Now in his third year at Visma Lease a Bike, the British climber is looking forward to taking more leadership roles this season

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

A hollow victory is more fun than a respectable walloping

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

He set aVO2max record that still stands today, won a Worlds TT... then quit cycling. Tom Davidson catches up with him

Charlie Aldridge of Cannondale Factory Racing is one of the cross-country world’s rising stars. The young Scot has won two World Cups as an Elite and podiumed at six more, bagged an Under-23 World Cha