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Mende, France – Tejay van Garderen slipped from second to third overall Saturday at the Tour de France, but the BMC Racing Team’s leader said he is not losing sight of a podium finish in Paris. Van Garderen finished 25th, 39 seconds after Nairo Quintana (Movistar Team), who was out-sprinted […]
Tinkoff-Saxo’s Peter Sagan claimed second place on stage 13 to Rodez, where he extended his lead in the points classification to 24 points after a punchy 570m finishing climb. Just missing out on the win behind Greg Van Avermaet, Sagan notes that he is grateful for his teammates’ effort but […]
Rodez, France – Greg Van Avermaet held off a charge by Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo) on Friday’s uphill finish to deliver the BMC Racing Team its third stage win of this year’s Tour de France. Van Avermaet and the peloton only swept up the last three riders from the day’s six-man […]
Plateau de Beille, France – Tejay van Garderen maintained his grip on second place overall at the Tour de France Thursday by keeping pace with race leader Chris Froome (Team Sky) during a third straight challenging day in the Pyrenees mountains. Van Garderen placed 13th and in a group of […]
July 16th, 2015 Movistar takes lead in Tour de France teams’ classification thanks to Gorka Izagirre -4th, after a long day into the break-, Alejandro Valverde and Nairo Quintana, the latter two making several attacks in the decisive climb; GC duo remain 3rd, 4th overallDown to eight riders after the […]
The hardest climb in the Pyrénées proved to be the perfect proving ground for Team Katusha’s Joaquim Rodriguez to find his form and solo into his second stage win in the 2015 Tour de France. Part of an original 22-man break that held more than 13-minutes along the route to […]
Tinkoff-Saxo’s Alberto Contador regained momentum on stage 12 to Plateau de Beille, where the team leader notes that he felt better. Under the deluge, which had imposed itself on the riders going into the final climb, Contador finished together with the main GC rivals after an array of attacks in […]
Gert Steegmans has announced his immediate retirement from professional cycling today. The 34-year-old Belgian steps away from the sport after 13 years as a pro.Steegmans asked the management to be relieved of his contract and cites an absence of purpose to come back after several crashes and injuries as the […]
Rafal Majka powered his way to a great solo win on the mountainous stage 11 to Cauterets. Bearing a great resemblance to his two memorable solo wins of the 2014 edition, Rafal Majka put the hammer down on the penultimate climb to Col du Tourmalet. Peter Sagan picked up points […]
Cauterets, France – Tejay van Garderen of the BMC Racing Team remained second overall after a second straight day in the Pyrenees Wednesday at the Tour de France. Van Garderen placed 13th on the summit finish of the 188-kilometer stage, just behind teammate Samuel Sánchez and in the same time […]
