“We were a great team today – comments SD Alberto Volpi – in a stage that was very difficult as expected. Everyone worked very well, starting with Antonio Nibali and Damiano Caruso who entered in the break to end up with Domenico Pozzovivo who made a great pace on the […]
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Ciccone wins a two-up sprint to claim the win in stage 16
Giulio Ciccone always wanted more than mountain points when joining a breakaway, and in stage 16 – an astonishing sixth time joining the escape group in this year’s Giro d’Italia – he finally achieved his most important goal by outsprinting Jan Hirt (Astana) in a wet and cold ending to […]
Torrential conditions reign on the Giro d’Italia queen stage
Although the queen stage today did not crest the 2618m high Gavia pass, as was previously planned, the parcours was no less challenging. Cycling tourists checking out the conditions on the Gavia Due to the continued avalanche risk as well as icy roads, the race organizers designated an alternative route. […]
Nibali Talks About 2019 Giro Third Week
Team Bahrain Merida captain Vincenzo Nibali and Sports Director Alberto Volpi met the media at the NH Orio al Serio Hotel, where riders and staff members are spending the second rest day of this year’s Giro d’Italia. The Shark – that this morning trained on the rollers due to bad […]
Giro d’Italia. Dario Cataldo takes heroic victory on stage 15
The Astana rider Dario Cataldo took a heroic victory today on the streets of Como at stage 15 of the Giro d’Italia. After a few days of illness, today Cataldo was able to move himself in a breakaway together with the Italian rider Mattia Cattaneo. Spending all day long in […]
Richard Carapaz is the new Maglia Rosa!
25th May 2019 Ecuadorian climber from Movistar Team shows again his impressive strength with splendid attack at Colle San Carlo, 30km before Courmayeur’s finish; adds provisional Maglia Rosa to his third win in the race, his second in 2019. Richard Carapaz showed once again on Saturday’s stage fourteen of the […]
Nibali third at the foot of Mont Blanc
Vincenzo Nibali is third in Courmayeur and thanks to this result he moved up to third place in the overall classification led by stage winner and new pink jersey by the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz. Second mountain stage and great challenge among the big favorites. “We tried to make the difference […]
Rafal Majka again shows valiant effort with fourth place on brutal 14th stage of Giro d’Italia
On the 14th stage of the Giro d’Italia, which took the peloton over 131km through the highlands from Saint-Vincent to Courmayeur, the riders had to crest five categorized climbs and no less than 3000 metres of climbing. Only 7 km after the start, the route went upwards to Verrayes. A […]
First real mountain test at the Giro d’Italia
With three tricky climbs, today’s 13th stage was the first real mountain stage of this year’s Giro d’Italia and took the riders over 196km to the Alpine region of Piemont. 40 km after the start in Pinerolo, the riders reached the Colle del Lys, a first category climb. Following a […]
Loyal helper Cesare Benedetti triumphs on the twelfth stage of the Giro d’Italia
The 12th stage of the Giro d’Italia took the riders over 158 km from Cuneo to Pinerolo. After 117km in the saddle came the first Category 1 climb of this year’s race, which featured an average gradient of almost 10 per cent. After this ascent to Montose in more than […]