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-

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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

8-15 March | France

Twenty years after cycling’s greatest scandal, Lance Armstrong remains a visible, vocal presence. Why does he still command such attention, asks Chris Marshall Bell