Mathieu van der Poel said on Wednesday he will skip this year's world road race championships in favor of a tilt at the mountain bike world crown.

Mathieu van der Poel did it again. Seven-time world champion. Undefeated all season. On Sunday in Liévin, the Dutchman crushed the field, dropping his rivals in the first lap and never looking back.

After two full months of racing across 11 events and five countries, the UCI Cyclocross World Cup is coming to an end.

Mathieu van der Poel geared up for the world championships next month by winning the final two races of the cyclo-cross World Cup this weekend.

Cyclo-cross star Mathieu van der Poel has withdrawn from Wednesday's X20 Cyclocross Trophy in Baal due to a rib injury, just a month before he aims for his seventh world title. The Dutch rider's Alpecin-Deceuninck team reported that the 29-year-old has been experiencing "significant pain in his ribs" following a crash into a pole during the cyclo-cross event in Loenhout last Friday.

Here's how to watch the 2024 UCI Gravel World Championships on FloBikes, streaming only in US and Canada. The 2024 UCI Gravel World Championships brings the fight for the rainbow stripes to Flanders in north Belgium. This year's races will start in Halle and finish in Leuven adding up to a 135km ride for women elite and 182km for the men elite riders, kicking off at 8:15 a.m. ET on Saturday and Sunday.

Tadej Pogacar added the world road race title at the UCI Road World Championships 2024 to his Tour de France and Giro d'Italia victories Sunday to become the first man since 1987 to win cycling's triple crown in the same season.

The 2024 UCI Road World Championships kick off this Sunday, September 22, in Zurich, and the spotlight is on defending champion Mathieu van der Poel the following Sunday in the men's elite road race. After his spectacular win at the 2023 Worlds in Glasgow, van der Poel is looking to defend his title on a hilly Zurich course that will push him to his limits.

Here are a few reasons why cycling fans need to tune into FloBikes to watch the 2024 UCI Road World Championships, starting Saturday, Sept. 21.

Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard begins his quest for a third consecutive Tour de France title Saturday when the peloton heads out of Florence, Italy, in sizzling heat for an opening stage packed with hills.

Tadej Pogacar said Thursday there had been "a little question mark," but he now has "fully recovered" after suffering from COVID-19 only 10 days ago, with his bid for a third Tour de France triumph approaching.

Tadej Pogacar stands in the way of Mathieu van der Poel's bid to become the first man in almost half a century to win three of the big five one-day races in one season at Liège-Bastogne-Liège on Sunday.

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Two spectators who threw beer and objects at Mathieu van der Poel in two cycling classics have been identified and face police questioning, a Belgian newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Mathieu van der Poel triumphed on the cobbles for a second straight year Sunday after a solo 60-kilometer breakaway to win the Paris-Roubaix race known as "the Hell of the North."