Team Sunweb have upped their Grand Tour classification triumphs to three in as many months, as Warren Barguil (FRA) and Michael Matthews (AUS) bring home two of the Tour de France’s prestigious jerseys for the German team. With 4 stage wins, 11 top tens, two jerseys and the race’s most […]
Tour de France
LAST SPRINT FOR GROENEWEGEN, FROOME WINS HIS FOURTH TOUR
Paris, Sunday, 23rd July – Dylan Groenewegen claimed the eighth bunch sprint victory of the 104th Tour de France as he outclassed André Greipel who concludes the Tour de France without a stage win for the first time. Delivering LottoNL-Jumbo’s second victory after Primoz Roglic in Serre-Chevalier and the fiftieth […]
Maciej Bodnar puts in the ride of his life to take his first Tour de France stage victory in Marseille time trial
Three weeks Maciej Bodnar had been waiting for this opportunity. The BORA-hansgrohe time trial specialist had ridden hard in support of his teammates on every stage of the Tour de France so far, but today was his chance to take centre stage. Smashing the day’s previous best time by over […]
Tour de France Stage 20: Küng Finishes Ninth and Caruso Retains 11 th on GC
22 July, 2017, Marseille (FRA) Stefan Küng clocked the ninth-fastest time on the 22.5km Tour de France stage 20 time trial in Marseille, his second top ten stage finish in his Tour de France debut. Küng was BMC Racing Team’s third rider to roll down the ramp and was chasing […]
Marseille Time Trial – Bodnar; Froome Third
Marseille, Saturday, 22nd July – Poland’s Maciej Bodnar (Bora-Hansgrohe) has won the 22.5km individual time trial in the streets of Marseille with an advantage of only one second over his compatriot Michal Kwiatkowski (Sky) who paved the way for his team-mate Chris Froome to confirm his superiority against the clock […]
BOASSON HAGEN SPOILS BELGIUM’S NATIONAL DAY PARTY
Salon-de-Provence, Friday, 21st July – Besides French riders, Belgians outnumbered their rivals in the 20-man breakaway group on their national day but Norway’s Edvald Boasson Hagen spoiled their party as he smartly rode to victory on the right side of a roundabout with 2.8km to go. He reached Salon-de-Provence by […]
Barguil Takes Col d’Izoard
WARREN BARGUIL TAKES THE POLKA DOT JERSEY VERY HIGH Izoard, Thursday, 20th July – Warren Barguil claimed his second stage victory and the fifth for French riders at col d’Izoard (2360m) after passing Darwin Atapuma on Colombia’s national day. Chris Froome retained the yellow jersey albeit losing four seconds onto […]
Tour de France: Galibier stage lifts Martin to sixth overall
19-Jul-2017: 24 hours after losing ground in the crosswinds, Daniel Martin gritted his teeth and went to the attack on the mythical Col du Galibier, the most featured Alpine climb in the Tour de France history, which this year was crossed for the 60th time. Lying in seventh place at […]
TEAM SUNWEB’S MICHAEL MATTHEWS TAKES OVER THE LEAD IN THE POINTS CLASSIFICATION
After a great team effort battling for the intermediate sprints and taking two of Team Sunweb’s three stage wins at the Tour de France Michael Matthews (AUS) has taken over the lead in the points classification. And Marcel Kittel abandoned after a crash 20k into the race. With one goal […]
Roglic Jumps Ahead
Serre Chevalier, Wednesday, 19th July – Five years after starting cycling at the age of 22, former ski jumper Primoz Roglic became the first Slovenian to win a Tour de France stage as he soloed to victory in Serre-Chevalier after riding Alberto Contador off with 6.5km left in the ascent […]