Wanty-Groupe Gobert successfully defended Guillaume Martin’s leading position in the final stage of Circuit de la Sarthe (03-06/04, 2.1) on Friday. A breakaway of five riders jumped away, after which Fabien Doubey, Marco Minnaard, Boris Vallée and Thomas Degand did everything they could to defend Martin and Meurisse. With success, […]

Team LottoNL-Jumbo’s Slovenian clinched victory in Lodosa, Spain Primoz Roglic claimed victory and took the GC lead at Itzulia Basque Country. Team LottoNL-Jumbo’s Slovenian rode Aquila CV to win the 19,4 km ITT with start and finish in Lodosa on Thursday, April 5th clocking 22:26, 9 seconds faster than Patrick […]

Vitoria-Gasteiz, 6th April 2018 – Vincenzo Nibali will not be at the start of the fifth stage of the Itzulia Basque Country for precautionary reasons. “The athlete – as Team Doctor Emilio Magni explains – suffers from a painful skin lesion located in the rider’s seat area. For preventive purposes […]

Roubaix. Like its contemporary, Flanders, it’s a race that only needs one word to cue a movie reel in a fan’s mind. Rider have love/hate relationships with the Queen of the Classics, and it’s easy to see why. Double-taped bars don’t take nearly enough bite off the granite, and palms […]

The 21-year-old Dutchman is the youngest rider this century to win Flanders’ oldest race 04-Apr-2018: For the first time in history, Scheldeprijs started from the Netherlands and at the end of the day, after more than four tough hours in the saddle, it was a Dutch rider who took the […]

After the breakaway was caught, the expected bunch sprint was set up. TheBORA – hansgrohe team started to form their lead-out for Jay McCarthy. In a hectic finale, the Australian rider took the stage win confidently, his second WorldTour victory for this still early season. The StageToday´s third stage took […]

THE RECONNAISSANCE OF THE COBBLESTONE SECTORS Every year, a few days before Paris-Roubaix, Thierry Gouvenou and Christian Prudhomme pay a visit to the cobblestone sectors. Their objective is to give a note corresponding to the level of difficulty of each sector with one star for the easiest to five stars […]

Quick-Step Floors’ pocket-rocket climber extended his lead in the general classification after a second straight victory 03-Apr-2018: Quick-Step Floors’ winning streak continued on Tuesday in stage 2 of the Vuelta al Pais Vasco, where a confident Julian Alaphilippe blew the race apart on San Pelaio, the 3.3km-long climb averaging 8.1% […]

The 25-year-old powered to his first World Tour victory of the season and became the first Frenchman since 1999 to lead the race 02-Apr-2018: Last year, Julian Alaphilippe was left disappointed as he rolled to the finish of the Vuelta al Pais Vasco opening stage, after an untimely puncture outside […]