Breaking the kilo

A seemingly superhuman ultrarunning barrier is tantalisingly close to being shattered. So close, in fact, that we could see it happen this year. Here’s what it will take to push beyond the edge – and who has the grit to do it

When Jasper Philipsen was a child, long before he was winning Tour de France stages on a regular basis, he dreamed of becoming a professional footballer. Despite hailing from the same town as Belgian

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The Tour de France is skewing younger than ever, but can the peloton’s elder statesmen still cut it at the sharp end? James Shrubsall explores what it takes to age gracefully as a Grand Tour racer

Hailing from Yorkshire – despite his Continental-sounding name – the Picnic PostNL rider is in his first season in the WorldTour

Fenix-Deceuninck rider triumphs in the U23 TT and elite road race