Marcel Kittel at the 2016 Dubai Tour
MARCEL KITTEL
Date of birth: 11/05/1988
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USA Cycling unveils 2025 National Championship schedule with 17 chances to claim the Stars and Stripes jerseyFrom cycling eSports in February to cyclocross in December, here are the dates and locations for the 2025 season
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Tech of the week: A shockingly expensive steel bike from Colnago, a surprisingly affordable carbon bike from Pinarello, DT Swiss energises our cycling lives and Pog's bars are now yours to buyColnago's Steelnova is a thing of beauty but you'll pay for the pleasure, while Pinarello's F1 is an inexpensive gateway to the brand. DT Swiss enters the dynamo hub market and Enve brings Pog's cockpit to market
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Is Lapierre set to make a return to the WordTour with team dsm-firmenich PostNL?French bike brand appears set to return to cycling’s top level with Dutch WordTour team after 22 year long partnership with Groupama-FDJ ended in 2023
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Leo Hayter leaves DSM Development Team early to join Hagens Berman AxeonBritish U23 time trial champion moves to American development squad after split opinion over future
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Cees Bol: Negative comments from unamed DSM riders 'difficult to read'Dutch sprinter says that it is difficult to read criticisms of the team
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Romain Bardet says leaving DSM riders' comments 'not easy to understand' after 'Soviet regime' remarksMultiple riders have broken their contracts over the years with an unnamed rider calling it a "Soviet regime"
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'The hardest and easiest decision I've had to make': Nicholas Roche retires after 17 yearsThe Irishman has raced for some of the biggest names in cycling throughout his career
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Team DSM rider files police complaint after being throttled by angry motoristThe driver is said to have objected to the cyclist riding side-by-side with another rider
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‘You can see the power you need to survive the Tour de France’ - Marcel Kittel reflects on his most successful yearsMarcel Kittel retired from professional cycling as not only one of the best sprinters of his generation, but one of the most successful in the history of the Tour de France.
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Marcel Kittel talks us through his best yearMarcel Kittel has been pondering the question for a week. “How do you define your best year? Do you take victories as the most important factor?” It was what Chris Marshall Bell assumed when he first made contact for this interview
