The Sho Air Twenty20 racer runs away with four jerseys — including the Gates Corporation General Classification leader’s jersey — in Steamboat STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. – The kickoff to the 2019 Colorado Classic® presented by VF Corporation transpired in runaway fashion — literally — as 22-year-old Chloe Dygert of Sho […]
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Lotto Soudal is pleased to announce that Philippe Gilbert will strengthen the team for next season
The 37-year-old Belgian, currently riding for Deceuninck – Quick Step, signed a three-year agreement. That way, Gilbert returns to the team in which he celebrated his first big successes, such as Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the Tour of Lombardy, the Amstel Gold Race and the Tour de France opening stage (2011). The world […]
Team Sunweb and Tom Dumoulin Part Ways
ROSTER UPDATESAfter an incredible eight-year journey filled with countless successes, Team Sunweb and Tom Dumoulin are set to go their separate ways at the end of the 2019 season. Joining the team as it was then Team Argos-Shimano back in 2012, a 21-year-old Dumoulin set off on his path of […]
THE TIME AND THE ERA OF SOUTH AMERICA IN THE GRAND TOURS
With Richard Carapaz’s victory in the Giro d’Italia and Egan Bernal’s victory in the Tour de France, Latin American riders have two Grand Tours under their belts in 2019, equalling almost those accumulated by their predecessors over the last three decades (Herrera’s La Vuelta 1987 and Nairo Quintana’s Giro 2014 […]
Rubio, Alba, Patiño to carry Colombia’s flag at Movistar Team
August 20th, 2019 – Pictures: Patiño > Velofocus; Rubio > Giro d’Italia U23; Alba > FCC Telefónica-backed squad inks contracts with 2nd & 3rd-place overall finishes in 2019 U23 Giro -Einer Rubio and Juan Diego Alba (21)- and extends commitment with Paula Patiño (22) through end of 2021 after brilliant […]
Felice Gimondi and Eddy Merckx
Ullrich, Gimondi, Pantani, Julich at 1998 Tour de France Paris Podium Eddy Merckx broke down in tears on hearing about the death of Felice Gimondi, going on to eloquently describe his emotions with a simple but highly symbolic phrase: “This time I’m the one who has lost.” 76-year-old Gimondi died […]
GRAZIE CAMPIONE: BIANCHI’S FINAL TRIBUTE TO FELICE GIMONDI
Grimaldi: “Felice was a good and loyal man, extraordinarily humble” Bianchi and the whole cycling World are living intensely emotional days after the sudden passing of Felice Gimondi on Friday August 16th, aged 76. One of the greatest in Italian cycling history, everlasting icon and ambassador of the Bianchi brand, […]
Arctic Race (4) – Eiking wins the mountains jersey and 500kg of salmon
The final stage in the Arctic Race of Norway (2.HC, 15-18/08) brought a lot of spectacle on several fronts. The riders made a habit of starting fast this week, from Lodingen this Sunday. Five men managed to break away after the first intermediate sprint after 27 kilometer, won by Andrea […]
A thrilling finish crowns Lutsenko
August 18 th 2019 – 18:26 Norwegian riders made a 1-2 in the conclusive stage of the Arctic Race of Norway with Markus Hoelgaard and national champion Amund Grøndahl Jansen but the overall victory went to Alexey Lutsenko who came third on the line in Narvik and beat Warren Barguil […]
EIKING COMES OF AGE, BARGUIL TAKES THE LEAD
August 17 th 2019 – 18:20 Norway’s Odd Christian Eiking of Wanty-Groupe Gobert claimed his first win of the 2019 season on home soil as he clinched the queen stage of the Arctic Race of Norway atop the unprecedented and gruelling Storheia Summit. Second on the line, French national champion […]

