The Route: 168KM and 3,500m of vertical gain. It’s uphill for 7km at the start. Monte Urano is a steep climb but otherwise ...

The stage goes to Napoli, the fourth visit in as many years. Game, Set, Matera: a third stage win for Mads Pedersen. On paper the stage suited him, but UAE tried to put that paper in the shredder and ...

A stage almost designed for Mads Pedersen. Casco van Uden: a sprint stage so not much to watch on TV but the crowds came out, especially in towns. Some of them got to see Lidl-Trek’s hiccups, Mads ...

“A day for the sprinters”, code for saying tune in for the finale. That Was Albania: it wasn’t Yorkshire or Slovenia. Just taking a race to a new country isn’t sufficient to attract media attention ...