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1 week ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Ewan Wilson
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the last In The Drops before the official start to summer, so there are no raincoats or thermals to share with you this time around. This week at Cyclist we’ve been very busy. Issue 164 of the magazine hit the shelves, which featured articles including my Monte Zoncolan Big Ride and our Göscheneralp Classic Climb. The latest podcast also came out with one of Wales’s favourite sons, Luke Rowe.
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1 week ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Ewan Wilson
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1 week ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Ewan Wilson
We are on the cusp of the most decisive week of racing in the 2025 Giro d’Italia. With four mountain stages and around 20,000m of climbing still to come in a brutal final week through the Alps, the Giro d’Italia is moving ever closer to its finale in Rome next Sunday. For now, Isaac del Toro continues to lead the Giro, now with a gap of 1min 20sec over Simon Yates in second place and 1min 26sec to Del Toro’s teammate Juan Ayuso in third. In the other classifications, there’s been little change.
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2 weeks ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Ewan Wilson
Twelve stages into this year’s Giro d’Italia, Isaac del Toro leads the general classification with a 31-second advantage over Juan Ayuso in second place and 1min 14sec over pre-race favourite Primož Roglič. With a week and a half of racing to go, the UAE Team Emirates XRG rider looks likely to lead the Giro until the next appointment with the mountains on Stage 15 to Asiago on Sunday at the very least.
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2 weeks ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Ewan Wilson
Ever thought to yourself ‘what if I created a pro cycling team?’ What would that team look like? Which GC leader would you back? Which youngster would you be nailing down on a ten-year contract? Well if you haven’t ever considered these key questions, it’s time to do so now. You have millions of Euros spare and you’re looking to launch a new team in 2026, with a UCI WorldTour licence already guaranteed.
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2 weeks ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Ewan Wilson
It has taken nine days of racing, but the 2025 Giro d’Italiahas officially exploded into life. Following an opening block of stages spread across Albania, southern Italy and Tuscany, the peloton has now managed to shake out its early nerves as the race begins to take shape. A week in, Isaac del Toro leads the overall classification with a gap of 1min 13sec over teammate Juan Ayuso, with Antonio Tiberi 1min 30sec back in third.
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2 weeks ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Robyn Davidson |Ewan Wilson
The Spanish streak in the UCI Women’s WorldTour calendar continues this week with the Vuelta a Burgos Féminas. Starting on Thursday 22nd May, the Spanish race offers four stages through northern Spain, concluding on Sunday 25th May. The Vuelta a Burgos Féminas is a young race, having only been added to the WorldTour in 2021. Since the race’s promotion, the Spanish challenge has given us a blockbuster list of winners including Anna van der Breggen, Juliette Labous and Demi Vollering.
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3 weeks ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Ewan Wilson
This weekend will see gravel roads return to the Grand Tour stage. Sunday’s Giro d’Italia offering, from Gubbio to Siena, will be an ode to Strade Bianche, following many of its iconic sterrato sections as well as the same nail-biting finale up the steep Via Santa Caterina. This is the third time since 2021 that the men’s Giro d’Italia has visited the Tuscan gravel, but the Giro isn’t alone in its embrace of white roads.
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3 weeks ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Ewan Wilson
Whether it’s a Grande Partenza, Grand Départ or Gran Partida, the opening to any Grand Tour is special. After a humble beginning, Grand Départs (to use the French term as a catch-all) have become a novelty for Grand Tour organisers. They can sell them off to the highest bidder as countries, provinces and regions across the continent (and beyond) bid millions of Euros for the right to host the opening stages of a three-week race.
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3 weeks ago | 
cyclist.co.uk | Ewan Wilson
According to reports from The Times, Ineos Grenadiers could be on the brink of a major shakeup, with petrochemical firm TotalEnergies close to securing a deal to co-sponsor the British squad. A multi-million agreement is said to be on the table, propping up Ineos Greandiers’ budget onto a similar level to superteams such as UAE Team Emirates XRG.
