From greenwashing and dropper posts to action-packed racing – the biggest pro cycling stories of 2022 It was another vintage year for staying glued to your TV screen and refreshing your social media feed… cycling
in early October – perhaps the greatest sporting achievement of the year and a testament to the pure power and ability of human beings – the Italian was told by his team, the petrochemicals giant Ineos, to pose alongside one of the company’s earth-destroying, cyclist-endangering 4x4s.Cycling, as we all know, can help change – and save – the world. Someone just needs to remind the people running the sport every so often.
> History maker: Peerless Annemiek van Vleuten wins first edition of relaunched Tour de France Femmes Another measure of the gulf between how ASO views its male and female events lies most glaringly in the lack of line-to-line TV coverage for the Tour Femmes. Van Vleuten blew the field to shreds on the Petit Ballon, the first of stage seven’s three mammoth climbs – it’s just a shame no-one was able to see it.
“We tested different ones, different lengths. We started to test with a 120mm dropper post… the gap was too much,” the 28-year-old told us in March. > It wasn't just the dropper post: Matej Mohorič used"secret" wheel bearings and bigger disc rotors for Milan–San Remo win
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