24.1.2016 Dayer Quintana claims Latin America’s biggest race for the Blues -only team to secure two GC victories-, walks onto podium together with brother Nairo (3rd) after excellent collective performance -teams’ winners-, yet unfortunate due to Malori’s accident; Italian safely on path to recoveryNo challenges showed up during the 119km […]
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Tinkoff squad on a good track after conclusion of Tour de San Luis
Tinkoff’s sport directors had positive comments on this first competition of the year which allowed to assess the form of its riders. Team leaders at the Argentinean race, Peter Sagan and Rafal Majka, have positively evaluated their performance in view of the season’s main goals. A 119 km final stage […]
ORICA-GreenEDGE finish Santos Tour Down Under with fourth stage win and overall title
ORICA-GreenEDGE has concluded the 2016 Santos Tour Down Under in spectacular style, taking out the final stage and overall title in Adelaide today. 21-year-old sprinter Caleb Ewan delivered for the third time this week by winning the final stage ahead of Mark Renshaw (Team Dimension Data) and Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek-Segafredo). […]
Porte delivers first WorldTour podium place for BMC Racing Team
24, January 2015, Adelaide (AUS) Richie Porte has finished second at the 2016 Santos Tour Down Under, delivering the first podium place for BMC Racing Team at a UCI WorldTour event for the season. Porte finished nine seconds behind race winner Simon Gerrans (Orica-GreenEDGE), which marks his second consecutive year […]
McCarthy takes fourth overall and wins young rider classification at Tour Down Under
Tinkoff’s young Australian rider wraps up Tour Down Under in fourth place overall and pulls on the green jersey after having scored his first ever stage victory in a WorldTour race. Favorable weather conditions and a huge crowd were the ideal setting for the closing stage of the 2016 Tour […]
Dayer Quintana leads Tour de San Luis
23.1.2016 Colombian from Movistar Team -3rd atop Filo Sierras Comechingones-, supported by magnificent Nairo Quintana (2nd), evades control of GC leader Sepúlveda (FVC), will start Sunday’s finale in ‘green’ in ArgentinaMovistar Team made possible what, by virtue of Eduardo Sepúlveda (FVC) exhibition to the lead of the 2016 Tour de […]
Giant-Alpecin Training Accident
Six Team Giant-Alpecin riders were involved in a crash in training during the team training camp near Calpe, Spain, today. During the training ride, a car coming the other direction rode into the group of riders head on. The riders were riding side by side on their own side of […]
Contreras and Gaviria out of Tour de San Luis
Four Etixx – Quick-Step riders hit the ground in the crash that put its mark on the stage between Renca and Juana Koslay 23-Jan-2016: Things were looking good for Etixx – Quick-Step on Friday, January 22nd, when the team worked hard in order to reduce the advantage of the escape […]
Burghardt forced to rest with left elbow fracture
23 January, 2016, Adelaide (AUS) An elbow fracture sustained in a crash on stage three of the Santos Tour Down Under that forced Marcus Burghardt to withdraw from the race will prevent him from racing in the early part of the 2016 season. Burghardt was left with two small fractures […]
Mass crash hits Movistar Team hard
22.01.2016 Malori abandons, Moreno with Soler and Nairo Quintana affected by enormous pile-up at end of stage five in Tour de San Luis. A mass pile-up into the final 30 kilometers of stage five in the Tour de San Luis, finishing at Juana Koslay, ruined what had been a calm […]