As Ineos announce a Tour de France team with "only" one of their four Grand Tour winners present, and the race essentially being pitted as Tadej Pogacar versus the Jumbo-Visma team, it got me wondering: just how strong are the teams in GC terms? How many Grand Tour Top ten riders are there? I had... Continue Reading →
How have WorldTour teams performed and played the transfer market over the years?
Rather than generate actual excitement, the current "relegation battle" between WorldTour teams seems to be creating lots of exercises for statisticians and data analysts in trying to explain the UCI's labyrinthine points system to cycling fans, who you'd kinda expect to know a great deal about the sport in the first place, but simply cannot... Continue Reading →