Roubaix. Like its contemporary, Flanders, it’s a race that only needs one word to cue a movie reel in a fan’s mind. Rider have love/hate relationships with the Queen of the Classics, and it’s easy to see why. Double-taped bars don’t take nearly enough bite off the granite, and palms […]

The 21-year-old Dutchman is the youngest rider this century to win Flanders’ oldest race 04-Apr-2018: For the first time in history, Scheldeprijs started from the Netherlands and at the end of the day, after more than four tough hours in the saddle, it was a Dutch rider who took the […]

After the breakaway was caught, the expected bunch sprint was set up. TheBORA – hansgrohe team started to form their lead-out for Jay McCarthy. In a hectic finale, the Australian rider took the stage win confidently, his second WorldTour victory for this still early season. The StageToday´s third stage took […]

THE RECONNAISSANCE OF THE COBBLESTONE SECTORS Every year, a few days before Paris-Roubaix, Thierry Gouvenou and Christian Prudhomme pay a visit to the cobblestone sectors. Their objective is to give a note corresponding to the level of difficulty of each sector with one star for the easiest to five stars […]

Quick-Step Floors’ pocket-rocket climber extended his lead in the general classification after a second straight victory 03-Apr-2018: Quick-Step Floors’ winning streak continued on Tuesday in stage 2 of the Vuelta al Pais Vasco, where a confident Julian Alaphilippe blew the race apart on San Pelaio, the 3.3km-long climb averaging 8.1% […]

The 25-year-old powered to his first World Tour victory of the season and became the first Frenchman since 1999 to lead the race 02-Apr-2018: Last year, Julian Alaphilippe was left disappointed as he rolled to the finish of the Vuelta al Pais Vasco opening stage, after an untimely puncture outside […]

The 33-year-old Quick-Step Floors rider is the first Dutchman in over three decades to conquer the Belgian Monument 01-Apr-2018: Niki Terpstra continued the team’s dominance in the Belgian one-day races of this season, adding a 16th Monument victory to the astonishing palmares of the squad, just two days after Quick-Step […]

31st March 2018 Spaniard wins second career GP Miguel Indurain, following great teamwork by whole Telefónica-backed squad -12 wins in 2018-, claims success in only UCI race in Abarca Sports organisation’s Navarra landAlejandro Valverde makes journalists run out of adjectives and earns applause from the fans at every race he […]

The 26-year-old became the first rider to take back-to-back victories at the prestigious Belgian Classic 28-Mar-2018: Yves Lampaert sailed to a memorable win in a rain-soaked edition of Dwars door Vlaanderen (180.1 kilometers) after accelerating with 800 meters to go from a select group which attacked inside the last 25 […]