While yesterday’s stage of the Tour de Romandie gently eased the riders into the mountains, today’s parcours was unforgivingly undulating from almost the moment the stage started. Six categorised climbs dotted the 165.7km profile, with the last being the first category La Vue-des-Alpes ahead of a short descent to the […]
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Team Jumbo-Visma adds Groenewegen to Giro d’Italia squad
Team Jumbo-Visma has announced the final roster for the Giro d’Italia. The most notable name on the roster is Dylan Groenewegen. The nine-month suspension of the Dutch sprinter comes to an end on May 7th, just one day before the Giro starts in Turin with a time trial of nine […]
Top-5 for Covi as Hirschi moves into white jersey in Romandie
Wednesday 28 April, 2021 Alessandro Covi made a promising return to competition with 5th place on stage 1 of the Tour de Romandie for the young Italian. The undulating day from Aigle to Martigny ( 168.1km) ended in a reduced group sprint of 50-60 riders with Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) taking […]
Peter Sagan puts the power down to take commanding Tour de Romandie sprint victory on first road stage
A 168.1km circuitous parcours was waiting for the riders on the first road stage of the Tour de Romandie. The race would ascend the third category 3 La Rasse climb before taking on four laps of a 33km circuit over two third category climbs before a final push to the […]
Hugh Carthy extends with EF Education-NIPPO
EF Education–NIPPO is proud to announce the re-signing of Hugh Carthy. “I chose to stay at EF simply because the team feels right,” said Carthy. “We’re a weird mix of riders but we form a team. When it feels right, staying seems the only logical option. I’ve had some nice […]
Alaphilippe: “Tadej played it smart”
April 25 th 2021 Liège, Sunday, April 25th 2021 – Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) made history again with his first Monument triumph on the roads of Liège-Bastogne-Liège at 22 years old. The Slovenian prodige is the first winner of the Tour de France to claim the Doyenne in the […]
Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes: Vollering, A Star Is Born
April 25 th 2021 After perfectly helping out her SD Worx team mate Anna Van der Breggen in her quest last Wednesday of a seventh Flèche Wallonne, the roles were reversed on this 5th edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège with the World Champion leading out Demi Vollering to her first prestigious success. […]
Yates delivers with a superb overall victory at Tour of the Alps
Briton Simon Yates delivered Team BikeExchange the overall victory at Tour of the Alps today, dominating the mountainous five-day race from start to finish, showing impressive form ahead of his main goal of the season next month, the Giro d’Italia. The 28-year-old secured the overall title in style, by claiming […]
La Course by Le Tour De France with FDJ: Rendezvous On June 26
The 8th edition of La Course by Le Tour de France with FDJ, welcoming every year the elite of the UCI Women’s WorldTour on the route of a stage of the Tour de France, was initially set to be raced between Saint-Brieuc and Mûr-de-Bretagne on Sunday, June 27th. Following a […]
Yates stamps his authority on the Tour of Alps by extending his lead on the penultimate stage
Stage two winner Simon Yates cemented his authority on the Tour of the Alps today by extending his overall race lead. The Brit accelerated away from his rivals on a final hard climb, with only Alex Vlasov able to follow his impressive pace. After a very hard start, Team BikeExchange […]