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All the sweat, tears, crashes, injuries and countless moments of bad luck for Trek Factory Racing’s veteran rider Fränk Schleck were washed away Monday when he crossed the summit finish of stage 16 at the Vuelta a España to take a well-deserved win. “I don’t know,” exclaimed Schleck, overwhelmed by […]
Alto Campoo/Fuente del Chivo, Spain – BMC Racing Team’s Alessandro De Marchi soloed to victory on a fog-shrouded mountain-top finish Saturday at the Vuelta a España after teammate Samuel Sánchez was forced to withdraw due to an ongoing foot injury. De Marchi attacked out of a five-man breakaway in the […]
Tinkoff-Saxo team captain Rafal Majka took 10th place on stage 14 of Vuelta a España finishing among the first of the GC contenders on Alto Campoo behind stage winner De Marchi. Despite slipping one place in the GC, Majka moves closer to the podium after a series of attacks on […]
The fifth place and the Most Combative Rider award can’t comfort Carlos: “I wanted to win so hard, and I will not give up” Carlos Julian Quintero never gives up without trying. In his four years in a Colombia-Coldeportes jersey, the 29-year-old from Villa Maria spent thousands of kilometers with […]
Big joy for Extreme Tech Plus, after the Portuguese rider of Lampre-Merida took a solo win in stage 13 Northwave and Lampre-Merida broke the ice in the Vuelta a España, following the superb victory of the Portuguese cyclist Nelson Oliveira in stage 13 (Calatayud-Tarazona, 178 km), on Friday, September 4. […]
Nail-biting finale in Lleida: Miguel reeled in next to the finish, Duque tenth in the sprint edged by Van Poppel “Trying and trying again, our day will come in the end.” Colombia-Coldeportes’ Sports Director Valerio Tebaldi sounds confident at the end of Vuelta a Espana’s stage 12 (Escaldes– Lleida, 173 […]
Although no stage provides an optimum opportunity to recover, today’s one got as close as possible, as Vuelta a España left the mountains temporarily to finish in Lleida, where Van Poppel took the win in a bunch sprint. Rafal Majka, Tinkoff-Saxo team leader and currently 4th in the GC, focused […]
Danny van Poppel, 22, made no mistake with his first opportunity at contesting a bunch finish at the Vuelta a España, waiting until the perfect moment to launch his sprint in the final uphill meters to take the biggest win of his young career. Van Poppel: “This was my first […]
Tinkoff-Saxo’s sport directors held a meeting with the Vuelta a España race director, a UCI Commissaire and a representative of TV España. A number of concrete safety measures were discussed and agreed upon and as a result, Tinkoff-Saxo’s squad took to the start of Stage 12. However, the team will […]
“The team worked a tactic today to be together when we could and to coordinate our actions – this shows we have a strong, thinking team with 10 more stages to go – to defend the Red Jersey is now our main objective” He finished behind teammate Landa and now has […]
