Year: 2022

By @EchelonsHub The final monument of the season! The time has come for Il Lombardia, the one most suited to the climbers, which takes the riders into northern Italy and into the Great Lakes region, a day which will conclude the season for many of the world’s best climbers and puncheurs who will be looking for…

By @EchelonsHub To close off the World Championships this year will be an explosive circuit in Wollongong which will determine the next World Champion in the men’s Elite category. It will be a tough race, can Julian Alaphilippe make a hattrick of World titles as Peter Sagan did last decade? Or will he pass the torch…

By @EchelonsHub Into the World Championships. Taking place in Wollongong, Australia, this year, they will be friendly to the puncheurs and climbers, whilst the upcoming time-trial will be far from ideal for the specialists who will be fighting for their own set of rainbow stripes.  The Route 34 kilometers on the menu for the men’s Elite…

By @EchelonsHub The second and final round of the Canadian classics, the peloton will this Sunday travel to Montréal where they will find a tough hilly classic which will feature 18 laps of a circuit with a notable hilltop within it.   The Route A total of 18 laps will be ridden in Montréal, all based around…

By @EchelonsHub The final mountain stage of the race had a lot of terrain where the race could be attacked, and thats exactly what happened. The stage win went to Richard Carapaz for a third time, as he found himself in the break of the day, and attacked in the final climb to go solo. Thymen…

By @EchelonsHub Stage 19 promised a lot of breakaway action, however the outcome of the day was different as the sprinters took the affairs on the day. The final climb saw a rise of pace from Bahrain and Movistar which thinned down the peloton, however a sprint between the survivors took place. Mads Pedersen took his…

By @EchelonsHub The peloton has made it back to Canada, several years after the last occasion before Covid-19 and the travel difficulties brough the two Canadian classics to a halt. Friday will be GP de Québec day, the first of two hilly classics, however this one more explosive and suited to the sprinters who can climb.  …

By @EchelonsHub Stage 18 was an all-out GC day, with a lot of action throughout the final two hours of racing as João Almeida set off the front to put the GC riders under pressure, and the main attacks coming from the penultimate climb with López on the offensive aswell. In the final climb Evenepoel and…