Cafe Roubaix,
30 December 2016
One of Netherlands’ hottest prospects
Among the many young riders to turn pro next year there will be also Martijn Tusveld, alumni of the new defunct Rabobank Continental, one of the best U23 teams cycling has ever known. Born in Utrecht, the same town that has hosted the 2016 Tour de France Grand Depart, Martijn is a rider who showcase

Pez Cyclingnews,
30 December 2016
Katusha-Alpecin’s Nils Politt Gets PEZ’d
Nils Politt is a big guy, standing at 1.92meters (6ft 4in) and weighing in at 80kg (180lb), he is just the rider Alexander Kristoff would want by his side in the Northern Classics. Alastair Hamilton managed to have a word with the big German at the Katusha-Alpecin Spanish training camp in Calpe in D

Road Cyling UK,
28 December 2016
Drops Cycling’s Becky Womersley on women’s cycling, Yorkshire and cracking the Classics
"I turned around at one point and Marianne Vos was behind me. I thought, ‘What do I do? This isn’t right.’"

CyclingNews,
27 December 2016
I almost quit cycling in April
There was a point during this season in which Peter Stetina came close to hanging up his wheels and retiring. The long and agonising comeback from a career-threatening injury sustained in 2015 had been hard enough, but when almost the entire peloton began riding away from him during the spring, he s

Rouleur,
27 December 2016
From Metz Massacre to Monument Man
In his own words, Liège-Bastogne-Liège Monument winner and Team Sky Tour de France superdomestique Wout Poels unpicks his outstanding 2016 season

Pez Cyclingnews,
24 December 2016
Retro PEZ Talk: Barry Davies
These last few months we’ve tracked down some of those colorful British cyclo-cross stars of the 70’s and 80’s – John Atkins and Chris Wreghitt have told their stories to PEZ. But perhaps the most colourful of them all was the man with the famous soccer star, ‘George Best Look’ and the lightest of b

Cycling Quotes,
23 December 2016
I no longer want to be a leader
After one year at Katusha, Jurgen Van den Broeck (33) will spend the next two years with LottoNL-jumbo. "I do not want to be a leader anymore," he tells Het Nieuwsblad. "I made the switch. Here I am Steven Kruijswijk’s domestique. I want to get the pink jersey with him.”

Skedaddle Twaddle,
23 December 2016
An Interview with an Olympic Gold medalist
The next in our ‘Why I Cycle‘ Series is Olympic track medalist Steven Burke who won gold both at the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Now that the hysteria of the games has calmed a little we found a few moments to find out a little bit more about his love of cycling…

Road Cyling UK,
21 December 2016
On swapping Manchester for the blue Sky ahead
Jon Dibben has finished the year by swapping rainy Manchester for wall-to-wall sunshine on the Cote d’Azure. This might in itself be sufficient reward for his graduation from British Cycling’s Olympic Academy to the ranks of Team Sky, but the 22-year-old’s ambition extends beyond gaining a suntan.

sram,
21 December 2016
Meet Alexander Kristoff
The list of sprinters capable of scoring stage wins at the Tour de France and wins at the spring classics is a short one, and Alexander Kristoff always ranks high on this list of elite riders. With 56 pro wins to his name including Milan-San Remo (2014), two Tour de France stages (2014), and the Tou

CyclingNews,
20 December 2016
The Tour de France has become so bland
Interview with Frenchman on shifting his focus to stage wins, is one of the modern peloton’s veterans of the Tour de France, having ridden the last eight editions, but even he is growing tired of La Grande Boucle.

Pez Cyclingnews,
19 December 2016
Baptiste Planckaert Gets PEZ’d
Baptiste Planckaert will be a WorldTour rider with Katusha-Alpecin in 2017 after six years as a professional, as he says: “The longer the dream holds, the better.” Alastair Hamilton was at the Katusha-Alpecin team presentation in Spain to hear what the Belgian had to say on his EuropeTour win and hi

sram,
19 December 2016
Meet Marco Haller
A key member of Alexander Kristoff’s leadout train, sprinter Marco Haller of Austria knows a thing or two about going fast on a bike. At just 25 years of age, Haller has been a member of Team Katusha-Alpecin since 2012 and already has four pro victories to his name. He’s also competed in nine classi

road.cc,
19 December 2016
Hopes to be Sky’s co-leader at 2017 Italian Grand Tour
Geraint Thomas has told road.cc that he hopes to spearhead Team Sky’s challenge at May’s Giro d’Italia alongside Mikel Landa, in what would be the first time the Welshman will have taken a leadership role in a Grand Tour.

Pez Cyclingnews,
18 December 2016
Retro PEZ Talk: Phil Edwards
One of the coolest guys to ever throw a leg over a bike was Phil Edwards. His zero degree style probably came from his Italian mother, but he was British junior and professional national champion and rode to many victories in a GB jersey. His pro career was spent with the Italian Sanson team, in the

Cyclingtips,
16 December 2016
With an eye to the future, targets Giro and commits to Contador in 2017 Tour
For some, Bauke Mollema may not be an obvious selection as a future Grand Tour winner but, save for a stage 19 crash during the 2016 Tour de France, he may well have finished on the podium in Paris. The Dutchman has a greater self-belief than before and is aiming for victory in the 2017 Giro d’Itali