Author: Henri Giroud

Report Koen Bouwman has scored an impressive double in the nineteenth stage of the Giro d’Italia. The 28-year-old Dutchman won his second stage and secured the blue mountain jersey. If he arrives safely in Verona on Sunday, he will be the first Dutchman to win the Giro mountain jersey. After the eighteenth stage, Bouwman announced that he would try to get in the breakaway. He kept his word and joined Edoardo Affini in a sizeable leading group. After the blue jersey wearer had already taken the points on the first two climbs, he was also first on the Kolovrat. On…

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Joao Almeida suffered flu symptoms overnight and tested positive for Covid. As a result, he has been withdrawn from the Giro d’Italia before the start of today’s stage. The Portuguese rider was in fourth place and led the young riders competition by over ten minutes. All the other members of his UAE team have tested negative. “Almeida woke up last night from persistent pain in his throat and the test gave a positive result. We observe strict rules of prevention and, in addition to sanitizing the environments which the team uses each day (cars, buses, hotel rooms, etc.), we keep…

Report After his courageous effort on stage 17, Santiago Buitrago went in the breakaway again and this time tasted his first Grand Tour victory over the Monterovere, crossing the line in Lavarone solo. Buitrago joined an early breakaway of about 20 riders over Passo del Tonale. However, on the descent down, Buitrago was involved in a crash but fortunately had a quick change of bike and was able to stay with the group. Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix), and Gijs Leemreize (Jumbo-Visma) eventually split the break and jumper clear with 30km to go and gapping the group of Buitrago by…

Ellen van Dijk has today beaten the UCI Hour Record, covering the distance of 49.254 kilometres on the track at the Tissot Velodrome in Grenchen (Switzerland). This exceptional performance by the 2021 time trial UCI World Champion sees the Dutch rider from the UCI Women’s WorldTeam Trek – Segafredo better the record of 48.405 km established by Great Britain’s Joscelin Lowden on the same Tissot Velodrome on 30 September 2021. After her achievement, Ellen van Dijk declared: “When I started, I saw the black line and I saw that for 190 something laps I think. At the beginning… I did…

Report The Giro d’Italia of Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux was further embellished this Tuesday thanks to a victory of Jan Hirt in the sixteenth stage between Salo and Aprica, exactly one week after the success of Biniam Girmay in Jesi. With over 5000 meters of climbing, it was one of the important stages of this 105th edition with notably the Passo del Mortirolo, one of the mythical climbs of the event. The winner of the Tour of Oman joined a breakaway of 22 riders together with Lorenzo Rota and fought for a long time to increase its advantage. The gap grew over…

Report Only 24 hours after Trek-Segafredo ceded the Maglia Rosa, Giulio Ciccone took the reins and delivered the Team a stage win in the 2022 Giro d’Italia. It has been a race to behold for the US-registered WorldTour team. When Juan Pedro Lopez finished 2nd in Stage 4 and claimed the pink jersey, holding it through Stage 14, Trek-Segafredo’s Giro already has been its best in a few years, but when Ciccone grabbed a dominating and emotional solo win in Stage 15 – a day later – the Team topped all expectations. And there’s still a week to go! “I…

Report Simon Yates has bounced back in style with stinging late attack and a superb solo victory on a relentless stage 14 of the Giro d’Italia. The British climber put his Blockhaus disappointment behind him by claiming his sixth Giro stage win, with a masterful and calculated performance on a brutal day of action in Italy. The 29-year-old was active in the opening kilometres of the short 147km stage as he infiltrated an early breakaway group with teammate Damien Howson. However, Team BikeExchange-Jayco looked to have missed their chance when an escape group of 12 was eventually allowed to get…