The Season is back and in Full Flight

 Although racing gets underway in Australia on January 1st and is followed by regualr racing, Paris-Nice is still marks the season opener for road racing. It is the second World Tour stage race on the UCI programe but the first in Europe. Several other stage races have been held and last weekend saw the first of the semi-classics, one of which was snowed out, but the race to the sun brings out a level of excitment that the Tour Down Under, Tour of Qatar and Tour of Oman just doesn't yet generate.