The Giro d’Italia starts with a hilly stage from the coast to the capital.

Route summary Last year’s route was explicitly eased twice over to tempt Tadej Pogačar: reduced vertical gain of 43,000m and shortened stages averaging 172km per day (excluding TTs and the Rome stage) ...

Tadej Pogačar attacks on La Redoute to go solo and win Liège-Bastogne-Liège for the third time. Nobody could or would respond, especially as Remco Evenepoel was out of team mates and out of position.

There have been some memorable late call-ups. Sam Bennett got a knee injury before the 2021 Tour de France and so Mark Cavendish was asked to step in… and he won four stages plus the points jersey.

The Tour de Romandie starts today with a prologue, the only World Tour race that still has one. It’s different from an opening time trial as it’s defined as no more than 8km, also the rules say if a ...