Golden Sunday - The 5 races to watch on the 22nd of June including some of the best climbers, sprinters and U23's in the world
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Two weeks to go until the Grand Depart of the Tour de France, between today and that day the national championships will take over the racing calendar but on the 22nd of June there will be five races including many of the world's very best over a multitude of terrains, and you can watch them all separately.
Andorra MoraBanc Clàssica - Estimated finish time 15:20CET
The Andorran one-day race has it's debut edition this year in what is a race that was only a matter of time. Fully in the territory of the small micronation where hundreds of cyclists live, it is a race for the climbers, one of the few in the calendar, and perfectly placed right before the Tour de France. Enric Mas and Mattias Skjelmose will be the main favourites for victory whilst Tom Pidcock will be an interesting outsider.
Giro d'Italia under-23 stage 8 - Estimated finish time 15:25CET
The under-23 Giro ends in Pinerolo this Sunday with a final circuit that includes a climb of 2.5 kilometers at over 12% and another short explosive wall. After Jarno Widar's withdrawal from the race, the overall classification has become wide open into the last day. Luke Tuckwell leads into the final day but has only a mere 11 seconds over Jakob Omrzel; 27 over Pavel Novak and 52 over Filippo Turconi. There are three more riders within the 2-minute mark - Jorgen Nordhagen, Adrià Pericas and Lorenzo Finn - whom each, individually, have the talent to turn the race on it's head in it's final moments.
Copenhagen Sprint - Estimated finish time 16:30CET
In Denmark we also have the first edition of the Copenhagen Sprint, a one-day race designed for the sprinters which is also the newest edition to the World Tour calendar. There is a star-studded field of fast men at the start including Mads Pedersen and Olav Kooij; and other fast men preparing the Tour such as Dylan Groenewegen and Jordi Meeus.
Tour de Suisse stage 8 - Estimated finish time 17:00CET
In Switzerland we will have the queen stage of the Tour de Suisse, a final mountain time-trial that is only 10 kilometers in length but features a 9-kilometer ascent at 9% - pure climber territory. Kévin Vauquelin enters the day in the yellow jersey towards what could be an historic day for him and the Arkéa team, but he will have the monumental task of defending himself against main favourite João Almeida who is only 33 seconds back.
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Baloise Belgium Tour stage 5 - Estimated finish time 17:05CET
The Belgian race ends in Brussels this Sunday with a sprint next to the Atomium. The final day of the race sees Filippo Baroncini enter in the lead but with three riders within 10 seconds - Ethan Hayter, Jenno Berckmoes and Filippo Ganna. However it will be hard to get back that difference as we expect a sprint between the likes of Tim Merlier and Jasper Philipsen.
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- Blah Blah Blah !frieders308-11-2026
- MS said she was changing gears so that caused her slight deviation. Nothing was intentional.frieders308-11-2026
- How can you use a photo post incident to judge the incident itself (which is not hard to find if you’re prepared to invest the same amount of time in searching as writing that comment? It’s harsh but technically right even though this or worse is not always sanctioned in every race. The two things that went against MS (who unfortunately for her would still have won without making her mistake) are that it was not a bunch sprint where there could have been an overlooked incident or mitigating circumstances explaining a deviation. Everything was focused on just those 2, Schreiber was riding beautifully balanced which made her sudden deviation look unnatural stroke as if it could have been in some part intentional whilst she was slowly drifting ever closer towards the barrier to a point that would have reached obstruction level. In her defence, it might have been the realisation she was heading towards that that made her react suddenly and caused the deviation involuntarily. In any case, congratulations to her for the ride of her life, in people’s minds she will be credited for it.Jumpyjohn07-11-2026
- Good boy Obviously doesn’t need that much help dealing with pressure, as some have suggested. Wiser (and humbler) than many far further along their careers. About offering him the moon, recently someone came up with an explanation of the downfall of a football great (either referring to Maradona or Portuguese Ronaldo) saying it was kind of normal after coming back from the moon, except that others, including some who actually did go to the moon like Armstrong (Neil in case anyone is too switched off to realise) didn’t go through any of the same motions after coming back. A lot of how you deal with situations has less to do with the situation than with your character.Jumpyjohn07-11-2026
- I think that they're not really used to dealing with this type of incident in a cyclocross race, and the situation has been magnified because it was a race for a championship title. It's very unfortunate that the race had to be decided in this way.
santiagobenites07-11-2026 - Seriously why do they keep doing stupid things like this. Its one thing to relegate when the placings are minor, when the action is blatant. But when it is ambiguous, why dont they at least take advice from some higher up to avoid embarrassing themselves. This is similar to the Halland goal when his teammate was clearly offside and interfered in play and VAR gave them the goal. if you dont have evidence you cannot convict. Even for doping they have these rulesabstractengineer07-11-2026
- So all those who went to watch, including all from abroad, waled there, spent nothing? Most places hosting events of the sort manage to make it worthwhile. If it was so obviously fruitless, don’t you think by now they’d have run out of hosting candidates? Why do you think the Tour can command such high prices for departure and arrival locations? If it didn’t bring anything locally they’d have to pay to get authorisation to use cities.Jumpyjohn07-11-2026
- What a travesty ! That little deviation did nothing to impede Brand !frieders307-11-2026
- I also wanne beat Pogacar in the tour but it aint gonne happen. Jonas unfortunately getting dropped by del toro and seixas several times this TDF and jonas team is very weak and joinas on way down, it aint happening thats clear. its also clear it only happened cause Pogacar was hurt and had a broken wrist that time everytime both full strenght its not close we just have to be honest about it :/miguel07-11-2026
- They do this but literally let cars on courses to run over riders.mij07-11-2026
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