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

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

NATIONAL CHAMPION AND 1950s RACING PIONEER

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

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.

Picnic-PostNL has quietly developed a distinctly British flavour. Have they earned the support of UK fans ahead of Ineos, asks Andy McGrath