After yesterday’s individual time trial decided who would wear the Tour de Suisse’s yellow jersey, the race broke out of Langnau im Emmental to see what Switzerland had to offer. The first road stage would see riders tackle a circuit ridden three times, taking in two second category climbs over […]
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Luis Leon Sanchez takes stage win in Tour de Suisse
Luis Leon Sanchez wins solo after phenomenal teamwork at Stage 2 of Tour de Suisse. Meanwhile, at the Tour de Suisse, Astana Pro Team continued its fantastic Sunday with an amazing solo victory of Luis Leon Sanchez at the second stage of the race. Sanchez attacked with 11 kilometers to […]
Remco Evenepoel wins the Belgium Tour
Deceuninck – Quick-Step’s 19-year-old neo-pro became the youngest ever rider to triumph at the race created in 1908 16-Jun-2019: One of the oldest stage races in the world, which came to life one year before the Giro d’Italia was born, has now landed in Remco Evenepoel’s palmares, after the talented […]
Critérium du Dauphiné: Alaphilippe takes home prestigious KOM jersey
First Frenchman in six years to win the climbers’ standings, Julian also strengthened his grip on the UCI Individual Ranking 16-Jun-2019: One of the most consistent riders at the 71st edition of the Critérium du Dauphiné, for many the most important appointment before the Tour de France, Julian Alaphilippe continued […]
Jakob Fuglsang wins Critérium du Dauphiné
Winning the race already once in 2017, today Jakob Fuglsang claimed his second Critérium du Dauphiné GC victory while teammate Luis Leon Sanchez won Stage 2 of Tour de Suisse. In the Dauphiné, the Dane successfully defended his lead in the final stage together with his teammates, of which Kazakh […]
2019 Critérium du Dauphiné Queen Stage
The penultimate stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné was also the queen stage of this year’s edition. It was a short but intense day, the riders had to tackle 133,5 km but three category one climbs before heading up to the summit finish on Pipay, a Hors Categorie climb. As […]
Double joy for Alaphilippe at the Dauphiné
Victorious at the end of Friday’s stage, the UCI Individual Classification leader also surged to the top of the KOM standings 14-Jun-2019: Three days after turning 27, Julian Alaphilippe made himself a beautiful and hard-worked gift – a second career stage victory at the Critérium du Dauphiné. To add to […]
Another day in yellow for Adam Yates after stage 6 of Criterium du Dauphiné
On today’s longest stage of the eight-day race, Mitchelton-SCOTT worked to keep Adam Yates safe once again to maintain his overall race lead in Critérium du Dauphiné after a breakaway trio stayed away to the finish line. With his teammates surrounding him, Yates was never in trouble and made it […]
Chris Froome Medical Update
Team INEOS can confirm that Chris Froome’s surgery was a success following his crash on Wednesday afternoon. Froome suffered multiple serious injuries after crashing at 55kmph on a recon of stage four of the Criterium du Dauphine, and was taken to Roanne Hospital where he was stabilised and assessed, before […]
Yates stays safe to defend his race lead on the fifth stage of Criterium du Dauphiné
Mitchelton-SCOTT successfully kept 26-year-old Adam Yates out of trouble on today’s lengthy sprint stage of Critérium du Dauphiné, to retain his overall lead after five-days of racing. The Mitchelton-SCOTT rider stayed well protected and towards the front of the peloton for the majority of the race, eventually sprinting into 12th […]