Nongla 22nd October – The fourth day of Tour of Guangxi is the first decisive stage for the GC, especially the last 3km to the mountain top finish. A bunch of riders took the lead and had a great fight on their way to Nongla Scenic Area, and Grega Bole […]
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Tour of Guangxi: Gaviria nets Quick-Step Floors’ 55th UCI win of 2017
Following his third straight success in China, the 23-year-old continues to lead the overall, points and youth standings 21-Oct-2017: Fernando Gaviria’s purple patch of form in these closing weeks of the season carried the Quick-Step Floors rider to his 13th victory of the year, at the end of another fast […]
Unstoppable Gaviria Makes it Two in a Row in Guangxi
The Colombian extended his lead in the overall standings after another convincing victory. 20-Oct-2017: Fernando Gaviria claimed his second win in a row at the maiden edition of the Tour of Guangxi, this time in Nanning, where the 23-year-old outmuscled Max Walscheid (Team Sunweb) and Wouter Wippert (Cannondale-Drapac) on a […]
Ganna, Consonni, Lamon and Bertazzo take silver at Track European Champs
In the opening day in Berlin, Northwave’s athletes finished second in the Team Pursuit behind France First medals in the opening day of Track European Championships in Berlin: on Thursday October 19th, Italy’s Filippo Ganna, Simone Consonni, Francesco Lamon and Liam Bertazzo claimed a superb silver medal in the Team […]
Mei-Yin, the most active rider at stage 2 of Guangxi
Nanning, 20th October – Our local rider found his chance when Silvan Dillier(BMC) launched the attack around 30 kilometer. The 3-man breakaway once lead 4 and half minutes in front of the peloton. They were caught until the last 4 kilometer to go. “I felt happy, thanks to the Philippe, […]
Gaviria Wins Opening Stage of Inaugural Tour of Guangxi
19-Oct-2017: Up until this point of the season, Fernando Gaviria scored at least one victory in every stage race he rode – Vuelta a San Juan, Volta ao Algarve, Tirreno-Adriatico, Giro d’Italia and Tour of Britain – and the Colombian was keen on continuing his streak also at the inaugural […]
Riders testing our legs at the first stage Guangxi
“When you have a good sprinter in a team, you always have a chance to win.” “Unfortunately, Sonny missed the last corner, 1.5 kilometer to go, he lost his teammates. Tomorrow we have a good chance again, we will try it tomorrow, and we will try it until the end […]
Team Sunweb to Tour of Guangxi
RACE PREVIEW: OCTOBER 16 – 24 The 2018 WorldTour season draws to a close over the coming week at the Gree-Tour of Guangxi, a new addition to the WorldTour calendar. The race is contested over six stages, the first of which is suited to the fast finishers followed by a […]
One Stage Race left for Lotto Soudal this Season: the Tour of Guangxi.
This WorldTour race takes place from Thursday 19 October until Tuesday 24 October, in the south of China. It’s six hours later in Guangxi than in Belgium. The course in Guangxi is mainly flat. The bonus seconds will probably be decisive for the overall victory. At the finish there are […]
Second consecutive win for Wanty-Groupe Gobert
After Putte-Kapellen Wanty-Groupe Gobert is the final winner of the UCI Europe Tour for the second consecutive time. That classification crowns the most regular procontinental team in Europe. After the final race Putte-Kapellen, Wanty-Groupe Gobert is sure of a new final victory, the second consecutive because in 2016 the team […]