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Two mountain stage wins following an impressive solo effort and brilliant collective team work secure Tinkoff-Saxo 1st and 3rd place on the final podium in Tirreno-Adriatico.The last stage of Tirreno-Adriatico featured a short but very fast 9,2 kilometer time trial in the seaside city of San Benedetto del Tronto. Before […]
Port Sant´Elpidio, 17th of March – 2014 Today’s 189 kilometer long 6th and penultimate stage of Tirreno-Adriatico offered one final chance for the sprinters and breakaway riders to succeed as the stretch from Bucchianico to Port Sant´Elpidio was rather flat with a slightly undulating finale. For Tinkoff-Saxo it was all […]
Cittareale, 15th of March – 2014 Today, the Tirreno-Adriatico peloton was challenged with a marathon stage over 244 kilometers with a physically demanding finale with an uphill finish to Cittareale. Tinkoff-Saxo put their faith in Alberto Contador and supported him well all the way to a very exciting finale. However, […]
Alexander Kristoff earned his first victory of the season as well as the first for team Katusha in the 2014 racing season, pulling out a definitive sprint win in the second stage at the Tour of Oman, 139 km from Al Bustan to Quriyat. – In the final I started […]
LAUSANNE, February 14, 2014 – Dick Marty, Chairman of the Cycling Independent Reform Commission [CIRC] is appealing for anyone with information which could help his commission understand cycling’s doping past to come forward. The CIRC, which is based in Lausanne, was established by the UCI in January to investigate historic […]
John Degenkolb (GER) has finally broken the deadlock and taken his first win of the 2014 season on stage 1 of the Tour Méditerranéen. After going close on several occasions at the Étoile de Bessèges last week, Degenkolb was really motivated to get his first victory of the year and […]
This piece was written by Lance Armstrong and appeared on the web today. “American remembers great rivalry I’ll never forget when I heard about Marco’s passing. I was at home in Girona when a message came through. Complete shock is the only way I can sum up how I felt. […]
It’s been reported that the new commision (Cycling Independent Reform Commission) will be looking at the doping issues from 1998-2013, which includes the years of the Lance era. But they may be more open to working with athletes, including Lance. They can suggest reduced sanctions and they are […]
Marcel Kittel (GER) has won the fourth and final stage of the Dubai Tour, making it three in a row for Team Giant-Shimano. It was another seamless team performance, delivering Kittel to the final 200m in a perfect position to take his third stage of the race. The race panned […]
BMC Racing Team’s Taylor Phinney completed a wire-to-wire victory Saturday at the Dubai Tour – while also earning best young rider honors – and teammate Steve Cummings was runner-up. Keeping Pace With ExpectationsPhinney won the Stage 1 individual time trial Wednesday, added one second to his lead with third place […]
