Owen Rogers

Owen Rogers is a staff writer at Cyclingnews whose coverage centres on road racing with a sustained focus on women’s events and championship-level competition. He brings more than a decade of cycling journalism to live race reports, news and long-form features that track how the sport develops on the road and behind the scenes.

Women's races and live road coverage

Rogers concentrates strongly on women’s road racing, covering everything from WorldTour-level stage races to continental championships and one-day events. His work includes detailed reports from the Giro d’Italia Women, such as “as it happened” coverage of a sprinters’ stage into Ravenna, alongside results and news pieces from races like Faun Tour Femmes and Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite. At the European Championships he follows the women’s elite and junior road races closely, filing both results and news on performances by riders such as Demi Vollering, Elisa Longo Borghini and Azzura Ballan. The tone is immediate and race-focused: he tracks breakaways, sprint finishes and tactical decisions while still highlighting the broader significance of victories and near-misses for riders and teams.

Championships, juniors and contenders

A distinctive thread in Rogers’ work is his attention to championship racing and junior categories, where he regularly maps out who is emerging and how they might shape future elite fields. He writes contender previews for World Championships events, including pieces on junior women’s road race favourites and junior men’s time trial specialists, setting out form lines, strengths and national-team dynamics.

During the European Championships he covers junior races as closely as elite events, reporting on wins by riders like Elias Dybing and detailing how late attacks or sprint decisions decide titles. He also tracks how men’s stars prepare for major championships, producing features on where leading riders are racing in the build-up - whether at La Vuelta, in Canada or elsewhere - and what that says about their readiness for the road race.

This mix of previews, junior results and elite build-up pieces gives his coverage a long view of the sport’s talent pipeline rather than focusing only on headline names in the biggest races.

Features on the direction of the sport

Beyond day-to-day race reporting, Rogers writes longer features that examine structural and cultural issues in professional cycling, particularly on the women’s side of the sport. In a member-exclusive feature on race cancellations, he explores how the drop in lower-level women’s race days threatens the competitive pyramid and the future of the discipline, combining data on the calendar with voices from within the peloton.

He also looks at the broader culture around women in sport, reporting on the backlash from riders like Demi Vollering and Maddy Nutt to a high-profile betting advert and using their responses to discuss the persistence of sexualisation in sports marketing. Historical pieces such as his feature on Elsy Jacobs, the first women’s road world champion, show an interest in how past pioneers shape the current landscape and inform ongoing debates about recognition and equity.

More general features, including retrospectives on unforgettable World Championships moments, underline his focus on how key races fit into the sport’s narrative over time.

Interviews and rider-focused storytelling

Rogers’ background includes more than ten years of freelance work covering cycling for various magazines and websites, during which he has reported hundreds of race days on the ground and interviewed many of the sport’s biggest names. That experience comes through in rider-led features and interviews, such as his member-exclusive conversation with Chris Froome about Tadej Pogačar, the evolution of modern racing and Froome’s difficult years after his crash, framed around the end of the four-time Tour de France winner’s career.

He continues this focus in pieces like “We put our egos aside,” which explains how the USA national team delivered Brandon McNulty to World Championships gold by prioritising selfless teamwork, and in earlier profiles such as “Andrew Fenn: More than just a sprinter.” Even in standard race reports from events like the Tour of Britain Men, Vuelta a España and Deutschland Tour, he highlights individual stories - breakthrough victories, decisive sprints, late attacks and contract moves - to show how single days on the road connect to longer trajectories in riders’ careers.

Across formats, his work is characterised by close engagement with riders and a consistent effort to anchor results in their personal and professional context.

Role at Cyclingnews and scope

At Cyclingnews, Rogers works as a staff writer covering road racing across men’s and women’s calendars, with a noticeable emphasis on women’s and junior competition. He produces a broad mix of formats - live “as it happened” stage coverage, results pieces, news on injuries, team selections and transfers, contender previews and in-depth features - giving him range across daily reporting and slower, reflective work. His tenure in cycling journalism and early focus on women’s racing underpin a beat that treats women’s and junior races as central parts of the sport, not side stories, while still engaging with major men’s races and star riders.