26-year-old Australian Grace Brown is the second new signing for Mitchelton-SCOTT women following a stand out 2018 that saw her officially join the professional peloton in Europe. Brown claimed the bronze medal in the road race and fourth in the time trial at the Australian Championships, and fifth overall at […]
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Women’s Movistar Team renews nine riders for 2019
18th October 2018 Nearly the entire Telefónica-backed squad’s roster from this season, including all Spaniards, will stay with Eusebio Unzué’s teamThe Movistar Team announces it has reached agreements with nine of the riders which made part of its 2018 women’s roster. The core of that program will thus remain intact […]
Tour of Guangxi: Jakobsen makes it 72 Quick-Step Floors wins in 2018
18-Oct-2018: Fabio Jakobsen made sure Quick-Step Floors will conclude this record-breaking season with a win at its last appearance, in the Tour of Guangxi, sprinting to a convincing victory – the sixth of his first pro year – in the city of Nanning, where the 125km-long stage 3 ended after […]
2018 Crocodile Trophy: Elite Stage wins for Soren Nissen and Sjoukje Dufoer
Wednesday 18th October 2018 Soren Nissen The Danish elite rider Sören Nissen who races for Luxemburg wins today’s stage in a furious sprint towards the line, winning just ahead of the Czech rider Milan Damek. Urs Huber and Konny Looser crossed the line right behind in third and fourth. Yesterday’s […]
Ackermann Defies Torrential Rain to take stage two at Tour of Guangxi
It took about 15 kilometers before a break of five riders went clear from the bunch, but like yesterday, there was no doubt that the sprinter teams would control also stage two. Half way through the race, it started to rain, and when the riders entered the finishing circuit in […]
2018 Crocodile Trophy: Wins for Austria and Belgium
Wednesday 17th October 2018 Matthias Grick Today’s stage from Irvinebank to Skybury was a fast a furious 95km marathon race and resulted in two new names on the top step of the elite category podiums: the Austrian Matthias Grick wins the sprint finish in the men’s and the Belgian ex-pro […]
Team Sunweb and Edward Theuns Part Ways
Team Sunweb and Edward Theuns (BEL) are set to part ways after the current 2018 season. With still one year remaining on the 27-year-old’s contract, both the team and Theuns came to the mutual decision to terminate their commitment from the end of this season due to their visions on […]
Joe Dombrowski re-signs with #PinkArgyle
Joe Dombrowski has re-signed with EF Pro Cycling for the upcoming season. The American finished fifth overall at the 2018 Colorado Classic and sixth overall at the 2018 Tour of Utah. “It’s not a secret that the last couple of seasons have not been what I wanted results-wise,” said Dombrowski. […]
Groenewegen Takes 14th Seasonal Win in China
Team LottoNL-Jumbo’s rider outsprinted Walscheid and Jakobsen in Gree-Tour of Guangxi opening stage. Dylan Groenewegen claimed his 14th seasonal success at the Gree-Tour of Guangxi opening stage, 107,4 km with start and finish in Beihai (China) on Tuesday, October 16th. Equipped with Oltre XR4, Team LottoNL-Jumbo’s rider outsprinted Max Walscheid […]
Klaas Lodewyck joins Quick-Step Floors
The Belgian will be the team’s seventh sports director as of next year 16-Oct-2018: Quick-Step Floors and Klaas Lodewyck have reached an agreement that will see the 30-year-old be part of the current World Tour leader’s technical staff starting from 2019. A pro between 2009 and 2015, a period during […]