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Pro Cycling Wrapped 2024
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We bring you your Pro Cycling Wrapped for the 2024 season.
You spent…
Over 800 hours…
Watching cycling this season.
Whether it was starting the season strong by staying up all night to watch the Tour Down Under or clocking every minute of Étoile de Bessèges, you made sure not to miss a minute all 2024. You boosted your stats throughout the Grand Tours, settling down on the sofa from the neutral zone all the way through to the post-stage show on The Breakaway.
Now we just need flag-to-finish coverage of all women’s cycling races to get those hours up even further.
Only one stage…
Wondering if the Giro d’Italia might be more than a one-horse race.
Any race Tadej Pogačar enters is likely a foregone conclusion, but at least there’s still typically some day-to-day competition throughout Grand Tours from the likes of Jonas Vingegaard. That wasn’t the case at the Giro d’Italia, though.
Making his debut at the race, Pogačar having a complete run of all 21 stages in the maglia rosa was only thwarted by finishing third man in a three-way sprint on the opening stage to Ineos Grenadiers’ Jhonatan Narváez and Bora-Hansgrohe’s Max Schachmann. The Slovenian would eye pink the next day, though, and – despite a puncture and crash at the bottom of the final climb – he duly attacked to claim victory to sit atop the general classification. It was shades of Marco Pantani, who experienced a mechanical on the same climb in 1999 to come back and win.
Pogačar would spend the rest of the Giro leading the way with everyone else battling for second. At the end of the three weeks, his closest competitor was Dani Martínez of Bora-Hansgrohe almost ten minutes down. Was there ever any doubt? Pogačar’s UAE team have now signed Narváez just in case.
Seven months…
Trying to guess Demi Vollering’s team for 2025.
The months-long saga of where Demi Vollering would land finally came to an end in October when the 28-year-old inked a two-year deal with FDJ-Suez. Speculation had been rampant all season with FDJ-Suez boss Stephen Delcourt even trying to play down the idea of Vollering joining the team back in April.
Things kicked off beforehand in March when team manager Erwin Janssen said, ‘We made Demi Vollering a generous offer and indicated that this should be responded to before a certain date. Vollering’s management did not respond to this. Therefore, we assume that Vollering will leave the team at the end of the year. The report in the media that we recently sat down with Demi or her management is not true.’
But now Vollering has a new home in FDJ-Suez alongside fellow newcomers Juliette Labous and Elise Chabbey.
You shed…
180 tears…
Watching Mark Cavendish sprint to his record 35th stage victory at the Tour de France.
It finally happened. Despite beginning his final Tour de France by almost finishing outside the time limit with sickness, Mark Cavendish was able to sprint to a 35th stage victory in the race. It takes him one above the record he previously shared with Eddy Merckx.
Cavendish seized the opportunity on the second sprint stage of the race to Saint-Vulbas. Stage 5 ended in fast men launching their sprints across the road but it was the Manx Missile that came out on top, making history to thunderous applause.
Your favourite…
Men’s Grand Tour
Tour de France – 66%.
Tadej Pogačar won the men’s Tour de France by 6min 17sec ahead of Jonas Vingegaard and 9min 18sec from Remco Evenepoel.
Women’s Grand Tour
Tour de France Femmes – 77%.
A thrilling final stage performance on Alpe d’Huez from SD Worx-Protime’s Demi Vollering couldn’t stop Kasia Niewiadoma claiming her maiden Tour de France Femmes victory, the Canyon-SRAM rider winning by just four seconds over Vollering. Pauliena Rooijakkers (Fenix-Deceuninck) completed the podium just 10sec down.
Quiz time
Men’s Classic
Paris-Roubaix – 52%.
Mathieu van der Poel staged a lengthy solo attack to win his second consecutive Paris-Roubaix cobblestone in April. The Dutchman attacked with 60km of the race remaining in what was the fastest edition so far.
Teammate Jasper Philipsen finished second, just like in 2023, with Mads Pedersen third, both three minutes behind.
Women’s Classic
Paris-Roubaix Femmes – 62%.
It was a double rainbow affair on Paris-Roubaix weekend as Lotte Kopecky won Paris-Roubaix Femmes from a six-woman sprint to the line in the velodrome. She edged out Elisa Balsamo and Pfeiffer Georgi.
By the Numbers…
Tour de France Femmes: Stage 8.
Your Top Genres…
See you in 2025.
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