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Hoogeveen > Col du Vam 150km/men & 115km/women Stage 3 of the men’s race was a perfect example of what can happen late in the season. Visma played the multi-leader strategy, Campenaerts now leads the race by 15 seconds to Wessel Mouris, Fisher-Black is at 30 seconds and I’ll skip a few riders to jump...

Jinchengjiang > Yizhou 170km Stage 4 did go the way of the climbing sprinters, Paul Magnier taking his 2nd win of the race. My pick, Olav Kooij, was a DNS, but I’m still taking it as a moral victory! Stage 5 is another which suits the fast men, but with big gaps now on GC, it’s...

Bama > Tian’e 165km Big win today for Milan Fretin, his first at world tour level, in what was another messy sprint. Kooij’s problems continued and Magnier unclipped during the sprint, but Fretin took a deserved win. Stage 4 is much harder than the first three stages, but the sprinters will still hope to fight...

Sittard > Watersley 114km/men & 89km/women As expected, Jakob Söderqvist won the men’s ITT, continuing his fine run of recent form. He now leads the GC by 14 seconds to Hayter and 15 seconds to Fisher-Black. Other notable riders are Reinderink at 22 seconds, with the Visma pair of Campenaerts and Laporte at 29 seconds....

Tilburg > Tilburg 13.5km ITT Day 3 in the Eneco Tour and both men and women are faced with a 13.5km ITT with just 28m of climbing. This is a day for the TT specialists, they’ll hope to gain enough time to put themselves into a strong position on GC with a few challenging days...

Jingxi > Bama 211km Stage 3 is another one quite a few of the riders will know. 211km is a long day in the saddle at this time of year, just under 2000m of climbing means it’s not flat either. Paul Magnier won here in 2025, Ethan Vernon the year before, it’s another stage which...

Ede > Ede 120km (men) 80km (women) Stage 1 of the Eneco Tour, the men do 3 laps of the 40km circuit, the women do 2. There’s a golden kilometre dishing out bonus seconds too, which could be very important in terms of the fight for the overall titles. Weather Nice day with a max...

Chongzuo > Jingxi 182km The opening stage went the way of Paul Magnier, he managed to get a decent position in the final kilometre and launched a devastating sprint from 250m to go. As expected, Decathlon were the team with the best lead out, but Olav Kooij got bumped by Magnier when he went past,...

The Hague > The Hague 3.1km What was the Tour of Holland and Simac Ladies Tour has now become the Eneco Tour. Both men and women will be racing on the same day, the road stages see the women do a shorter distance than the men, which is easy to do as all stages feature...

Chartres > Tours 216km The route is almost identical to last year, all the gravel sectors are the same. The big news is that QuickStep return to the race for the first time since 2018, that was a very long huff! Matteo Trentin is the defending champion, he’s aiming to win the race for the...