Explore the 2026 cycling season through the races covered by Around the Peloton, following the peloton across stage races, one-day classics and championships while discovering the history, landscapes, culture and places found along each route.
After four stages dominated by the Adriatic, Stage 5 moves inland and introduces a Croatia built around rivers, forests, castles, vineyards and the old approaches to Zagreb. The change is immediate. There are no islands, no Venetian ports and no…
The fourth stage of the CRO Race crosses the Istrian peninsula from south to north-east, beginning beside one of the greatest surviving buildings of the Roman Adriatic and finishing in a city whose modern identity was created by ships, factories…
Stage 3 begins on an island and ends on a hilltop, but between those two points the CRO Race crosses a much larger geographical boundary. The opening kilometres wander through the interior of Krk, where villages, dry-stone fields and sheltered…
Stage 2 is short, but the landscape changes quickly enough to make the distance feel larger than it is. From Biograd na Moru, the race heads north along the coast towards Zadar, then turns towards the rougher country beneath Velebit before…
The CRO Race opens on the Dalmatian coast, but Stage 1 does not stay there for long. From Split, the route turns inland through Stobreč and the country east of the city, crosses the old territory of Poljica, reaches the…
The 2026 Men Elite World Championship begins far from the circuit that will eventually decide it. Before Mount Royal, before the repeated climbs and before the familiar Montréal skyline closes around the race, the peloton spends more than one hundred…
The 2026 UCI Road World Championships open in Montréal with a race against the clock, but the course is more than a technical test of pacing and aerodynamics. Over 39.2 kilometres, it traces the relationship between the city and the…
Twenty-five years after professional cycling last contested the Giro di Campania, the race returns with a route designed to cross the region rather than simply borrow one of its famous landscapes. Over 193.1 kilometres, it passes through all five provinces…
The Gran Premio del Lazio is new in its present form, but the landscape it crosses is anything but new. Over 182.35 kilometres, the race travels from Fiuggi in the hills south-east of Rome to Anguillara Sabazia on Lake Bracciano,…
The name is new, but the race underneath it belongs to a much older Belgian cycling culture. In 2026 the former SUPER 8 Classic becomes the Flandrien 0.0 Classic, yet the route still begins in Brakel, still finishes at the gates…
