Quick-Step Floors’ pocket-rocket climber extended his lead in the general classification after a second straight victory 03-Apr-2018: Quick-Step Floors’ winning streak continued on Tuesday in stage 2 of the Vuelta al Pais Vasco, where a confident Julian Alaphilippe blew the race apart on San Pelaio, the 3.3km-long climb averaging 8.1% […]
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Vuelta al Pais Vasco: A day of double joy for Alaphilippe
The 25-year-old powered to his first World Tour victory of the season and became the first Frenchman since 1999 to lead the race 02-Apr-2018: Last year, Julian Alaphilippe was left disappointed as he rolled to the finish of the Vuelta al Pais Vasco opening stage, after an untimely puncture outside […]
Niki Terpstra crushes the cobbles en route to magnificent Ronde van Vlaanderen win
The 33-year-old Quick-Step Floors rider is the first Dutchman in over three decades to conquer the Belgian Monument 01-Apr-2018: Niki Terpstra continued the team’s dominance in the Belgian one-day races of this season, adding a 16th Monument victory to the astonishing palmares of the squad, just two days after Quick-Step […]
Valverde wins at GP Indurain
31st March 2018 Spaniard wins second career GP Miguel Indurain, following great teamwork by whole Telefónica-backed squad -12 wins in 2018-, claims success in only UCI race in Abarca Sports organisation’s Navarra landAlejandro Valverde makes journalists run out of adjectives and earns applause from the fans at every race he […]
Yves Lampaert rides into the history books at Dwars door Vlaanderen
The 26-year-old became the first rider to take back-to-back victories at the prestigious Belgian Classic 28-Mar-2018: Yves Lampaert sailed to a memorable win in a rain-soaked edition of Dwars door Vlaanderen (180.1 kilometers) after accelerating with 800 meters to go from a select group which attacked inside the last 25 […]
Marotte dominates Coupe de France opener
The French Champion won the first round of the challenge in Marseille Luminy. Fumic, Avancini and Spitz on the Absa Cape Epic podium Team Cannondale Factory Racing’s French Champion Maxime Marotte won the race in 1.27:06, preceding fellow Frenchmen Titouan Carod (+ 7”) and Stephane Tempier (+ 51”) on the […]
Perfect sprint for Peter Sagan as BORA-hansgrohe deliver UCI World Champion to third Gent-Wevelgem victory
In races where so much can depend on good fortune, BORA-hansgrohe today created the luck that brought UCI World Champion, Peter Sagan, to his third Gent-Wevelgem win. First, by driving the pace to reduce the advantage of the day’s break, before supporting the Slovak rider and keeping him safe in […]
Trek-Segafredo recruits young Italian talent Matteo Moschetti
Trek-Segafredo has come to terms with Matteo Moschetti for the 2019 and 2020 seasons as the UCI WorldTour team continues to invest in its future with promising young riders. Moschetti, 21, currently rides with Polartec-Kometa – the continental development team supported by Trek-Segafredo – and is enjoying a successful start […]
Valverde Seals GC Win in Catalunya
25th March 2018 – Picture: Photo Gomez Sport Spaniard becomes new UCI WorldTour ranking leader, wraps up dream Volta for Movistar Team -with Nairo Quintana in 2nd overall; Marc Soler in 5th; and the Blues as winners of the team GC-, conquers his third stagerace success in as many events […]
Yates claims a solo victory on the final stage of Volta Ciclista Catalunya and finishes in fourth overall
British climber Simon Yates claimed a solo victory today in Barcelona on the final stage of Volta Ciclista Catalunya after great teamwork from Mitchelton-SCOTT throughout the race. On tough finishing circuits around Montjuic, Mitchelton-SCOTT had numbers at the front all day, which set up Yates in a good position to […]