After a long and undulating stage at Tirreno-Adriatico, riders were hit with a brutal climb to the finish, ridden not once, but twice. If the 239km stage wasn’t quite tough enough, gradients of up to 20% would make sure riders finished the day exhausted. Working hard to stay in touch, […]

8 March, 2018, Follonica (ITA) The Tirreno-Adriatico blue leader’s jersey swapped from one BMC Racing Team rider to another today with Patrick Bevin sprinting to fifth place to move into the overall lead at a UCI WorldTour race for the first time in his career. Apart from a short opening […]

Sisteron, Thursday, March 8th 2018– France’s Jerome Cousin, gone in a four-man breakaway to snatch KOM points, did even better. Not only did he succeed in grabbing the polka-dot jersey but he also went all the way to clinch a remarkable stage win after leading the race from the start […]

As the first road stage of this year’s Tirreno-Adriatico, riders were eager to claim the first individual win after yesterday’s team time trial. A flat finale after a pan flat stage meant the fast men would have their eye on the victory, however a hectic street circuit finale saw a […]

It was a sprint from distance for Marcel Kittel, but the strong German rider held his power to the finish line in Follonica to take his first win in team colors, as well as his first professional victory on Italian soil. “For us it’s a big relief to finally get […]

Saint-Etienne, Wednesday, March 7th 2018– Team Sky won five of the last six editions of Paris-Nice, and the British outfit showed, with Wout Poels’s victory in Wednesday’s 18.4-km individual time trial in St Etienne that they would still be a force to reckon with in this edition. But the Dutchman’s […]

7 March, 2018, Lido di Camaiore (ITA) For a third consecutive year, BMC Racing Team proved to be the team to beat on Tirreno-Adriatico stage 1 with an impressive display of team time trialling prowess helping to secure victory on the 21.5km out and back course. BMC Racing Team rolled […]

07-Mar-2018: The Colombian got off to a nice start at the “Race of the Two Seas”, after a strong ride of Quick-Step Floors in the team time trial. Fernando Gaviria, Philippe Gilbert, Bob Jungels, Iljo Keisse, Maximiliano Richeze, Zdenek Stybar and Niki Terpstra rolled down the ramp in Lido di […]

Châtel-Guyon, Tuesday, March 6th 2018 A strong team performance in the final of today’s Stage 3 at Paris-Nice resulted in the yellow leader jersey for Luis Leon Sanchez. After attacks of Jakob Fuglsang on the final climb, it was Sanchez to take off with two other riders, finishing second behind […]

Rigoberto Uran will lead a well-rounded EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale squad into the 53rd edition of Tirreno-Adriatico, starting Wednesday, with eyes on the general classification. Tirreno, nicknamed the “Race of Two Seas,” runs between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic coasts. The race beings in Lido di Camaiore Wednesday with a […]