Historians claim Nice was named after Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, following a military triumph over the local Ligurian tribes. But sitting on my seafront terrace, watching the evening sun sett

The Passo Campolongo has a charmingly musical name that sounds like it could be the title of an Italian piano sonata. But cyclists who come to this climb in the Dolomites soon learn that it is a true

Colombian climber Julián Arredondo was never one to do anything by halves: ‘I was mixing drugs with alcohol and women. I took a little bit of everything, but it never filled this deep emptiness I had

Cyclist: What did you learn most about yourself last season? Mattias Skjelmose: That I’m a fighter, I don’t give up. I’ll take my knocks but I’ll always stand back up. The whole season was pretty much

Remco Evenepoel is sitting on a stage in a Mallorcan arts studio, dressed in an unbranded blue hoodie, talking up his programme of racing for 2026. Alongside him, Primož Roglič, his new Red Bull-Bora-

In professional mountain biking, it’s downhilling that is the most dynamic… and dangerous. Dominic Bliss met the crazy riders at the 2025 downhilling World Championships, in the Swiss Valais region, and discovered why they launch themselves down steep mountain trails at full tilt