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  • Tadej Pogačar Defied all Odds to Win Milan-San Remo on a Cracked Bike Frame

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/1-6.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated March 24, 2026 04:49AM It seems like nothing would stop Tadej Pogačar from winning Milan-San Remo. Not Mathieu van der Poel, not Tom Pidcock, and not even a crash that left his bike as battered as his rainbow jersey skinsuit. Pogačar’s trusted mechanic Boštjan Kavčnik revealed Monday that Pogačar…

  • Evenepoel Denied by Bike-Throw in Return to Racing after UAE Tour Collapse

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Copy-of-protein.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated March 23, 2026 11:23AM Dorian Godon denied Remco Evenepoel by a matter of centimeters in a spicy finale on stage 1 of the Volta a Catalunya. The Frenchman won it on the bike-throw in Sant Feliu de Guíxols on Monday after Tom Pidcock and then Evenepoel lit the turbos…

  • A Sub-5 Kilo Scott You Actually Want to Ride: Dangerholm Strikes Again

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Dangerholm-Scott-Addict-Rc-Cover.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Published March 23, 2026 09:00AM Dangerholm is back with a new build, and this time the Swedish super-bike creator has produced a sub-5-kilo Scott Addict RC. The bike takes a stock Scott Addict RC frame, already a lightweight climbing bike to begin with, but then takes the spec list to…

  • Pogačar’s Most Dangerous Rival Is Done Playing Nice

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/horizonvingo.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated March 23, 2026 11:27AM Jonas Vingegaard didn’t just win Paris-Nice. He changed the buzz around him. That victory mattered, but the way he raced mattered more. There was something different in how the Dane attacked across the “Race to the Sun.” There was a rawer damn-the-torpedoes attitude. The Visma-Lease…

  • Cloud with a Silver Lining: Bad Luck Was the Key to Pogačar’s San Remo Success

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2267707218.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated March 23, 2026 09:38AM When Tadej Pogačar thumped to the ground after a high speed scrap for positions less than an hour from the finish of Saturday’s Milan-San Remo, the whole UAE Emirates-XRG team held their breath. So too the other squads in the peloton, plus the masses of…

  • Women’s Racing Rocked by Doping Case as Italian Cyclist Tests Positive

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/GettyImages-173067411-1.jpg”] Andrew Hood Published March 22, 2026 04:17PM Italian cyclist Linda Laporta has been provisionally suspended in a doping case after testing positive for a banned substance during the UAE Tour Women, the International Testing Agency confirmed. The ITA said a sample collected February 5 during an “intelligence-led testing” mission at the WorldTour…

  • Tantalizing Tech: The Goodies at Cyclingworld Europe 2026

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Cyclingworld-Europe-2026-tech-18.jpg”] Ties Wijntjes Published March 22, 2026 12:45PM This weekend, Düsseldorf was host to Cyclingworld Europe. It was only the eighth installation of the trade show but is already considered the unofficial opener of the German cycling season. The European trade show calendar has been challenged over the last few months. After dissatisfaction…

  • Riders Involved in San Remo Horror Crash Dodge Catastrophe

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2261439195.jpg”] Shane Stokes Published March 22, 2026 10:39AM The Milan-San Remo Women crash on Saturday by Debora Silvestri looked horrific to those watching, with the Italian shooting over a guardrail and hitting the ground approximately two meters below. Fortunately the Laboral Kutxa – Fundación Euskadi rider has updated her condition, and it’s not…

  • Milan-San Remo – What the Stars Said: Pogačar, Pidcock, Van Aert, Van Der Poel

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2267715016.jpg”] Shane Stokes Published March 21, 2026 07:14PM Tadej Pogačar, Tom Pidcock, Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel were four of the top animators of Milan-San Remo on Saturday. This is what they had to stay afterwards. Tadej Pogačar (UAE Emirates-XRG) race winner: “About the crash, it is unfortunate. There’s never…

  • Won and Done? Why Pogačar’s First Milan-San Remo Victory May Be His Last

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/GettyImages-2267267609.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated March 21, 2026 03:25PM Tadej Pogačar has spent six editions trying to decipher the puzzle of Milan-San Remo, returning season after season in a bid to win La Primavera, and finally succeeded in that goal on Saturday despite a serious setback. He fell heavily with 33km to go yet,…