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Belgium’s Gianni Vermeersch won the first men’s UCI Gravel World Championships after a late move to break clear from Italy’s Daniel Oss. Vermeersch and Oss had been off the front together for more than half of the 194km race in Citadella, Italy. With 8km remaining, Vermeersch made a solo attack stick and rode to victory.
Mathieu van der Poel has been fined AU$1500 for confronting two teenage girls on Saturday night prior to the men’s elite road race at the Cycling Road World Championships in Wollongong. The Alpecin–Deceuninck rider was set to appear in court on Tuesday but has been allowed to fly home to catch his flight and his passport is back in his hands after it was confiscated. Ad Van der Poel allegedly pushed one of the girls against a wall and another to the floor, injuring her arm as the teenagers were repeatedly knocking on his door which prevented him from sleeping.
Mathieu van der Poel retired from the UCI Road World Championships elite men’s road race following an overnight arrest after reportedly being disturbed by a group of teenagers outside his hotel room. The Dutch favourite began the race on Sunday morning, but abandoned his pursuit of victory after about 25 kilometers of racing. Ad Van der Poel's preparations for the biggest single-day event on the cycling calendar were hugely disrupted by his overnight incident.
SYDNEY : Australian cycling fans will get their first chance to witness elite racing after two years of COVID-19 isolation when the world road race championships come to the coastal city of Wollongong from this weekend.
The cobbles of stage five loom large on the agenda after the Tour de France returned home from a spectacular Grand Depart in Denmark.
Belgian Yves Lampaert won the first stage of the Tour de France on Friday, gatecrashing the opening day individual time-trial as crowds defied the rain along the 13.2-kilometre route in central Copenhagen.
Filippo Ganna, Wout van Aert and Tadej Pogacar all leaving the start gate one after the other was always going to provide the key pivot for Friday’s opening 13.2km time trial – although Jumbo-Visma duo Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard had already got their respective Tours off to an assured start in what proved to be fairly treacherous conditions in Copenhagen. Neither Roglic nor Vingegaard were able to dislodge early leader Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel from the hotseat but both riders – to the delight of the home crowds, in the case of Vingegaard – put in highly respectable times just a few seconds slower than the Alpecin-Deceuninck leader.
After a run-through of every stage in the 2022 Tour de France, and ahead of yellow, green and polka dot jersey guides, our preview series continues with a look at all 22 teams featuring in the 109th edition of the race, which gets under way in Copenhagen this Friday. We name all eight riders selected for each team, while discussing their stand-out stars, racing styles, targets for the next month, and memorable Tour moments from past races – while also asking the burning question of what French food they are most like.