Belgian cyclist Wout van Aert “might have died” after almost falling under the wheels of a cement mixer truck while on a training run, a teammate said Thursday.

The 2023 Tour of Flanders or Ronde van Vlaanderen startlist for Sunday features 175 riders, or 25 teams of seven riders. They will fight, with one only able to win the Belgian monument ending in Oudenaarde after 273.4 kilometers.

A pillar of Italian bicycles, Ugo De Rosa, died near Milan at the age of 89 today. He began De Rosa bicycles and provided the means for Eddy Merckx, Francesco Moser, Moreno Argentin to race to some of their biggest wins.

Giulio Ciccone won a tortuous, mountainous slog on stage two of the Volta a Catalunya on Tuesday just ahead Primoz Roglic and Remco Evenepoel.

Primoz Roglic won the opening stage of the Volta a Catalunya on Monday, a hilly 164km run beginning and ending in the seaside town of Sant Feliu de Guixols on the Costa Brava.

Remco Evenepoel said on Sunday he is "in better shape than expected" ahead of the Volta a Catalunya, part of his preparation for the Giro d'Italia in May.

Colombian climber Egan Bernal returns to top level cycling heading the Ineos Grenadiers roster at a challenging Volta a Catalunya on Monday where he can measure his progress against the Belgian world champion Remco Evenepoel.

The 2024 Tour de France will finish with a taxing time-trial from Monaco to Nice, a far cry from the traditional champagne procession and sprint up the Champs-Élysées, organizers revealed on Monday.

Bike technology has become so important to elite road racing teams that the sport has, one rider said, "become like Formula One".

Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) is on a winning rampage and he's taking that form to the 2023 Paris-Nice. And he's decided to skip Strade Bianche to be ready for the appointment, his first face to face of the season with Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), and ahead, the Tour de France.

British cycling great Chris Froome said Friday he has high hopes for the future of the sport in Africa as he returned to the continent of his birth.

Two-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar won the Jaen Paraiso Interior semi-classic in Spain on Monday with a long range solo escape in his first cycling race of the year.

At 37 and with a new World Tour contract freshly signed with Astana, Mark Cavendish is clear "the goal is to win" as he embarks on what is likely to be his last season.

A decade ago when the whippet-like Nairo Quintana burst onto the scene with stunning mountain escapes, Colombian cyclists looked poised to take over the world.

Peter Sagan (TotalEnergies), three-time world champion, says that 2023 will be his final season as a professional rider on the road.