23 July, 2017, Paris (FRA) The 2017 Tour de France concluded with the traditional ride into Paris, culminating with eight laps of the iconic Champs-Élysées which came down to a sprint won by Dylan Groenewegen (Team LottoNL-Jumbo). Having lost team leader Richie Porte to a crash on stage 9 of […]
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Rigoberto Uran finishes second overall at 2017 Tour de France
A time trial in Marseille clinched the best general classification result for Slipstream Sports in the team’s nine-year Tour de France history. Colombian Rigoberto Uran started stage 20 in third place overall, six seconds behind Frenchman Romain Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale) and 29-seconds adrift of race leader Chris Froome (Team […]
Yates & ORICA-SCOTT keep the white jersey in the family at the Tour de France
The conclusion of the Tour de France has seen Simon Yates officially awarded the white jersey for the best young rider in Paris this evening. Yates backs up the result of twin brother Adam Yates, who won the jersey 12months prior for ORICA-SCOTT, becoming just the second British rider to […]
Dan Martin concludes Tour de France in sixth overall
Quick-Step Floors’ rider delivered Ireland its best result in three decades, after a race in which our team scored five wins. 23-Jul-2017: Paris sizzled Sunday evening, as the roaring Tour de France peloton made its way through the city’s outskirts and onto the Champs-Élysées, where the race covered eight laps […]
TEAM SUNWEB WRITE IN THEIR HISTORY BOOKS SECURING GREEN AND POLKA DOT JERSEYS AT THE TOUR DE FRANCE
Team Sunweb have upped their Grand Tour classification triumphs to three in as many months, as Warren Barguil (FRA) and Michael Matthews (AUS) bring home two of the Tour de France’s prestigious jerseys for the German team. With 4 stage wins, 11 top tens, two jerseys and the race’s most […]
LAST SPRINT FOR GROENEWEGEN, FROOME WINS HIS FOURTH TOUR
Paris, Sunday, 23rd July – Dylan Groenewegen claimed the eighth bunch sprint victory of the 104th Tour de France as he outclassed André Greipel who concludes the Tour de France without a stage win for the first time. Delivering LottoNL-Jumbo’s second victory after Primoz Roglic in Serre-Chevalier and the fiftieth […]