World champion Annemiek van Vleuten made it five wins from five starts in 2020, as she defended her Strade Bianche title in stunning style in Siena. The 37-year-old looked to be out of the running before bridging across to a group of chasers with 16kilometres remaining and then hunting down […]
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Maximilian Schachmann takes third in Siena as German National Champion’s attacking style brings excitement to Strade Bianche
The temperatures were in the high 30°s as riders set out for the first UCI WorldTour race since the season was suspended in March. The dry conditions would make the famous white roads of Tuscany even more dusty as the racing covered the undulating 184km parcours, starting and finishing in […]
CCC Team looking for opportunities at French stage races
31 July 2020 CCC Team will run a triple race program this week with the four-stage La Route d’Occitanie getting underway on Saturday, 01 August, followed by Tour de l’Ain next week. La Route d’Occitanie is a chance for riders to get back into the racing rhythm against a strong […]
Ef Under the Tuscan Sun
We are set to make our racing return this saturday at Strade Bianche and we couldn’t be more excited. White gravel roads, scorching heat, and the Tuscan countryside await us in what is one of our favorite one day races of the year. Find out more about what makes this […]
Bennett stuns the peloton in Vuelta a Burgos
Two in a row for Deceuninck – Quick-Step after the Irish Champion catches his opponents off-guard on the penultimate stage 31-Jul-2020: A bold explosive attack launched seconds after he avoided a late crash in a tight hairpin, catapulted Sam Bennett to his third victory for the Wolfpack, on stage 4 […]
Remco Evenepoel wins on the Picon Blanco
30-Jul-2020: Remco Evenepoel took his first victory of the second part of the season in truly commanding fashion, atop the Picon Blanco, a 7.8km climb with a 9.3% average gradient that awaited the riders at the end of a complicated Vuelta a Burgos day. It was the 20-year-old’s sixth success […]
MIKEL LANDA TAKES 3RD PLACE ON PICÓN BLANCO OF VUELTA A BURGOS
Vuelta a Burgos 2020Sargentes de la Lora – Picón Blanco — 150 km Vuelta a Burgos, the race where the season 2020 finally restarted and one of the the very few sporting events that is happening in Spain, continued today at its mountain stage with extremly hard wind and high […]
The Tour to the power of 10 – 1950: divorce Italian style (5/10)
At the turn of each decade, the Tour de France has gone through organisational changes and backstage struggles that have variously turned out to be decisive or utterly inconsequential. The journey back in time proposed by letour.fr continues in 1950, marked by the collective departure of the Italian riders after […]
Schachmann, Pöstlberger and Benedetti extend with BORA – hansgrohe
The current German Champion has extended his contract with the team from Raubling for four years. Lukas Pöstlberger and Cesare Benedetti will also ride in the colours of BORA – hansgrohe for the following two years. “I have always said that with Max, we’re planning for the long term. He’s […]
LA COURSE BY LE TOUR DE FRANCE 2020 with FDJ : LADIES IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Key points: Ø The 7th edition of La Course by Le Tour de France avec FDJ will take place next month on a 96-kilometre course with the start and finish in Nice, for the first time before the Tour de France riders head into action. Ø While the sprinters cannot […]