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Tinkoff-Saxo kept fighting on the fast crosswinds stage 6 in Catalunya despite being four men down due to a stomach influenza. While Ivan Basso and Jesus Hernandez were forced to withdraw from the race, Alberto Contador was brought down by a crash within the 3km marker – Contador, however, remains […]
First seasonal success for Androni-Sidermec’s rider with Northwave Extreme Tech Plus Androni-Sidermec and Francesco Chicchi, sponsored by Northwave, claimed a strong success in Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali’s stage 3 (Calderara di Reno – Crevalcore 173 Km), preceding Southeast’s Manuel Belletti and Fantini – Nippo’s Daniele Colli in a […]
It almost turned out as planned for Tinkoff-Saxo at the Flemish classic E3 Harelbeke. All eyes were on the defending champ Peter Sagan, who indeed made his mark on the race by forming a strong breakaway with the later winner Geraint Thomas and Zdenek Stybar. However, a depleted Peter Sagan […]
27-Mar-2015:E3 Harelbeke Etixx – Quick-Step rider Zdenek Stybar finished 2nd to Geraint Thomas (Team Sky), who attacked Stybar and Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo) with about 4 kilometers to go, as the trio remained ahead of a chasing group by about 40 seconds. The three riders went away on the Oude Kwaremont, […]
March 27, 2015 | Madrid Spaniard completes brilliant ride towards Valls to claim second stage victory in Volta a Catalunya, after Movistar Team’s immense work into crosswinds. Still with pain in their hearts after the hard crash and injury by Pablo Lastras yesterday in the Queen stage of the Volta […]
On the cobbled descent of the Haaghoek less than 40-kilometers into E3 Harelbeke, a dropped water bottle caused a large crash that took down numerous riders including Fabian Cancellara. Although Cancellara was able to remount and continue he was in obvious pain, and only a few kilometers later he pulled […]
Tinkoff-Saxo’s team captain Alberto Contador had to take matters into his own hands on the final climb to La Molina after a deadlock in the favorites group. He ultimately finished third behind stage winner van Garderen, and moves up to 5th in the overall GC, 28 seconds down on De […]
La Molina, Spain – One day after seeing his hopes for the overall classification dashed by a crash, BMC Racing Team’s Tejay van Garderen soloed to victory on Thursday’s mountain-top finish at the Volta a Catalunya. Van Garderen notched his first win of the season on the same finish at […]
Tinkoff Saxo statement on Bjarne Riis “Following the rumors and speculations published by many Danish media first and then by international cycling media later last night, Tinkoff Saxo would like to clarify that Bjarne Riis is not being actively involved in the team’s activities since last Sunday. However, he was […]
Unconfirmed rumors are swirling about Bjarne Riis being suspended from team Tinkoff-Saxo. He was intending to be at Milan-San Remo this weekend but wasn’t there. Rumors have it that Tinkov is unhappy with so few results so far this year. It’s been reported that Tyler Hamilton has said that during […]
