Recent content by HalfOfTheHill

Well that'll teach me to post a flippant remark without checking Wikipedia first!

A few observations from the first few weeks of the season: Hatch seems to have rebranded Girmay to just "Biniam". Is this overfamiliarity or have NSN issued a communiqué aligning him with the likes of Elvis, Pele and Liberace? I spent much of January listening to the enthusiastic musings of...

No. If MVDP steamrollers this, folk wisdom dictates he at least won't then steamroller the Ronde. But I guess in this day and age that just points to another Pog win.

Has anybody picked up any rumours about where or what this year's route(s) will look like? They are badged as being in Ljubljana, but I assume - given the Pog factor - we should expect something hillier than a city/glorified crit circuit.

I knew it was too early to get our hopes up.

Or even "The La Vuelta", as Brian Smith used to put it on Eurosport.

Veteran of only one Tour and one Giro here, and my experiences have been based around doing some (amateur) photography. But in case helpful...: Stages with a finishing circuit (e.g. Bologna 2024 or Vicenza 2025) are great - twice as much bang for your buck, and on both times the field has been...

I'm spending a Friday in Flanders in March to watch the E3. I'm planning to photograph the race (on a strictly amateur basis) - does anyone have any suggestions as to how best to see it pass multiple times? I'd like to see at least one of the famous climbs but am otherwise pretty open to...