Tour Down Under Check-In: Cycling 2.0 Has Transformed The Early-Season Race

Checking in on the key takeaways from the early stages of the Tour Down Under

It isn’t a shocking revelation to say that professional cycling has dramatically changed, almost to an unrecognizable degree, since the stop, and subsequent re-start, of the sport following the outbreak of COVID in the early parts of the 2020 season.

However, it has still been surprising to see how much this new, uber-aggressive version of the sport (kn…