Van der Poel for #4 in Flanders.
Pogačar for Monument history.
Evenepoel enters the equation.
Izagirre for a 7th Basque podium.
Roglič for #12 in small tours.
Two races. Two systems. One shifting record book.
📊 Preview: Flanders & Itzulia
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Van der Poel for #3 in E3.
Pedersen for #4 in Gent–Wevelgem.
No defending winner in Dwars door Vlaanderen.
One week. Three races. Three different histories in motion.
📊 Preview: E3, GW & DDV
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21 Monument top 10s for Mathieu van der Poel 🇳🇱
He now draws level with the most successful Dutchman in this ranking, Hennie Kuiper, and matches his grandfather Raymond Poulidor 🇫🇷.
All-time leaders:
44 — Eddy Merckx
36 — Roger De Vlaeminck
28 — Francesco Moser / Frans Verbeeck
27 — Sean Kelly
La Primavera meets possibility.
• Mathieu van der Poel chasing a 3rd Milan–San Remo
• Tadej Pogačar targeting multiple milestones
• No former winner at the Volta a Catalunya
History accumulates. And resets.
New preview on VeloStatistics. 📊🚴♂️
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Olympic champion.
Super-domestique.
Tour winner at 32.
Geraint Thomas took the long road to the top — from the track to the yellow jersey at the Tour de France.
One of cycling’s most unlikely champions.
New Cycling Pantheon ↓
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🇫🇷 Paris–Nice
🇮🇹 Tirreno–Adriatico
Two stage races. Two historic breakthroughs.
🇩🇰 Vingegaard joins a very exclusive club
🇲🇽 Del Toro makes Mexican cycling history
Plus: Izagirre’s consistency record & Tirreno stage-win legends.
Full recap ⬇️
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Waiting for the first Monument.
• Preview of Milano–Torino, cycling’s oldest race
• Jonas Vingegaard nearing a historic Paris–Nice win
• Youth battle in Tirreno–Adriatico
The road to Milan–San Remo is already full of numbers. 📊🚴
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Is Mathieu van der Poel already the greatest Dutch cyclist ever?
We analysed Dutch riders across 20 of the biggest races in cycling history.
Grand Tours.
Monuments.
World Championships.
Major stage races.
Classics.
The numbers might surprise you.
⬇️
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Tell Marianne I’ll have to call her back! Harrie Lavreysen was actually just on the other line—it seems everyone is checking in today. But all jokes aside, we should probably stick to the men’s road cyclists for this one.
Is Mathieu van der Poel already the greatest Dutch cyclist ever?
We analysed Dutch riders across 20 of the biggest races in cycling history.
Grand Tours.
Monuments.
World Championships.
Major stage races.
Classics.
The numbers might surprise you.
⬇️
velostatistics.substack.com/p/from-the-v...
Strade Bianche delivered two historic moments.
🇸🇮 Pogačar — first rider ever with 4 Strade wins
🇫🇷 Seixas — youngest podium ever in a top-level one-day race (19-164)
Legacy and youth on the white roads.
Full recap ↓
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Three races. Three records in sight.
• Pogačar chasing a historic 4th Strade Bianche
• Paris–Nice without its reigning champion
• Roglič aiming for a 3rd Tirreno–Adriatico
Early March redraws the map of the season.
New VeloStatistics preview. 📊🚴♂️
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Opening Weekend is back.
Three former Omloop winners.
Van der Poel’s debut.
A double that has never been done.
Cobbles, patterns, and repetition — the numbers behind Omloop, Kuurne & Samyn.
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A generational shift in one week.
🇲🇽 Del Toro — youngest UAE Tour winner ever
🇫🇷 Seixas — teenage French history in Algarve
🇪🇸 Romeo — youngest Andalucía champ since 1988
🚴 Milan closing in on UAE stage win records
The record books moved. 📊
New recap ↓
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A generational shift in one week.
🇲🇽 Del Toro — youngest UAE Tour winner ever
🇫🇷 Seixas — teenage French history in Algarve
🇪🇸 Romeo — youngest Andalucía champ since 1988
🚴 Milan closing in on UAE stage win records
The record books moved. 📊
New recap ↓
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No WorldTour.
But plenty of history.
The Giro di Sardegna returns after 14 years, and the Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var goes back to its roots.
A week where the archive matters more than the headlines.
velostatistics.substack.com/p/preview-a-...
No WorldTour.
But plenty of history.
The Giro di Sardegna returns after 14 years, and the Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var goes back to its roots.
A week where the archive matters more than the headlines.
velostatistics.substack.com/p/preview-a-...
Belgian. Spanish. American.
Six Vuelta stages. Sixteen wins in his first pro season. Twice top-10 in Sanremo.
And later, mentor to the first great American generation.
The story of Noël Dejonckheere — cycling’s quiet transatlantic bridge.
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Patterns emerging in February:
🇵🇹 Morgado doubles in Figueira
🇺🇸 Riccitello wins Provence in his team debut (2nd-youngest ever)
🇰🇿 Astana already at four 1–2 finishes
🇦🇪 UAE moves to the top of the team standings
📊 Weekly recap ⤵️
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Patterns emerging in February:
🇵🇹 Morgado doubles in Figueira
🇺🇸 Riccitello wins Provence in his team debut (2nd-youngest ever)
🇰🇿 Astana already at four 1–2 finishes
🇦🇪 UAE moves to the top of the team standings
📊 Weekly recap ⤵️
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No points for the leader's jersey in a Grand Tour for Ullrich? He's worn the leader's jersey several times.
🕯️ Frans Van Vlierberghe (1954–2026)
A Waasland rider.
13 years pro.
Vuelta stage winner in 1979.
Not a superstar — but a true craftsman of the Belgian peloton.
📜 His story: velostatistics.substack.com/p/obituary-f...
The UAE Tour starts without its only three-time winner.
No Pogačar.
A reset at the top.
Yates chasing a fifth podium.
Del Toro eyeing the youngest-winner record.
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The nickname is mentioned in, among others, the 2015 edition of Velo Gotha by Joël Godaert, an encyclopedic cycling reference work.
Also, but he has multiple nicknames.
They called him the Cowboy of Tashkent.
Three green jerseys. Points titles in all three Grand Tours. A sprint that ignored fear — and rules.
A Cycling Pantheon portrait of Djamolidine Abduzhaparov: cycling’s most dangerous fast man.
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February just started — and history is already bending.
🇧🇪 Evenepoel joins Merckx
👶 Youngest winners since the 1960s
⏱️ World record: 3:39.977
🎂 A European champion at 40
The numbers didn’t wait. Neither did the season.
📊 Weekly Recap ⤵️
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February just started — and history is already bending.
🇧🇪 Evenepoel joins Merckx
👶 Youngest winners since the 1960s
⏱️ World record: 3:39.977
🎂 A European champion at 40
The numbers didn’t wait. Neither did the season.
📊 Weekly Recap ⤵️
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