Uphill time-trial in a multi-storey car park
To mark the start of the Tour de France in Utrecht in a few weeks time, the race organisers held an uphill time trial in the city. They overcame the challenge of hosting an uphill time-trial in a flat city, by holding it in a multi-storey car park. The event took place in the P+R De Uithof parking garage, and...
Michele Ferrari feels that Bradley Wiggins could have gone further
Disgraced doctor, Michele Ferrari, has written on his blog about Bradley Wiggins’s successful Hour Record attempt at the weekend, and feels that a mistake was made by the Briton’s support team that could have affected Wiggins’ performance. On Sunday, Wiggins extended the record previously held by compatriot Alex Dowsett to 54.526kms, but it had been felt by many that...
Watch the final kilometres of Stage 2 of Dauphiné Libéré
Stage 2 of the Dauphiné Libéré took the riders from Le Bourget-du-Lac to Parc des Oiseaux Villars-les-Dombes covering a distance of 173kms. Team Sky's Peter Kennaugh went into the stage as race leader, having won the opening stage of the race on Sunday. Despite having to take in the Cat. 1 climb of the Col de Cuvéry, the stage was...
Great Dublin Bike Ride to take place in September
A new cyclosportive, the Great Dublin Bike Ride, was launched today by the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Paschal Donohoe, TD. The event will take place on Sunday 13th September. The sportive is being supported by The Irish Sports Council, Cycling Ireland, the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Dublin City Council and Healthy Ireland. There will be two...
Team3M in An Post Rás (VIDEO)
Team 3M from Belgium competed in the recent An Post Rás, and this behind-the-scenes video was made by the team focusing on their performance on the opening stage of the race. The video features interviews with British cyclist Elliott Porter and Irish cyclo-cross champion David Montgomery amongst others. The opening stage went well for Team 3M, as three riders from...
Victoria Pendleton to make horse racing debut
Double Olympic champion, Victoria Pendleton, is set to make her debut as an amateur jockey at Newbury in the George Frewer Charity Race next month. It's part of her longer term plan of taking part in the Foxhunter Chase at next year’s Cheltenham Festival. Pendleton has been training for the past number of months at Lawney Hill’s Oxfordshire yard in...
Leonardo DiCaprio in talks on feature film focusing on Jock Boyer and the Rwandan cycling team
Variety magazine have reported that Leonardo DiCaprio is in early talks with Paramount to produce a movie about the Rwandan cycling team. The movie is said to be focusing on Jonathan (Jock) Boyer, rather than the Rwandan cyclists themselves. Boyer became the first American cyclist to race in the Tour de France in 1981, and would later go on...
The Col Collective on the Col de la Madeleine (VIDEO)
The Col de la Madeleine is the latest climb to be taken on by Mike Cotty of The Col Collective. Here's his take on it. From the north the Col de la Madeleine is a daunting prospect. Over 26 kilometres in length and climbing up to 2,000 metres elevation certainly doesn’t take an Einstein brain to work out it’s...
Watch Bradley Wiggins World Hour Record attempt – LIVE at 6.15pm BST
Bradley Wiggins will today attempt to break the UCI Hour World Record of countryman Alex Dowsett. Dowsett set the record at 52.937km last month in Manchester. Wiggins will make his attempt in the Olympic Velodrome in London. Many fans and commentators have outlined that they expect the Londoner to break the record, and distances of up to 55 kilometres...
The Perfect Hour: A brief history of the one-hour cycling record (VIDEO)
Tomorrow, Bradley Wiggins will attempt to break the World Hour Record, and in advance of his attempt, Suze Clemitson and Michael Hutchinson talk about the history of the Hour Record in the below video from The Guardian. They talk about the various riders who have broken the record down through the years, including Eddy Merckx, Francesco Moser, Chris Boardman and...
UCI and WADA terminate CAS case concerning Roman Kreuziger
The UCI has announced that they along with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have dismissed the biological passport-related anti-doping case against Roman Kreuziger. In August of last year, the UCI had given Kreuziger a provisional suspension based on his anomalies in his biological passport. This followed on from his team, Tinkoff-Saxo, excluding him from their Tour de France line-up after...
The Impossible Hour – Ole Ritter’s World Hour Record Attempt (VIDEO)
In advance of Bradley Wiggins' attempt to break the World Hour Record on Sunday, The Impossible Hour, a film from Danish director Jorgen Leth is well worth a look. Leth, renowned for making A Sunday in Hell, the brilliant documentary about Paris-Roubaix, decided to make a film about the attempt by his compatriot, Ole Ritter, to regain the World Hour...