Incredible Valverde crushes the opposition in Mallorca.

Alejandro Valverde proved that yesterday’s second place in the Trofeo Andratx was just a case of misjudgment when he took a hugely dominant solo win in the Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana, the hardest race of the Challenge Mallorca.

Having joined a big group in the early part of the race, he gradually dropped his companions before doing the final 30km on his own, with Tim Wellens and Leopold König completing the podium.

The Spaniard left no one wondering who is the strongest rider at the moment as he put in a hugely impressive solo performance that saw him take a dominant victory.

Ferrand-Prevot beats Cant to World Championship title.

Pauline Ferrand-Prevot out-sprinted Sanne Cant to take her first cyclo-cross World Championship, after a tense finale in Tábor. Ferrand-Prevot is now a dual world champion, after winning the road race last September. Defending champion Marianne Vos had to surrender her title but beat Niki Harris to take the bronze medal.

Danish dynamite Andreassen blows away Iserbyt.

Danish supertalent Simon Andreassen blew away the opposition in the junior men’s category at the Tábor cyclo-cross World Championships on Saturday morning.

The current mountain bike world champion added a second world title to his tally in the Czech Republic.

Andreassen rode away from pre-race favorite Eli Iserbyt during the second of five laps on a very technical course.

Iserbyt finished as runner-up ahead of Max Gulickx. Gage Hecht was an unlucky fourth.

2014-15 Races & Results.

UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships - Jan 31-Feb 1 (Races),

Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race - Feb 1 (Races),

Ladies Tour of Qatar 2015 - Feb 3-6 (Stages),

Dubai Tour 2015 - Feb 4-7 (Stages),

Tour of Qatar 2015 - Feb 8-13 (Stages),

Giro d'Italia 2015 - May 9-31 (Stages),

Tour de France 2015 - July 4-26 (Stages),

Vuelta a España 2015 - Aug 22-Sept 13 (Stages),

UCI Road World Championship 2015 - Sept 20-27 (Stages),

Santos Tour Down Under 2015 - Jan 18-25 (Results),

UCI Road World Championship 2014 - Sept 20-27 (Results),

Vuelta a España 2014 - Aug 23-Sept 14 (Results),

Tour de France 2014  - July 5-27 (Results),

Giro d'Italia 2014 - May 9 - June 1 (Results).

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2015 UCI Cyclocross World Championships LIVE - Tabor, Czech Republic.

Sunday: U23 Men: 11:00am CET  (5:00am U.S. Eastern).

Sunday: Men Elite: 2:00pm CET  (8:00am U.S. Eastern).

Dubai Tour 2015 Live Dashboard.

Stage 1 start time: Tuesday 11:55 GST (11:55:00 PM PST);
Earliest live video: 14:00 GST (2:00:00 AM PST);
Estimated finish: 16:00 GST (4:00:00 AM PST).

Super Bowl is small fries compared to this: World cycling race is coming to Richmond.

"The world champion is a guy you’ve never heard of, he won with a gutsy gamble in a place you couldn’t find on the globe, and his name is impossible for Americans to pronounce: Kwiatkowski.

As we sit today in the glow of the Super Bowl and on the precipice of March Madness, it’s hard to conjure up another championship in the United States that might attract more eyeballs worldwide.

One will: The world championship of bike racing comes here in September.

This is no small deal. The organizers figure the global TV audience will number 300 million. The Super Bowl, billed as a worldwide attraction, may get 115 million viewers, 98 percent of them in the United States. The final game of March Madness will get 20 million."

2015 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race LIVE stream.

Elite Men race starts at 11:20am local (7:20pm U.S. Eastern) (01:20am CET).

Finish at around 3:30pm local (11:30pm U.S. Eastern) (5:30am CET).

LIVE video from 11:00am local (7:00pm U.S. Eastern) (01:00am CET).

Bobridge misses out on Hour Record.

Jack Bobridge missed out on setting a new Hour Record, setting a distance of 51.3 kilometres half a kilometer shy of Matthias Brändle's distance of 51.852 kilometers.

Bobridge fell two laps short in the attempt but set a new Australian record, beating Brad McGee's 2000 effort of 50.300km.

Such was the exertion of Bobridge's efforts, he was only able to get off his bike with assistance and removing the front wheel.

Bobridge coach gutted after missing Hour Record.

There can be little doubt that Jack Bobridge had nothing left in the tank following his hour record attempt. The effort marked his entire body.

