What a 💪🏻 Day by Nina Berton

She went in the breakaway, did a lot of work there, got caught by the favourites, and still finished 9th in the end.

What a ride. This rider still has so much potential.

#OHN26 #cycling

I can't understand the tactics of Niewiadoma in the final kilometres.

She was the slowest of the two and they had a 40 second gap. She never tried to make Vollering nervous or do less work to compensate her weaker sprint. Reminds me of a few other races before by her
#OHN26 #cycling

Another gap on his palmares is closed now 🏆

He made the break, controlled it, and finished it off in style.

#OHN26 #cycling

🇮🇹 Elisa Balsamo turns 28 today 🎂

🏆 Her palmares so far
🌈 Worldchampion
1⃣ x Ghent-Wevelgem
3⃣ x Trofeo Binda
2⃣ x Tour of Bruges
2⃣ x stages Giro d'Italia
2⃣ x stages La Vuelta
...

#cycling #birthday

I would have loved to see Le Manie back instead.

It always added some spice before the final, and gave something to look forward to, before 25 km to go before the finish.

#cycling #MilanoSanremo

🎖️ Medal table 🇪🇺 #EuroTrack26
🇬🇧 United Kingdom 7-4-2
🇧🇪 Belgium 4-0-5
🇩🇪 Germany 3-2-4
🇫🇷 France 2-4-0
🇩🇰 Denmark 2-2-0
🇨🇭 Switzerland 1-2-0
🇵🇹 Portugal 1-1-0
🇳🇱 Netherlands 0-3-3
🇮🇹 Italy 0-2-4
🇳🇴 Norway 0-1-0
🇨🇿 Czechia 0-0-1

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🇧🇪 Lotte Kopecky - Spring Schedule
🇧🇪 Omloop Nieuwsblad
🇮🇹 Strade Bianche
🇮🇹 Trofeo Alfredo Binda
🇧🇪 Nokere Koerse
🇮🇹 Milano-Sanremo
🇧🇪 Dwars door Vlaanderen
🇧🇪 Tour of Flanders
🇫🇷 Paris-Roubaix
🇭🇰 Track Nations Cup Hong Kong
🇧🇪 Liège-Bastogne-Liège
🇪🇸 La Vuelta

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Mathieu van der Poel is also considering to start in Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne on Sunday.

In case of a good feeling during Saturday's Omloop, his participation for Kuurne will be approved on Saturday evening.

#cycling #OHN26

Last week, Soudal-Quickstep downplayed the ilness of Stuyven and said that there shouldn't be big concerns about the Omloop.

But now they have to miss them in problably one of their biggest chances to win a classic, this Spring.

#cycling #OHN26

Unfortunately no Van Aert in the Omloop on Saturday.

He must be quite sick if he decides it 48 hours in advance and doesn't give himself one or two more nights to recover (even though he wouldn't start in his best shape).

Would have been interesting with MVDP & Pidcock.

#OHN26

Even in a monument, the UCI suddenly allows 5 continental teams to start

Why you force ProTeams to do so many efforts to search funds for their license, while you reward teams who don't do it anyway?

#cycling

💪🏻 A few challenges for Saturday

🔸 Nobody ever won the Omloop & Tour of Flanders in the same year. Who can do it for the first time?

🔸 The women's race hasn't been won by a rider outside the Benelux since 2018 🇧🇪🇳🇱, who can break or continue this streak?

#cycling #OHN26

Zegt ook wel iets over het potentieel van de sporten in België. Zo lang het Veldrijden nog altijd de meeste mensen bereikt in de winter, zullen ook de grootste sporttalenten vooral daarvoor blijven geïnspireerd worden. De echte Olympische sporten worden niet voldoende gesteund of gepromoot

I believe very much in Letizia Borghesi, this Spring.

She was 6th in Flanders, 2nd in Roubaix last year.

This Winter, she had a decent Cyclocross season, and she finished already on the podium of a stage in Valencia, as well. She's surrounded by a growing team as well
#cycling

Still some very good sponsor news in cycling too. The team's sponsors stay until 2030 💰

✍🏻 Contract extensions riders
🔸 2027
🇸🇮 Urska Zigart

🔸 2028
🇧🇪 Lore De Schepper
🇧🇪 Marthe Goossens
🇧🇪 Julie Van de Velde
🇫🇷 Gladys Verhulst-Wild

#cycling

E3 Harelbeke feature a double ascent of the ⛰️ Oude Kwaremont,this year. It will be followed twice by the Paterberg

The parcours will be tougher than ever before with numerous other hills, packed in a compact race of about 200 km. Big test ahead of the Tour of Flanders
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💰 Prize money Cyclocross, this Winter
🚴🏻‍♀️ Lucinda Brand € 124 310
🚴🏻‍♀️ Aniek van Alphen € 80 810
🚴🏻‍♀️ Amandine Fouquenet € 65 780
🚴🏻‍♀️ Inge van der Heijden € 51 155
...

