> One year is not like the next. Stephen Williams made his breakthrough in 2024 with victories in the Tour Down Under, Tour of Britain, and La Flèche Wallonne, but endured a terrible 2025, in which he only had fifteen racing days due to tendonitis above his knee. "Nine months have passed now, and I'm still fighting hard," he told CyclingWeekly.

another shadowbanned doper like lafay, cosnefroy and lazkano