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EDITOR

GALLERY

THE WORLD’S BEST CYCLING PHOTOGRAPHY

The Olympic road race: an event apart

OLYMPIC GAMES ROAD RACES

THE DARK SIDE OF CYCLING

More than a year after the UCI opened

COMMUNIQUÉ

NEWS • GOSSIP • CHATTER

EMILIA FAHLIN

The FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope Swede on sweets, being flexible and her love of sleep

JAKUB BOUČEK

The Czech rider who has proved that he’s good over punchy courses

COACH’S CORNER

DS, ISRAEL CYCLING ACADEMY

OBJECTS OF DESIRE

THIS MONTH’S ESSENTIAL GEAR

JONATHAN CASTROVIEJO

The Spanish climber and TT specialist on his Basque roots and his role at Ineos

CYCLING AND BEING

JAMES HAMILTON HIBBARD FINDING MEANING IN CYCLING AND IN LIFE, BY NOT LOOKING TOO HARD

DAN MARTIN

ISRAEL START-UP NATION

A LIFE IN CYCLING

‘ 14

KÉVIN RÉZA

B & B H O T E L S P / B K T M

CHARLIE QUARTERMAN

T R E K - S E G A F R E D O

BRODIE CHAPMAN

F D J N O U V E L L E - A Q U I T A I N E

THE LONG CLIMB

CHRIS FROOME

HEARTS AND MINDS

Chris Froome has won a lot of grand tours, but will he ever truly win the hearts of the cycling public?

THE MOST SUCCESSFUL GRAND TOUR RIDERS

Froome’s seven grand tour victories put him in joint fourth place on the all-time list of multiple three-week race winners

MIND THE GAP

Riders who have won multiple grand tours typically

FROOME’S GRAND TOUR RESULTS

Chris Froome has started 18 grand tours so far

WISHLIST

THE WORLD’S BEST CYCLING KIT

Porte triumphs in final pre-Tour showdown

RACE OF THE MONTH / CRITÉRIUM DU DAUPHINÉ / 30.5.21-6.6.21

Carapaz decouples from the Ineos mountain train

PROCYCLING PICK / TOUR DE SUISSE / 6.6.21-13.6.21

VIEW FROM THE TEAM CAR

TOUR DE SUISSE WOMEN / 5 - 6.6.2021

WHAT WE'VE LEARNED THIS MONTH

REMCO EVENEPOEL IS ON HIS WAY BACK

#TACTICS 101: STACKING THE ODDS

USA NATIONAL ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIPS / 20.6.21

Press Conference:

SPAR FLANDERS DIAMOND TOUR / 13.6.21

ONE-DAY RACEWINS

UP TO JUNE 23

BEST SPRINTER

Wins in eight different sprint finishes this season

NATIONAL CHAMPS SPECIAL

After the disrupted 2020 season, in which some

TEAMS WITH MOST CHAMPIONS

Of the men's WorldTour teams, Jumbo-Visma have the

NOT TO MISS

OLYMPIC GAMES WOMEN’S ROAD RACE

A return to normal

TOUR DE L’AIN

FLASHPOINT

ARCTIC RACE OF NORWAY

BEST FOR

REMEMBERING SPANISH CYCLISTS CIRCUITO DE GETXO 1 August

2020’S WINNER ON…

PRUEBA VILLAFRANCA-ORDIZIAKO KLASIKA

A TRIUMPHANT RETURN

OLYMPIC GAMES MEN’S TIME TRIAL

LAURENS TEN DAM

Laurens reflects on the resonance between gravel racing and the old days of the Tour

VOLLERING

THE NEW GOLDEN AGE

THE NEXT BIG THING

Road racing has always struggled to break America, even as the country has dominated the sport. Procycling looks at the relationship between racing and a country that could love it, but doesn’t

STATS OF THE NATION

EGAN BERNAL

A WINNER REBORN

HOW THE 2021 GIRO UNFOLDED

All the stage winners and the final standings

THE BIG

LITTLE RACE

GEORGIA ON MY MIND

British victories at the Olympics are expected these days, but it wasn’t always that way. Procycling looks back to Team GB’s performance in 1996, which saw two bronze medals on the road and set the trajectory for success

THAT WINNING FEELING

DECEUNINCK-QUICK STEP HAVE BEEN THE MOST SUCCESSFUL TEAM IN CYCLING, IN TERMS OF WINS, EVERY YEAR SINCE 2013. PROCYCLING LOOKS AT THE FACTORS THAT KEEP THE ‘WOLFPACK’ AT THE TOP

ALWAYS THERE

Canada’s Hugo Houle has carved himself out a respectable career in the WorldTour, first with Ag2r and now with Astana. But the biggest challenges have not been those Houle has faced on the bike

ALISON JACKSON FREEWHEELER

Alison Jackson grew up on a bison ranch in rural Alberta and tried almost every sport before finding her place in cycling. Now racing for Liv Cycling, the Canadian talks to Procycling about the beauty of living in a van, her holistic outlook and why dancing on TikTok makes her happy

THE ETERNAL TRIANGLE

Marc Madiot, Vincent Lavenu and Jean-René Bernaudeau manage the three most prominent French teams but they also raced at the same time in the 1980s. Procycling looks at the careers of the ‘Three Musketeers’