Lise Ménage: from cycling to doubt, then back to the top

Some portraits begin with a victory, a line on a palmarès, or a tricolor jersey. That of Lise Ménage began around a table, a few hours before the Crito’Star in Choisy-le-Roi. We […] Read more →

Katell Alençon, the incredible third life

A common sprain, five years of suffering, an amputation demanded as a promise of a new beginning. Then cycling, high-level competition, and an existence now lived at two hundred percent. We could […] Read more →

The champion’s paradox, or when strength becomes fragility

There are performances that impress. And trajectories that raise questions. In high-level sport, we admire the qualities that lead to victory: the obsession with detail, uncompromising competitiveness, the ability to control everything. […] Read more →

Céline Hutsebaut, accuracy as a legacy

Thursday, January 8, 2026, there is no set. No workshop to describe, no light to locate, no gestures to observe. There is a phone. A voice. And that strange, almost paradoxical feeling […] Read more →

On the table, they lay everything down: confidences of a soigneur

3bikes took advantage of the pro peloton’s break to meet Stéphane Gicquel, a long-serving soigneur, the ear of champions and a cornerstone of their victories… We catch up with him in that […] Read more →