By @EchelonsHub The Route The race starts off with a fast prologue in Lausanne. It takes place in the city’s sport center, and despite being only 5.3 kilometers long it includes a short run through an airfield and a ride-around a football stadium. It will kick things off, a leader’s jersey will be up for grabs….

By @EchelonsHub The final stage-race before the Giro d’Italia and right after the classics period is over. The Tour de Romandie symbolizes a transition in the season’s focus, and it brings in an interesting set of stages towards the French part of Switzerland for a week.

By @EchelonsHub The final step of the Ardennes classics and the fourth monument of the season. Liège-Bastogne-Liège is what many consider the end of the spring campaign, and it is one heavily disputed every year between the climbers and puncheurs.  The Route Liége is the Ardennes classic that suits the climbers the most. It has the…

By @EchelonsHub The fourth stage of the Tour of the Alps was one where the breakaway was likely to succeed, however due to heavy work from DSM and INEOS it ended up being someone from the peloton. Not to their benefit as Pello Bilbao remained rock-solid in the green jersey, but Miguel Angel Lopez who anticipated…

By @EchelonsHub In what was a day  for the breakaway to fight for the stage win, Lennard Kamna took the second triumph of his season by attacking the escapee group inside the final kilometer to take a strong win. Breakaway companions Andrey Amador and Jonathan Lastra finished second and third, whilst the GC fight in the…

By @EchelonsHub The second round of the Ardennes classics. Flèche Wallone is perhaps the most conservative race of the trio, and it comes as one purely fit for the puncheurs, although the climbers can also get themselves in the fight for the win atop the Mur de Huy.  

By @EchelonsHub It was a wild day at the Tour of the Alps, but with a finale that was in absolute control from Bahrain – Victorious. After a very strong group went up the road early on the first climb of the day, containing the likes of Miguel Angel Lopez, Pavel Sivakov, Michael Storer, Thymen Arensman…

By @EchelonsHub Geoffrey Bouchard has taken his first professional victory today in the opening stage of the Tour of the Alps after a successful breakaway, working with and then dropping his companions in the last 25 kilometers to just barely survive the incoming peloton. Pello Bilbao and Romain Bardet completed the podium behind, taking some bonus…

By @EchelonsHub The Route 3700 meters of climbing in the opening day of the race. It is a chaotic one, with no predictable outcome in sight as the stage starts off calmly in the first half, however the second half sees virtually no flat roads.  The main feature of the day is the long Passo Brocon…

By @EchelonsHub With the Giro d’Italia drawing near, the climbers will be priming their form and testing their legs in the Tour of the Alps. A race for the mountain lovers, both for those watching and racing it, because that is all there is for five consecutive days.

By @EchelonsHub We are here! The final step in the cobbled classics campaign. Paris-Roubaix is the great climax, and one of the most unique races of the season which will see the peloton go through the iconic cobbled roads of northern France.

By @EchelonsHub A week earlier this year, Amstel Gold Race sees itself separated from the remaining Ardennes classics, however it opens up another period of the spring which sees the puncheurs come onto the screen. 

By @EchelonsHub The fifth stage of the Itzulia saw another set off attacks, but this time without Primoz Roglic answering, there were gaps created. The stage win went to Carlos Rodríguez who joined the breakaway after a long battle, going solo in the penultimate climb and just managing to hold off the GC group. Evenepoel attacked…

By @EchelonsHub It was a race controlled by Jumbo as expected, as they took hold of the Itzulia for one more day with an impressive defensive performance on the climbs. The breakaway seemed to have it today, but the peloton saw an all-day long chase which ended up culminating in the capture of the last survivor…

By @EchelonsHub As expected it was a chaotic day as the GC fight blew up on the steep hills of the third stage. Adam Yates, Remco Evenepoel and Pello Bilbao tried to attack several times throughout the final hour of racing, but with Jumbo-Visma and some other riders blocking out all moves no attack managed to…

By @EchelonsHub The first road stage of the Itzulia proved to be a thriller towards the finale as the peloton let the modest breakaway group that went early on in the day get a big gap towards the final 10 kilometers and almost failed to capture the last survivor in time for the sprint. In the…

By @EchelonsHub Sneaked in between Tour des Flandres and Paris-Roubaix, Scheldeprijs has made for an intermediate point for the classics riders and sprinters to target a race inbetween the two – even though Roubaix takes place a week later this year. 

By @EchelonsHub In classic fashion, the GC riders completely swarm the race’s time-trial and create an all-out GC battle from day one. Primoz Roglic, the cannibal, has started off the race the same way he’s finished his last, in the yellow jersey. He’s beaten Remco Evenepoel by 5 seconds, the duo were ahead of the competition…