PEDAL-O-METER

Sometimes the wind’s at your back, sometimes it’s all uphill

MIGHTY MUM

Laura Kenny returned to the track at the UCI World Championships in Apeldoorn, Holland, to pick up a silver medal with the GB women’s pursuit team just six months after the birth of her first child.

MUDDY MARVELLOUS

“Go hard or go home,” said cyclocross world champion Wout Van Aert after cramping and having to walk some of the final climb on his way to third place at a gloriously muddy Strade Bianche. Tiejs Benoot was a worthy winner and Romain Bardet an honourable second.

PAVÉ THE WAY

It’s cobble time as the Tour of Flanders on 1 April and Queen of the Classics, Paris-Roubaix, on 8 April pit the pros against the rough stuff of Belgium and northern France.

DARK SKY

Its riders may be racing in white kit this season, but the black clouds continue to loom over Team Sky after a Parliamentary Committee report accused them of abusing corticosteroids to enhance performance (albeit within WADA rules) ahead of the 2012 Tour.

A FEMALE TOUR... BUT WHEN?

A women’s Tour de France will have to emerge “sooner rather than later”, according to ASO’s Yann Le Moenner, but the need to find a time slot free of other races to maximise attention remains a hurdle.

DEATH PENALTY

Reports suggest a death by dangerous cycling law is imminent in the UK. Is this really the best way to combat the dangers on our roads?