Dylan Groenewegen (Team Jumbo-Visma) gave encore with Oltre XR4 at Paris-Nice on Monday, March 11th. The Dutch GC leader completed the stage 2, 163,5 km from Les Bréviaires to Bellegarde with a powerful sprint that forced his rivals to settle for podium’s lowest steps or a Top 10 display. Groenewegen […]
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Groenewegen Wins Paris-Nice Opener and Takes GC Lead
Dylan Groenewegen (Team Jumbo-Visma) rode Oltre XR4 to a resounding sprint win and took the leader’s jersey in the opener of the Paris-Nice World Tour stage-race, 138,5 km with start and finish in Saint-Germain-en-Laye (France) on Sunday, March 10th. The 25-year-old rider from Amsterdam stood out in the contention among […]
Lorenzo Ballarini rules a spectacular Winter Downhill
Sun and excitement on the Tonale Pass for the crazy race on snow with 80 riders competing on the Valena slope. Italy’s national DH team’s Francesco Colombo and Veronika Widmann special guests The sun finally shone on LA Winter Downhill. After bad weather had affected the last three editions, on […]
Valverde claims first win as World Champion
26th February 2019 World Champion from Movistar Team claims his 100th victory with Eusebio Unzué’s team -the first rider since 1980; 123 in total as a pro- with intelligent, well-timed series of attacks towards Jebel Hafeet’s summit, his second success on this top, which propel him up to 2nd overall […]
“King” Nino Schurter to star at 2019 Internazionali d’Italia Series
Five stages, six titles for grabs: the 2019 edition of the most prestigious Italian MTB circuit, starting in Andora on Saturday March 2nd, has been presented in Milan. San Marino awaits the reigning World and Olympic Champion, who will lead his Scott-SRAM team at Titano XCO The countdown to 2019 […]
Tour du Rwanda Stage 3: Merhawi Kudus wins first mountain stage
The longest and a very hard mountain stage has been held today at the Tour du Rwanda: the riders faced a 213-km-long distance from Huye to Rubavu with 5 categorized climbs and a long descent towards the finish line. Once again Astana Pro Team shined in Rwanda, taking another stage […]
Victor Campenaerts to take on the UCI Hour Record
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is delighted to announce that Belgian rider Victor Campenaerts, of UCI WorldTeam Lotto Soudal, will attempt to set a new UCI Hour Record timed by Tissot on 16 or 17 April this year at the Velodromo Bicentenario in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Campenaerts is aiming to beat […]
Tour du Rwanda. Stage 2. First win of Merhawi Kudus for Astana Pro Team
The Astana newcomer in 2019, Merhawi Kudus scored his first victory in the jersey of the Kazakh team. Today, Merhawi won the second stage of the Tour du Rwanda after strong teamwork on the final climb of the day. – This is my second race of the season for Astana […]
Zdenek Stybar seals the win on Alto do Malhão
Deceuninck – Quick-Step conclude Volta ao Algarve with a brace of stage victories, the KOM jersey and two riders in the top 10 24-Feb-2019: Zdenek Stybar basked in his first win in almost two years, on the final day of Volta ao Algarve, which took the bunch from Faro to […]
TEAM JUMBO-VISMA DOMINATES UAE TOUR’S TTT
Team Jumbo-Visma claimed a resounding success in UAE Tour’s opening TTT, 16 km with start and finish on Al Hudayriat Island (United Arab Emirates) on Sunday, February 24th. Equipped with Aquila CV, Bianchi’s ultimate time trial machine, Jos van Emden, Tom Leezer, Primoz Roglic, Paul Mertens, Koen Bouwman, Tony Martin […]