28 December 2016 Promising 22-year-old from Portugal becomes 28th and final rider for Eusebio Unzué’s team, will bring strength for all terrainsThe Movistar Team announces that Portugal’s Nuno Bico (Viseu, 1994) will become a part of its official roster as soon as Sunday, 1 January, 2017. A great climber and […]
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Marc Soler, Jasha Sütterlin extend through 2019 with Movistar
23 December 2016 Both the Catalan – brilliant winner of the Queen stage in last season’s Route du Sud – and the German – outstanding all over 2016 – are poised to ride for another three years in Movistar Team colours The Movistar Team announces that Marc Soler (Vilanova i […]
GF Gimondi as a gift for who aims to feel like Felice
The “Bring a friend” promotion makes the registration to the GF Gimondi-Bianchi 2017 a suitable idea for a Christmas present. “But during the race nobody gifts you anything as I’ve learned in my neverending duels with Eddy Merckx”, Gimondi said Christmas presents’ time has come and the Granfondo Gimondi-Bianchi looks […]
Stybar set for two cyclo-cross races next week
The three-time World Champion will be at the start in Loenhout and Bredene, on the 29th, respectively the 30th of December 20-Dec-2016: Before the start of the road season, Zdenek Stybar will return to his first love, cyclo-cross, for two races in Belgium, just before the New Year. The 31-year-old, […]
Fernando Gaviria to race the Giro d’Italia in 2017
The Colombian will make his much-awaited Grand Tour debut next year, at the 100th edition of the Corsa Rosa 22-Dec-2016: Fernando Gaviria, arguably the best neo-pro of 2016, a season which saw him win stages at the Tour de San Luis, Tour de Provence, Tirreno-Adriatico and Tour de Pologne, but […]
JFormer Katusha Team Manager Ekimov Becomes President of the Russian Cycling Federation.
Viatchevslav Ekimov (50) was elected president of the Russian Cycling Federation. The triple Olympic champion was still this season the manager of the Katusha team, replaced by the Portuguese José Azevedo for 2017. Eki climbing Andorra Arcalis in the 1997 Tour Ekimov became part of the USPS team in 1997 […]
“Serial winners” Toast to Tour of the Alps’ Success
Cycling and ski gathered in Val Badia: Francesco Moser, Mario Cipollini and Maria Canins (over 500 career wins) support the new event taking over from Giro del Trentino Tour of the Alps From left, Francesco Moser, Mario Cipollini and Maria Canins at the media event of the Tour of the […]
Lotto Soudal Early 2017 Schedule
December training camp “The training camp in December is the real kick-off of the new season. The riders have been training for a few weeks now, but during the training camp there is a more structural build-up towards next year. Each day, group trainings and core stability sessions are scheduled […]
Tiesj Benoot and Lotto Soudal have extended their agreement until the end of 2019.
The previous contract lasted until the end of 2017. In 2015, Tiesj Benoot (22) had a remarkable first pro season, with his fifth place at the Ronde van Vlaanderen as the most striking result. The past season, the young Belgian got struck by bad luck in the Ronde, which forced […]
Alessandro Petacchi new ambassador and product developer for Northwave
The former sprinter, winner of 2005 Milan-Sanremo, will help the Italian brand in the projecting and development of Northwave’s road shoes Days after announcing the new partnership with MTB World’s #1 Jolanda Neff, Northwave adds another major piece for its product strategy for the near and long future, this time […]
