On 31 August 2023, Sepp Kuss crossed the finish line at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre, high in the mountains of eastern Spain, to win the sixth stage of the Vuelta a España. The American had escaped into a large…
On the morning of 24 May 1891, spectators gathered near the Porte Maillot on the western edge of Paris to await a cyclist who had left Bordeaux the previous day. The rider they were expecting had travelled across much of…
The road from Bellagio begins close to the waters of Lake Como, then turns away from the lake and climbs into the wooded hills of the Triangolo Lariano. The first kilometres are steep, with bends that force cyclists to settle…
At the end of the nineteenth century, one of the most famous athletes in America rode a bicycle. His name was Marshall Walter Taylor, but cycling crowds knew him as Major Taylor, a young man whose extraordinary speed made him…
8 November 2026 | UCI Asia Tour 1.2 | Men’s Champion Road Race | 200 km Okinawa is an island where a cycling race can travel through several different histories without ever leaving the same stretch of coastline. Its northern…
The Tour of Guangxi reaches its final day in Yizhou, where the previous stage ended among the river valleys and cultural traditions associated with Liu Sanjie. Over the following 170 kilometres, the race turns south through the interior of Guangxi…
For four days the Tour of Guangxi has travelled progressively deeper into western Guangxi, following waterways through karst basins, crossing the Youjiang valley, tracing underground rivers around Fengshan and finally reaching the immense engineered waters of the Hongshui around Tian’e.…
Stage 3 reached Bama after crossing one of the great geographical transitions of western Guangxi, descending from the high basin of Jingxi to the Youjiang before climbing back into the mountains. Stage 4 begins among those mountains and never truly…
Stage 2 spent its final kilometres climbing into Jingxi, reaching a high karst basin close to the Vietnamese frontier after an afternoon in which the landscape seemed steadily to rise around the race. Stage 3 begins at 748 metres above…
Stage 1 returned to Chongzuo after making a broad circle through the low karst country of the Zuo River. Stage 2 leaves that circle behind and points west, towards a landscape increasingly shaped by altitude, limestone and the proximity of…
