Movistar Team leader takes impressive late attack to fruition in Peñas Blancas, conquers fourth career Ruta del Sol and opens his 2016 account after UCI WorldTour overall success in the last two seasonsAlejandro Valverde showed again in February 2016, fourteen seasons after his pro debut, that his regularity and courage […]
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Van Garderen Second at Ruta del Sol
21 February, Andalucia (ESP) Tejay van Garderen has continued his tradition of opening the season on the podium, finishing in second place at Ruta del Sol. Van Garderen started the final stage in the leader’s jersey after taking the win in the Individual Time Trial on stage 4, but the […]
Alexander Kristoff Puts the Finishing Touch in Oman
Team KATUSHA leader Alexander Kristoff put the finishing touch in the Tour of Oman, taking a nice victory in the final stage of the race (The Wave Muscat – Matrah Corniche, 130,5 km).In the final sprint Kristoff overpassed two Giant-Alpecin riders, Zico Waeytens and Søren Kragh Andersen. – I felt […]
Tinkoff sets sight on Ruta del Sol final stage
Majka and Roman Kreuziger moved up several spots in GC after today’s time trial, both making it into the top 20. The squad now sets its sight on Sunday’s grueling stage with the aim to win. After three stages ruled by sprinters, the fourth day of the Spanish race saw […]
Tinkoff squad motivated ahead of final Volta ao Algarve stage
On a day that ended, as expected, with a bunch sprint, the Tinkoff squad kept Alberto Contador out of trouble, allowing him to safely navigate his way in the main group. According to Sport Director Steven de Jongh, the team is motivated for tomorrow’s closing mountain stage of the race […]
Kelderman Second in Andalucia ITT
LottoNL-Jumbo’s Dutchman finishes the race only two seconds behind Van Garderen Wilco Kelderman (LottoNL-Jumbo) grazed victory in Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol’s stage-4, a 21-km ITT with start and finish in Alhaurín de la Torre (Spain) on Saturday, February 20th. The ITT Dutch National champion rode his Aquila […]
Kittel Again in Algarve
Three years after Tony Martin won in Tavira, his countryman matched that feat in the Portuguese town. 20-Feb-2016: Volta ao Algarve continued on Saturday, when Marcel Kittel showed once again he is back to his best this season, by taking the victory on the penultimate stage (S. Bras de Alportel […]
Ruta del Sol Stage 4: Victory for van Garderen
20 February, Alhaurin de la Torre (ESP) Tejay van Garderen has stormed home to win today’s Individual Time Trial on stage 4 of Ruta del Sol and claim the race lead heading into tomorrow’s final stage. Van Garderen set a blistering time of 27’05 on the 21km course to take […]
Cancellara Wins Algarve TT
Stage 3 of the Volta ao Algarve was 18km along the coast of Portugal. The windy stage was won by Fabian Cancellara and Tony Martin is now in the yellow jersey. At the 11k split, Martin had been ahead of Cancellara by 8 seconds but both he and Thomas faded […]
Etixx – Quick-Step to Haut Var
Rodrigo Contreras and Fernando Gaviria will make their comeback to the peloton at the two-day French event. 19-Feb-2016: This week-end will see Etixx – Quick-Step race in France for the first time in 2016, and among the eight riders who will compete at the 48th edition of the Tour du […]
