Colorado Classic sprint lap payout believed to be highest ever in women’s pro cycling The $10,000 raised during the bonus cash lap Friday during the Colorado Classic® presented by VF Corporation is believed to far exceed any cash lap in women’s pro cycling history and possibly exceeds any single payout […]
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The Chloe Dygert Show Continues
The Sho-Air Twenty20 star again makes strategic move to win third straight stage Race Start GOLDEN, Colo. – Winning the first two stages of the 2019 Colorado Classic® presented by VF Corporation was not enough for 22-year-old Chloe Dygert on Saturday during Stage 3 in Golden. As numerous racers attacked […]
Chloe Dygert Cleans Up Again in Stage 2 Avon
The Sho-Air Twenty20 star is proving unstoppable in the 2019 Colorado Classic AVON, Colo. – It felt like déjà vu watching Chloe Dygert (Sho-Air Twenty20) speed down an open road toward the finish line in the 2019 Colorado Classic®presented by VF Corporation on Friday. As the 22-year-old cruised along the […]
Dygert dominates with win in Colorado Classic Stage 1: Steamboat Springs
The Sho Air Twenty20 racer runs away with four jerseys — including the Gates Corporation General Classification leader’s jersey — in Steamboat STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. – The kickoff to the 2019 Colorado Classic® presented by VF Corporation transpired in runaway fashion — literally — as 22-year-old Chloe Dygert of Sho […]
Lotto Soudal is pleased to announce that Philippe Gilbert will strengthen the team for next season
The 37-year-old Belgian, currently riding for Deceuninck – Quick Step, signed a three-year agreement. That way, Gilbert returns to the team in which he celebrated his first big successes, such as Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the Tour of Lombardy, the Amstel Gold Race and the Tour de France opening stage (2011). The world […]
Team Sunweb and Tom Dumoulin Part Ways
ROSTER UPDATESAfter an incredible eight-year journey filled with countless successes, Team Sunweb and Tom Dumoulin are set to go their separate ways at the end of the 2019 season. Joining the team as it was then Team Argos-Shimano back in 2012, a 21-year-old Dumoulin set off on his path of […]
THE TIME AND THE ERA OF SOUTH AMERICA IN THE GRAND TOURS
With Richard Carapaz’s victory in the Giro d’Italia and Egan Bernal’s victory in the Tour de France, Latin American riders have two Grand Tours under their belts in 2019, equalling almost those accumulated by their predecessors over the last three decades (Herrera’s La Vuelta 1987 and Nairo Quintana’s Giro 2014 […]
Rubio, Alba, Patiño to carry Colombia’s flag at Movistar Team
August 20th, 2019 – Pictures: Patiño > Velofocus; Rubio > Giro d’Italia U23; Alba > FCC Telefónica-backed squad inks contracts with 2nd & 3rd-place overall finishes in 2019 U23 Giro -Einer Rubio and Juan Diego Alba (21)- and extends commitment with Paula Patiño (22) through end of 2021 after brilliant […]
Felice Gimondi and Eddy Merckx
Ullrich, Gimondi, Pantani, Julich at 1998 Tour de France Paris Podium Eddy Merckx broke down in tears on hearing about the death of Felice Gimondi, going on to eloquently describe his emotions with a simple but highly symbolic phrase: “This time I’m the one who has lost.” 76-year-old Gimondi died […]
GRAZIE CAMPIONE: BIANCHI’S FINAL TRIBUTE TO FELICE GIMONDI
Grimaldi: “Felice was a good and loyal man, extraordinarily humble” Bianchi and the whole cycling World are living intensely emotional days after the sudden passing of Felice Gimondi on Friday August 16th, aged 76. One of the greatest in Italian cycling history, everlasting icon and ambassador of the Bianchi brand, […]