As part of the fight against the spread of Coronavirus (COVID19), Welcome to Yorkshire and Amaury Sport Organisation, co-organizers of the Tour de Yorkshire and of the Asda Tour de Yorkshire Women’s race, have decided to postpone the upcoming sixth edition of the annual cycle race scheduled to take placed […]

As part of the fight against the spread of Coronavirus (COVID19), Amaury Sport Organisation, with the agreement of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), has decided to not organise Paris-Roubaix (12th April), the Flèche Wallonne and the Flèche Wallonne Women (22nd April) and Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Liège-Bastogne-Liège Women (26th April) races on […]

Paris-Nice’s Queen Stage was also the race’s grand finale, with the cancellation of Sunday’s racing meaning that it was all going to come down to the 166.5km of stage 7. Those kilometres were going to be the hardest the riders would face, with four climbs, all of which were first […]

Maximilian Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe) gave everything he had to win Paris-Nice on Saturday at the top of La Colmiane at the end of a grueling 166.5-km mountain stage won by Nairo Quintana. The German champion, 26, who had seized the reins on the very first day in Plaisir, became the first […]

Because of the continuing emergenices due to the coronavirus, the 2020 Giro d’Italia is officially postponed. Race organizer RCS is looking for new dates sometime after May.  “In response to the spread of the coronavirus the Hungarian government has declared a state of emergency. This prohibits the organization of mass […]

After consultation with the relevant authorities, The Union Cycliste Internationale and the Ville de Nice, the organisers of Paris-Nice have decided that 7th stage, finishing at Valdebore la Colmiane, will be the last of the race. This decision, taken as part of the fight against the spread of the Coronavirus, […]

March 13 th 2020 – 16:54 Tiesj Benoot outwitted the rest of the Paris-Nice field to win the 161.5-km stage 6 in Apt on Friday after a brilliant show of strength by the whole of his Team Sunweb. The Belgian, winner of Strade Bianche in 2018, surged in the last […]

Six categorised climbs were going to make stage 6 one of the toughest of the race so far. While the hardest on this 161.5km day was a second category, once all of these ascents had been dealt with, the riders would be feeling it in their legs. Initially, a seven-man […]

March 12 th 2020 – 16:37 Niccolo Bonifazio (Direct Energie) snatched the longest stage in the 78th Paris-Nice on Thursday when he outsprinted the pack who had just caught heroic escapee Jan Tratnik with 20 metres to go in la Cote Saint-Andre. The Slovenian rider still held a dozen seconds […]

March 11 th 2020 – 16:59 St. Amand Montrond was expecting local hero Julian Alaphilippe to shine in the City of Gold but the Frenchman was outshone by Soren Kragh Andersen (Team Sunweb) in the 15.1-km time trial of stage 4 on Wednesday. The in-form Dane, revealed by his victory […]