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Manu Bay's Morning: Finals Day at the Inaugural Raglan CT Event
The first Championship Tour title at Raglan is decided today — Carissa Moore faces Sawyer Lindblad in the women's final, while Yago Dora, Italo Ferreira, Griffin Colapinto, and Morgan Cibilic contest the men's semis at 7:35 AM NZST on the last day of the event window.
Cycling Lombardy: From the Oltrepò Plains to the Madonna del Ghisallo
Lombardy is where the Giro d'Italia sprints to Milan and where Il Lombardia sends climbers over the Ghisallo. A practical guide to cycling the flat southern plain, the Lake Como climbs, and the classics roads that make this one of the world's most layered cycling regions.
Sprint Into Milan: The Giro's Final Bunch Finish Before the Rest Day
Stage 15 brings the 2026 Giro d'Italia into Milan on a 157-kilometre flat run from Voghera — the race's last sprint opportunity before tomorrow's rest day and the mountain stages that will decide the podium. Jonas Vingegaard enters the day 2:26 clear in pink.
Preparing for Your First Multi-Day MTB Stage Race
Multi-day mountain bike stage racing has one demand that no single-day event prepares you for: recovering overnight and performing again at full intensity the following morning, for seven or eight consecutive days. The training block, the race-week disciplines, and the gear decisions are all oriented toward that single requirement.
The Vendée Globe's Strange Logic: Why Solo Non-Stop Round the World Works as a Sport
The Vendée Globe is a sailing race in the same way the Badwater Ultramarathon is a running race — technically accurate and fundamentally inadequate. Solo, non-stop, unassisted circumnavigation of the world in a 60-foot foiling monohull. It has run every four years since 1989 and is the most watched sailing event on earth.
El Chorro: The Most Practical Sport Climbing Destination in Spain
El Chorro is not Spain's most famous climbing destination, but for athletes arriving from Northern Europe in the depths of winter, it may be the most logical: 60 kilometres from Málaga airport, accessible by commuter train, and climbable through November to April when everything north of the Pyrenees is under frost.
Manu Bay, Raglan: The Left That the Championship Tour Just Discovered
Manu Bay came to international attention in 1966. The World Surf League Championship Tour took until 2026 to schedule an event there. A practical guide to surfing the left-hand point break at the centre of this month's CT action — and the rest of what Raglan offers.
Colapinto Ends Toledo's Charge; Four World Champions Exit Raglan as Finals Approach
Griffin Colapinto ended Filipe Toledo's run at Manu Bay with a 17.10 quarterfinal total, and the women's draw produced an all-American semifinal line-up as Carissa Moore, Bettylou Sakura Johnson, Sawyer Lindblad and Alyssa Spencer advanced past four world champions.
Switzerland's Bouldering Trinity: Magic Wood, Cresciano, Chironico
The three Alpine valleys that turned Switzerland into the world's outdoor bouldering capital — and how to plan a trip around the boulders while the World Climbing Series runs in Bern.
World Climbing Series Bern Opens at Festhalle as New Era Begins
The rebranded World Climbing Series opened in Bern on May 22 with bouldering qualifications at Festhalle — the same competition the sport called the IFSC World Cup last year, and one of the most stacked qualification fields in recent memory.
Cycling Lake Maggiore: Italian Lakes Loops from Verbania to Stresa
A practical guide to cycling the western shore of Lake Maggiore — the same lakeside roads, foothill climbs, and Borromean island views that closed Giro Stage 13 in Verbania.
Bettiol Solos Into Verbania: Stage 13 of the Giro Goes to the Breakaway
Alberto Bettiol attacked on the Ungiasca, dropped Leknessund, and rode alone into Verbania for his first professional win in nearly five years — while Eulálio and Vingegaard arrived together, the 33-second GC gap intact.
Run the Mozart 100 Route: Austria's Alpine UTMB Guide
A practical guide to running the mozart 100 by UTMB route through Austria's Salzkammergut — 119km, the Schafberg and Zwölferhorn summits, and the most scenic lakes in the Alps.
Mozart 100 by UTMB 2026: Austria's Alpine Ultra Fires Up Tomorrow
The mozart 100 by UTMB returns to Austria's Salzkammergut on May 23 with 119km, 5,700m of gain, and a field assembled around two savage alpine summits: the Schafberg and the Zwölferhorn.
Bern Bouldering Day 1: Sanders, McNeice, Zhang Share the Top of Women's Qualification
Annie Sanders (USA) topped the women's Boulder qualification at the World Climbing Series Bern with 124.9 points — tied with Erin McNeice (GB) and Yuetong Zhang (China) in a split-group format that set up a wide-open semi-final on Saturday.
Flying with a Bike: How to Navigate Airlines, Fees, and Arrive Race-Ready
Airlines treat oversized sports equipment with varying enthusiasm, their policies change without notice, and the difference between a correctly packed bike and a casually packed one shows up at race-day bike check. Here is how to do it without drama.
Giro Stage 13: Ganna's Hometown, Vingegaard's Moment, Verbania's Stage
Stage 13 of the 2026 Giro d'Italia brings the race to Verbania on Lake Maggiore — Filippo Ganna's hometown — with the Ungiasca climb threatening GC upheaval just 33 seconds could change everything.
Racing Hot: Heat Acclimatization Strategies for Ironman Athletes
Athletes who train in cool climates and race in Kona, Lanzarote, or Cairns face a thermal stress gap that race-day willpower cannot close. This is what the science says about closing it before the start gun goes.
Trail Running Innsbruck: Nordkette Access, Race Calendar, and Why the City-Mountain Combination Works
Innsbruck sits at 587 metres above sea level with a 2,300-metre limestone ridge directly above it and a cable car from the city centre. For trail runners, the combination of full urban infrastructure and genuine alpine terrain within 30 minutes is difficult to find elsewhere in Europe.
Coromandel Peninsula: New Zealand's Standby-Day Surf Detour
When Raglan goes flat, the Coromandel Peninsula offers Pacific-coast surf, walking tracks, and a different North Island geography — three hours east of Manu Bay and worth the drive.
Standby Tour Day: Raglan Waits as the Pacific Goes Flat
Day eight of the Corona Cero New Zealand Pro at Raglan saw no surf and no competition — but the standby tour day has its own rhythm, and it's a story worth telling.
Endurance Rewards Consistency More Than Genetics — Noah Benintende
At mile 77 of his first 100-mile ultramarathon, Noah Benintende's body began to shut down. The finish line was still twenty-three miles away. Nobody was coming to save him. So he walked.
The Noise Goes Quiet — Kegan Hertz on Running, Discipline, and Becoming
Between lifting, growth, and discipline, Kegan Hertz found clarity in the miles he never planned to run. A story about the space where obsession finds its rhythm and goes still.
Keswick Mountain Festival 2026 Wrap: Record Crowds, Jasmin Paris, and the Lake District at Its Best
22,000 people. 18 sports. One Lake District weekend. The Keswick Mountain Festival 2026 delivered its biggest edition yet — from Jasmin Paris on the main stage to record finisher numbers on the fells.