September 2, 2018 Second mountain summit finish at La Vuelta 18, and second stage win for Ben King (Dimension Data)! The American rider went again for the victorious breakaway on Sunday at La Covatilla, five days after winning at Alfacar. This time, he was able to celebrate on his own […]
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Patience pays off for Valverde in Almadén
1st September 2018 Alejandro gets boxed in several times into run-in towards Vuelta a España stage eight finish; ultimately surges to beat Sagan (BOH) and claim his second victory in this year’s race, becoming the most successful rider ever (98) in Movistar Team colors since 1980. A climber against stage […]
Gallopin keeps the French streak going
August 31 st 2018 – 17:06 On the day after Nacer Bouhanni’s victory at San Javier, Tony Gallopin (AG2R-La Mondiale) soloed to victory at Pozo Alcon, this Friday. The French man made the most of a very demanding finale to jump ahead of every one with 2km to go. He […]
Bouhanni Takes stage 6
A nervous stage 6 of La Vuelta 18 saw Nacer Bouhanni (Cofidis) dominate a very tight sprint ahead of Danny Van Poppel (LottoNL-Jumbo) and Elia Viviani (Quick-Step Floors). The Frenchman claims his first Grand Tour victory since he took two on the Spanish Grand Tour in 2014. Rudy Molard (Groupama-FDJ) […]
Clarke and Molard – Attackers Can Rejoice
August 29 th 2018 – 16:46 A lumpy 188.7km favoured the attackers on the way to Roquetas de Mar with Simon Clarke (Education-Fisrt Drapac) claiming stage 5 of La Vuelta on Wednesday while Rudy Molard took the red jersey from Michal Kwiatkowski (Team Sky). This is the first time a […]
Ben King crowned at Alfacar
August 28 th 2018 – 18:16 The first major mountain stage of La Vuelta 18 saw long range attackers succeed and especially Ben King, winner on Tuesday atop the Puerto de Alfacar. The 29 year-old American rider spent the whole day at the front and eventually dominated Nikita Stalnov (Astana) […]
VIVIANI STRIKES FIRST
With few opportunities for sprinters to shine, Elia Viviani (Quick-Step Floors) showed at Alhaurin de la Torre he has what it takes to win on La Vuelta. The most prolific winner of the season dominated the bunch gallop on Monday, ahead of fellow Italien sprinter Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek-Segafredo) and World […]
Valverde an Everlasting ‘Rey’ in La Vuelta
26th August 2018 Sensational final kilometer by ‘Marvel from Murcia’ grants him Caminito del Rey victory after excellent work from Movistar Team; ‘Bala’ up to 120 pro victories -with ten stages in the Spanish Grand Tour-, equals Indurain as top ‘scorer’ with Unzué’s structure (97 wins) Alejandro Valverde wrote another […]
Dennis Powers into the First Red Jersey After Time Trial Victory in Malaga
25 August, 2018, Malaga (ESP) Rohan Dennis did was he does best on the opening stage of this year’s Vuelta a España today, time trialling to victory and into the first red leader’s jersey of the race after an impressive performance on the streets of Malaga. Dennis was the fourth-to-last […]
La Vuelta 2018 Start
Malaga, Spain Start of the inaugural time trial on Saturday at 5.26pm. Vincenzo Nibali will leave the starting ramp with racing bib number 1 at 8.21pm. Team Sky is on the hunt for its third Grand Tour of the year with Michal Kwiatkowski and David De La Cruz as leaders. […]