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UCI’s Race Nutrition Project: The Carb Periodisation Shift
The UCI Sports Nutrition Project, a collaboration between the sport’s governing body and the world’s top scientists and WorldTour practitioners, documented why carb-loading protocols were replaced by carb periodisation. Let’s take a closer look at how it happened and what you can take away from…
Pogačar Huge Favourite to Win His First Tour de Suisse Title
If the recent Tour Auvergne–Rhône-Alpes is anything to go by, three of the five stages of the Tour de Suisse, which starts on Wednesday, will be dominated by breakaways. That’s right, five stages and not the traditional eight. Organisers have reduced the time and distance…
Seixas Crashes Out of Tour Auvergne as del Toro Wins in Style
Sometimes the most important victory of an athlete’s career is a loss. It’s much too early to make such a judgment about Paul Seixas’ crash and astonishing but futile fightback in Saturday’s stage 7 of the Tour Auvergne–Rhône-Alpes, but it was a comeback of legend.…
“Today, I’m here as the winner:” Paula Blasi seals Tour Féminin des Pyrénées Overall Victory
Just weeks after winning La Vuelta Femenina and after dominating the queen stage over the Tourmalet, the 23-year-old secured overall victory at the Tour Féminin des Pyrénées, continuing what is rapidly becoming one of the breakout seasons in women’s cycling.
Following a “Storm” of Misfortune, UAE Scrambles to Find a Tour Team for Pogačar
So far, 2026 has not been a banner year for the best cycling team in the world, UAE Team Emirates–XRG. Yes, they lead the UCI’s technical rankings with 15,059 points, but Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe and Visma–Lease a Bike are close behind. And while the team has…
The Dark Side of Losing Weight with Ozempic That Doctors Won’t Tell You About
Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) medications, such as Ozempic or Wegovy, have taken centre stage in conversations about weight loss. They are celebrated for their efficacy. Yet, as their popularity rises, a darker, less discussed side emerges. It’s overlooked by doctors and, until recently, even by clinical…
Is Remco’s Tour de France Strategy an Act of Desperation or Genius?
Remco Evenepoel is trying to win the Tour de France without riding in a race for more than two months prior to stage 1. Is that an act of desperation or a brilliant course of action based on innovative principles of sport science? We can’t…
UCI’s Race Nutrition Project: The 120 g/h Carb Revolution
The UCI Sport Nutrition Project is a landmark initiative, the first time the global governing body of cycling has united top scientists and WorldTour team practitioners to document and analyse the evolution of fuelling strategies in the sport. In this first article, we dive into…
Finding Something of Her Own: The Quiet Strength Bubbling in Ewa Zwolska
When Ewa joined The Unseen Stage, she hoped it would pull her out of routine and give her a reason to focus on herself again. Since then, her preparation for L’Étape Poland has been anything but straightforward. Between running a mountain hut, working punishingly long…
Giro d’Italia Women 2026: Demi Vollering’s Masterclass, a Generational Battle, and a Race That Delivered Big Time
The 2026 Giro d’Italia Women was rightly billed as one of the most demanding editions in recent memory. With nine stages, over 1,150 kilometres of racing, a brutal uphill time trial, the iconic Colle delle Finestre, and a route heavily weighted toward climbers, it promised…
Seixas Takes on del Toro, Ayuso in Tour Auvergne (Formerly Critérium du Dauphiné)
Let’s say, arbitrarily, that the Tour Auvergne–Rhône-Alpes – the race formerly known as the Critérium du Dauphiné – is the start of preparations for the 2026 Tour de France. It isn’t, of course. Riders targeting the TdF yellow jersey have been preparing for it for months,…
Between Mountain Hut Shifts and Training: Ewa Zwolska’s Hardest Cycling Hill to Climb Yet
When we first met Ewa, she described herself not as an athlete, but as someone who simply likes to “do things”: long mountain trails, thousand-kilometre bike trips across Poland, adventures powered more by curiosity than competition. The Unseen Stage was meant to push her into…