Team Bahrain Merida captain Vincenzo Nibali and Sports Director Alberto Volpi met the media at the NH Orio al Serio Hotel, where riders and staff members are spending the second rest day of this year’s Giro d’Italia. The Shark – that this morning trained on the rollers due to bad […]
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Giro d’Italia. Dario Cataldo takes heroic victory on stage 15
The Astana rider Dario Cataldo took a heroic victory today on the streets of Como at stage 15 of the Giro d’Italia. After a few days of illness, today Cataldo was able to move himself in a breakaway together with the Italian rider Mattia Cattaneo. Spending all day long in […]
Richard Carapaz is the new Maglia Rosa!
25th May 2019 Ecuadorian climber from Movistar Team shows again his impressive strength with splendid attack at Colle San Carlo, 30km before Courmayeur’s finish; adds provisional Maglia Rosa to his third win in the race, his second in 2019. Richard Carapaz showed once again on Saturday’s stage fourteen of the […]
Nibali third at the foot of Mont Blanc
Vincenzo Nibali is third in Courmayeur and thanks to this result he moved up to third place in the overall classification led by stage winner and new pink jersey by the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz. Second mountain stage and great challenge among the big favorites. “We tried to make the difference […]
Rafal Majka again shows valiant effort with fourth place on brutal 14th stage of Giro d’Italia
On the 14th stage of the Giro d’Italia, which took the peloton over 131km through the highlands from Saint-Vincent to Courmayeur, the riders had to crest five categorized climbs and no less than 3000 metres of climbing. Only 7 km after the start, the route went upwards to Verrayes. A […]
First real mountain test at the Giro d’Italia
With three tricky climbs, today’s 13th stage was the first real mountain stage of this year’s Giro d’Italia and took the riders over 196km to the Alpine region of Piemont. 40 km after the start in Pinerolo, the riders reached the Colle del Lys, a first category climb. Following a […]
Loyal helper Cesare Benedetti triumphs on the twelfth stage of the Giro d’Italia
The 12th stage of the Giro d’Italia took the riders over 158 km from Cuneo to Pinerolo. After 117km in the saddle came the first Category 1 climb of this year’s race, which featured an average gradient of almost 10 per cent. After this ascent to Montose in more than […]
Caleb Ewan took the win in the eleventh stage of the Giro
He sprinted everyone off the wheel after great work by the Lotto Soudal train. The Australian beat Arnaud Démare and Pascal Ackermann in a bunch kick to take his second stage victory in five days. Like yesterday, it was an entirely flat course through the Po Valley. The riders covered […]
Demare Wins Giro Stage 10
After the first rest day of the Giro d’Italia, the riders had to take on a short and flat stage of 145 km. The tenth stage from Ravenna to Modena at the edge of the Po valley, offered no topographical difficulties and with a 2km long straight and completely flat […]
GIRO D’ITALIA, ROGLIC RIDES TO SUCCESS IN SAN MARINO
The Slovenian preceded Campenaerts (+0:11) and goes back to second overall, gaining ground on his main GC rivals. Primoz Roglic remarked his status as king of TT races at the 102nd Giro d’Italia, and one of the men to beat for the overall glory at the Corsa Rosa to top […]