Quick-Step Floors leaves the race with five wins and retains the top place in the World Tour team classification 27-May-2018: Quick-Step Floors enjoyed another victory-packed Grand Tour, the fifth consecutive in which our squad nabbed multiple stage wins, a fantastic run that took the team’s season tally to an astounding […]
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Sam Bennett wins final stage of the Giro d’Italia and completes a successful Grand Tour for BORA – hansgrohe
The final stage of the Giro d’Italia ended with another impressive stage win of BORA – hansgrohe sprinter Sam Bennett. The pace increased on the last two laps and on the final lap the reduced bunch was back together and the excepted bunch sprint was set up. BORA – hansgrohe […]
Five stage wins and 13 days in pink
Mitchelton-SCOTT end their 2018 Giro d’Italia story on a high Australian registered WorldTour team Mitchelton-SCOTT has concluded the first Grand Tour of the season, the Giro d’Italia, in Rome this evening with five stage wins, including three in the pink jersey, and 13 days in the race lead. The eight-man […]
Chris Froome Takes the Pink Jersey at the Giro
One day to go in Rome and he’s got it. He managed to resist evey attack against him and has a 46 second lead going into the last stage tomorrow. Winning tomorrow will earn him the triple crown of Grand Tours-Tour de France, Vuelta and now the Giro. “It’s an […]
Birthday win for Nieve gives Mitchelton-SCOTT fifth stage win at Giro d’Italia
2018 recruit Mikel Nieve has won his first race for Mitchelton-SCOTT to take the team’s tally to five stage wins at the 2018 Giro d’Italia. The Basque rider, who worked tirelessly for his leaders Simon Yates and Esteban Chaves in the first 19 days, tooks his first opportunity on stage […]
Giro d’Italia: Schachmann wins on Pratonevoso
The 24-year-old captured the biggest victory of his career, Quick-Step Floors’ 80th Grand Tour stage triumph 24-May-2018: Maximilian Schachmann put on a dazzling performance on the first summit finish of the third week and rode to a magnificent solo win on Pratonevoso – a 12.9km-long climb averaging 7.2% which featured […]
Yates retains lead despite dropping time on stage 18 of Giro d’Italia
Three-time stage winner Simon Yates has retained the pink leader’s jersey at the Giro d’Italia today, despite losing a handful of seconds atop Prato Nevoso. For the first time this Giro, the break was allowed to contest the stage, whilst Yates fell behind late attacks in the final kilometre to […]
Second incredible stage win for Sam Bennett at the Giro d’Italia
As the escapees were caught with 20 km to go the race went on fire and was dominated by many attacks on the last kilometres. BORA – hansgrohe sprinter Sam Bennett showed another impressive performance as he stayed at the front of the race and took his second stage win […]
Yates wins a second stage in the pink jersey at the Giro d’Italia
Briton Simon Yates has claimed a second emphatic victory in the pink leader’s jersey on stage 11 of the Giro d’Italia today. Yates launched from the dwindling bunch in the last 1.5km of the stage, following another huge pull from Mitchelton-SCOTT teammate Jack Haig. Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb) was the […]
Yates through another tricky day at the Giro d’Italia
A day flagged as a simple sprint stage turned out to be anything but in the finale, but Mitchelton-SCOTT’s Simon Yates finished safely in a reduced bunch on stage 12 to retain the overall lead at the Giro d’Italia. Despite late attacks and splits, sprinter Sam Bennett (Bora-Hansgrohe) won the […]