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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/GettyImages-2167251616.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated April 2, 2026 08:33AM Kristen Faulkner is so back. The U.S. and double Olympic champion will race with her EF Education-Oatly team for the first time in 7 months at the Tour of Flanders on Sunday. After a 2025 that guttered with burnout and was snuffed out on the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2201474162-scaled.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated April 2, 2026 06:15AM Young Spanish talent Jaume Guardeño was admitted to intensive care with a “severe head injury” after a terrible training accident Tuesday. The 23-year-old pro reportedly hit a rock while he was riding in Catalonia, causing him to collide with a car. He was then airlifted…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/pog-vdp-flanders.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated April 2, 2026 03:48AM Tadej Pogačar and Mathieu van der Poel have won every edition of the Tour of Flanders since 2021. It’s hard to see that streak being broken on Sunday. Pogačar and Van der Poel will set the tone and dictate the narratives of the Ronde van…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/East-Coast-Gravel-Story-Edit.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Updated April 1, 2026 02:57PM Geography has long been the secret sauce of cycling, omnipresent in the background; always changing, always defining the rides we all go on. Physical geography is primarily what comes to mind, with the mountains, plains, forests, and valleys of the world shaping the maps and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2268779732.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated April 1, 2026 09:07AM Dwars door Vlaanderen ended in heartbreak for Wout van Aert and exultation for Filippo Ganna. Van Aert was hanging on by a thread after a long solo attack with 400 meters to go when Ganna pounced out of the chasing group in the fastest edition…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Copy-of-Copy-of-POGI-2.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated April 1, 2026 07:21AM Remco Evenepoel will line up alongside Tadej Pogačar and Mathieu van der Poel on Sunday for a surprise debut at the Tour of Flanders. And no, that’s not an April Fools. The news was confirmed by Evenepoel, team Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, and Tour of Flanders officials…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-2174702711.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated April 1, 2026 05:32PM Swiss junior rider Muriel Fürrer lay injured and out of sight for 82 minutes after a fatal crash at the 2024 UCI Road World Championships, prosecutors confirmed Monday. An investigation by the Zürich Public Prosecutor’s Office into the 2024 tragedy concluded that it was a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Copy-of-POGI-3.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated April 1, 2026 03:05AM A suspect has been arrested on charges of “assault with a deadly weapon” after a driver threatened to kill Luke Fetzer and his friend in an explosive confrontation. Footage of the brutal road rage clash went viral last week after Fetzer posted it on social…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/PXL_20260330_060500273.jpg”] Josh Ross Updated April 1, 2026 05:25PM For the past week, I’ve been in Taipei reporting on the Taipei Cycle Show and logging miles on a Factor One. I’ve ridden throughout the city, navigating both hectic traffic and dedicated bike infrastructure, and I’ve explored the countryside in both group events and long…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/horitonalrx.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated March 31, 2026 04:54AM Laurenz Rex and his nightmare spring is over after dislocating his right knee at Sunday’s In Flanders Fields. The brutal injury comes just weeks after he survived a terrifying 100kph crash at the AlUla Tour that left him with multiple fractures in his back. The…