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James Shaw had an incredible season in 2021 with Ribble Weldtite, managing to be visible at the Nationals in Lincoln, Top 5 overall in both the Tour of Slovenia and Tour of Norway plus in the mix in the Tour of Britain.

James will continue his career on the Worldtour in 2022 returning for the first time since leaving Lotto Soudal.

EF Education Nippo came in with a lot of expectation to 2021 with Hugh Carthy finishing 3rd in the Vuelta Espana in 2020. Magnus Cort Nielsen impressed in the 2021 Vuelta with 3 stage wins but in the Tour de France the team unfortunately saw the collapse of Rigoberto Uran but he salvaged a 10th overall.

Bora Hansgrohe's 2021 season will be the final year with Peter Sagan and his entourage. Sagan matched to win a stage in the Giro d'Italia but unfortunately could not regain the Green Jersey in the Tour de France. Wilco Kelderman however impressed with a 5th place in the Tour de France and Nils Politt managed to take a stage win as well.

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Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux were debutants at the World Tour in 2021 but managed to take a win in the Giro d'Italia with Taco Van Der Hoorn and in the Vuelta a Espana Rein Taaramäe won a stage furthermore wore the leader's jersey. A feat his team mate Odd Christian Eiking also managed to do.

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Movistar had a disappointing 2020 with only 2 wins so they were hoping for a better 2021 and they managed that with 15 wins plus a Vuelta a Espana podium place but the narrative that the season might be remembered for is the quitting of Miguel Angel Lopez in the Vuelta and ultimately prematurely ended his contract with the Spanish side.

For the 2022 season they have brought in reinforcements in the form of Ivan Sosa, Alex Aranburu, Max Kanter and Gorka Izaguirre. 

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Team Jumbo Visma had a tough act to follow after an impressive 2020 season with notably 2nd place in the Tour de France, a Liege-Bastogne-Liege victory and also a Vuelta title from Primož Roglič and Wout van Aert winning many races including Milano San Remo and Strade Bianche to name a few. But in the 2021 season there was an emerging star for the team one Jonas Vingegaard.

Team Review 2020: https://youtu.be/M-ahPs5XrnM

Full Tobias Foss Interview: https://youtu.be/Oq7AzFlI1C4

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The british national road race championships 2021 along with the criterium and Time trial will be held in Lincoln this year a bit out of schedule as well in October.

Ineos Grenadiers will look to regain the Road Race title. While Ethan Hayter, Alex Dowsett and Dan Bigham will be the leading favourites for the time trial title. 

Although 2021 has been a shortened calendar there has definitely been plenty of epic races and in this podcast we take a look at the top 10 riders of the year and how they got there.

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The race of the falling leaves is back with a star studded field. Remco Evenepoel is looking to right the wrong from last year. Julian Alaphilippe wants to add a monument to his reign as world champion and Primoz Roglic and Tadej Pogacar are both bidding to be the first Slovenian with 2 monument wins.

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Sonny Colbrelli managed to do the unthinkable and win Paris-Roubaix on his first attempt plus one of the most gruelling editions of the recent editions of the race.

Sonny Colbrelli has been one of the stars of the late season and has become more of an all round rider so the question here is could he perhaps do the somewhat unthinkable and win all the monuments of cycling?