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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The win that changes a life, but perhaps not a career 🌈 #Montreal2026 cyclingreport.substack.com/p/the-win-th...
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The win that changes a life, but perhaps not a career
McNulty lives the American Dream in Montreal, taking the World Championships’ most surprising victory in more than 20 years
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The win that changes a life, but perhaps not a career 🌈 #Montreal2026 cyclingreport.substack.com/p/the-win-th...
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The win that changes a life, but perhaps not a career
McNulty lives the American Dream in Montreal, taking the World Championships’ most surprising victory in more than 20 years
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
❤️ The Least Expected Day Enric Mas wins the Vuelta that set him free and changed forever how we see him ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/the-least-...
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The Least Expected Day
Enric Mas wins the Vuelta that set him free and changed forever how we see him
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
8+1 takeaways from a Vuelta a España already decided? cyclingreport.substack.com/p/81-takeawa...
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8+1 takeaways from a Vuelta a España already decided?
Enric Mas heads into the third week with a lead that looks decisive
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
10 days to redeem a sporting life cyclingreport.substack.com/p/10-days-to...
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10 days to redeem a sporting life
Enric Mas has the opportunity of a lifetime, even though his team will not be able to be there with him in the high mountains
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The misery takes over La Vuelta (again) Conclusions from the first three days of racing. If you’re looking for shit takes on influencers, keep scrolling. ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/the-misery...
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The misery takes over La Vuelta (again)
Conclusions from the first three days of racing, even if only two have counted towards the overall standings
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Demi Vollering claims her second Tour de France Femmes in a dramatic battle with Niewiadoma and Reusser | The Tour de France Femmes sets new audience records in France cyclingreport.substack.com/p/the-turnin...
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The turning point for women’s cycling
Demi Vollering claims her second Tour de France Femmes in a dramatic battle with Niewiadoma and Reusser | The Tour de France Femmes sets new audience records in France
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Tadej Pogačar wins his fifth Tour de France in Paris after a memorable duel with Mathieu van der Poel on Montmartre | A team-by-team review of the Tour cyclingreport.substack.com/p/the-champs...
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The Champs-Élysées were never Sacred
Tadej Pogačar wins his fifth Tour de France in Paris after a memorable duel with Mathieu van der Poel on Montmartre | A team-by-team review of the Tour
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Pogačar seals his fifth Tour de France, Carapaz leaves with two stages and the polka-dot jersey, while debate grows over safety and the crowds on the climbs #TDF2026 ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/the-domest...
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The domestique's fifth
Pogačar seals his fifth Tour de France, Carapaz leaves with two stages and the polka-dot jersey, while debate grows over safety and the crowds on the climbs
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Pogačar seals his fifth Tour de France, Carapaz leaves with two stages and the polka-dot jersey, while debate grows over safety and the crowds on the climbs #TDF2026 ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/the-domest...
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The domestique's fifth
Pogačar seals his fifth Tour de France, Carapaz leaves with two stages and the polka-dot jersey, while debate grows over safety and the crowds on the climbs
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Who we are, where we came from and where we're going cyclingreport.substack.com/p/who-we-are...
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Who we are, where we came from and where we're going
The return of overnight anti-doping controls has revived cycling's old doping suspicions, though perhaps we should ask whether they ever really went away
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
After many days of Cartesian order and submission, teams are finally starting to challenge the script ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/the-tecton... #TDF2026
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The tectonic plates of the peloton are shifting
After many days of Cartesian order and submission, teams are finally starting to challenge the script
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I began my #TD2026 preview in Barcelona by posing one question for each team. Nine stages later, many are starting to get answered ⤵️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/questions-...
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Questions are starting to get answered
I began my Tour preview in Barcelona by posing one question for each team. Nine stages later, many are starting to get answered... whilst others have only grown.
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Tour doesn’t hand victories to just anyone. Not everyone is even capable of making the right breakaway. This is the Tour de France: a ruthless exercise in Darwinism, where natural selection is at work every single day. #TDF2026 ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/the-day-of...
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The day of the beast
Mathieu van der Poel wins from an elite breakaway after UAE controlled the stage... but never raced for the victory
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The Tour de France was created to tell stories like this cyclingreport.substack.com/p/the-tour-d...
