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A daily newsletter that covers pro cycling in depth. ✍️ Javi Aguilar

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😜 What you’ll find in today’s post:

🔸 The Giro d’Italia and its lost? identity
🔸 Transfer market updates
🔸 Calendars and routes for 2026
🔸 Stories around the peloton
🔸 Cyclocross news

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It’s not about who races, but who you are
The 2026 Giro d’Italia route raises questions about the race’s identity, its future, and what it has to offer
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December 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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🇮🇹 Giro d’Italia route analysis: an invitation for Evenepoel

🔸Girmay joins NSN
🔸Stories around the peloton
🔸Calendars and routes for 2026
🔸In the mud: cyclocross news

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Giro route analysis: an invitation for Evenepoel
The Giro features a modern route with little high-altitude climbing and a 40 km ITT
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December 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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🇬🇧 Analysis of INEOS’ position in today’s global cycling scene following G. Thomas’ arrival on the staff

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INEOS and the challenge of reinvention
Geraint Thomas stays at INEOS as Director of Racing and reopens the debate about their greatness and place in today’s cycling
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November 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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🚨 What you’ll find in today’s post:

The silent pandemic: why young riders are quitting cycling earlier than ever
Transfer market
What we know about the Giro and La Vuelta routes
Wout in the cobbles
All the stories from around the peloton
CX updates

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The silent pandemic
As the age for reaching the pro peloton keeps dropping, more and more young riders are leaving cycling. Fatigue, rivalry, or money?
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November 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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🚨 What you’ll find in today’s post:

The silent pandemic: why young riders are quitting cycling earlier than ever
Transfer market
What we know about the Giro and La Vuelta routes
Wout in the cobbles
All the stories from around the peloton
CX updates

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The silent pandemic
As the age for reaching the pro peloton keeps dropping, more and more young riders are leaving cycling. Fatigue, rivalry, or money?
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November 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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🔥 Today’s must-read news:

🔸Breaking news on the NSN project
🔸Transfer market updates
🔸The debate over ticket sales in cycling continues… while the Belgian government makes things even trickier
🔸Cyclo-cross news

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Today’s news and what we know about NSN Cycling Team
Breaking news on NSN, Chaves’ retirement and Red Bull breaking another active contract
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November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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🚨 The fight for UCI points begins

🔸Pogačar changes his mind about the future
🔸Updates in the ‘Lazkano case’
🔸Transfer market news
🔸Ever-earlier retirements
🔸Javier Guillén speaks as AIOCC president
🔸Artificial mountains at the Worlds?
🔸CX news

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Kudus lays the first stone in a hellish battle
The Eritrean takes the African Cycling Championship and kicks off the fight for UCI points for the next three years
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November 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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🤪 What you’ll find in today’s post:

🔹 How NSN breaks into cycling and brings the Israel saga to an end
🔹 Transfer market
🔹 Stories around the peloton
🔹 Rider calendars for 2026
🔹 CX races this weekend
🔹 Cycling literature
🔹 A glimpse at social media

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In cycling, never say never
The Israel–Premier Tech adventure with Sylvan Adams in pro cycling comes to an end after a turbulent decade | Spanish and Swiss shareholders and a Swiss licence for the rebranded team
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November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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🚨 Today in cycling:

🔹Analysis: What La Vuelta loses without the Canary Islands
🔹Attractive alternative… but nothing compares to the Canaries
🔹Transfer market: Latest moves and rumours
🔹Rider calendars: First confirmed schedules for the season

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What La Vuelta loses without the Canary Islands
The political institutions in the Canary Islands have failed to reach an agreement to fund La Vuelta’s 2026 finish, meaning the race will not end there as planned
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November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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🗞️ TOP STORIES OF THE DAY

◾️ ASO rejects ticketing as an alternative to cycling’s (perennial) financial crisis
◾️ Giro considers a flat 40km time trial: an unmistakable and necessary invitation for Remco Evenepoel
◾️ Transfer market breaking news

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The popular spirit of cycling
The industry is urgently searching for new funding models as the debate over ticketing heats up
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November 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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📰 Top stories of the day

🔸Evenepoel and the decisions ahead of a hostile Tour
🔸Israel, their future and Froome’s farewell
🔸Transfer market activity as teams finalise their rosters
🔸CX highlights from the weekend

