Dan Challis

Freelance writer

Dan is a freelance cycling journalist and has written for Cyclingnews since 2023 alongside other work with Cycling Weekly, Rouleur and The Herald Scotland. Dan focuses much of his work on professional cycling beyond its traditional European heartlands and writes a regular Substack called Global Peloton.

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A general view of the peloton passing through the Orchies cobblestones sector during Paris-Roubaix Femmes

As It Happened - Lotte Kopecky becomes Queen of the Classics at Paris-Roubaix Femmes

By Dan Challis last updated

LIVE World Champion Kopecky wins the Hell of the North in velodrome sprint

LIVE
Gent-Wevelgem Women Route

As it happened - Lorena Wiebes powers to narrow Gent-Wevelgem win over Balsamo

By Dan Challis last updated

Live 171.2km cobbled Cassic tests peloton from the Menin Gate in Ypres to Wevelgem

Live
Milan-San Remo 2024

The longest, fastest day - Milan-San Remo 2024 gallery

By Dan Challis published

All the best photos as Jasper Philipsen sprinted to the win in La Primavera

Road
Ibai Salas

Ibai Salas makes €310K compensation claim against Spanish Anti-Doping

By Dan Challis, Alasdair Fotheringham published

News Biological passport rejected as proof of doping by Spanish court

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Team Visma-Lease a Bike's Dutch cyclist Olav Kooij celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the 1st stage of the Paris-Nice cycling race, 158 km between Les Mureaux and Les Mureaux, on March 3, 2024. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP)

Paris-Nice: Olav Kooij pips Mads Pedersen on uphill sprint to win opening stage

By Dan Challis published

Results Laurence Pithie finishes third in tight bunch finish

Results
2024 Strade Bianche elite men's winner Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates)

A Monumental Day in Tuscany - Strade Bianche Gallery

By Dan Challis published

The best photos as Tadej Pogacar and Lotte Kopecky took victory on the white roads around Siena

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SIENA, ITALY - MARCH 02: Thomas Pidcock of The United Kingdom and Team INEOS Grenadiers competes during the 18th Strade Bianche 2024, Men's Elite a 215km one day race from Siena to Siena 320m / #UCIWT / on March 02, 2024 in Siena, Italy. (Photo by Luc Claessen/Getty Images)

'WTF? It felt like we were in the gruppetto' - Tom Pidcock stunned by Pogacar's Strade Bianche attack

By Dan Challis published

News Ineos Grenadiers leader says he was going well on his way to fourth, but Pogacar was too good

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SIENA, ITALY - MARCH 02: Elisa Longo Borghini of Italy and Team Lidl-Trek crosses the finish line as second place winner during the 10th Strade Bianche 2024, Women's Elite a 137km one day race from Siena to Siena 320m / #UCIWWT / on March 02, 2024 in Siena, Italy. (Photo by Luc Claessen/Getty Images)

'You always have to go for the win' - Longo Borghini falls short at Strade Bianche

By Dan Challis published

News Italian escaped in tactical final kilometres with Lotte Kopecky, but 'legs a bit empty' in the Piazza del Campo

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Belgian Lotte Kopecky of SD Worx pictured at the Paterberg during the women's race of the 'Ronde van Vlaanderen/ Tour des Flandres/ Tour of Flanders' one day cycling event, 158km with start and finish in Oudenaarde, Sunday 02 April 2023. BELGA PHOTO DAVID PINTENS (Photo by DAVID PINTENS / BELGA MAG / Belga via AFP) (Photo by DAVID PINTENS/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images)

Paterberg may be out of Tour of Flanders and E3 Saxo Classic following landslides

By Dan Challis published

News Road works threaten to take out the only road approaching key climb of Spring Classics

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Slovakia's Peter Sagan takes part in the men's elite mountain bike cross-country short track race at the Cycling World Championships in Glentress Forest, Scotland on August 10, 2023.

Peter Sagan to undergo heart procedure

By Dan Challis published

News Slovakian had abnormal tachycardic episode during MTB race in Spain, with heart-rate exceeding 200bpm

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