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 […]

The 33-year-old Quick-Step Floors rider is the first Dutchman in over three decades to conquer the Belgian Monument 01-Apr-2018: Niki Terpstra continued the team’s dominance in the Belgian one-day races of this season, adding a 16th Monument victory to the astonishing palmares of the squad, just two days after Quick-Step […]

31st March 2018 Spaniard wins second career GP Miguel Indurain, following great teamwork by whole Telefónica-backed squad -12 wins in 2018-, claims success in only UCI race in Abarca Sports organisation’s Navarra landAlejandro Valverde makes journalists run out of adjectives and earns applause from the fans at every race he […]

The 26-year-old became the first rider to take back-to-back victories at the prestigious Belgian Classic 28-Mar-2018: Yves Lampaert sailed to a memorable win in a rain-soaked edition of Dwars door Vlaanderen (180.1 kilometers) after accelerating with 800 meters to go from a select group which attacked inside the last 25 […]

The French Champion won the first round of the challenge in Marseille Luminy. Fumic, Avancini and Spitz on the Absa Cape Epic podium Team Cannondale Factory Racing’s French Champion Maxime Marotte won the race in 1.27:06, preceding fellow Frenchmen Titouan Carod (+ 7”) and Stephane Tempier (+ 51”) on the […]