Following a successful Critérium du Dauphiné, including a stage win, a spell in yellow and fifth place overall, Alberto Contador has assumed the lead in the UCI WorldTour individual rider rankings. The Spanish rider moves ahead of teammate Peter Sagan, with them both weighing heavily in favour of the team’s […]
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Nairo Quintana’s #SueñoAmarillo passes through Route du Sud
13 June 2016 Colombian superstar, whole Movistar Team tackle their final preparation event before Tour de France; Nairo has made the podium in all his 2016 stageraces -3rd in San Luis, Itzulia; winner in Romandie, Catalunya-After heading back to Europe following a month and a half’s stay in the altitude […]
UCI World Champion, Peter Sagan, beats Tour de Suisse stage win record, taking stage 2 in textbook sprint
While the weather forecast didn’t deliver on its promises – with a second day of rain despite a forecast of sunny conditions – Peter Sagan did what he can be relied on to do at every race. The UCI World Champion injected pace, power and excitement into the second day […]
Jurgen Roelandts Takes Leader’s Jersey from Cancellara at Tour de Suisse
Yesterday, the Lotto Soudal rider lost the opening time trial against Spartacus with less than one second. Today, Cancellara gained an extra second advantage on Roelandts at the intermediate sprint a few kilometres before the finish. In the final sprint, won by world champion Peter Sagan, Roelandts got fifth. There […]
Attacking Alberto Contador keeps race on to the final kilometres in exciting Dauphiné finale
It was racing until the very end on the final day of the Critérium du Dauphiné – this was to be no procession to the finish, but a day where every one of the 151km was going to be contested. In similar form to yesterday’s Queen Stage, Alberto Contador went […]
Chris Froome Wins Dauphine 2016
Chris Froome held onto his lead during stage 7 of the Dauphine and held the yellow jersey on the final podium for the third time. He barely missed a crash near the finish when everyone was changing positions. He’s now looking ahead to the Tour de France and says there’s […]
Dan Martin writes Dauphiné history
The Etixx – Quick-Step rider became the first Irishman to finish the race on the podium 12-Jun-2016: Until this year, in the seven decades that have passed since the Criterium du Dauphiné was created, no Irish rider managed to conclude the event on the podium, best ever result of the […]
Cancellara wins Tour de Suisse prologue
Rain began to fall as Fabian Cancellara readied on the start ramp for the 6.4-kilometer prologue that opened the Tour de Suisse Saturday, adding an extra difficulty to the technical course but not preventing him from winning in a time of seven minutes and thirty-eight seconds, a mere six-hundredths of […]
Alberto Contador shows attacking spirit on the Madeleine as the Dauphiné reaches its hardest day
With a profile overwhelmed by the sight of the Hors Catégorie Col de la Madeleine, riders knew that today was going to be hard. The Queen Stage of the Dauphiné brought with it not only a difficult parcours, but aggressive riders who wanted to take the stage win, and maybe […]
Porte Climbs to Second Place on Stage 5 and GC
10 June 2016, Vaujany (FRA) Stage 5 of the Critérium du Dauphiné saw the General Classification contenders come out to play, with Richie Porte going head to head with Chris Froome (Team Sky) on the final climb. After multiple breakaways, the race came back together with five kilometers to go, […]