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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 1d

🍁 I Lombardia - Last winners
2️⃣4️⃣🇸🇮 Tadej Pogacar
2️⃣3️⃣🇸🇮 Tadej Pogacar
2️⃣2️⃣🇸🇮 Tadej Pogacar
2️⃣1️⃣🇸🇮 Tadej Pogacar
2️⃣0️⃣🇩🇰 Jakob Fuglsang
1️⃣9️⃣🇳🇱 Bauke Mollema
1️⃣8️⃣🇫🇷 Thibaut Pinot
1️⃣7️⃣🇮🇹 Vincenzo Nibali
1️⃣6️⃣🇨🇴 Esteban Chaves
1️⃣5️⃣🇮🇹 Vincenzo Nibali

#cycling #ILombardia

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 1d

🇮🇹 Elia Viviani - Carreer overview
🇪🇺 European Road Champion
9⃣ Grand Tour stage wins 🇮🇹🇫🇷🇪🇸
3⃣ Cyclassics Hamburg
🏆 GP Plouay
🏆 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
🫒 Olympic Champion Omnium
🌈 Worldchampion Elimination
...

#cycling #cyclingbluesky

TNT Sports :bot: @tntsports.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Three-time Olympic medalist Elia Viviani has announced his retirement from cycling at the age of 36 after a 17-year professional career on the track and road.
https://www.tntsports.co.uk/cycling/elia-viviani-announces-retirement_sto23229926/story.shtml

Olympic gold medallist Viviani announces retirement from cycling

Three-time Olympic medalist Elia Viviani has announced his retirement from cycling at the age of 36 after a 17-year professional career on the track and road.

www.tntsports.co.uk

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 2d

It would have been logically that both MTB & Cyclocross became Olympic in 1996/1998.

As off road spin-offs of the already traditional olympic sport road cycling, one for Summer, one for Winter.

Since then we have even seen breakdancing at the Olympics...

#cycling #cyclingbluesky

Domestique @domestiquecycling.com · 2d

🇳🇱 Van der Poel, 🇬🇧 Pidcock & co could chase double Olympic gold as February decision nears on 2030 cyclocross bid

📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/van-...

📸 Cor Vos

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 3d

🌍 World Tour teams 2006➡️2026
🔸 Provisional
🇫🇷 France 5➡️2
🇮🇹 Italy 3➡️0
🇧🇪 Belgium 2➡️4
🇪🇸 Spain 2➡️1
🇩🇪 Germany 2➡️1
🇳🇱 Netherlands 1➡️2
🇩🇰 Denmark 1➡️0
🇺🇸 USA 1➡️2
🇨🇭 Switzerland 1➡️0
🇬🇧 UK 0➡️1
🇦🇺 Australia 0➡️1
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan 0➡️1
🇮🇱 Israel 0➡️1
🇦🇪 UAE 0➡️1
🇧🇭 Bahrain 0➡️1

#cycling #cyclingbluesky

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 3d

If the UCI thinks strategically, they just promote the 🇨🇴 Tour Colombia straight to the World Tour level without charging extra costs.

Colombia deserves a WT race, and this is a country outside Europe with real potential. More than 🇨🇳🇦🇪 who already have a WT race.

#cycling #cyclingbluesky

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 3d

It's a bit hard to understand the transfer policy of UAE ADQ sometimes.

They already have tons of young talented climbers to develop and they still sign another top climber next to that.

It's hard to develop so many riders within the same field this way.

#cycling #cyclingbluesky

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 3d

I find it strange that they have no place for Mieke Docx. She brought them a lot of visiblity during the races with her attacks. I guess she's not so expensive that you can't keep her after a general budget increase for the team as a whole.

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 4d

For those who advocate for transfer fees in cycling 💰

⚽ In football
🏆 Champions League winners origin
🔸 Before Bosman ruling
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇸🇩🇪🇮🇹🇫🇷🇵🇹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇳🇱🇷🇴🇷🇸
🔸 After Bosman ruling
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇸🇩🇪🇮🇹🇫🇷🇵🇹

Transfer fees benefit the biggest teams who buy-out the smaller ones.

#cycling

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 4d

Lotto & Intermarché have one week left to finalise their merger.

A few obstacles left are the multi-million depths of Intermarché and the total amount of riders under contracts

Both still cause issues and require some creativity.

#cycling #cyclingbluesky

cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 4d

🏆 Lorena Wiebes victories by year
🔸 2025 : 25
🔸 2024 : 22
🔸 2023 : 12
🔸 2022 : 23
🔸 2021 : 13
🔸 2020 : 4
🔸 2019 : 15
🔸 2018 : 4

#cycling #cyclingbluesky

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 5d

The race calendar didn't become necessary much smaller. Merckx won from February till October. Pogacar takes regularly a few weeks off where other riders are winning. Merckx always did 2 grand tours + all classics. Pogacar chooses yearly between an extra Grand tour or more classics

cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 5d

In those days riders were racing almost every week so they barely had time to rest like nowadays.

