🔟 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-...

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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.

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

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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?

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🚲 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

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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
...

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Tadej Pogacar's training rides are protected now by a... motorbike 🏍️

UAE decided to train in small group of 8 riders and let a motorbiker from the team ride behind them to discourage amateur cyclists to join the group & disturb the riders, and to let cars pass safer.

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Tiesj Benoot signed as the new clear classic leader of Decathlon for the coming Spring after working as domestique for years.

Unfortunately, he will miss these races now due to injury.

Recover well, Tiesj.

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Trading the sandy Beaches of Perth 🇦🇺🏖️ for muddy European Winters 🇪🇺❄️

Alicia Reynolds set a new step in her big cyclocross adventure, this season.

Read more about her & cyclocross down under, in our interview 👇🚴‍♀️📖
cyclingbottle.blogspot.com/2026/02/inte...

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Astana will invest in women's cycling again.

They will start a cooperation with the Laboral Kutxa team. They will help the team to improve the bikes & equipment.

Part of the plan is also to develop women's cycling in 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan and to let Kazakh riders for team.

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This is really bad news for Maxim Van Gils 🫤

Let's hope that the upcoming months will be just a few and he could still reach a decent form during late Summer/Autumn.

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🗣️ Most spoken languages
🚴🏻‍♀️ WT peloton (Men)
🇳🇱 Dutch 117
🇬🇧 English 90
🇫🇷 French 63
🇮🇹 Italian 56
🇪🇸 Spanish 48
🇩🇪 German 42
🇳🇴 Norwegian 29
🇩🇰 Danish 29
🇸🇮 Slovenian 10
🇷🇺 Russian 8
🇵🇹 Portuguese 6
...

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The right beauty standards🪞

📸 : Laurea

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"Others on Valentine"
"Me at 14th February"

Relatable 😅

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Cycling sometimes really still behaves like it's stuck in a previous Century. In digital times, you should be able to at least put a provisional startlist, 2 weeks in advance.

Riders know their schedule months in advance. Only exceptional injuries can still change things
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Already victory number 8⃣ for UAE XRG (tied with Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe).

Maybe both teams might hit double digits already before March.

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The opposition is warned.

Demi Vollering is ready for the new season 🏆

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Cowardice often gets sold in the form of 'neutrality'.

The IOC values the Russian Ruble more than their own values.

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I know. I didn't literally mean Paris

What a nonsense. They just ride almost straight between Paris & Roubaix. It has little to do with bringing a tribute to the Hauts des France région.

Just an easy way to justify a commercial partner in the race name.

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🏆 Tadej Pogacar's victories
🔸 January : 0️⃣
🔸 February : 19
🔸 March : 17
🔸 April : 9
🔸 May : 9
🔸 June : 14
🔸 July : 20
🔸 August : 0️⃣
🔸 September : 12
🔸 October : 9

Just two months to complete yet ✅

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📉 Amount of ProTeams (past 10 years)

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She's a very strong visible rider, but her breakaways either don't receive enough space to end up in a result, or she has to work for her team mates. She didn't take part in nationals or continental championships either to score more points. I

🇧🇪 Jasper Philipsen
🗓️ Spring schedule
🇵🇹 Volta ao Algarve
🇧🇪 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
🇧🇪 Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne
🇧🇪 Nokere Koerse
🇮🇹 Milano-Sanremo
🇧🇪 Tour of Bruges
🇧🇪 Middelkerke-Wevelgem
🇧🇪 Dwars door Vlaanderen
🇧🇪 Tour of Flanders
🇧🇪 Scheldeprijs
🇫🇷 Paris-Roubaix

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