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Tomorrow’s Worlds: Elite men’s road race

Tomorrow’s Worlds: Elite men’s road race

A long, wet day in the saddle in prospect. Who fancies it? Super Sagan to reclaim his crown, says the Mole

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Tomorrow’s Worlds: Elite women’s road race

Tomorrow’s Worlds: Elite women’s road race

Vos is boss, Lizzie is queen, Rivera’s a maybe and Kasia can. Our pick of the women

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Tomorrow’s Worlds: under-23 men’s road race

Tomorrow’s Worlds: under-23 men’s road race

Can Pidcock pull it off? Will Higuita deliver a scorpion’s sting in the tail? Not for Moley – it’s going to be Stokbro, bro. Remember...

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Tomorrow’s Worlds: Men’s Elite time-trial

Tomorrow’s Worlds: Men’s Elite time-trial

Here come the Belgians… but which one? Victory for Victor is the consensus 

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Hup Hup Hup – Flags of the Worlds

Hup Hup Hup – Flags of the Worlds

Hup Hup Hup is an exhibition of flags on display at Yorkshire 2019, all of which have been created by artists and designers with a...

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Tomorrow’s Worlds: Men’s U23 time-trial

Tomorrow’s Worlds: Men’s U23 time-trial

Danish, Danish, Danish, Swiss… USA! Heck yeah! Can McNulty upset the applecart in Yorkshire? Can he ‘eck as like

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Have I Got (Cycling) News For You

Have I Got (Cycling) News For You

Fun and games with Ned Boulting, special guests and Rouleur in Harrogate on Wednesday 

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Tomorrow’s Worlds: Mixed Relay TTT

Tomorrow’s Worlds: Mixed Relay TTT

First time out at the Worlds for this new format. It’s a wide open field but the Germans look mighty good for gold, with the...

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Our guide to the Worlds – join us in Yorkshire

Our guide to the Worlds – join us in Yorkshire

Here are our tips for a top experience in Harrogate and beyond. Having travelled the course with its designers and...  

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The column: On Movistar and “unwritten rules”

The column: On Movistar and “unwritten rules”

“Unwritten rules”? They’re just good manners. In which we argue – for a change – that things are fine, just as they are

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Watching the Worlds go by – Rouleur’s Harrogate pub guide

Watching the Worlds go by – Rouleur’s Harrogate pub guide

“When we at Deserter – black belts in sitting down and enjoying a nice pint – were asked to preview the Worlds, a strategy became...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 21

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 21

That was the Vuelta that was. A draw is not going to be enough for Cycling Mole to win this. For stage 21 he throws...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 20

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 20

Playing “break or bunch” for the last time at this year’s Vuelta. Can Alejandro Valverde say goodbye to the rainbow stripes in style?

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The column: Team Ineos’s annus mediocris

The column: Team Ineos’s annus mediocris

2019 has not been Team Ineos’s season. Should we see it as merely a bump in the road or an early emblem of an ebbing...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 19

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 19

It’s nearly over. Flat stage, with a bit of cobble action at the end. A day for the sprinters then, yes? But this is the...

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Echelons: putting it in the gutter

Echelons: putting it in the gutter

“Poetry in motion, a magnificent animation of flow dynamics.” Echelons can be beauty and brutality in equal measure. How they form and tales of how...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 18

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 18

Cycling Mole knew which way the wind was blowing on Stage 17, calling Phil Gil’s second victory of La Vuelta 2019. Can he double up...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 17

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 17

At any other race a profile like this would mean a nailed on bunch sprint, but this is La Vuelta. For stage 17 our panel...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 16

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 16

No score on Stage 15, leaving our panelists desperately scrabbling around for moral victories. Can the last stage ahead of a well-earned rest day deliver...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 15

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 15

Breakaway or battle of the favourites? Our jury is divided for Stage 15, with not a duplicated selection among them. Though the Cycling Mole thinks...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 14

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 14

In which Cycling Mole tries for a “moral victory” despite Ian’s pick actually winning stage 13… Stage 14 is a hen’s tooth, or Vuelta sprint...

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Milk Race 1966: missing, believe wiped

Milk Race 1966: missing, believe wiped

Glorious 16mm colour film from the former Tour of Britain in the Welsh mountains

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Rouleur podcast: Orbea and Cycling Mole

Rouleur podcast: Orbea and Cycling Mole

Basque country riding with Orbea, top tipster Cycling Mole studies the Vuelta form, and Desire’s Start Clapp hankers after a vintage Vespa

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 13

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 13

Los Machucos beckons, a brute of a ramp to end stage 13. Valverde territory, Pogačar’s turf, or Lopez to leapfrog Alejandro?

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 12

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 12

Fraile? Izagirre? Jon Aberasturi? If we didn’t know better, we might think our panel was trying to provoke Cycling Mole. They’ve gone for breakaway but...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 11

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 11

Stage 11 could end in a sprint… but it won’t says our panel. Cycling Mole doesn’t think much of some of our picks but one...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 10

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 10

Stage 10 is individual time trial day, so all of our panel are going for Primoz Roglič, right? Apparently not. Do they know something the...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 9

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 9

Between them our panelists seem determined that Ineos are going to get something out of this Vuelta. Cycling Mole think Stage 9 is one for...

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 8

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España 2019 – stage 8

Half of our panel think Stage 8’s single categorised climb isn’t steep enough to stop a sprint. Cycling Mole disagrees. Who’s going to be proved...

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