Bobridge’s coach, Tim Decker, was with him for every one of the 51.3km and in his own way looked weary having gone through the process.

Throughout the hour, Decker was dancing along his black markers taped near the edge of the duckboard that would indicate where his charge was in relation to the various schedules that had been mapped out prior to the attempt.

At the completion of the 60 minutes, Bobridge fell just 552 metres short of the benchmark set by Mathias Brändle.

The 51.3km was good enough to set a new Australian record, bettering Brad McGee’s 50.052km set back in 1997.

Craddock on the mend in Houston.

Lawson Craddock's first trip to Australia for the Tour Down Under ended abruptly when the second-year Giant-Alpecin rider crashed hard during the opening kilometres of stage 4.

Now the 22-year-old Texan is recovering in Houston and refocusing his efforts on returning in time to defend last year's podium result at the Tour of California in May.

Craddock suffered fractures to his sternum manubrium, one rib and his left wrist in the fall, which occurred as he was navigating a divided road on the outskirts of Glenelg.

Sutherland breaks collarbone in Mallorca Challenge crash.

Rory Sutherland has distal left collarbone fracture after a crash during the Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana on Saturday, his team has confirmed.

Sutherland crashed after only 17 kilometers into the third race of the Mallorca Challenge on the descent of the Coll d'En Claret.

He and was forced to abandon immediately and was taken to hospital  by ambulance where the break was confirmed.

"Poster boy" of Long Beach cycling, and possibly oldest cyclist in world, dies - aged 106.

A man who may have been the world’s oldest cyclist, described in 2011 as the “poster boy” of cycling in Long Beach, California, has died at the age of 106.

Retired aerospace mechanic Octavio Orduno was a local celebrity in Long Beach, where he cycled daily along Ocean Boulevard until a couple of years ago, reports the Los Angeles Times.

More than one bad apple: A systems view on doping in cycling.

At 38, Nys still hungry for a cyclocross worlds victory.

Denise Mueller: Woman's Land Speed Record - How the idea was formed.

Daily Distractions.

Video: USAC Cyclocross Development Juniors in Belgium.

Neylan wins inaugural women's Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race.

After a windswept and aggressive 113km of racing, Rachel Neylan has written her name in to the history books as the first winner of the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race.

A fast finish to the race in the final 20km saw numerous attacks launched from a 16-rider front group but it was Neylan who launched the race winning move to taste her first victory of the season.

Orica-AIS's Valentina Scandolara beat Tessa Fabry in the sprint for second place, 46 seconds down on Neylan.

Lance Armstrong should get back his titles, says Scott Mercier.

Lance Armstrong should get back his seven Tour de France titles and be forgiven, according to former US Postal Service Pro Team rider Scott Mercier.

American Mercier, 47, quit the sport in 1997 when he refused to join the team's doping program.

Armstrong signed for the team a year later and won six of his seven Tours with them. He was stripped of all of them in 2012 and has admitted doping.

"It's time to consider letting Lance out of 'time-out'," Mercier said.

"He is a polarizing figure and always will be, but I believe he can be a catalyst for good; not just for cycling, but especially for those who suffer from cancer," Mercier said.

Vos concedes rainbow jersey after six-year reign.

There was no lucky world title number seven in a row for Marianne Vos at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Tábor, Czech Republic today.

Still feeling the effects of a lingering hamstring injury aggravated at the Dutch championships, Vos was unable to match the pace of teammate Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, who out-sprinted Belgian Sanne Cant to win the rainbow jersey.

"If you're the reigning champion, you obviously want to win the title, but I did my best," Vos said to De Telegraaf.

Fourth is as good as gold for Gage Hecht at 2015 cyclocross worlds.

Gage Hecht just can’t stop smiling.

In his place, another rider might cry, swear, throw a bike. You could hardly fault them.

Hecht, among the most promising American junior cyclocrossers in a decade, fought one of the most dynamic battles cyclocross has seen this season, racing Belgian Eli Iserbyt and Netherlander Max Gulickx right up to the final turn for a shot at the silver medal.

It would have been the first medal for an American man since 2007, when Danny Summerhill and Jonathan Page scored dual silvers in the junior and elite categories in Hooglede-Gits. Rare company.

Talk: Aaron Olson.

He was a big winner in the US, rode two Giros for two different Division One teams and was a team mate to some of the sport’s most famous (and notorious) recent names – so how come we’ve forgotten about him?

Aaron Olson is the man in question; his take on the sport is different to most, pointing out the obvious – but that which many have forgotten and paid the price for. Here’s his tale.