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May 2026
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- May 24th
- Pidcock re-starts his Tour de France preparation with victory in the Mountain Bike World Series at Nové Město
- 'This was my big shot' - Fredrik Dversnes wins stage 15 of the Giro d'Italia after the breakaway survive in Milan
- 'I just kept believing' - Yara Kastelijn takes her first Women's WorldTour general classification at Vuelta a Burgos Feminas
- May 23rd
- May 22nd
- 'Every year Mother Nature makes us wait, and then she hits us with it' – finally those so-called 'summer smiles' have arrived
- 'To have men's and women's stage racing on the same day and over the same course is an exciting new frontier' – Tour Down Under makes landmark change for 2027
- Tech roundup: Canyon Grizl AL, Rapha Brevet, Santini x Pirelli, Hunt 4AM Limitless wheels and Mavic Comete 50 wheels
- 'I knew every single corner in the last 50km' – Alberto Bettiol solos from breakaway to Giro d'Italia stage 13 victory
- After 100 hours of aerodynamic and thermal testing, the Specialized Evade 4 isn’t any faster - but it is cooler
- 'I have no idea what to expect' – Influencer Puck Moonen returns to pro peloton after four years out
- Jonas Vingegaard has been riding while sick, Visma-Lease a Bike sports director reveals
- 'I had my bike nicked from outside a police station, but I’m still staggered by the stats on this map' – Interactive global graphic reveals bike theft in real time
- May 21st
- 'The legs know what they need to know. It’ll be in them or not' - Heather Jackson to defend her Unbound XL title just weeks after finishing the 250-mile Cocodona running race
- 'Winning is the best thing there is' – Alec Segaert springs late attack to win Giro d'Italia stage 12
- 'This began as a dispute about our 10-tooth cog, this ruling is much bigger than that' – SRAM responds to UCI's gear restriction appeal being rejected
- 'I will pee in the bottle to not pee in somebody's front yard' – Victor Campenaerts confesses to being pioneer of 'pee-gate'
- A key bicycle framebuilding brand is coming back one month after sudden closure
- Spanish pro transferred to specialist neurological hospital 50 days after training crash
- 'Likely to cause harm to SRAM that is serious and difficult to repair': UCI loses appeal over maximum gear ratios
- May 20th
- 'Mas was the strongest in the climb… I knew I had to play my game' – Jhonatan Narváez sprints to victory on stage 11 of the 2026 Giro d'Italia
- Ever wanted to drive a giant cauliflower at the Tour de France? This could be your chance
- 'Part of me thinks he's not been at 100%' – Geraint Thomas on Jonas Vingegaard's form after stage 10 Giro d'Italia time trial
- 'Because I’m a dumbass' — at 93, Fred Schmid returns to Unbound Gravel one last time
- Is Garmin set to release a rival to Whoop? Its new fitness band could be the market's most expensive
- 'I was hit by a motorbike and had a pretty scary crash' – British world champion suffers broken back in horror training-ride incident
- 'I've never been super good at it' – Jonas Vingegaard has 'terrible' time trial at Giro d'Italia, but remains in GC box-seat
- May 19th
- 'The women’s event should be the feature event of the day': How the Philadelphia Cycling Classic made prize parity a tradition
- 'I'm really happy to finally find a good TT without a climb' – Filippo Ganna decimates all comers in Giro d'Italia stage 10 time trial
- Ignore the right-wing media bashing cyclists for clicks, and just go for a bike ride
- 'A gut punch' – Pioneering US bike brand's future endangered, according to reports
- Giro d'Italia stage 10 time trial start times: all the riders, from last to first off the start ramp
- 'The cycling community is always welcome in Windsor' – the English town 'overrun' by cyclists, and the coffee shop at its heart
- May 18th
- Jonas Vingegaard on form, Felix Gall impressive and pink is still a long way off: Five things we learned in the first week of the Giro d'Italia
- Think you’re having a tough week? This bloke has leukaemia and he’s cycling a child’s bike around the British coastline
- Tour de France 2028 to begin in Reims, France, with early June start due to LA Olympics
- Watch as former road pros rule again at The Gralloch UCI gravel race
- As the Giro d'Italia hots up, there's plenty of other news in the world of cycling tech, especially if you want to get off the road entirely
- Riders warned not to urinate in bottles and discard them at the Giro d'Italia
- 'There will be a free-to-air product' – TNT Sports hints at free Tour de France coverage from this summer
- May 17th
- May 16th
- May 15th
- Riders aren't crashing at the Giro d'Italia because of TT tyres – despite what Geraint Thomas and Luke Rowe say
- 'He is a guy we have to worry about' – is Felix Gall going to be Jonas Vingegaard's biggest challenger at this Giro d'Italia?
