A time trial in Marseille clinched the best general classification result for Slipstream Sports in the team’s nine-year Tour de France history. Colombian Rigoberto Uran started stage 20 in third place overall, six seconds behind Frenchman Romain Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale) and 29-seconds adrift of race leader Chris Froome (Team […]
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Yates & ORICA-SCOTT keep the white jersey in the family at the Tour de France
The conclusion of the Tour de France has seen Simon Yates officially awarded the white jersey for the best young rider in Paris this evening. Yates backs up the result of twin brother Adam Yates, who won the jersey 12months prior for ORICA-SCOTT, becoming just the second British rider to […]
Dan Martin concludes Tour de France in sixth overall
Quick-Step Floors’ rider delivered Ireland its best result in three decades, after a race in which our team scored five wins. 23-Jul-2017: Paris sizzled Sunday evening, as the roaring Tour de France peloton made its way through the city’s outskirts and onto the Champs-Élysées, where the race covered eight laps […]
TEAM SUNWEB WRITE IN THEIR HISTORY BOOKS SECURING GREEN AND POLKA DOT JERSEYS AT THE TOUR DE FRANCE
Team Sunweb have upped their Grand Tour classification triumphs to three in as many months, as Warren Barguil (FRA) and Michael Matthews (AUS) bring home two of the Tour de France’s prestigious jerseys for the German team. With 4 stage wins, 11 top tens, two jerseys and the race’s most […]
LAST SPRINT FOR GROENEWEGEN, FROOME WINS HIS FOURTH TOUR
Paris, Sunday, 23rd July – Dylan Groenewegen claimed the eighth bunch sprint victory of the 104th Tour de France as he outclassed André Greipel who concludes the Tour de France without a stage win for the first time. Delivering LottoNL-Jumbo’s second victory after Primoz Roglic in Serre-Chevalier and the fiftieth […]
Maciej Bodnar puts in the ride of his life to take his first Tour de France stage victory in Marseille time trial
Three weeks Maciej Bodnar had been waiting for this opportunity. The BORA-hansgrohe time trial specialist had ridden hard in support of his teammates on every stage of the Tour de France so far, but today was his chance to take centre stage. Smashing the day’s previous best time by over […]
Tour de France Stage 20: Küng Finishes Ninth and Caruso Retains 11 th on GC
22 July, 2017, Marseille (FRA) Stefan Küng clocked the ninth-fastest time on the 22.5km Tour de France stage 20 time trial in Marseille, his second top ten stage finish in his Tour de France debut. Küng was BMC Racing Team’s third rider to roll down the ramp and was chasing […]
Double victory for Van Vleuten at La Course by Le Tour de France
After her spectacular win on the summit finish of the Col d’Izoard on Thursday Annemiek van Vleuten was the favourite for today’s pursuit stage of La Course by Le Tour de France and the Dutch champion did not disappoint, storming to another convincing victory for ORICA-SCOTT women. The best twenty […]
Marseille Time Trial – Bodnar; Froome Third
Marseille, Saturday, 22nd July – Poland’s Maciej Bodnar (Bora-Hansgrohe) has won the 22.5km individual time trial in the streets of Marseille with an advantage of only one second over his compatriot Michal Kwiatkowski (Sky) who paved the way for his team-mate Chris Froome to confirm his superiority against the clock […]
BOASSON HAGEN SPOILS BELGIUM’S NATIONAL DAY PARTY
Salon-de-Provence, Friday, 21st July – Besides French riders, Belgians outnumbered their rivals in the 20-man breakaway group on their national day but Norway’s Edvald Boasson Hagen spoiled their party as he smartly rode to victory on the right side of a roundabout with 2.8km to go. He reached Salon-de-Provence by […]