Team Bahrain McLaren and its partners are pleased to announce that Mikel Landa Meana will lead its team of eight talented riders at the 2020 Tour de France, commencing in Nice on 29th August. Mikel, who finished 4th at the 2017 Tour, is a multiple stage winner at Grand Tours, […]
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Mitchelton-SCOTT name team of stage hunters for Tour de France
Mitchelton-SCOTT has selected its strongest team of opportunists for the 2020 Tour de France, which starts next Saturday, 29 August in Nice. The selection comes after the team identified stage wins as its primary objective for the first Grand Tour of the season following its successful four-stage haul in 2019. […]
The Tour to the power of 10 1980: Hinault brought to his knees (8/10)
At the turn of each decade, the Tour de France has gone through organizational changes and backstage struggles that have variously turned out to be decisive or utterly inconsequential. The journey back in time continues in 1980, when persistent knee problems forced Bernard Hinault to make a discreet exit on […]
Olaf Tinkov of the former Tinkoff cycling team in big trouble
Miami Herald article: “Document leak reveals scope, audacity of Russian banking billionaire’s alleged IRS ripoff BY SHIRSHO DASGUPTAAUGUST 18, 2020 06:57 AM WASHINGTONA recent arrest in London and a new leak of documents from a bank in the Cayman Islands provide a road map showing how a Russian oligarch allegedly […]
Cattaneo injured during Giro dell’Emilia
Tuesday 18 August 2020 The Italian is the latest Deceuninck – Quick-Step rider to be put on the sidelines. On the attack in the last 35 kilometers of Tuesday’s Giro dell’Emilia, Mattia Cattaneo crashed on a downhill section and had to abandon the race, before being taken to the hospital […]
Fabio Jakobsen: “Step by step I can slowly look to the future”
Tuesday 18 August 2020 – 12:44 The Dutch Champion has a message for all those who supported him in the past couple of weeks. It is now two weeks after my crash in Poland. The trauma doctors and nurses at the finish line in Katowice saved my life, for which […]
Bob Jungels Leaving Quickstep
Tuesday 18 August 2020 – 10:35 After five amazing years, Luxembourger Bob Jungels is leaving the team, but no matter what, he’ll always remain a wolf. Bob Jungels joined Deceuninck – Quick-Step ahead of the 2016 season and has since been an important contributor to the team’s massive haul of […]
Bennett wins in Visé
Irish Champion takes fourth victory of the season after surviving a steep climb in the final 18-Aug-2020: Sam Bennett sprinted to the team’s 24th win of the year Tuesday afternoon, after an exciting day of racing at the Tour de Wallonie. It was Bennett’s fourth victory of the season, one […]
Aleksandr Vlasov takes solo win on Santa Luca at Giro dell’Emilia
After a demanding 199-kilometer race the Russian Champion made the decisive move on the way up to Santa Luca and took an impressive solo win. The one-day race started in Casalecchio di Reno and covered 199.7km with the final laps up to Santa Luca, well known from the opening time […]
Movistar Team gets Tour roster together in Alps
August 17th, 2020 10-rider lineup stays in France after Dauphiné, looking to take all health precautions before travelling to Nice for ‘Grand Depart’ After the end of the Critérium du Dauphiné last Sunday, the Movistar Team is gathering nearly its whole group for the 2020 Tour de France for a […]