The second Grand Tour of the season is fast approaching and Team Giant-Alpecin will head to this year’s Tour de France with the overall objective of winning a stage. The team will also focus on the development of the whole squad through the experience gained by the riders during this […]
Tour de France
2016 Tour de France Route
The 2016 Tour de France will look like this: Stages:
2016 Tour de France
The new 2016 Tour de France will look like this: Stages:
Alberto Contador and Steven de Jongh react to Tour de France 2016 route
The full 2016 Tour de France parcours was unveiled at the official presentation in Paris on Tuesday and displays a Tour consisting of several new summit finishes making their first appearance, a tough revisit to the top of Mont Ventoux and two challenging individual time trials likely to be some […]
An open, attractive 2016 Tour
Quintana, Valverde, Unzué react to 103th edition route presented on Tuesday, with plenty of different mountain stages and more TT terrain The 2016 Tour de France features more TT terrain than in the previous year -54km, divided into a hilly, 37-kilometer parcours on stage thirteen and a mountain-like, 17km effort […]
Sagan claims green jersey in Paris – Contador 5th overall
Tinkoff-Saxo’s Peter Sagan took his 4th green jersey in a row, as he crossed the final finish line of Tour de France on the iconic Champs Élysées. Meanwhile, Alberto Contador concluded his Tour finishing 5th in the overall classification. Peter Sagan didn’t get the stage win that he had been […]
Movistar Team takes two men onto the podium in Paris
Nairo Quintana (2nd, best young rider) and Alejandro Valverde (3rd)- for the first time in its history, wins Tour de France teams’ classification -its 3rd after 1991, ’99- The Champs-Élysées in Paris received the survivors in the 102nd Tour de France on Sunday as Chris Froome (SKY) took his second […]
Three Stage Wins Highlight BMC Tour de France Performance
Paris, France – Samuel Sánchez’s 12th-place finish overall capped a Tour de France that saw the BMC Racing Team win three stages and lead the race for one day. Rohan Dennis, winner of the Stage 1 individual time trial at record speed on July 4, was part of a breakaway […]
Tour de France, Stage 20: Sánchez Stays 12th Overall
Alpe d’Huez, France – BMC Racing Team’s Samuel Sánchez held onto his 12th place overall Saturday at the Tour de France by finishing 26th on the final mountain stage. Sánchez reached the summit of Alpe d’Huez 5:01 after solo stage winner Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) and 3:23 after Chris Froome (Team […]
Blues rewarded after giving it all
July 25th, 2015 Nairo Quintana closer than ever to victory in Alpe d’Huez, becomes virtual 2nd in 2015 TDF GC; Alejandro Valverde secures his third overall and crowns a big goal in his career after attacking strategy from Movistar -virtual teams’ classification winners- all over final mountain stageThe Movistar Team […]