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Majka dropped Evans and Uran on uphill finish

Oropa, 24th of May – 2014 The scene was set for a spectacular mountain stage on today’s 164 kilometer long 14th stage of the Giro d’Italia from Aglié to the mountain top finish in Oropa and Tinkoff-Saxo’s Nicolas Roche was once again in contention for victory. The French Irishman leaped […]

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Tour of Norway Queen Stage

Lillehammer, 24th of May – 2014 The 4th and penultimate stage of Tour of Norway from Brumunddal to the winter Olympic town of Lillehammer was the queen stage and a mountainous circuit concluded the day and the GC was expected to change. Tinkoff-Saxo’s Edward Beltran had a few good punches […]

Sprinters missed Giro opportunity

Rivarolo, 23rd of May – 2014 The profile and the length of today’s 157 kilometer long 13th stage of this year’s Giro d’Italia from Fossano to Rivarolo Canavese most of all indicated a bunch sprint finish. After yesterday’s consolidation of Rafal Majka’s overall third position, Tinkoff-Saxo were focusing on staying […]

Romero on the Attack Ahead of Surprising Finale

It looked like sprinters’ business, instead Giro d’Italia stage 13, Fossano-Rivarolo Canavese (158 km), last stop ahead of the mountain streak starting tomorrow, ended up in surprising fashion. In fact, three of the day’s escapees got the opportunity to sprint for victory, and Marco Canola (Bardiani) proved fast enough to […]

Giro d’Italia, Stage 12: Evans Slips To Second

Barolo, Italy Cadel Evans of the BMC Racing Team finished third in Thursday’s individual time trial at the Giro d’Italia and slid to second overall behind stage winner Rigoberto Uran (Omega Pharma-Quick Step). Evans: ‘Had Hoped To Have Done Better’After leading the race for four days, Evans finished 1:34 off […]

Majka pulled magnificent Giro TT

Barolo, 22nd of May – 2014 Today’s 41.9 kilometer long individual time trial from Barberesco to Barolo was an undulating stretch testing the GC riders and the tempo specialists in the field. Therefore, it was a very important day for Tinkoff-Saxo’s Rafal Majka who was third overall before the stage. […]

Rogers took sensational solo win

Savona, 21st of May – 2014 Tinkoff-Saxo’s Nicolas Roche and Ivan Rovny were on the frontline during today’s 252 kilometer long 11th stage of the Giro d’Italia as they took part of the breakaway containing 14 riders. It was a long flat course but with a rather mountainous finale and […]