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The Tour de France was created to tell stories like this
The Tourmalet bows to Pogačar on the day he blows the race apart ahead of Vingegaard. First chapter in the soap opera between Remco and Lipowitz
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The Tour de France was created to tell stories like this cyclingreport.substack.com/p/the-tour-d...
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The Tour de France was created to tell stories like this
The Tourmalet bows to Pogačar on the day he blows the race apart ahead of Vingegaard. First chapter in the soap opera between Remco and Lipowitz
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Extreme heat stirs the debate over race dates and start times in cycling | Mads Pedersen puts on a show, Træen takes yellow and the peloton enjoys a truce before the Tourmalet ▶️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/tour-cycli...
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The Tour, cycling and the questions with no easy answers
Extreme heat stirs the debate over race dates and start times in cycling | Mads Pedersen puts on a show, Træen takes yellow and the peloton enjoys a truce before the Tourmalet
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
"Pogačar has his rivals mentally beaten, and he enjoys what he does" Miguel Indurain gives me his view of the #TDF2026 under the threat of Tadej Pogačar equalling the record of five Tours held by the Spaniard alongside Anquetil, Hinault and Merckx. ▶️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/pogacar-ha...
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"Pogačar has his rivals mentally beaten, and he enjoys what he does"
The TTT puts Vingegaard in yellow with a collective Visma masterclass | Miguel Indurain gives me his view of a Tour that could bring Pogačar a fifth title
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
❓A question for each team before the #TDF2026 begins I’ve got a fair question for each team from Barcelona, where the city has fully embraced Saturday’s Grand Départ ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/a-question...
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A question for each team before the Tour begins
I’ve got a fair question for each team from Barcelona, where the city has fully embraced Saturday’s Grand Départ
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
❓A question for each team before the #TDF2026 begins I’ve got a fair question for each team from Barcelona, where the city has fully embraced Saturday’s Grand Départ ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/a-question...
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A question for each team before the Tour begins
I’ve got a fair question for each team from Barcelona, where the city has fully embraced Saturday’s Grand Départ
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
⚠️ In search of answers to an almost impossible question: how can professional cycling be made safer? Three pro riders and a former Tour de France winner share their views: ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/how-can-pr...
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How can professional cycling become safer?
Leading figures from across the cycling world share their ideas for making the sport safer. Here's what three riders lining up for this year's Tour and one former winner have to say.
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
It won't solve everything, but there's no better solution cyclingreport.substack.com/p/it-wont-so...
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It won't solve everything, but there's no better solution
National championship absences should force the UCI and national federations to rethink the calendar given their proximity to the Tour de France.
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Maybe the old days were better after all... But at least we have Jonas Vingegaard. It is not enough, but it is still quite a lot. cyclingreport.substack.com/p/maybe-the-...
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Maybe the old days were better after all
Jonas Vingegaard takes a fourth stage in pink in another procession | The Giro must rethink its identity
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Vingegaard heads into the final week of the Giro as a formality towards the inevitable | Cycling has a problem… and its enemies within ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/you-always...
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You always find your enemies within
Vingegaard heads into the final week of the Giro as a formality towards the inevitable | Cycling has a problem… and its enemies within
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The Giro heads into the time trial and its second week with the fight for the maglia rosa already decided... without Jonas Vingegaard having worn it for a single day yet. Such is life, and such is his superiority. ▶️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/thirty-fiv...
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Thirty-five seconds is an eternity
Jonas Vingegaard took a second win at Corno alle Scale. Is the Giro almost decided with so much racing still to come?
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
🩷 Giro d’Italia preview and full route analysis After one of the most intense cycling springs in years, the first men’s Grand Tour of the season arrives with Jonas Vingegaard as the clear — and only — favourite ✍️ Luke Oakes cyclingreport.substack.com/p/giro-dital...
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Giro d’Italia preview and full route analysis
After one of the most intense cycling springs in years, the first men’s Grand Tour of the season arrives with Jonas Vingegaard as the clear — and only — favourite
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
13 conclusions from the 13th | The son of God is born In less than six months it is likely I will be writing “14 conclusions to explain what happened at Il Lombardia”. ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/13-conclus...
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13 conclusions from the 13th | The son of God is born
Tadej Pogačar’s victory, his duel with history, the insolent emergence of Paul Seixas and the contradictions of Remco Evenepoel. The spring ends with a great show.
