Flèche-Wallonne 2024 Race Report: Stephen Williams surprisingly won the 2024 Flèche Wallonne. After a cold and wet race of 200 kilometres, the British rider jumped away with 300 metres to go and no one had the legs to catch him before the line. Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) finished second, aheadMaxim Van Gils (Lotto Dstny) in third.

Tom Pidcock made up for his Amstel Gold Race loss in 2021 to Wout van Aert by the smallest of margins. The INEOS Grenadiers rider crossed to the winning break and then won the sprint from Marc Hirschi (UAE Team Emirates) and Tiesj Benoot (Visma | Lease a Bike). Top favourite, World champion, Mathieu van der Poel was trapped in the bunch to finish 22nd.

The Alpecin-Deceuninck team dominated and split the 2024 Paris-Roubaix to pieces to soften the competition for Mathieu van der Poel's winning attack just under 60 kilometres from the velodrome in Roubaix. His teammate, Jasper Philipsen was second again and Mads Pedersen took third ahead of Nils Politt.

Lotte Kopecky won the women's 2024 Paris-Roubaix. The World champion was the fastest in a sprint of six riders on the Roubaix velodrome after an exciting battle on the cobbles. She beat Elisa Balsamo and Pfeiffer Georgi into second and third places. Marianne Vos was fourth, Amber Kraak fifth and Ellen van Dijk sixth.

Mathieu van der Poel was expected to win the Tour of Flanders, but the Alpecin-Deceuninck rider took an epic Ronde with solo effort in the Flemish rain, going solo from the Koppenberg. Surprisingly, Luca Mozzato (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) was second and Nils Politt (UAE Team Emirates) was third.

The two strongest men in the race, Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) and Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) tore Gent-Wevelgem apart until they were the only men left standing. At the finish the Dane had just the edge on the Dutch World champion to take the win. Jordi Meeus (BORA-hansgrohe) brought in the peloton just 16 seconds later.

RACE REPORT: UAE Team Emirates' Tadej Pogačar was the favourite to win the 2024 Strade Bianche, but no one guessed he would attack with 80 kilometres to go and solo to the finish in Siena. The Slovenian champion soon had a lead of 4 minutes and the others behind him were racing for the podium. Toms Skujiņš was second and Maxim Van Gils third, both at nearly 3 minutes. Last year's winner, Tom Pidcock took fourth place.

After a day of cat-and-mouse, with Visma ! Lease a Bike sending riders up the road, the first BIG Classic of 2024 went to the Dutch team, but not who we expected. It was Jan Tratnik who out-sprinted Nils Politt (UAE Team Emirates) after a late break. Wout van Aert was third at the head of the chasers.

Tadej Pogačar dropped the top men in the leading group to solo to victory in Bergamo. His third in a row Il Lombardia and his fifth monument. The other stars couldn't pull the Slovenian champion back even when he had cramp in the last kilometres. Andrea Bagioli was second and Primož Roglič third at 51 seconds.