Nick and Andy not only correctly called that yesterday's stage would come down to the GC contenders, but that the young man from East London...

"It just goes to show, you need bike racers to have a bike race." The UCI and Giro race director Mauro Vegni might not have liked...

What a day that was, eh? Who'd have thought the Stelvio would liven things up? *looks to camera* It was a stage that not only provided...

Who thought Ben O'Connor could go long twice in a row? Not us, that's for sure. The Cycling Mole came close with his pick of Ilnur Zakarin, but...

Roglic's win in Spain and Tratnik's triumph at the Giro was the first time two Slovenian riders had won Grand Tour stages on the same day...

Have we all had a good rest? Then we'll begin. Tay-o, Tayyyyyy-o. Although Hackney's Geoghegan Hart won the final stage before the final week, none...

"Everything you can do to prepare, prepare it. Know the course well, it helps you out in the end." Tom Boonen

The Giro's second race of truth takes us to within a week of completing our second Grand Tour of 2020. We may yet not make it,...

Flat, flat, flat, little lump, littler lump, flat. All in for Sagan? Almost...

No duplicate picks today as the herd separates on a much harder day to call. Another breakaway day fancied, so it's Masnada, Ulissi, Matt Holmes...

As we head over (what is hopefully) the halfway hump, a new player has entered the arena...

Portugal are having a good Giro, wouldn't you say? A week in the maglia rosa and a stage win on Sunday for Ruben Guerreiro. Team...

The only way was Essex on Stage 8, as Alex Dowsett gave his all to take his first win on the road since 2011. Who will rise to the...

Who's got that Friday feeling? Three Italians versus one Frenchman go into the mix for today's picks

Well, how about that? The Cycling Mole didn't think it would come down to a bunch sprint and it did! In his defence the rider both...

If in doubt, Sunweb? While the Rouleur team herd towards the thoroughbred sprinters, The Cycling Mole has his eye on another shiny stallion...

Close but no cigar yesterday, as Miles and Cycling Mole's pick of Peter Sagan was pipped to the post and his first Giro stage win...

A Monumental 40 consecutive days of WorldTour racing is barely beginning. Strap yourselves in as we attempt to pick the winner for every one of them...

Love Liège, go Dutch? The Netherlands' women have been dominant in the one-days of late. Will their run continue in an out of place LBL?

What's the only thing better than an uphill time trial? A downhill one. Can we predict the Giro as well as we did Le Tour?...

Our Ben got a score on the board for stage 15, correctly picking Tadej Pogacar to win on Grand Colombier.  That's nine out of 15...

It's a brutal day in the Alps to Grand Colombier. Cycling Mole has short shrift for certain selections, while he opts for the race's breakaway...

"As required in the tradition of the 'bouchons lyonnais' (typical Lyon restaurants), the menu will be dense and promises a battle between the breakaway specialists,...

PHOTOS: OFFSIDE/L'EQUIPE The longest day, certainly in distance terms, with 218km on the cards for the tired legs of the peloton. Time for the break to...

Meaty, beaty, big and bouncy. It's the second day in the Pyrenees and we have a proper GC battle on our hands. Jumbo-Visma looked less...

Here we go then. A trifling 96km for the women on Sunday, while the guys are beginning their three-week jaunt around France. Ho hum... It...

PHOTOS: OFFSIDE/L'EQUIPE   Will this Tour produce the anticipated fireworks? Can Jumbo-Visma really challenge the unstoppable Ineos express for GC honours? And, most importantly, will...

WORDS: NICK CHRISTIAN | PHOTOS: PRESSESPORTS/GOMEZ/CORVOS/SWPIX.COM/LAPRESSE After the success of Top Mañana and Tomorrow’s Worlds, we’ve expanded the franchise of our popular race prediction game...

We’ll meet again… Don’t know where… don’t know when… Stage 7, we’ve made it to Nice, when many thought we wouldn’t and many more thought...

Stage 6 finally finds us finishing a stone’s throw from the Côte d’Azur. It also finds our panelists arguing over whether this will be a...