Every year, there are one or two riders in the vast world of competitive cycling that capture my attention and imagination, not just as a cycling journalist, but as a fan of the sport. Recent examples include Remco Evenepoel’s debut WorldTour season on the heels of his annihilation of the junior men’s 2018 world championships, Christopher Blevins and Kate Courtney en route to their Olympic debut, and basically everything Mathieu van der Poel does.

The self-proclaimed “World’s Premier Gravel Event” is set to take the small town of Emporia, Kansas, by storm. On June 4th, the 2022 edition of the Garmin UNBOUND Gravel is expected to draw the event’s biggest attendance in its 17-year history, with 4,000 participants signed up to ride across the rugged Flint Hills of Kansas.

In the extreme sports community, Woodward needs no introduction. The compound in central Pennsylvania began as a gymnastics camp in 1970, and has since grown into a world-class facility for BMX athletes, skateboarders and more. In 2022, Woodward will host USA Cycling’s Freestyle BMX National Championships.

Demi Vollering returns to defend her title at Liège-Bastogne-Liège with one of the strongest teams, SD Worx. The race, however, will feature a who's who of women's cycling in a bid to win the 142.1km Belgian classic.

Elisa Longo Borghini of Trek-Segafredo won a dusty edition of cycling's Paris-Roubaix women's race on Saturday after a 124km run featuring 17 sections of cobbled mining roads.

The U.S. Cup returns to Fayetteville, Arkansas in April for a second year of pro and amateur cross-country mountain bike racing at Centennial Park.

Jukebox Cycling was founded to help multidisciplinary cyclists do extraordinary things on the bike, so it makes perfect sense that track World Champion, gravel grinder and international mustachioed sensation Ashton Lambie would join the roster of world-class athletes.

Dylan Groenewegen timed his sprint to perfection to win a mass dash to the line on stage three of cycling's Tour of Saudi Arabia on Thursday. British sprinter Dan McLay was second and Australia's Caleb Ewan came third as Colombia's Santiago Buitrago retained the overall lead by 3sec on Ewan. Ewan finished fastest but was coming from too far back to pounce for victory at the line.

The 2022 Tour de La Provence, an early-season stage race in southern France, will run from February 10 - 13th 2022. The Tour de La Provence is part of a series of races which also includes Etoile de Bessèges - Tour du Gard and Tour des Alpes Maritimes et du Var. All three races serve as early-season preparations for Paris-Nice, the first European WorldTour event.

British road cyclist Mark Cavendish will extend his contract with current team Deceunink-Quick Step by a further year, team principal Patrick Lefevere said on Thursday. Cavendish broke a lengthy barren patch of illness, injury and poor form by storming back to win four Tour de France stages in 2021, at the age of 36.

Colombian cyclist Egan Bernal will bid to reclaim the Tour de France title in 2022, the Ineos rider confirmed to press in his homeland Tuesday. Bernal won the Tour de France in style aged just 22 in 2019, but the climbing sensation withdrew injured half-way through the 2020 edition and skipped the following year to race and win the Giro d'Italia.

British cyclist Mark Cavendish suffered two broken ribs and a collapsed lung after crashing heavily at the Six Days of Ghent, his Deceuninck Quick-Step team said Monday.

The route for the inaugural women's Tour de France was unveiled on Thursday with eight stages, embarking from the Eiffel Tower on July 24 next year.

The 2022 Tour de France embarks from Denmark, pushes into Switzerland and Belgium, visits Dunkirk and Lourdes, and features five mountain slogs.

British rider Lizzie Deignan won the inaugural women's Paris-Roubaix bike race on Saturday with a solo breakawayacross the muddy, cobblestoned mining roads where many of her rivals sufferednasty falls.