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It was the Tour de Suisse’s longest day, and if the 216.6km distance wasn’t hard enough on its own, the race organizers had put three categorised climbs on the route, increasing in difficulty as the day went on. Starting with a second category climb, the riders progressed to the first […]
Flumserberg, 20th June 2019 – “It was a relatively short stage – says Domenico Pozzovivo – but with an explosive finish on a steep climb. It was important for me to recover positions and I achieved my goal. There are still two mountain stages and I will try to recover […]
Team Sunweb’s Tom Dumoulin is to miss the Tour de France after a physically challenging run up to the race means that he is unable to be in the best possible shape to tackle three hard weeks of racing in France. Throughout various ups and downs, hope prevailed, but the […]
20th June 2019 World Champion from Movistar Team returns to racing after 53-day stop following his spring injuries with a convincing victory atop Côte d’Aubignac, dons orange leader’s jersey again after his 2018 overall victory in FranceRelying on a strong Movistar Team, Alejandro Valverde offered cycling fans a comeback to […]
Slovenian Luka Mezgec sprinted to victory on home soil in a dramatic and nail-biting finish to stage two of the Tour de Slovenia. The 30-year-old dug deep to make it over the major climb of the day with 20-kilometres remaining before chasing down a lead group inside the final 400-metres […]
After a perfect lead-out, the Italian Champion outsprinted all his rivals and coasted to another impressive win 19-Jun-2019: Deceuninck – Quick-Step created again a thing of sublime beauty at the Tour de Suisse, absolutely bossing the stage 5 finale and rolling out the red carpet in the last 100 meters […]
The opening stage of the 26th edition of the Tour of Slovenia was 168.5km of not too demanding terrain from Ljubljana to Rogaška Slatina. Just over 50km down the road before the finish, the riders had to take on a 2km-long climb, which was on average 8 per cent steep […]
The terrain getting progressively harder as the race goes on, the profile for stage 4 was a much more jagged affair. The second category climb that summited just past the halfway point of the 163.9km stage was the more obvious one, with its slopes hitting nearly 10% on the way […]
An outstanding lead-out train and a powerful sprint catapulted the 30-year-old to his ninth win in the Italian Champion jersey 18-Jun-2019: Elia Viviani bounced back after finishing a frustrating second in Murten yesterday and captured his maiden win at the Tour de Suisse, which he is racing for the first […]