- 'We just wanted to go for the win' – Jonas Vingegaard solos to Giro d'Italia stage 7 win on Blockhaus summit finish
- Bunch sprints are dangerous enough and we don't need to make them spicier – Jonathan Milan had a point at the Giro d'Italia
- 'It's been brutal' – Olly Murs cycles through torrential rain and the pain of a lost toenail to raise money for Unicef
- 'Don't be like this guy' – police report Giro d'Italia spectators who lunged at riders
- How to watch the Giro d'Italia stage 7: TV details, free streams, time schedule, for the race's first GC day
- May 14th
- 32 teams, 7 WorldTour-level, confirmed for Philadelphia Cycling Classic return
- 'I really don't get it' – Jonathan Milan calls out Giro d'Italia route choice after crash mars bunch sprint
- Enve claims its new G SES all-road hoops are the 'fastest gravel wheels ever built'
- 'Today was not on the plan' – Davide Ballerini wins Giro d'Italia stage 6 after sprint favourites crash on final bend
- Zwift will soon stop working on some Apple devices – here's how to make sure you won't be affected
- Hannah Otto wants to become the fastest woman to scale Mount Kilimanjaro in a day
- Cat Ferguson doubles up with sprint victory at Spanish one-day race
- ‘Cows can be quite naughty…especially if they have horns’ – Bikes, bulls and bovines with calves are not a good mix
- May 13th
- ‘Everything you could ever want’: the 2026 Unbound course strings together greatest hits from 20 years of Flint Hills gravel racing
- You may not like it, but I put a dropper post on my S-Works Crux, and it’s the most fun upgrade I’ve made yet
- 'I thought it was impossible but I kept pushing' – Igor Arrieta defies all the odds to squeeze out a victory on Giro d'Italia stage 5
- No sponsors, not enough resources: major Women's WorldTour race cancelled for 2026
- 'As you well know, fellow cyclist, we're all obliged to trash-talk triathletes': Six of the best columns Katie Archibald wrote for Cycling Weekly
- 'When I decided to cycle away, they started attacking me' – pro cyclist knocked out by teenagers on training ride
- May 12th
- 'This is something really crazy' – Giulio Ciccone completes lifelong dream of wearing pink at Giro d'Italia
- 'This victory is also for my team-mates' – Jhonatan Narváez sprints to Giro d'Italia stage 4 win as UAE Team Emirates-XRG put woes behind them
- First Matej Mohorič, now Spurcycle — are handlebar mirrors no longer a cycling fashion faux-pas?
- 'The sport would be a better place if we didn’t glorify pain' – Pro cycling needs less heroic suffering, not more
- 'Gut wrenching and infuriating' – fury as Canadian women's team pursuit squad cut ahead of LA Olympics
- Who has abandoned the Giro d'Italia 2026? Lotto-Intermarché reduced to four riders as Lennert van Eetvelt withdraws, along with stage-winner Ballerini (XDS Astana) – find out who else has bailed
- Mathieu van der Poel said no to the Canyon Endurace at Roubaix, but new models make the range more practical and affordable
- A monumental climb, a changing of the guard and a symbolic finish: Our five takeaways from La Vuelta Femenina 2026
- 'It's simply time' – Olympic legend Katie Archibald announces surprise retirement
- May 11th
- Is Canyon testing a new Speedmax? Marlen Reusser teases a camouflaged TT Bike
- 'It's great to put my off-road skills to good use' – Wout van Aert and Lorena Wiebes take honours at Marly Grav UCI Gravel World Series race
- 'Dude, you verbally abused me!' Benedict Cumberbatch busted by fellow bike rider for apparently running red lights
- A new French star, Jonas Vingegaard shows his mettle, and a huge crash ends race for some – Five things we learned from the Giro d'Italia's opening weekend
- 'I looked back and I was clear' – Ollie Wood wins 70th anniversary edition of Lincoln GP
- 'It means a lot' – Morven Yeoman seals breakthrough victory at Lincoln GP
- May 10th
- Paul Magnier takes a second sprint victory at the Giro d'Italia winning stage 3 after the breakaway almost took the day in Sofia
- British GC hopeful Adam Yates leaves the Giro d'Italia after huge stage 2 crash causes mass abandons
- What’s the best item of kit to take back in time to cause maximum astonishment?
- May 9th
- 'I'm speechless' - Uruguayan Thomas Silva wins Giro d'Italia stage 2 after Jonas Vingegaard attack thwarted in final kilometre
- 'It was a dream to win this stage' - Paula Blasi dethrones Anna van der Breggen to win La Vuelta Femenina 2026 as Petra Stiasny conquers L'Angliru on stage 7
- 'It's turned us both back into bike riders' – British cycling legends come out of retirement for iconic Lincoln GP return
- May 8th
- Eight bikes, six helmets and a pound or two of Gummy Bears: Could Rock Hill's world-class cycling facility make for a family getaway?
