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Tuesday, November 18, 2025
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2024 Tour de France | 2024 Giro d'Italia
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. - Khalil Gibran
Bill & Carol McGann’s book The Story of the Tour de France, 2022: The Fastest Tour Ever is available in both Kindle eBook & audiobook versions. To get your copy, just click on the Amazon link on the right.
Upcoming racing:
- December 14: World Cup Namur
- December 23: Superprestige Heusden-Zolder
- December 26: World Cup Gavere
- December 29: Trofee Loenhout-Azencross
- December 30: Superprestige Diegem
- January 1: GP Sven Nys
Latest completed racing:
- November 16: Trofee Hamme-Flandriencross
- November 1: Trofee Oudenaarde-Koppenbergcross
- October 26: Superprestige Overijse-Vlaamse Druivencross
- October 14 - 19: Tour of Guangxi
- October 14 - 19: Tour of Holland
- October 19: Veneto Classic
- October 19: Japan Cup
- October 19: Chrono des Nations
- October 15: Giro del Veneto
- October 12: Paris-Tours
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Here’s the team’s announcement:
Team Jayco AlUla is excited to announce the signing of young climber Finlay Pickering on a two-year contract, seeing him on the Australian squad through 2027.
At 22, the British rider has already spent two seasons racing and developing at WorldTour level and has shown that he is a rider with plenty of promise.
Pickering is a former junior national time trial champion and won the overall classification at the 2022 Tour Alsace. This season saw Pickering claim victory in the mountains classification at the Tour of the Alps, and following a surprise last-minute call-up, he made a strong Grand Tour debut at the Vuelta a España.
Finlay Pickering. Photo: Sprint Cycling
The GreenEDGE Cycling management believe that Pickering is a talented climber, and with the support of the Team Jayco AlUla staff, can develop further as a rider.
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Finlay Pickering:
“I really look forward to riding with new teammates and working with well-respected staff. I am also very excited to swing my leg over a Giant again! I’ve learned a lot about being in the WorldTour over the last two years, and now moving to Team Jayco AlUla, I can hopefully develop into being an even better bike rider.”
Gene Bates – Team Jayco AlUla Sporting Manager:
“We have been following Finlay’s progression as a rider keenly, and it is fantastic to have him joining the team next season. In his two years at WorldTour level, he has already shown himself to be a very promising climber. His performance at the Tour of the Alps showed his strengths in the mountains and we believe he can fit in well with our climbing group, where he can provide valuable support to the team’s leaders as well as developing himself as a rider.”
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Finlay Pickering
Age: 22
Nationality: British
New rider: 2026 & 2027
Key Results
1st Tour of the Alps, mountains classification (2025)
1st Alpes Isère Tour, mountains classification (2023)
1st Tour Alsace, overall classification (2022)
1st Tour Alsace, stage 3 (2022)
1st Junior British time trial champion (2021)
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