Matilda Price
Matilda is an NCTJ-qualified journalist based in the UK who joined Cyclingnews in March 2025. Prior to that, she worked as the Racing News Editor at GCN, and extensively as a freelancer contributing to Cyclingnews, Cycling Weekly, Velo, Rouleur, Escape Collective, Red Bull and more. She has reported on the ground at all of the biggest events on the calendar, including the men's and women's Tours de France, the Giro d'Italia, the Vuelta a Espana, the Spring Classics and the World Championships. She has particular experience and expertise in women's cycling, and women's sport in general. She is a graduate of modern languages and sports journalism.
Latest articles by Matilda Price

Lidl-Trek face another Classics setback as ill Jonathan Milan forced out of Milan-San Remo
By Matilda Price published
News Race's sprint field diminished as Italian suffering after Tirreno-Adriatico, as Lidl-Trek without a leader with Pedersen still injured

'I hope it gives me some freedom in the next races' – Lotte Kopecky shows threatening signs for Milan-San Remo with win in Belgium
By Matilda Price last updated
News Belgian rider interrupts Italian block to win Nokere Koerse whilst building up to top form and pace after return from back injury

Nokere Koerse Women: Lotte Kopecky powers to third career victory
By Matilda Price published
Results Belgian beats Charlotte Kool and Lara Gillespie in sprint finish

Where do the Tour de France contenders stand after Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico? Our first form ranking of 2026
By James Moultrie, Matilda Price last updated
Contenders With Paris-Nice, Tirreno-Adriatico and the early-season racing completed, we evaluate where all the favourites for yellow are standing ahead of July

Eleonora Ciabocco escapes with only cuts and stitches after frightening crash in Trofeo Alfredo Binda
By Matilda Price published
News Young Italian rider being monitored for concussion symptoms after hitting the ground hard in latter stages of Sunday's race

Tirreno-Adriatico: Michael Valgren breaks away for first win in five years as Isaac del Toro takes back race lead on stage 5
By Matilda Price published
Results Del Toro and Matteo Jorgenson round out podium as Giulio Pellizzari loses 19 seconds to duo

Riders to watch at Cape Epic 2026 – Mountain bike stars, gravel pros and Epic veterans form strong and open field for 700km challenge
By Matilda Price, Simone Giuliani published
Contenders Kate Courtney, Matt Beers, Alessandra Keller and Sam Gaze among stacked start lists, but which pairs will come out on top?

Leeuw-Oetingen: Lorena Wiebes finds a new way to win the race for a third time
By Matilda Price published
Results Dutchwoman launches late attack to take a more aggressive win

'If I have too big a gap from road, I lose a bit' – Tiffany Cromwell keeping the gravel balance going in 2026, with eyes on Australian title defence and home World Championships
By Simone Giuliani published
News Australian road professional with long history of also racing gravel keeps focus on road during Classics but key off-road goals take centre stage later in season

Tirreno-Adriatico: Mathieu van der Poel beats Isaac del Toro to thrilling stage 2 victory as wet gravel roads cause chaos
By Matilda Price published
Results Matteo Jorgenson and Thymen Arensman among the GC hopefuls to crash during sketchy San Gimignano finale

Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico are traditionally the spring's most important Grand Tour preparation races, but do they actually tell us anything?
By Matilda Price published
Analysis Most of the top GC riders are in action in France and Italy this week, but the statistics say that the results will tell us sparingly little about the biggest races of the spring and summer

'We had doubts about whether to do it or not' – How the Vuelta Femenina decided the time was right to take on the Angliru
By Matilda Price published
News Women's race will tackle fearsome climb in exciting double-header finale to May stage race

Read Cyclingnews' new and in-depth women's health series this International Women's Day
By Matilda Price published
Hub Assistant Features Editor Matilda Price introduces our latest subscriber-only series, how the stories came to be, and how you can read the articles for free this weekend

Fearsome Angliru rumoured to host finale of La Vuelta Femenina for the first time in 2026
By Matilda Price published
News El País reports that stage 7 will finish atop the Alto de L'Angliru, ahead of official route presentation on Monday

'I felt an obligation to be truthful and speak out' – Why Demi Vollering wants to keep periods and women's health in the spotlight in cycling
By Matilda Price published
News Former Tour de France Femmes champion has habitually spoken about periods, nutrition and health, saying 'it's very important to keep speaking up'

Tim Wellens latest big name to break a bone in Opening Weekend as more crashes affect Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne
By Matilda Price published
News Collarbone fracture for Belgian as windy weather and tense racing causes incidents in Belgium

Omloop van het Hageland: Charlotte Kool sprints to first victory of new year after key rival crashes in final 6km
By Matilda Price published
Results Lara Gillespie second, Shari Bossuyt third in Tielt-Winge after Elisa Balsamo misses out due to crash

Giro di Sardegna: Filippo Zana takes home overall victory as Davide Donati speeds to final stage win
By Matilda Price published
Results Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe Rookies rider claims the win in stage 5 bunch sprint

Tour du Rwanda: Henok Mulubrhan wins for Eritrea on stage 8, as Moritz Kretschy seals overall
By Matilda Price published
Results Circuit race around the capital in Kigali delivers a thrilling finish

Major fractures for Stefan Küng and Ben Swift as injury fallout from crash-ridden Omloop Het Nieuwsblad continues
By Matilda Price published
News Several riders already out of action as crashes affect both men's and women's races

Lack of sprint power and 'stupid pain' foils Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney yet again in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
By Matilda Price published
News 'It's hard to be again watching the winner just in front of me' says Polish rider, beaten to the line by Demi Vollering

Giro di Sardegna: Filippo Zana gets a big payoff on stage 4 with solo attack
By Matilda Price published
Results Soudal-Quickstep stack the top 10 and take race lead

Tour du Rwanda: Brazilian Henrique Bravo climbs to stage 7 victory in Kigali
By Matilda Price published
Results Soudal-QuickStep Devo rider attacks late on hilly finale to take win ahead of Lucas Van Gils and Henok Mulubrhan

'We try to push the limits to be ready' – Mads Pedersen in a battle against time to return for Spring Classics, still not training fully on road after horrible crash
By Matilda Price published
News 'If we didn't believe in it, I wouldn't break my ass off and be destroying myself on this home trainer' Lidl-Trek leader says

'The level is a thousand times higher than 2013' - Tiffany Cromwell on her Omloop Het Nieuwsblad victory and how the Classics have transformed since
By Matilda Price published
Interview Australian road captain looks back on that winning day from more than a decade ago and also ahead to the role she'll take at Canyon-SRAM this Classics season
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