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Good week/Bad week: Who's up and who's down after the first nine stages of the Vuelta a Espana 2022?

Good Week Jay Vine Ad Vuelta a EspañaLa Vuelta: How to watch Stage 10 as pivotal time trial day beckons4 HOURS AGO “Good” doesn’t come close to describing how well it’s gone for the 26 year-old Australian in the first week of his second grand tour. To take one win at this level, as Oscar Wilde didn’t say, can be regarded as fortunate, to take two begins to look like brilliance. Just as the Americans, Brits and Australians were viewed with some disdain as they began to make their mark on cycling all those years ago, so the next generation of riders breaking through who reveal their potential via online platforms have been looked upon through snobbish eyes.

Rookie Evenepoel soars through fog into Vuelta lead

PICO JANO, SPAIN: Belgian tyro Remco Evenepoel left his Vuelta a Espana title rivals trailing on a foggy climb in the Cantabrian mountains on Thursday on a stage won by Australian Jay Vine of Alpecin.

La Vuelta 2022: The impulsive Remco Evenepoel is no more – Primoz Roglic should be terrified

It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do itAnd that's what gets results — Bananarama and the Fun Boy Three Was it really little more than a year ago that Remco Evenepoel was criticised by many of his fellow Belgians, including team-mates and Eddy Merckx, for the way he rode the Olympic road race? Ad “I think that it’s not the smartest attack I’ve done in my life”, Evenepoel admitted of the move he made 50km from the finish, which saw him blow up and of no use to co-leader Wout van Aert in the finale. Vuelta a EspañaRoglic admits he 'didn’t have legs' after Evenepoel humbling2 HOURS AGO Is it really less than a year since Evenepoel ignored the home team’s plan, and turned animator of the elite men’s World Championship road race in Flanders? “I did not understand why Remco attacked 180km from the finish when he had to be at my side with Jasper Stuyven in the final,” said Wout van Aert, after seeing Remco’s trade team-mate Julian Alaphilippe ride away to his second set of rainbow bands.

Belgian cyclist Herman Vanspringel dies aged 79

Belgian cyclist Herman Vanspringel, who lost the 1968 Tour de France on the final day and became famously known as Monsieur Bordeaux-Paris for winning the marathon classic seven times, has died aged 79.

I’m sorry!’ – Mark Cavendish leaves Tour of Poland to focus on Commonwealth Games for the Isle of Man

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team have confirmed that sprint star Mark Cavendish will leave the Tour of Poland to put his whole focus on the Commonwealth Games. Cavendish will represent the Isle of Man in the road race on Sunday in Warwick, and will have familiar faces for company with Geraint Thomas of Ineos Grenadiers representing Wales.

Cycling-Unflappable Vingegaard topples brave Pogacar in riveting Tour

By Julien Pretot

Unflappable Vingegaard topples brave Pogacar in riveting Tour

PARIS : There was an exhilarating retro feeling as Jonas Vingegaard claimed his maiden Tour de France title after an epic battle with Tadej Pogacar, who defended his crown until the bitter end, the pair laying the platform for a potentially historic rivalry.

Tour de France: Mark Cavendish vows ‘I’ll win again’ at Grand Tour despite Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl omission in 2022

A bullish Mark Cavendish believes he will break the Tour de France stage record despite being overlooked by Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl this year. The team favoured sprinter Fabio Jakobsen for the 2022 edition, delaying Cavendish’s hopes of passing the record of 34 stage wins that he shares with Eddy Merckx. Ad/> Now 37, there have been doubts over whether Cavendish will get another chance to race at the Tour, but the “Manx Missile” has no retirement plans and is confident he will get another shot amid Bradley Wiggins' belief that teams will be looking to sign him.

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Good week/Bad week: Who's up and who's down after the first nine stages of the Vuelta a Espana 2022?

Rookie Evenepoel soars through fog into Vuelta lead

La Vuelta 2022: The impulsive Remco Evenepoel is no more – Primoz Roglic should be terrified

Belgian cyclist Herman Vanspringel dies aged 79

I’m sorry!’ – Mark Cavendish leaves Tour of Poland to focus on Commonwealth Games for the Isle of Man

Cycling-Unflappable Vingegaard topples brave Pogacar in riveting Tour

Unflappable Vingegaard topples brave Pogacar in riveting Tour

Tour de France: Mark Cavendish vows ‘I’ll win again’ at Grand Tour despite Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl omission in 2022