With his third place in today’s stage Vincenzo Nibali makes another small step forward the leadership. With 4 bonus seconds, in fact, is now 55 seconds down on race leader the British Chris Froome. “In the last 100 kilometers – says the Italian champion – we have made a strong […]
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Majka climbs back on top at La Pandera
Sierra de La Pandera, Saturday, September 2nd – After crashing out of the Tour and losing his GC ambitions due to illness at La Vuelta 2017, Rafal Majka (Bora-Hansgrohe) proved on Saturday his aggressive racing could still earn him major victories. The Polish climber made the break at the start […]
Trentin makes it three
Tomares, Friday, September 1st – Already twice a stage winner at La Vuelta 2017, Matteo Trentin (Quick-Step Floors) made the most of a hard final at Tomares to raise his arm a third time, on Thursday. The Italian rider dominated Gianni Moscon (Team Sky) and Soren Kragh Andersen (Team Sunweb) […]
Communication Maxim Belkov on Vuelta incident
“Through the Vuelta organizers I have received more details from the Guardia Civil about the incident that occurred yesterday on the Puerto del Torcal when a fan pushed me into the ditch. Apparently the man suffers from a mental disability. For me this is more than enough reason not to […]
Vincenzo Nibali takes the 2017 Taiwan KOM Challenge!
Invited by Merida, Vincenzo Nibali is leading TBM for Taiwan KOM Challenge! An exciting news for all our fans in Asia. Invited by our title sponsor Merida, our captain Vincenzo Nibali is going to lead BAHRAIN MERIDA team with Antonio Nibali and our Taiwanese local hero Chun-Kai Feng to 2017 […]
LA VUELTA 2017: Marczynski twice winner, Froome twice on the ground
Antequera. Los Dólmenes, Thursday, August 31th – Already winner of stage 6, Tomasz Marczynski (Lotto Soudal) led another victorious breakaway on stage 12 of La Vuelta. The Polish rider dropped all his companions in the last climb of the day to solo to the win at Antequera, on Thursday. Alberto […]
Froome Dominates
Cumbre del sol, sunday, August 27th – Already leader of La Vuelta 2017, Chris Froome (Team Sky) made the most of stage 9’s steep finish to claim the victory at La Cumbre del Sol. The British winner of the Tour de France won ahead of Esteban Chaves (Orica-Scott), who now […]
Vuelta a España: Majestic Alaphilippe wins in Xorret de Cati
The 25-year-old became the sixth Quick-Step Floors rider to take a Grand Tour stage victory this season 26-Aug-2017: Julian Alaphilippe is back! After a four-month injury lay-off, which had him skip the Ardennes Classics and the Tour de France, Julian made up for all those disappointing and sad moments by […]
Statement on future of Slipstream Sports
On Saturday morning, Slipstream Sports notified all riders and staff of the uncertainty of our organization’s future. Yesterday management received some discouraging news about a new partner we anticipated joining us in 2018. Without this partner’s support, we cannot guarantee our financial security and subsequently our UCI WorldTour license for […]
Porte and Hermans Resume Training Following Crashes
25 August, 2017, Santa Rosa, California (USA) Richie Porte and Ben Hermans have resumed training after sustaining serious injuries in crashes at the Tour de France and Tour of Poland respectively. BMC Racing Team Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Max Testa said that Porte is on track after a significant period […]