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🆕 The day cycling won Wout van Aert takes the biggest victory of his life at Paris-Roubaix and denies Tadej Pogačar the chance to complete the full set of Monuments ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/the-day-cy...
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The day cycling won
Wout van Aert takes the biggest victory of his life at Paris-Roubaix and denies Tadej Pogačar the chance to complete the full set of Monuments.
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
🆕 Paris Roubaix preview: The final assault on history’s throne ✍️ Luke Oakes This is an era of constant hyperbole, an age of wonders, but none on the scale of what Tadej Pogačar could achieve at this Roubaix ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/paris-roub...
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Paris Roubaix preview: The final assault on history’s throne
This is an era of constant hyperbole, an age of wonders, but none on the scale of what Tadej Pogačar could achieve at this Roubaix
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The Tour of Flanders from the inside, in the week that could change Pogačar’s career, and (t)his era, forever. "One more, one less" ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/one-more-o...
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One more, one less
Tadej Pogačar wins his third RVV amid debate over van der Poel’s tactics, an impressive debut from Evenepoel, and the week that could finally define (t)his era
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
RVV preview (II): Wout and the fetishisation of defeat Talking to WvA and Grischa Niermann ahead of another opportunity at RVV, the win he needs most, the win logic says will never come ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/rvv-previe...
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RVV preview (II): Wout and the fetishisation of defeat
Wout van Aert heads into another attempt to win De Ronde, the race that has obsessed him most throughout his career, amid an unexpected resurgence in 2026
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
RVV preview (I) | ✍️ Luke Oakes With Pogačar as the clear favourite, Evenepoel’s presence disrupts the potential alliances and the race’s expected dynamics ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/preview-of...
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Preview of the Tour of Flanders (I): What to expect from the first Monument on the cobbles
With Pogačar as the clear favourite, Evenepoel’s presence disrupts the potential alliances and the race’s expected dynamics
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Speaking at the Volta a Catalunya with Jonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel, Magnus Cort, George Bennett or Davide Piganzoli, among others. Full story: cyclingreport.substack.com/p/a-win-for-...
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A win for now, one that will last
Jonas Vingegaard dominates the Volta a Catalunya, sharpens his condition for the Giro, and climbs even higher into the historical elite of stage racers
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Another day watching history happen in real time. Since that masked afternoon in September 2020, in a time trial that changed everything, Tadej Pogačar has won a lot of races… but none quite as beautiful and epic as this Milano-Sanremo ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/the-day-hi...
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The day history bowed to a man
Since that masked afternoon in September 2020, in a time trial that changed everything, Tadej Pogačar has won a lot of races… but none quite as beautiful and epic as this Milano-Sanremo
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A failed challenge to the status quo cyclingreport.substack.com/p/a-failed-c...
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A failed challenge to the status quo
Del Toro confirms his level as Vingegaard strengthens his place among the greatest stage-racers in history
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Mathieu van der Poel takes one of the stages of the year at Tirreno. It’s not the first time I’ve written this sentence ;) cyclingreport.substack.com/p/technique-...
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Technique, strength and the subjectivity of la bellezza
Mathieu van der Poel takes one of the stages of the year at Tirreno. It’s not the first time I’ve written this sentence ;)
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Tadej Pogačar puts on a show to claim his fourth Strade Bianche as Paul Seixas bursts onto the scene to confirm what we suspected: he is here to shape an era cyclingreport.substack.com/p/and-amid-t...
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And amid the exhibition, the rise of youth
Tadej Pogačar puts on a show to claim his fourth Strade Bianche as Paul Seixas bursts onto the scene to confirm what we suspected: he is here to shape an era
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
🚨 "I’m having a piss and we’re off" The inside story of how a stage cancellation is managed in professional cycling, and what it looks like when 140 riders debate in real time ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/im-having-...
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"I’m having a piss and we’re off"
The inside story of how a stage cancellation is managed in professional cycling, and what it looks like when 140 riders debate in real time
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
What we learned from the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana cyclingreport.substack.com/p/what-we-le...
