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By the numbers: What it takes to finish in the lead group at Milan-San Remo
On Saturday, Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) thundered down the Via Roma to finish sixth at his first Milan-San Remo. The three-time cyclocro...

By the numbers: What it takes to win at the men's Ardennes Classics
With the Ardennes now behind us, the 2018 Spring Classics season has come to a close. Before we turn our attention to the Giro d'Italia, ...

By the numbers: What it takes to win on Willunga Hill at the Tour Down Under
It wasn't a surprise when Richie Porte (BMC) danced away from his rivals to win a fifth-straight Willunga stage at the Tour Down Under la...

By the numbers: What it took to be competitive in the men's Worlds road race
Bergen, Norway played host to the 2017 Road World Championships last week in a carnival that culminated with Sunday's elite men's road ra...

By the numbers: How Nairo Quintana won the stage 9 summit finish at the Giro d'Italia
Sunday's stage 9 of the Giro d'Italia was the race's second summit finish, but it was the first time we saw the big GC contenders really ...

By the numbers: Analysing the Giro d'Italia's first mountain-top finish
The first mountain-top finish of this year's Giro d'Italia came early -- on just the fourth day of the race. The 181km stage concluded wi...

By the numbers: What it takes to be competitive at the Amstel Gold Race
Last Sunday, Philippe Gilbert (QuickStep) rode his way to his second big victory of the spring, beating Michal Kwiatkowski (Sky) in a two...

By the numbers: Why Paris-Roubaix is such a punishing race
Paris-Roubaix is arguably the hardest one-day race in the world, a 257km slog over the rough cobbled farm roads of northern France that o...

By the numbers: Just how hard is the Tour of Flanders?
The Tour of Flanders is regarded as one of the hardest one-day races in the world; a 260km slog over steep cobbled climbs and narrow farm...

By the numbers: What it takes to win Milan-San Remo
When Peter Sagan (Bora-hansgrohe) attacked on the Poggio in Saturday's Milan-San Remo, just two riders could follow him. One of them, Mic...

By the numbers: What does it take to be competitive at the cobbled semi-classics?
Spring Classics season got underway last weekend with two races in the Flanders region of Belgium: Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Bruss...

By the numbers: Just how hard were the uphill finishes at the 2017 Tour Down Under?
Two stages decided the general classification at the 2017 Santos Tour Down Under: stage 2 to Paracombe and stage 5 to Willunga Hill. Both...