- 'It started steep and it finished steep' – Anna van der Breggen wins stage six of La Vuelta Femenina during brutal final climb, to wear the maillot rojo on the final day
- Who is leading the Giro d'Italia 2026? Jonas Vingegaard retains the pink jersey after the breakaway take stage 15 honours
- 'I don't know if it was anybody's mistake' – huge pile-up mars finale of Giro d'Italia stage 1
- 'I'm so happy to be honest' – Paul Magnier storms to victory and pink jersey on Giro d'Italia stage 1 after mass crash
- 'What a tragedy, what a f****** sport' – Jan Willem van Schip disqualified again for breaking UCI forearm position rules
- 'For The Love Of Cycling represents the next chapter' – Ned Boulting launches new pro cycling podcast alongside Never Strays Far
- May 7th
- ‘Don’t let other people tell you what you can and can’t do with your body’ – Sarah Sturm on finishing The Traka 100 at 28 weeks pregnant
- How to watch Giro d'Italia 2026: Everything you need to live stream the Italian Grand Tour
- 'Our coverage will be truly immersive' – Daily Giro d'Italia highlights to be broadcast on free-to-air TV
- ‘A week for a mental refresh before a big summer’ – Tom Pidcock ‘unwinds’ with impressive Nürburgring lap during rest week
- 'It was the dream scenario' – Mischa Bredewold and Lotte Kopecky take SD Worx-Protime one-two at Vuelta Femenina stage 5
- 'Half the peloton is ill' – manure blamed as riders fall ill ahead of Giro d'Italia, creating drama for some teams
- From Fausto Coppi to Tadej Pogačar: here are the eight male riders and one female who have won the Giro Tour double
- 'Is Edgar Allan making a comeback?' Two Italian Gran Fondo riders test positive for EPO within one week
- 'Our goal is to protect clean riders' – virtual cycling platform MyWhoosh introduces randomly selected anti-doping programme
- 'I don't think I'm the only favourite', says overwhelming favourite Jonas Vingegaard before Giro d'Italia
- Wilier's new Rapida aims to entice more people to the brand with 'accessible' pricing
- May 6th
- American titanium bike brand Lynskey files for bankruptcy protection; frames offered at significant discount
- 'My teammates were just on fire' – Lotte Kopecky powers to victory on Vuelta Femenina stage 4
- Who will win the 2026 Giro d'Italia?
- From Egan Bernal to Jonas Vingegaard and more: the complete Giro d'Italia 2026 start list
- May 5th
- 'We went from very up to very down, and I think now we’re back to very up' - Cédrine Kerbaol wins Stage 3 of La Vuelta Femenina with dominant charge
- Jonas Vingegaard’s path to victory at the Giro d’Italia seems to be as clear as possible, but cycling isn’t that simple
- 'The goal is to arrive competely fresh' – change of plans for Remco Evenepoel as he eyes Tour de France success
- 'My body said stop' – 24-year-old pro cyclist forced to retire amid health struggle
- I'm 53, and I can see how brutal PE lessons in the 80s put people off sport for life – but you can get into cycling at any age
- May 4th
- REI workers call for nationwide boycott of annual sale amid ongoing labour dispute
- Vos breaks collarbone; race leader Rüegg forced to abandon crash-marred opening stages of La Vuelta Femenina
- 'Age is neither a hindrance nor an excuse' – Paul Seixas to ride Tour to France and become youngest rider in almost 90 years
- EF Pro Cycling to wear alien-themed kit at the Giro d'Italia
- May 3rd
- May 2nd
- May 1st
- Best-ever 20-minute power and 3 Pan-Am golds: Inside the AI tech Olympic Champion Kristen Faulkner built, and is testing on, herself
- From Paris-Roubaix to Girona’s gravel — Klöser wins Traka 360; Würtz Schmidt sets new men's course record
- Heading to Traka this weekend? Pas Normal, Selle, Fizik and Santini have you covered
- 'The sport remains built on fragile foundations' – The Cyclists' Alliance responds to UCI with warning that pro cycling is in danger
- 'I'll confess I sighed inwardly' – is a new wheel size really what cycling needs right now?
- 'My cycling career without the songs would be so boring' – How one US WorldTour rider makes music and takes his keyboard to the Grand Tours
- 'It's going to be hard, but we're going to get through it together' – could this husband and wife duo become the fastest around the world?
- How to watch cycling for free — Giro d'Italia, La Vuelta Femenina, Eschborn-Frankfurt
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