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A fantastic performance by the team and a great sprint of the German meant double joy for Etixx – Quick-Step 06-Feb-2016: Marcel Kittel was a man on a mission on Saturday. Starting the fourth and final day of the Dubai Tour only 6 seconds behind overall leader Giacomo Nizzolo, the […]
21-year-old sprinter Caleb Ewan has added another victory to his tally in an incredible start to the 2016 season. Already his third UCI win and ninth victory so far this season, Ewan powered ahead to take the honours, after a strong effort on the final climb of the day. “It’s […]
An interview with Greg LeMond by Shane Stokes appeared in Cycling Tips this week. Here are some of the key points: Apparently Greg has been speaking out about mechanical doping for some time but was not being heard. He had to build his own bike frame with a motor in […]
Dylan Groenewegen gave Team LottoNL-Jumbo and Bianchi the first success of 2016 in Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana’s stage-3, 173,5 km from Sagunto to Alzira (Spain) on Friday, February 5th. Riding Bianchi Oltre XR.2, the 22-year-old sprinter from Amsterdam won the bunch sprint ahead of French Nacer Bouhanni. Russian Alexander […]
Team KATUSHA notes that the UCI has started a proceeding against Eduard Vorganov for a violation of the UCI anti-doping rules. We understand that the adverse analytical finding concerns the substance Meldonium (also known as Mildronate) which was placed on the prohibited list only on 1 Jan 2016. Team KATUSHA […]
February 5th, 2016 Spaniard from Movistar Team bounce back after last year’s misfortune, claims an astonishing win in Hatta’s uphill finish to claim the Blues’ second success of the 2016 season. Juanjo now 2nd overall; Gorka Izagirre 7th in the stage. A bitter third place last year behind team-mate […]
05. February 2016 – Silvan Dillier has finished third, and Philippe Gilbert fifth, on the Hatta Dam climb on stage 3 of the Dubai Tour taken out by Juan José Lobato (Movistar). A five-man breakaway went away for most of the stage, before the peloton pulled them back closing in […]
Giacomo Nizzolo gave everything up the final short but painfully steep climb towards the Hatta Dam to finish in second place and leap into the overall lead in the Dubai Tour Friday. The only hills in the four-day race arrived in the final kilometers of the 172-kilometer stage three, […]
BMC Racing Team is set to continue the 2016 racing program at the Tour of Qatar from 8-12 February, focusing on the General Classification. The five-day stage race will be the first race of the season for team leader Greg Van Avermaet (BEL) who is looking to improve on his […]
A fierce acceleration saw the 29-year-old Irish rider get the win at the top of Alto de Fredes. 04-Feb-2016: Almost one year and a half since his last victory, which came in stage 4 of the 2014 Tour of Beijing, Dan Martin found again the road to success, this time […]
