The final stage in the Arctic Race of Norway (2.HC, 15-18/08) brought a lot of spectacle on several fronts. The riders made a habit of starting fast this week, from Lodingen this Sunday. Five men managed to break away after the first intermediate sprint after 27 kilometer, won by Andrea […]

August 18 th 2019 – 18:26 Norwegian riders made a 1-2 in the conclusive stage of the Arctic Race of Norway with Markus Hoelgaard and national champion Amund Grøndahl Jansen but the overall victory went to Alexey Lutsenko who came third on the line in Narvik and beat Warren Barguil […]

August 17 th 2019 – 18:20 Norway’s Odd Christian Eiking of Wanty-Groupe Gobert claimed his first win of the 2019 season on home soil as he clinched the queen stage of the Arctic Race of Norway atop the unprecedented and gruelling Storheia Summit. Second on the line, French national champion […]

After more than three hours and an arduous climb to the finish, it came down to an inch or less. “I’m not normally one to look at the finish. But I had a feeling. A few minutes before the start I went down and rode the last 300 meters,” Lachlan […]

Brothers Danny and Boy Van Poppel will be reunited, as from 2020, in the Wanty-Gobert colours. The brothers rode together for three years, after their start in the World Tour in 2013 in the Vacansoleil-DCM team, under the direction of Hilaire Van der Schueren. Their paths went separate ways after […]

The Italian sprinter will sport the new garment next Sunday, for the first time since taking gold in the Netherlands 17-Aug-2019: Last week, Elia Viviani pulled off a magnificent victory, one of the finest of his career, at the European Championships in Alkmaar. One of the pre-race favourites on the […]

August 16 th 2019 – 18:15 Bryan Coquard became the first Frenchman to win a stage at the Arctic Race of Norway. At the end of stage 2 in Svolvær, with the wonderful scenery of the Lofoten islands as a backdrop, he outsprinted Mathieu van der Poel who extended his […]

 Mathieu van der Poel Unbeatable August 15 th 2019 – 17:45 Mathieu van der Poel continued his winning streak in road racing… four months after he last competed and bagged the Amstel Gold Race. The Dutchman powered to victory from a 33-man leading group that contested stage 1 of the […]

Wednesday, 14th August – Team Bahrain Merida rider Domenico Pozzovivo will undergo a new surgery, the first one to treat the complex elbow fracture. The surgery is scheduled on Friday morning at the Lugano Regionale Civico Hospital, where the Italian rider has been airlifted from the Cosenza’s Hospital today. Pozzovivo […]

Team Sunweb are delighted to announce the signing of Tiesj Benoot, with the Belgian joining the team until the end of 2021. A world class rider, Benoot burst onto the scene in his neo-pro year in the WorldTour with an excellent fifth place at the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Since then […]