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 5d

For those who find it boring when Pogacar races 🥱

These are the Merckx years, and it doesn't include even all races and the Six Day track Races that he did during Winter.

Wikipedia even mentions 50+ victories in multiple seasons. Pogacar had 25 in his best year.

#cycling

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 5d

🇦🇺 Australian cycling calendar 2026
🇦🇺 Tour Down Under
🇦🇺 Schwalbe Classic (women only)
🇦🇺 Surf Coast Classic
🇦🇺 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Race
🇦🇺 Herald Sun Tour

UCI races from 17th January until 8th February

#cycling #Australia

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 5d

🇧🇪 Thibau Nys - Cyclocross Schedule
🇧🇪 Koppenberg
🇧🇪 Lokeren
🇪🇺 Euros
🇧🇪 Merksplas
🇧🇪 Hamme
🇨🇿 Tabor
🇫🇷 Flamanville
🇧🇪 Namur
🇧🇪 Antwerp
🇧🇪 Hofstade
🇧🇪 Zolder
🇧🇪 Gavere
🇧🇪 Dendermonde
🇧🇪 Loenhout
🇧🇪 Diegem
🇧🇪 Baal
🇧🇪 Zonhoven
🇧🇪 Nationals
🇪🇸 Benidorm
🇧🇪 Maasmechelen
🇳🇱 Hoogerheide
🌈 Worlds

#cycling #cyclingbluesky

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 5d

Blanka Vas & Marie Schreiber will receive very special support this Winter.

Former Worldchampion Sanne Cant will be their coach in cyclocross.

Looking forward to their development in the coming months.

#cycling #cyclingbluesky

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 6d

🌈 Worldchampionships who won 🇪🇺
🇸🇰 Peter Sagan (2016)
🇸🇮 Tadej Pogacar (2025)

#cycling #EuroRoad25

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 6d

I would like to see this picture more often throughout the year.

Cycling really lives from the moments that the best riders race against each other on their terrain.

Would love to see them together in Liège and Lombardy too

#cycling #EuroRoad25

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 6d

I'm very curious about what this man can do today 👀

He seems to be better in shorter efforts than in the past, so I'm looking foward to see which impact he could have on the race today.

Pogacar-Evenepoel-Vingegaard in an one day race together, enjoy!

#cycling #EuroRoad2025

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 7d

He definitely finished his career with a beautiful palmares.

A rider with a legacy. Perhaps one of the inspirations for the current Uno-X success.

#cycling

Dan Deakins @dandeakins.bsky.social · 8d

Alexander Kristoff finishes his career on 98 wins.

🪨Ronde van Vlaanderen
🇮🇹Milano Sanremo
🇧🇪Gent-Wevelgem
🇫🇷4x Tour stages
🇩🇪4x Eschborn-Frankfurt
🇫🇷GP Plouay
🇩🇪Cyclassics Hamburg

Chapeau sir 🫡🇳🇴

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 8d

In a brave video, Nafosat Kozieva speaks out against major mistakes at the 🇺🇿 Uzbek cycling federation

The former Tour de France rider & successful track cyclist tells about the bad behaviour that she had to endure

Let's hope for more support

youtu.be/SWqu8Y1hPTQ?si…#cyclingn#cyclingblueskyky

«Ты — никто»: история велоспортсменки Нафосат Козиевой

YouTube video by anhor uz

https://youtu.be/SWqu8Y1hPTQ?si…

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 8d

Today, 35 years ago, 🇩🇪 Germany re-united.

An important day for Germany, but also for the continent as a whole. A moment when people could unite despite political differences of their governments.

Let's make it happen more in sports too, also today.

#GermanUnityDay

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 8d

It seems like women's cycling will go 10 years back in time at the 🇪🇺 Euros tomorrow.

An international championship with a distance of less than 120 km.

A race of this level should at least be around 150 km.
They are riding for a jersey, not a small 1.1 race.

#cycling

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 8d

The same would apply when the parcours would have been flat, like the parcours where Merlier won, last year.

A championship is ideally slightly hilly. That gives possibilities to puncheurs, climbers and strong sprintes. That gives possibilities to the highest amount of riders

#cycling

Domestique @domestiquecycling.com · 8d

🇧🇪 Tim Merlier critical on course design 🌈 Worlds and 🇪🇺 Euros:

"Even Mathieu and Wout are not trying to become World or European champions this year. That says a lot, I think"

📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/tim-...

📸 Cor Vos

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cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · 8d

Seems like the 🇪🇸 Spaniards are having a few very talented girls for the future.

Paula Blasi has shown before that she developed very well in the past season and Paula Ostiz took her second jersey today as well 🌈🇪🇺

#cycling #EuroRoad25

Álvaro @alvarocoll.bsky.social · 8d

El #ciclismo habla 🇪🇸
Paula Ostiz CAMPEONA DE EUROPA junior. Sus últimos 12 días:
🥇 Mundial de ruta
🥈 Mundial de contrarreloj
🥇 Europeo de ruta
🥇 Europeo de contrarreloj

Y... Paula Blasi CAMPEONA DE EUROPA sub23 con una gran carrera.

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