How many MTB or even road WWT riders would earn so much prize money in a season?

#cycling

Today, 4️⃣ years ago, 🇺🇦 Ukraine was hit by the biggest war since World War II.

Already for almost 1500, Ukrainians are suffering from war, terrorism, genocide and deportations.

It's important that we keep supporting them more than before

Choose the side of dignity

#Ukraine

🔟 years ago, Peter Sagan was the reigning World Champion 🌈

During his career, he lifted cycling out of a dark period, and he reshaped the image of the sport, as we know it today

Read more about his legacy in our article 👇🚴‍♂️
cyclingbottle.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

#cycling

Does Oceania have the coolest continental champion's jersey? 🌊

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A good logical decision. Vingegaard could start his season with a victory in a prestigious one week stage race.

An overall victory would be a beautiful addition for his palmares & positive publicity for his team.

#cycling #ParisNice

🎖️ Olympic Medals
⛸️ Skating : 🇳🇱 Netherlands 20
⛷️ Langlaufing : 🇳🇴Norway 13

It's remarkable that some people argue that Cyclocross shouldn't be on the Olympics because one country could win 2 medals, while there are currently sports where 1 country wins tons of medals
#cycling

It might be a series of Sprinters Worlds in a row 🇩🇰 Copenhagen 2029 and 🇧🇪 Brussels 2030 (if they stay close to the city) might only be able to provide a flatter course as well, after having climber orientated parcours in 🇨🇭🇷🇼🇨🇦🇫🇷

The 🌈 Worlds in 2028, 🇦🇪 UAE will be for the sprinters

The UCI has explicitly asked to the local organisation to provide a parcours for sprinters. It might feature a hill of 100 meters height, but nothing more than that

The last bunch sprint on the World's was in 2017
#cycling

🇧🇷 Brazil will be more visible again in the peloton for the coming years.

19-years old Henrique Bravo sgined with the devo squad of Soudal-Quickstep and can also do races with the elite team, while breakaway hero Tota Magalhaes will ride for Movistar until 2029
#cycling #Brazil

🇵🇹 Best Portuguese riders of all time
🚴 Rui Costa
🚴 Joaquim Agostinho
🚴 Joao Almeida
🚴 Acácio da Silva
🚴 José Azevedo
🚴 Tiago Machado

#cycling #Portugal

Demi Vollering calls to finally have an Il Lombardia for women too.

🔸 First editions of other women's monuments
🇮🇹 Milano-Sanremo (1999)
🇧🇪 Tour of Flanders (2004)
🇫🇷 Paris-Roubaix (2021)
🇧🇪 Liège-Bastogne-Liège (2017)

When will the list finally be complete?

#cycling

🚲 All time CX Ranking
📊 ProCyclingStats
1️⃣🇧🇪 Sanne Cant
2️⃣🇳🇱 Marianne Vos
3️⃣🇺🇸 Katie Compton
4️⃣🇳🇱 Daphny van den Brand
5️⃣🇳🇱 Lucinda Brand
6️⃣🇩🇪 Hanka Kupfernagel
7️⃣🇨🇿 Katerina Nash
8️⃣🇬🇧 Helen Wyman
9️⃣🇳🇱 Ceylin Alvarado
🔟🇳🇱 Fem van Empel

#cycling

Has there ever been a better cycling platform since this?

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🏥 Injuries so far
🇩🇰Mikkel Bjerg
🇧🇪Tiesj Benoot
🇳🇱Nils Eekhoff
🇳🇴Tobias Foss
🇳🇱Olav Kooij
🇫🇷Olivier Le Gac
🇧🇪Tim Merlier
🇪🇨Jhonatan Narvaez
🇩🇰Mads Pedersen
🇧🇪Laurenz Rex
🇪🇸Oscar Rodriguez
🇬🇧Jake Stewart
🇧🇪Cian Uijtdebroeks
🇳🇱Taco van der Hoorn
🇧🇪Maxim Van Gils
...

#cycling