Our cobbles squad will tell you that Paris-Roubaix is the hardest one-day race on the WorldTour calendar. The Ardennes crew? They insist Liège is the single day standard. Sunday’s race will likely not settle this argument, but the fourth Monument of the season will inevitably produce an exhilarating race with […]
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Thibaut Pinot king of 2018 Tour of the Alps
Groupama FDJ’s athlete is the winner of the euro-regional cycling event as Mark Padun wins the last stage in Innsbruck Thibaut Pinot claimed the overall success of the 2018 Tour of the Alps, after the second place achieved last year. Groupama FDJ’s athlete maintained the overall leadership conquered in Meran, […]
Lance Armstrong USPS Suit Settled
As reported by various sources today including the New York Times, Associated Press and ESPN, Armstrong settled the government case brought against him by Floyd Landis for $5 million. Originally they were seeking $100 million. Armstrong racing Plateau de Beille, 2004 Tour de France This settlement ended years of legal […]
LIEGE-BASTOGNE-LIEGE 2018 A NEW “ALAF” ARISES
Alaphilippe Key points Ø Defending champion Alejandro Valverde will start the race on Sunday morning with race number 1 pinned to his jersey and the ambition to win his fifth Liège–Bastogne–Liège. However, his nemesis at the Flèche Wallonne, Julian Alaphilippe, claimed his first big victory in a one-day race and, […]
Marco Haller hit by car and out of racing for months
KATUSHA ALPECIN’s Marco Haller has suffered multiple fractures of the left knee after a car hit him on Austrian roads. The accident occurred on Wednesday 18 April while the Austrian rider was training with his colleague-rider Bernhard Eisel on Carinthian roads. Haller will not be able to race in the […]
Kanstantsin Siutsou won the hardest stage at Tour of Croatia
Thursday, 19th April – Kanstantsin Siutsou is the winner of today’s climbing stage on the top of National Park Biokovo, Sv. Jure 1760 m at the 3rd Stage of Tour of Croatia. After yesterday’s set-back and windy and grey 2nd Stage of Tour of Croatia, today’s sunny start brought luck […]
Luis Leon Sanchez Solo in Lienz
The Spaniard takes win in Tour of the Alps’ stage 4. Pinot stays in the overall lead What could be better than another beautiful victory in the race? Today, Luis Leon Sanchez brought to Astana Team the third victory at this Tour of the Alps, taking a nice solo win […]
The Tour of the Alps remembers Michele Scarponi at the finish in Innsbruck
Tomorrow, April 20th, on the finish line of the last stage of the Euroregional race, the bishop of Innsbruck will celebrate a moment of remembrance of the unlucky Italian rider, with Michele’s parents in attendance Almost one full year has gone since the tragical passing of Michele Scarponi, whose life […]
BMC Racing Team Mourns the Loss of Andy Rihs
19 April, 2018, Santa Rosa, California (USA) It is with great sadness that BMC Racing Team announces the death of owner Andy Rihs. Andy Rihs died after a patient and valiantly endured illness at the age of 75 on Wednesday, 18 April in the Susenberg clinic in Zurich, Switzerland in […]
FLECHE WALLONNE: ALAPHILLIPE DETHRONES VALVERDE !
18-Apr-2018: Julian Alaphilippe scored the biggest triumph of his career at one of the hardest ever editions of Flèche Wallonne (Seraing – Huy, 198.5 kilometers), after jumping clear from a stretched out peloton with 150 meters to go and leaving everyone else trailing on the double-digit gradients of the Mur […]