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‘All good things come to an end’ - Lizzie Deignan on closing her chapter as a professional bike rider
The British rider will race her final season in 2025 after almost two decades in the peloton – she tells Rouleur why she’s making the choice...
Gallery: A stunning opening night at Rouleur Live 2024
The likes of Tom Pidcock, Alejandro Valverde and Pfeiffer Georgi headlined day one in the Truman Brewery
‘The bike is fun, freedom and exploration’ - Ed Clancy: For the love of sport
Part of our series with the British Cycling Hall of Fame inductees, Clancy discusses why he believes cycling can change lives
Cav's legacy: why there may never again be a sprinter like Mark Cavendish
As he prepares to bow out of the sport at the end of the year, Cavendish's prolific record will stand the test of time
Gallery: A look back at Mark Cavendish's record-breaking career
Rouleur looks back at all the Tours Mark Cavendish has completed
Closing the gap: can Remco Evenepoel rise to the challenge of Tadej Pogačar in 2025?
The Belgian rider is not going to go down without a fight next season
Max Poole on near misses, learning from the best and why Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL’s structure works
The British rider discusses his impressive Grand Tour debut and the work it has taken to get there
'British Cycling has done everything for me' - Dani Rowe: From a talent ID programme to Olympic gold
Speaking after being inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame, Rowe tells Rouleur about her journey to the top of the sport
Will Mark Cavendish return to the Tour de France in 2025?
We know the Manxman well enough now that we should never count him out when it comes to racing
‘Cycling is my home… but it’s less fun nowadays’: Simon Geschke on 16 years as a professional
The German rider reflects on how the sport has changed over his career as a pro cyclist
‘Our budget is 10 times higher’ - Canyon//SRAM manager Ronny Lauke on the changing economics of women’s cycling
The German team boss on increased salaries, how the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift has impacted his team and acquiring a new sponsor in...
‘I hope I’ve inspired the next generation’ - Laura Kenny on a career of Olympic stardom
Part of our series of articles on British Cycling's Hall of Fame inductees, Laura Kenny reflects on her career, and how track cycling can keep developing
Opinion: The 2025 Tour de France Femmes will be the hardest yet
The composition of the women's peloton next season combined with a varied and challenging route should set the stage for another historic battle for yellow
Tour de France 2025 route will put Pogačar/Vingegaard rivalry back in the balance
The mountain-heavy 2025 Tour de France route will be the battleground for the fifth Pogačar v Vinegaard duel
Tour de France 2025 route: Summit finishes, time trials and a return to Paris
All you need to know about the route of the 112th edition of the Tour de France
Tour de France Femmes 2025 route: A diagonal route to a grand finale in the Alps
The fourth edition of the Tour de France Femmes promises to be the biggest yet, featuring nine stages, a Grand Départ in Brittany and a...
Aileen McGlynn: Blazing a trail in para-cycling
Part of our series of articles on British Cycling's Hall of Fame inductees, the Scottish paralympic tandem champion cyclist reflects on a lifetime of success in her...
Let the transfers begin: The biggest movers and shakers for the 2025 season
With the transfer window officially open as of August 1, we look at some of the most intriguing moves in the men’s and women’s WorldTour...
Does men's professional cycling need a budget cap?
An increasing dominance by a handful of superteams has spurred the UCI into considering limiting expenditure, but the idea is already facing some resistance
Presents, pranks and power training: What it’s like being Tadej Pogačar’s right-hand man
Rouleur speaks to Domen Novak, one of the key lieutenants in his compatriot's historic season
Maddy Nutt: The less trodden path
In the past three years, Maddy Nutt has gone from being a City finance analyst to the winner of a UCI Gravel World Series race....
How the UCI's relegation system is leaving riders unemployed: ‘I’ve not had the chance to score points’
The Cofidis rider is only in his second year in the WorldTour, but is already facing question marks over his future
'He also wants to chase his own ambitions': GC Kuss, on or off?
Sepp Kuss stunned the cycling world with his Vuelta a España victory in 2023, but his 14th place finish in 2024 left fans wondering: Was...
My weight battle en route to a breakthrough Tour de France, by Jonas Abrahamsen
Uno-X Mobility’s Jonas Abrahamsen had a summer he will never forget, leading the Tour de France’s polka-dot jersey for 10 days and catapulting himself into...
From triumph to turmoil: How the Women's WorldTour teams performed in 2024
SD Worx-Protime continued to dominate the Women's WorldTour, however, it didn't always go the Dutch team's way
‘Everything is in the brain’ - Cédrine Kerbaol on daredevil descending, her breakthrough season and yellow jersey dreams
The Ceratizit-WNT rider talks to Rouleur about winning a stage of the Tour, shouldering pressure and keeping a level head when it matters most
Success, struggle and surprise: How did each men's WorldTour team fare in 2024?
For some teams, it has been an up and down season, but for others, the wins kept coming throughout 2024
Was Tadej Pogačar's 2024 racing season the greatest in cycling history?
After adding a fourth Il Lombardia title to round-off his stellar year, Rouleur looks at how the Slovenian's 2024 racing season stacks up against cycling's best
'Hopefully the luck will come back' - Reflections on a hard Tour de France for Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe
Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe had high hopes going into the 2024 Tour de France, with a realistic target of finishing on the podium with Primož Roglič, even...
At least they tried: Was Il Lombardia’s star-studded breakaway a taste of things to come to confront Tadej Pogačar?
The world champion took another convincing Monument victory, but other teams at least thought out of the box in trying to beat him
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