After finishing consistently high all week, Adam Yates finally got the chance to throw his hands in the air with a final stage victory today in Itzulia Pais Vasco, after making it into a winning move, before attacking in the final three-kilometres to take a solo victory. Yates also picked […]

Today saw the fourth stage of the Tour of the Basque Country, a 163,6 km-long route commencing in Vitoria-Gasteiz. On the menu today were four categorised climbs, including the first category ascent to Bikotz Gane. This was followed by a rapid descent and another climb before a downhill run into […]

Lotta Lepistö sprinted to the win in stage one at the Healthy Ageing Tour, benefiting from a leadout from teammate Ellen van Dijk and successfully avoiding a crash in the last corner that disrupted the ending. Lepistö: “Ellen helped me in the last kilometer to stay near the front and […]

The Tour of the Basque Country continued today with a relatively demanding course of almost 192 km in length. After the riders departed Sarriguren, they traversed a 9 km-long second category climb up to Goñi, with an average gradient of 4.7 per cent. Afterwards, the parcours was relatively hilly until […]

A quality lead-out of Deceuninck – Quick-Step helped the young Dutch sprinter retain the title 10-Apr-2019: Fabio Jakobsen is back to winning ways, two months after collecting his first victory of the season, at the Volta ao Algarve. The 22-year-old fast man capitalised on his teammates’ superb work and quality […]

“As time goes by, good memories prevail over bad ones” There is a turning point in every cyclist’s career. About forty riders tackle Paris–Roubaix for the first time every year. Bitter or sweet, their first taste of cobblestones will stay with them forever. From now until 14 April, four riders […]

The four-time Tour de France winner, also king of the last Giro d’Italia, will lead Team Sky in their final display in a stage race under the current naming. An exciting edition (April 22-26) presented in Kufstein, with ten GT crowns among the two top names. In 2018, Tour of […]

A massive show of strength, class and determination carried the Frenchman to his third stage win at the race 09-Apr-2019: Julian Alaphilippe produced a perfect finish on the 8% gradients of Gorraiz – the small town which welcomed the Vuelta al Pais Vasco peloton for the third time in history […]

RECONNAISSANCE OF THE COBBLED SECTORS On Tuesday 9 April, like every year, Christian Prudhomme and Thierry Gouvenou will reconnoitre every cobbled sector in the race with a view to inspecting the sectors before the peloton hits the cobblestones. Each sector will be assigned a difficulty rating from one to five […]