NEWLYWED GERMAN HAPPY TO STAY WITH “SPECIAL TEAM” TEAM MANAGER CARLSTRÖM SAYS: “HE STRENGTHENS THE LEAD-OUT TRAIN”SPRINTER SAYS “IT’S A BIG SIGN THAT A GERMAN RIDES FOR AN ISRAELI TEAM”It’s a big time right now for Rick Zabel: he has extended his contract with Israel Start-Up Nation for two years, […]
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WORLD-CLASS CLIMBER MICHAEL WOODS TO JOIN ISRAEL START-UP NATION
Will be Chris Froome’s right-hand man in the bolstered team for 2021 Woods will lead the team in classics and monuments. The Canadian comes full circle by joining ISN: credits team owner and performance manager.Woods: “They are the reason I am a pro cyclist.” World-class climber, Michael Woods, will join […]
ISN CONTINUES ITS BUILD-UP AND SIGNS BEVIN AND BERWICK
ISN continues its build-up towards a GC run in the coming years Added two riders: TT specialist Patrick Bevin and promising young talent Sebastian Berwick Team Israel Start-Up Nation continues its build-up towards a GC run in the coming years and has signed time trial specialist, Patrick Bevin and the […]
SUPER DOMESTIQUE’ AND ‘ROAD CAPTAIN’ DARYL IMPEY TO JOIN ISN IN 2021
South African Daryl Impey to join the team next season Two-year contract signedWill reunite with former teammate Chris FroomeImpey: “Chris called me and said he trusts me and wants me to be at his side.”“I feel I need to step out of my comfort zone. With ISN I will be […]
Juraj Sagan nets gold, Pascal Ackermann silver at the national road race championships
After a number of BORA – hansgrohe riders were forced to forego participation in their national championships this week, partly due to injury, and partly by virtue of the intensive racing schedule this year, the team from Raubling was only able to come away with one national title, that of […]
No Tour de France for Tim Wellens
Tim Wellens will not be able to start next Saturday in the Tour de France due to the serious injuries he sustained in a motor-pacing crash last Friday. Wellens suffers from road rash and deep wounds all over the body, especially on right shoulder, elbow and knee. No fractures were […]
PELLO BILBAO IS THE NEW SPANISH ITT CHAMPION
Team Bahrain McLaren is proud to celebrate the victory of Pello Bilbao at the Spanish ITT Championship today. The 30-year old talented rider clocked a winning time of 1h03’32” on the 45km demanding course from Cazorla to La Iruela, beating Luis Leon Sanchez (+36”) and Gorka Izagirre (+1’36”) and taking […]
Bob Jungels wins record-breaking sixth ITT national title
The 27-year-old Luxembourger became the 11th different Deceuninck – Quick-Step rider to score a victory this year 20-Aug-2020: Bob Jungels produced another solid display at the National Championships and won the time trial for the sixth time in his career, after 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019. The outright favourite […]
Olaf Tinkov of the former Tinkoff cycling team in big trouble
Miami Herald article: “Document leak reveals scope, audacity of Russian banking billionaire’s alleged IRS ripoff BY SHIRSHO DASGUPTAAUGUST 18, 2020 06:57 AM WASHINGTONA recent arrest in London and a new leak of documents from a bank in the Cayman Islands provide a road map showing how a Russian oligarch allegedly […]
Cattaneo injured during Giro dell’Emilia
Tuesday 18 August 2020 The Italian is the latest Deceuninck – Quick-Step rider to be put on the sidelines. On the attack in the last 35 kilometers of Tuesday’s Giro dell’Emilia, Mattia Cattaneo crashed on a downhill section and had to abandon the race, before being taken to the hospital […]