Chris Marshall Bell

Sep 3, 2024 | cyclingweekly.com | Chris Marshall Bell

In autumn 2015, Tom Danielson felt he had hit rock bottom. After being notified that he had tested positive for testosterone, having already served a six-month ban for blood doping three years earlier, he had to face hard facts: “I’d lost my career, my credibility, all of my money, everything,” he says. It was a career that at its outset had promised so much, with a Vuelta a España stage win in 2006, but which ended, by his own admission, “in a ball of flames”.

Aug 31, 2024 | cyclingweekly.com | Chris Marshall Bell

The first Indigenous North American to ride the Tour de France, Neilson Powless was perhaps destined to become a professional sportsperson. His father Jack was the United States Air Force athlete of the year in 1992, the same year that his mother Jeanette Allred competed in the marathon at the Barcelona Olympics for her home country of Guam. While he was a youngster growing up in Roseville, California, it was anyone’s guess which sport Neilson would end up making his living from.

Aug 28, 2024 | cyclingweekly.com | Tom Thewlis |Chris Marshall Bell

The UK’s premier elite men’s race returns in a new format this September, now run by British Cycling. The Tour of Britain Men looked like it could be in doubt at times over the past year, but it is now back, with new sponsorship too, from Lloyds Bank.

Aug 25, 2024 | rouleur.cc | Chris Marshall Bell

The box of surprises continues to shock, excite and amaze at the Vuelta a España, turning the race upside down and inside out in ways no one could have predicted. Ben O’Connor catapulting himself into a massive lead on stage six has given the rest of the peloton belief that the rulebook of Grand Tour racing wasn’t packed for this lap around Spain, and it’s now a free-for-all where riders whose ambitions looked over are now back in play, and whoever has momentum one day, loses it the next.

Aug 24, 2024 | rouleur.cc | Chris Marshall Bell

Primož Roglič is angry. The throwaway short answers and the clichés of “we’ll see what happens” mask his inner rage. He knows he and his Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team messed up on stage six of the Vuelta a España. He knows that it’s not going to be easy unseating Ben O’Connor at the summit of the general classification. And he knows that if he is to win a record-equalling fourth red jersey, he must turn his fury into something positive.