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Preseason looms and Remco faces key decisions
With the Giro route still unknown, Evenepoel must choose between a Giro-Tour double or focusing his spring on the Classics
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November 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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🚨 Top stories of the day: When the new cycling blends with the old

◾️Doping-sanctioned Frank Schleck returns to the peloton with Lidl–Trek
◾️The echoes of the Israel–Premier Tech case
◾️Transfer market
◾️CX news

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When the new cycling blends with the old
Frank Schleck returns to the Lidl–Trek setup as sporting director of the women’s team
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November 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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🚨 Top stories of the day

◾️Lappartient talks salary cap… but gives nothing more than a vague, inconcrete idea.
◾️France sparks debate over Seixas’ calendar. The kid is going to face more pressure than a submarine under full depth
◾️Transfer market
◾️CX news

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Cycling isn’t the NBA
David Lappartient says he has proposed a salary cap… which smaller teams have rejected
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November 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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🚨 Top stories of the day

◾️Carera highlights the shortcomings of an unsustainable model
◾️The 175,000 reasons behind Gent–Wevelgem’s name change
◾️Transfer market updates
◾️The Giro routes will be presented on December 1
◾️Cyclocross news

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Carera points to the elephant in the room
The world’s most influential agent talks about the future of the ProTeam category in a debate the UCI has been avoiding for some time
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November 12, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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🚨 Top stories of the day

▪️When Pogačar gets inside your head: Vingegaard and the Giro
▪️Transfer market updates
▪️Gent–Wevelgem’s identity shift and Van den Spiegel’s explanation
▪️The fragile economic situation of Dutch cycling

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When Pogačar gets inside your head
Vingegaard targets the Giro in 2026, a tacit admission of Pogačar’s superiority
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November 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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🚨 Top stories of the day

▪️When Pogačar gets inside your head: Vingegaard and the Giro
▪️Transfer market updates
▪️Gent–Wevelgem’s identity shift and Van den Spiegel’s explanation
▪️The fragile economic situation of Dutch cycling

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When Pogačar gets inside your head
Vingegaard targets the Giro in 2026, a tacit admission of Pogačar’s superiority
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November 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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🗞️ The most relevant cycling news today

Mercato, the Premier Tech case, and how the off-season becomes the perfect ground for bombastic statements

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The most relevant cycling news today
Mercato, the Premier Tech case, and how the off-season becomes the perfect ground for bombastic statements
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November 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Premier Tech steps down from Israel, and the ripples go far beyond the team. What it means for 2026 and the fragility of pro cycling.

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Cycling is a fragile sport
Premier Tech steps down as Israel’s title sponsor, leaving the team caught between a rock and a hard place for 2026
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November 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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🆕 A Tour that could have gone differently

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A Tour that could have gone differently
A look at the latest in cycling | Transfers, weird quotes, doping and a knee that could have changed everything
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November 5, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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What’s been happening in cycling [Volume 1]

➡️ Free post as a pilot run. Suggestions are more than welcome.

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What’s been happening in cycling [Volume 1]
I’m kicking off this section with a round-up of the day’s main stories from the world of professional cycling
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November 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Decrypting the Oier Lazkano case and its future implications after his provisional suspension and dismissal from Red Bull

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The Lazkano enigma ends in the worst possible way
Decrypting the Oier Lazkano case and its future implications after his provisional suspension and dismissal from Red Bull
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October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Arnaud De Lie reflects on a season of highs and lows.

Seven wins, a missed spring, and lessons for the future.

Read the full story on Cycling Report ⏬

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Arnaud De Lie on the Spring Classics: "The season is not only about that"
I spoke with Arnaud De Lie about his fourth season as a pro and also about how he feels regarding the big Spring Classics
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October 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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My breakdown of the Tour de France route in 6 takeaways

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6 takeaways from the 2026 Tour de France route
The Tour de France unveils a miniaturised version of itself with clear echoes of La Vuelta
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October 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Tim Declercq and Ide Schelling retire from professional cycling today in the final stage of the Tour of Holland.

I talk to them about their farewell. Two sides of the same coin

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Two ways to say goodbye
Tim Declercq and Ide Schelling retire from professional cycling today in the final stage of the Tour of Holland
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October 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM