After yesterday’s stage win of Alexey Lutsenko, today Jakob Fuglsang and Ion Izagirre both finished a great solo attack to win stage 5 of Tirreno-Adriatico and stage 8 of Paris-Nice. These were the eighteenth and nineteenth victory of Astana Pro Team in 2019, making it the best start of the […]

Brit Adam Yates extended his race lead at Tirreno-Adriatico after an attacking display on another punishing day of climbing. The 26-year-old’s advantage at the top of the general classification now sits at 25 seconds with two stages remaining in Italy. Another tough day With a potentially decisive stage on the […]

March 17 th 2019 Harassed all day by a formidable Nairo Quintana, Egan Bernal (Sky) kept his cool to win the 77th edition of Paris-Nice at 22 on Sunday. While some expected Philippe Gilbert (Deceuninck-Quick Step) to challenge the young Colombian in this finale around Nice, it is Quintana who […]

He went solo with 37 kilometers to go, crashed two times, dropped back in a group of four and still won stage 4 of Tirreno-Adriatico: Today was a rollercoaster ride for Alexey Lutsenko. While Jakob Fuglsang controlled the chasing group behind Lutsenko, the Kazakh champion crashed two times, but both […]

March 16 th 2019 Paris-Nice took Colombian colours at the top of the Turini pass as Daniel Martinez (Education First) won the queen stage of this 77th edition ahead of compatriot Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana) while Egan Bernal (Sky) took the race yellow jersey away from team-mate Michal Kwiatkowski. Martinez […]

The 30-year-old became the first home rider since 2015 to notch up a stage victory at the “Race of the Two Seas” 15-Mar-2019: Tirreno-Adriatico continued with the longest stage of this edition, a 226km-long journey from Pomarance to Foligno, where Elia Viviani made it two in a row for Deceuninck […]

The longest stage of Tirreno-Adriatico, at 226km, was set to be a battle of the fast men. With the two categorised climbs out of the way with 100km still to race, the sprinters were bound to make their presence known in Foligno at the end of the day – if […]

Bennett, an Irishman in green March 15 th 2019 – 16:36 The sprints of this Paris-Nice have been shared equally between two riders, Dylan Groenewegen and Ireland’s Sam Bennett, who found the right form right on time to snatch his second stage win in this 77th edition in Brignoles. Already […]

Brit Adam Yates moved into the race lead at Tirreno-Adriatico after fighting off late attacks to take fifth in the uphill sprint for the line. Mitchelton-SCOTT controlled the pace for the majority of the day and some strong work from Australian time-trial champion Luke Durbridge and Damien Howson helped deliver […]

The 26-year-old became the first Frenchman in a decade to win a stage, after a powerful uphill sprint in Pomarance 14-Mar-2019: Julian Alaphilippe carried the same good legs that propelled him to victory in Strade Bianche last week at the start of Tirreno-Adriatico and didn’t have to wait too long […]