For the fourth year in a row, the Flemish Eddy Merckx cycling center in Ghent hosted the team presentation of Etixx – Quick-Step, cycling’s winningest squad in the past seasons. Introduced to hundreds of cheering fans at the beginning of the evening, but also to the sponsors who back the […]
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Peter Sagan and Rafal Majka to open Tinkoff season in Tour de San Luis
Tinkoff will open the 2016 season with the Argentinean race that has grown in recent years to become South America’s most prominent event. From January 18th to 24th, the team, led by Peter Sagan and Rafal Majka, will take on its first challenge of the season. Tinkoff will kick off […]
Bertolini XC Italian Cyclocross National Champions!
Great win for the Selle Italia Guerciotti youngster sponsored by Northwave in Monte Prat. Havlikova second in Czech Republic, M. Vanthourenhout fourth in Belgium. Northwave retains the crown of the Italian cyclocross: Gioele Bertolini took the baton from Marco Aurelio Fontana at the Italian Cyclocross National Championships, in Monte Prat […]
Alberto Contador: “The Vuelta will always be a very special race to me”
The route of the 2016 Vuelta a España was officially presented today in Santiago de Compostela. Tinkoff’s leader, Alberto Contador, provided his comments on the 71st edition of the Spanish Grand Tour that will include two time trials, one team and the other individual, seven flat stages and twelve mountain […]
Jack Bobridge wins Australian championships with superhuman effort
Jack Bobridge left everything out on the road. After nearly four and a half hours leading the race, he took an inconceivable solo win to capture his second National road title. Cameron Meyer (Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka) finished in second, 2 minutes and 52 seconds behind after launching a […]
Cycling Not Number 1 for Doping
The Movement for a Credible Cycling (MPCC) unveiled a study on its website, revealing that cycling was exceeded in 2015 and number of doping cases (listed and publicly disclosed), for athletics, weightlifting and baseball. The MPCC has recorded all the positive cases from January 1 to December 31, 2015 regarding […]
Giacomo Nizzolo aims high, with a touch of elegance
In Milan, the Trek-Segafredo rider presented to the press his new official website and a video that expresses his unconventional style. “But I also like winning, and Sanremo preys in my mind” “To me, cycling is more than races, sprints, victories. A rider is also a man, with his style […]
Dennis and Porte stamp their mark on the Individual Time Trial
07 January, 2016, Buninyong, Victoria (AUS) Rohan Dennis has kicked the 2016 season off in winning form, taking out the Individual Time Trial at the Australian Road National Championships. Dennis set a blistering pace to storm home in 51:13, 38 seconds ahead of Richie Porte, who made his debut for […]
Quintana to start 2016 season at San Luis
January 7th, 2016 Colombian leads Movistar Team in 10th edition of Argentinian stage race, which this year includes a team time trial and two gruelling uphill finishesAs he has for the last two years, Nairo Quintana will once again open his season at the Tour de San Luis in Argentina. […]
Tour Down Under kicks off Etixx QuickStep 2016 season
23-Dec-2015: David De La Cruz, Davide Martinelli, Pieter Serry, Guillaume Van Keirsbulck, Petr Vakoc, Martin Velits and Carlos Verona are the seven Etixx – Quick-Step riders to line-up for the 18th running of Australia’s premier cycling event (19-24 January 2016), which will be preceded by the traditional People’s Choice Classic […]