August 31st, 2020 World’s best rider for the last three seasons signs two-year deal (2021-22) with Telefónica-backed squad; Dutchwoman adds her polyvalent, unbeatable talent to the organisation managed by Eusebio UnzuéThe Movistar Team is extremely proud to announce Monday that Annemiek van Vleuten (Wageningen, NED; 1982), the reigning World Road […]
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Matthews returns ‘home’ to Mitchelton-SCOTT
Eight-time Grand Tour stage winner and 2017 Tour de France green jersey champion Michael Matthews will return ‘home’ to Mitchelton-SCOTT next season. After four years with Team Sunweb, the recent Bretagne Classic winner has signed a new two-year contract that will see the 29-year-old reunited with the Australian team until […]
Mareczko makes it two in a row in Hungary with victory on stage three
31 August 2020, Nyíregyháza (HUN) Jakub Mareczko celebrated on the line for the second day in a row after sprinting to victory once again at the Tour de Hongrie following another strong performance from CCC Team on stage three. The Italian sprinter showed no signs of slowing down as he […]
Team Sunweb allow Michael Matthews to continue career elsewhere
Team Sunweb are developing and building for the future, aiming to become stronger in width. One of their goals includes the formation of strong, dedicated blocks of riders for the one-day races and sprints, to create options for different scenarios in the finales. Michael Matthews, still under contract until the […]
Fabio Felline streaks to his first win of the season at the Memorial Marco Pantani
After 199km the Astana rider Fabio Felline sprints to his first win of the season, taking the victory after a demanding day in the saddle, while Manuele Boaro represented Astana Pro Team in the day´s breakaway. The 17th edition of the one-day race took the riders from Castrocaro Terme e […]
Černý time trials to victory on Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine stage four and moves into leader’s jersey
29 August 2020, Jaunay-Marigny (FRA) Josef Černý, a now two-time Czech national time trial champion, proved his strength and speed when racing against the clock at Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine today, securing the stage win by an impressive 17 seconds over the next-placed rider and moving into the leader’s […]
Sénéchal solos to victory at Druivenkoers
Frenchman becomes 12th different Deceuninck – Quick-Step rider to win a race this year 29-Aug-2020: Florian Sénéchal confirmed his strong condition, which in the past weeks netted a fourth overall at Tour de Wallonie and a podium finish in the Bretagne Classic, and notched up an impressive victory at the […]
The Tour to the power of 10 2010: Reconquering the Tourmalet (10/10)
At the turn of each decade, the Tour de France has gone through organisational changes and backstage struggles that have variously turned out to be decisive or utterly inconsequential. The journey back in time proposed by letour.fr comes full circle with an ending on the Tourmalet. 100 years after the […]
Il Lombardia Statement from Quickstep
29-Aug-2020: We would like to clarify that we have been contacted by CADF earlier this week to discuss the incident surrounding Remco Evenepoel’s crash at Il Lombardia earlier this month. As has already been stated publicly, the item that was captured being removed from Remco’s pockets was a small bottle […]
DEIGNAN DENIES VOS AND VAN VLEUTEN
Nice, Saturday, August 29th, 2020 – Britain’s Lizzie Deignan (Trek Segafredo) made the best of her current form and perfect teamwork to outwit title-holder Marianne Vos and world champion Annemiek van Vleuten and win La Course by Le Tour de France with FDJ on Saturday. The 2015 world champion, supported […]