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“The team worked a tactic today to be together when we could and to coordinate our actions – this shows we have a strong, thinking team with 10 more stages to go – to defend the Red Jersey is now our main objective” He finished behind teammate Landa and now has […]
Tinkoff-Saxo’s Rafal Majka finished 6th on the killer stage 11 of Vuelta a España that was dubbed “the hardest ever” prior to its start. The day lived up to the expectations with a battle of attrition spread over 4,950 altitude meters. Spurred on by a dedicated effort from teammate Pawel […]
Tinkoff Saxo asks: Can organizers of Vuelta a España guarantee a safe race? This is the question everybody involved in the sport of cycling should be asking after Sergio Paulinho was hit by a reckless TV motorcycle in the first kilometers of the Vuelta stage 11. Exactly four days after […]
It might take years before the Vuelta a Espana lives another stage as tough as the one of today, Wednesday September 2nd, through the 138 km from Andorra La Vella to Cortals d’Encamp. Five categorized climbs and a 5.500-meter overall altitude proved an extreme test for the riders, even putting […]
Tinkoff-Saxo would like to clarify some incorrect reporting that was released yesterday by certain publications, in regard to Bobby Julich and Daniel Healey. All parties had agreed to make this announcement once the season was over in order not to distract the team while at the races, but now feel […]
By reducing the sedative medication the doctors tried to take Kris Boeckmans out of the induced coma. The lung injuries (pneumothorax, laceration of the lung, bleeding of the lung and swollen pulmonary tissue) made it too difficult for Kris to sufficiently breathe independently, so he was placed in an induced […]
Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling today announced that Rigoberto Uran will join the team in 2016. An Olympic Silver Medalist (2012 Road Race), Uran has twice stood on the podium of the Giro d’Italia with two second overall finishes as well as stage wins (2013 and 2014). In 2012, Uran won the […]
Tinkoff-Saxo announces that, unfortunately, the team’s co-leader at the Vuelta a España cannot safely continue to race and will instead return home to recover from the injuries he suffered after he was hit by a motorbike at the finale of stage 8 on Saturday afternoon. Sagan was hit by a […]
Rubiano eightheenth in Murcia. Torres, battered by a virus, crashes and slides down in the GC. Miguel Angel-Rubiano In a three-week stage race like the Vuelta a España, fates and eventualities go well beyond the altimetry profile of the single stages. It was proved once again in the 8th stage […]
Today the eighth stage of the Vuelta was scheduled, between Puebla de Don Fadrique and Murcia. It was an emotional day for Lotto Soudal. Fifty kilometres before the finish there was a big crash in the peloton, Kris Boeckmans was one of the main victims. At that moment Jasper De […]