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What we learned from the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
Remco Evenepoel wins the GC and two stages to take his tally to six wins in a blistering start to the season
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
🆕 Red Bull 2026 preview Red Bull’s ambition sets a very high bar for the project, with questions over the fit between Remco Evenepoel and Lipowitz ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/red-bull-b...
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Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe 2026 preview
Red Bull’s ambition sets a very high bar for the project, with questions over the fit between Remco Evenepoel and Lipowitz
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
🆕 6 reasons to understand Caja Rural’s invitation to the Tour de France Economics, licences, UCI points, business, investment, betting companies, and a touch of cycling romanticism… or not ➡️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/reasons-ca...
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6 reasons to understand Caja Rural’s invitation to the Tour de France
Economics, licences, UCI points, business, investment, betting companies, and a touch of cycling romanticism… or not
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🆕 Victories that mark a turning point Groenewegen’s victory on his debut propels the Rockets into the group of contenders to get a WorldTour licence during this three-year cycle cyclingreport.substack.com/p/victories-...
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Victories that mark a turning point
Groenewegen’s victory on his debut propels the Rockets into the group of contenders to get a WorldTour licence during this three-year cycle
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Rob Harmeling (Unibet Rose Rockets DS): "If we have to ride the Tour de France, we will shit our pants" 🗣️ "Kubis can make Groenewegen the number one sprinter in the world again" 🗣️ "Our main rival for a wildcard is Caja Rural" ✍️ Full interview: cyclingreport.substack.com/p/rob-harmel...
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Rob Harmeling (Unibet Rose Rockets): "If we have to ride the Tour de France, we will shit our pants"
An interview with the Rockets’ DS, one of the peloton’s teams of the moment, analysing the present and future of a project that has its sights set on the next Tour de France
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🇰🇿 XDS Astana 2026 preview Astana face the challenge of repeating a miraculous season without the motivation or urgency of having to chase UCI points at all costs ⏭️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/xds-astana...
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XDS Astana 2026 preview
Astana face the challenge of repeating a miraculous season without the motivation or urgency of having to chase UCI points at all costs
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
💛 The secrets behind the Tour’s 2027 Grand Depart Luke Oakes reveals the secrets of the first three stages of the Tour de France 2027 having suffered first-hand on some of the climbs that will shape the Grand Depart. #TourdeFrance cyclingreport.substack.com/p/secrets-be...
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The secrets behind the Tour’s 2027 Grand Depart
The Tour de France will return to the UK with three stages packed with explosive climbs, passing through Scotland, England and Wales
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
INEOS Grenadiers 2026 preview INEOS face a deeper revolution than it might seem, amid a generational shift and a change in hierarchies cyclingreport.substack.com/p/ineos-gren...
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INEOS Grenadiers 2026 preview
INEOS face a deeper revolution than it might seem, amid a generational shift and a change in hierarchies
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
🚨 Lidl – Trek 2026 preview: new steps forward Lidl are consolidating their status as one of the most ambitious projects in the world, combining established stars, young prospects, and the signings of Ayuso and Gee ▶️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/lidl-trek-...
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Lidl – Trek 2026 preview: new steps forward
You might also be interested in my earlier previews:
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
🚨 An interview with Josean Fernández Matxín 🗣️ “We’ve won 97 races, but we’ve lost 200. We’re paid to be competitive” 🗣️ "If del Toro goes to the Giro and wins, then it becomes 'normal' and people will demand that he goes to the Tour to win" ▶️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/interview-...
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Josean Fernández Matxín (UAE): “We’ve won 97 races, but we’ve lost 200. We’re paid to be competitive”
An interview with UAE’s Sports Manager on the pressure on Del Toro, leadership roles, Ayuso’s departure and the Israel protests from the team’s perspective
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📩 Cycling Report @cyclingreport.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
🚨 An interview with Josean Fernández Matxín 🗣️ “We’ve won 97 races, but we’ve lost 200. We’re paid to be competitive” 🗣️ "If del Toro goes to the Giro and wins, then it becomes 'normal' and people will demand that he goes to the Tour to win" ▶️ cyclingreport.substack.com/p/interview-...
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Josean Fernández Matxín (UAE): “We’ve won 97 races, but we’ve lost 200. We’re paid to be competitive”
An interview with UAE’s Sports Manager on the pressure on Del Toro, leadership roles, Ayuso’s departure and the Israel protests from the team’s perspective
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