Cycling's 2010s - An Unpredictable Journey
by EDWARD PICKERING -- EDITOR ProCycling UK, January 2020 A lot can happen in a decade. This time 10 years ago, Team Sky were just about to start and, let’s be honest, they were a bit average initially . Lance Armstrong was unretired and undisgraced . Fabian Cancellara had yet to win his first Tour of Flanders . And a British rider was probably not going to win the Tour de France any time soon, notwithstanding the fourth place that Bradley Wiggins had just achieved in the race . On the other hand, Marianne Vos was winning a lot of races, just as she is 10 years later. In a fast-changing world, some things remain reassuringly stable. Pedants will rightly point out that the decade technically ends in December 2020 , but pedants didn’t have as good a time as the rest of us on December 31, 1999. We’re celebrating the cycling teens, and what a decade it was. The last 10 years have seen the domination of Sky, the peak years of Cancellara, Peter Sagan, Philippe Gilbert, Vos a...