A hollow victory is more fun than a respectable walloping

The Doc muses on the transferable skills of a bike racer

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-

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

Dr Hutch isn’t a hoarder, but if you saw all his old kit, there’d be questions