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  • The Women Who Have Been Building the Cycling Industry All Along

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_0372-scaled.jpg”] Hannah Gross Published May 4, 2026 04:01PM When I first started cycling, I didn’t see many women. In terms of how the bike industry moved and shaped, the key players looked mostly male. Bike shops, mechanic spaces, bike races, group rides, Strava commenters. It’s a lot of guys. But that perspective began…

  • Bossuyt Bosses Wild Sprint as Kopecky Drops Chain in Vuelta Femenina Drama

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2274464417.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated May 4, 2026 10:22AM Shari Bossuyt (AG Insurance Soudal) blasted to the stage win in a wild finale of Vuelta Femenina‘s second stage. The young Belgian launched from the middle of a reduced bunch kick after fast-moving rival Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx Protime) dropped her chain mid-sprint. Franziska Koch…

  • Michael Woods Is Finding Joy in Cycling Again After Years of Obsessively Riding to the Sport’s Top Level

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2169466794.jpg”] Michael Woods Updated May 4, 2026 05:27PM In his latest column for Velo, Michael Woods dives into Levi’s Gran Fondo and how cycling needs to let go of its path to find a sustainable way forward. “You are doing the doper’s race?” a friend of mine said to me at Sea Otter…

  • New American Cycling Team Breaks Through with First Victory

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/horizonMAP2.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated May 4, 2026 05:26PM Modern Adventure Cycling — the first new American cycling team in more than a decade — won its first race appropriately enough on home roads. Samuel Flórez kicked to victory Sunday in the final stage of the Tour of the Gila to give the upstart…

  • Pogačar’s Most Dangerous New Rival Is Coming for the 2026 Tour de France

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Copy-of-FAULKNER.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated May 4, 2026 05:28PM Paul Seixas will make his grand tour debut this summer at the Tour de France and target the yellow jersey. The 19-year-old confirmed Monday he will line up alongside Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard this July in what will be the most hotly anticipated grand…

  • These 7 Things Can Stop Jonas Vingegaard Winning the Giro d’Italia

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/giro-outsider.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated May 4, 2026 05:15PM Jonas Vingegaard is the 10-star favorite for the Giro d’Italia. We get it. The three-time grand tour winner is head, shoulders, and heart rate strap above a GC field that’s been decapitated by a late wave of sickness and injury. But the Giro ain’t so…

  • Pogačar Riding Romandie Was Unexpected. Here’s What It Says About His Future

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2274132056.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated May 4, 2026 05:29PM The Tour de Romandie seemed to many to be a surprising race for Tadej Pogačar to target. It may be a WorldTour contest but riding it for the first time in his career was so unexpected that the race organizer was forced to deny that…

  • Double Triumph for Rampant Pogačar on Final Day of Tour de Romandie

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2274153290.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated May 3, 2026 09:27AM Tadej Pogačar underlined his superiority in the Tour de Romandie Sunday, capturing the uphill finish at Leysin to notch up his fourth victory out of six stages plus the final overall win. The UAE Emirates-XRG rider controlled attacks by key rival Florian Lipowitz and then…

  • Red Jersey for Rüegg as EF Education-Oatly Scoop Stage 1 of Vuelta Femenina

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2274282729.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated May 4, 2026 03:41PM Noemi Rüegg scooped the opening stage and race lead in the Vuelta Femenina on Sunday, blitzing an uphill sprint to take the biggest win of her career thus far. The Swiss rider was set up perfectly by her EF Education-Oatly team and she was clearly…

  • Toughest Ever Vuelta Femenina Gets Grand Tour Season Underway

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2272580779-1.jpg”] Shane Stokes Published May 2, 2026 07:50PM Tour de France champions Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and Kasia Niewiadoma headline the field for the first Grand Tour of the season, with the Vuelta España Femenina sparking into life Sunday. The entirety of the WorldTour event will be based in the north of Spain, getting underway…