A month after holding its team meeting in Poreč, Croatia, Tinkoff will embark on the first training camp of the 2016 season. The team’s riders, management, mechanics, soigneurs and staff will spend two weeks, from December 5 to 18, at the ANFI Tauro resort in Gran Canaria, setting the ground […]
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Tunnel-Vision: the Making of Virtual Nairo
December 2nd, 2015 The Movistar Team’s clothing sponsor Endura are going the extra mile to ensure that the team have the best fitting and most aerodynamic uniforms and skinsuits that science will allow. Director Jim McFarlane takes us behind the scenes at November’s pre-season training camp in Pamplona, and tells […]
Quintana, National Sports Award
November 17th, 2015 The Colombian cyclist, who rides for Movistar Team, receives from the Royal couple the award for Best Ibero-American Sportsman of 2014 Nairo Quintana today added yet another award to the long list of prizes that he has gathered since joining Movistar Team in 2012. At the National […]
2015 Taiwan KOM Challenge
From someone who lived to tell the tale By Christine Vardaros November, 2015 Hualien Beach I’ve just returned from Taiwan where I competed in the most grueling bicycle race I’ve ever done – in one of the strangest lands I’ve ever visited…and I’d do it all again. It was the […]
Lotto Soudal Review of 2015
The past season was the first with Soudal as main sponsor, together with Lotto. The Belgian company is the largest European independent manufacturer of sealants, adhesives and polyurethane foams for professionals and retail. Soudal is active in more than 130 countries and has 44 branches divided over all continents. Their […]
First Meeting A Success For Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
Two days of pre-season meetings in Spain were deemed a success by Team Caja Rural-Seguros RGA, which aims to better its team-record win total and compete again in the Vuelta a España in 2016. The team’s 20 riders, plus staff and managers, gathered in Tudela, Navarra, Spain last week to […]
Ivan Basso takes on role as Technical Coordinator for Tinkoff Team
After announcing his retirement as a professional rider, Ivan Basso is embarking on the next step of his already long career in cycling. Basso will assume the role as Technical Coordinator of Tinkoff Team, overseeing, developing and optimizing the collaboration between the athletes and technical functions. “A happy rider is […]
Tinkoff Team to hold initial 2016 meeting in Poreč, Croatia
The seaside resort of Valamar Diamant in Poreč will play host to the riders, sport directors, doctors, technical staff and management of Tinkoff Team from October 26th to 29th, in order to start planning and preparing for the 2016 season. According to Stefano Feltrin, Managing Director of Tinkoff-Saxo, this meeting […]
More Ochowicz Fallout
The following is an article that appeared in Velo News on Thursday. “Armstrong names Ochowicz in ’93 race fixingBy Caley Fretz Velo NewsPublished Oct. 22, 2015Updated 5 hours ago In sworn testimony from the Floyd Landis-U.S. federal government whistleblower lawsuit against him, Lance Armstrong has not only admitted that his […]
Armstrong-Andreu ControversyAgain!
Lance Armstrong and Frankie Andreu are in a new controversy after Lance said that Frankie had doped during most of career. His September US federal court statements were just made public. 1999 Tour de France Armstrong and Andreu “This is absolutely false” , Andreu said in USA Today Wednesday: “I […]