Team KATUSHA notes that the UCI has started a proceeding against Eduard Vorganov for a violation of the UCI anti-doping rules. We understand that the adverse analytical finding concerns the substance Meldonium (also known as Mildronate) which was placed on the prohibited list only on 1 Jan 2016. Team KATUSHA […]

February 5th, 2016 Spaniard from Movistar Team bounce back after last year’s misfortune, claims an astonishing win in Hatta’s uphill finish to claim the Blues’ second success of the 2016 season. Juanjo now 2nd overall; Gorka Izagirre 7th in the stage.   A bitter third place last year behind team-mate […]

05. February 2016 – Silvan Dillier has finished third, and Philippe Gilbert fifth, on the Hatta Dam climb on stage 3 of the Dubai Tour taken out by Juan José Lobato (Movistar). A five-man breakaway went away for most of the stage, before the peloton pulled them back closing in […]

Giacomo Nizzolo gave everything up the final short but painfully steep climb towards the Hatta Dam to finish in second place and leap into the overall lead in the Dubai Tour Friday.   The only hills in the four-day race arrived in the final kilometers of the 172-kilometer stage three, […]