exists at all
Where Does Team Ineos Go From Here?
Bernal's crash poses his Ineos team with a lot of tough questions about their strategy for the 2022 season. How should they respond?
State of the Nation: Tracking the Historical Performance of U.S. Women In the WorldTour
U.S. women have out-performed their male counterparts at the top level over the last decade, but a lack of commercial investment threatens future success