New UCI rules barring Continental teams from Women’s WorldTour races risk stunting rider development, shrinking pelotons and undermining the sport’s fragile growth. Owen Rogers assesses what’s at stake

Expert insights into the top teams, key races and riders to watch in the year ahead

It took a while but the t’s and i’s of the tumultuous merger between Intermarché-Wanty and Lotto were finally crossed and dotted this December as the two teams combined to make one Belgian supersquad.

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As WorldTour wheels get rolling, we break down the riders, teams and races to look out for this year

In a prisoner-of-war camp in western Ukraine, a former miner from the east is being interviewed about how he ended up fighting for Russia. His speech is slurred and one arm paralysed: the results not