Latest articles by Chris Marshall-Bell
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Is Tadej Pogačar the GOAT?
Tadej Pogačar may have had a phenomenal season, but has he done enough to cement his status as the greatest of all time? Chris Marshall-Bell weighs the arguments for and against
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'It's not about charity' - Former Qhubeka team boss on why his team no longer has African riders
Despite Biniam Girmay's Tour de France glory and the forthcoming Rwanda Worlds, African representation in the professional peloton is not growing fast
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Tom Pidcock opens up on departure from Ineos Grenadiers: 'Things weren't going how I imagined it'
The former winner of Strade Bianche and Amstel Gold is targeting a Grand Tour podium with his new team
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'I'm on a mission to build a new superhumanity': Founder of the enhanced games on the future of dope-legal racing
The Enhanced Games are an alternative Olympics where doping will be encouraged. Chris Marshall-Bell grills the founder on the risks
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Tadej Pogačar's Worlds attack to Remco Evenepoel's Olympic glory: The top six moments of the 2024 men's racing season
Was it all about Pogačar? Kinda, but not quite. 2024 will be remembered for much more than the Slovenian superstar's exploits
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'Three or four times a year, I still dream about riding the Tour de France' - Catching up with Greg LeMond
A true sporting icon whose 1989 Tour win is one of cycling's greatest hits, the American received CW's lifetime achievement award
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'My knee was broken into too many pieces to count': The comeback to cap them all
A bone-shattering accident in his first year as a pro left Tom Gloag fighting to save his career – but save it he did
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What is carbon monoxide inhalation, the controversial but legal practice people that emerged at the Tour de France?
UAE Team Emirates, Visma-Lease a Bike and Israel-Premier Tech have confirmed that their riders occasionally inhale carbon monoxide for the purpose of optimising altitude training
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'I would love to try it' - Tadej Pogačar hints at attempting to win all three Grand Tours in one year
After winning the Triple Crown of the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and the World Championships, Pogačar wants more
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What does a Gravel World Champion's pre-race training week look like?
We look at the swashbuckling Slovenian’s run-in to October's Gravel World Championships
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A phone app saved my life after a crash, you shouldn't ride anywhere remote without it
Having taken a life-threatening tumble while out riding on the UK's South Downs, John Powell is coming back from the brink
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'Knowing the course in a virtual race is maybe even more important than in road racing': Former e-sports World Champion's top tips
Speed skater turned eSports world champion, Loes Adegeest, on how to become virtually unbeatable when racing indoors
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Bicycles save lives: How bikes have been critical after Spain's Valencia floods
Chris Marshall-Bell lives in Valencia, Spain, and he and tens of thousands of others have accessed the dozens of flooded villages by bike to help with the clean-up operation
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'In the summer I’ll also jump into a hot bath for 20 minutes after a ride': A week in training with a WorldTour rider
We caught up with Australian Chris Harper as he prepared for this summer's Vuelta a España
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Navigating messy sprints and the secret to longevity: 32-year-old pro lifts the lid
The British Arkéa rider on shifting from sprinter to leadout man
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'The bike’s been the biggest therapeutic element for me': Former pro and DS Allan Peiper's battle against prostate cancer
Allan Peiper has won stages and Grand Tours, both as a rider and a DS. Since 2014, though, his biggest challenge has been a recurring battle with prostate cancer. He talks candidly to Chris Marshall-Bell about the ups and downs of his struggle
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Guava Spot Force AXS review: the Catalan gravel bike that loves tarmac too
It just doesn’t deal with fast asphalt, rocky terrain, sandy stretches and damp conditions, but it excels across them. It’s fast, aggressive, nimble, stable, and above all compliant.
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The land of legends: Riding on Tadej Pogačar's home roads
As part of our New Worlds issue in Travel Month, Chris Marshall Bell travelled to Slovenia to find out why it produces so many WorldTour riders per head of population.
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I joined a cycling team, and unwittingly became a doping whistleblower
When Toby Atkins moved to Italy to race his bike, the last thing he expected was to be dropped into the middle of a doping programme. Chris Marshall-Bell hears his story
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'I have to accept it': Zdeněk Štybar on the rare condition which curtailed his cyclocross career
A rare arterial condition curtailed Zdeněk Štybar illustrious career but not before one last heroic home tilt at the cyclo-cross Worlds
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How Tadej Pogačar created history and claimed cycling's Triple Crown of the Giro-Tour-Worlds
A journey that was supposedly fraught with risk and uncertainty was anything but for Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and World Championships victor Tadej Pogačar
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Have information about motor doping in cycling? The UCI will now pay you
The UCI hopes that informants and whistleblowers will increase their knowledge of "new and innovative – and hard to detect – technology in bikes."
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Inside the anti-doping operation at the Tour de France
With the eyes of the world on the Tour each July, and the threat of doping still a hot topic, how is modern testing safeguarding the sport? Chris Marshall-Bell visited the anti-doping truck during the 2024 Tour de France
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Meet the rider giving cancer the middle finger
How former WorldTour pro Tom Danielson turned surgical amputation into life-changing inspiration
