The Gap Sorare Can’t Fill
Sorare covers football. It covers basketball. It covers MLB. What it doesn’t cover is cycling—and that’s not changing anytime soon. If you’re a cycling fan who’s been waiting for a fantasy platform that actually understands the sport, you’ve probably noticed this gap.
Peaxel fills it. Not just with professional riders, but with the junior cyclists who are one or two seasons away from signing World Tour contracts. That’s where the real fantasy edge lives.
This isn’t about which platform is “better” in some abstract sense. It’s about what you actually want to play. If cycling matters to you, the comparison is straightforward.
What Sorare Offers (And Doesn’t)
Sorare built its reputation on football cards tied to real match performance. The model works well for sports with massive data infrastructure and weekly fixtures. Football fits perfectly. So does basketball.
Cycling doesn’t fit that model. Race calendars are irregular. Performance data is complex. Junior and development racing rarely gets mainstream coverage. Sorare has shown no indication of expanding into cycling—and honestly, it would require rebuilding significant parts of their platform.
For cycling fans, this means Sorare simply isn’t an option. You can’t build a cycling fantasy team there because cycling doesn’t exist on the platform.
What Peaxel Does Differently
Peaxel was built for exactly this situation. The platform covers over 50 sports, including cycling at every level—from World Tour professionals to continental riders to juniors competing in UCI-ranked events.
Here’s what that means in practice:
- Junior coverage: Athletes competing in junior national championships and UCI junior events have cards on Peaxel
- Continental teams: Riders on UCI Women’s Continental and Continental teams are available
- Development pathways: You can follow an athlete from junior racing through to professional contracts
- Free to play: No crypto wallet required, no gas fees, no barrier to entry
The comparison table is simple:
Platform Feature Comparison
| Feature | Sorare | Peaxel |
|---|---|---|
| Cycling coverage | None | Full (all levels) |
| Junior athletes | Limited | Extensive |
| Entry cost | Card purchases | Free to play |
| Crypto required | Yes | No |
| Sports covered | 3 | 50+ |
Why Junior Cyclists Matter for Fantasy
The best fantasy managers don’t just follow current stars. They identify talent before everyone else does.
In cycling, that means watching junior racing. The riders winning Junior World Championship medals today are signing World Tour contracts in two or three years. If you can identify them early, you’re building lineups with athletes whose value will increase as they progress.
Lidia Castro de la Serna is exactly this type of athlete. She’s 17 years old, racing for Mirat Team in Spain, and already has World Tour teams monitoring her development. UAE Team Emirates started tracking her in 2024. Jayco AlUla invited her to their training camp in December 2025.
Her results back up the hype: third overall at Tour de Valromey (the most prestigious junior stage race in the world), second at Copa de Naciones Bizkoloreak, eighth at the European Junior Championships. She swept every stage at the 2024 Vuelta a Cantabria.
On Sorare, she doesn’t exist. On Peaxel, you can add her to your lineup right now.
A Second Example: World Championship Bronze at 18
Oda Aune Gissinger represents another pathway. The Norwegian rider won bronze in the Junior Women’s ITT at the 2025 UCI World Championships in Kigali—in her first year of competitive cycling.
Read that again. First year of competitive cycling. Bronze medal at Worlds.
She’s now riding for Hitec Products – Fluid Control at continental level and made her World Tour debut at the 2026 Vuelta a Burgos Féminas, where she spent over 110km in a breakaway and took the mountain jersey. She’s 19 years old.
Her Peaxel card gives you access to an athlete whose trajectory points directly toward the top level of professional cycling. Sorare offers nothing comparable.
How to Get Started on Peaxel
If you’re coming from Sorare or other fantasy platforms, here’s what’s different about Peaxel:
No purchase required. You can start building lineups immediately without buying cards. The free-to-play model means you’re competing based on knowledge, not wallet size.
No crypto complexity. No wallet setup, no gas fees, no exchange rates. You sign up and play.
Athlete-first design. Cards are tied to real athletes across 50+ sports. Cycling shares the platform with gymnastics, combat sports, extreme sports, and dozens of other disciplines.
The learning curve is minimal. Browse athletes by sport, check their profiles, add them to your lineup, and compete. Scoring reflects real-world performance and engagement.
The Bottom Line
This comparison isn’t complicated. If you want cycling fantasy, Peaxel is your option. Sorare doesn’t offer it and likely won’t.
But beyond the basic availability question, Peaxel’s strength is coverage depth. Junior cyclists, continental riders, development athletes—these are the picks that give you an edge when they break through to the professional level.
Lidia Castro de la Serna and Oda Aune Gissinger are two examples. There are dozens more across the platform. The riders winning junior races today become the World Tour stars of 2028 and 2029.
If that’s the kind of fantasy challenge you’re looking for, Peaxel is where you’ll find it.