Highlights Results Stage 1Mathieu van der Poel (Ned) Alpecin-Fenix5:24:182Wout Van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma3Davide Ballerini (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep4Sergio Higuita Garcia (Col) EF Education-Nippo5Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) AG2R Citroën Team General Classification 1Wout Van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma14:01:472Mathieu van der Poel (Ned) Alpecin-Fenix+04″3Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep+10″4Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Bahrain Victorious+19″5Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates+20″6Robert Stannard (Aus) Team BikeExchange7João Almeida (Por) Deceuninck-QuickStep8Sergio Higuita Garcia (Col) EF Education-Nippo9Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto Soudal10Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe Points 1Wout Van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma302Mathieu van der Poel (Ned) Alpecin-Fenix223Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep124Davide Ballerini (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep115Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates10 Mountains 1Vincenzo Albanese (Ita) Eolo-Kometa Cycling…
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Highlights Report Primoz Roglic has won the sixth stage of Paris-Nice. The rider of Team Jumbo-Visma managed to stay ahead of the competition with a strong sprint. With this, the Slovenian also took 10 bonification seconds, which increased his lead in the general classification. The long and hilly stage was one with little action. Jonas Rutsch was caught by the peloton in the last kilometre before the finish line. In the short climb before the finish Roglic took his chance to finish and rode to his second stage victory in the French race. “It is great to win like this…
Highlights Report UCI World Champion Julian Alaphilippe blasted to his maiden victory of the season after delivering a perfectly-timed attack in the closing 200 meters of Thursday’s stage to Chiusdino which saw him become the French rider with the most stage wins at Tirreno-Adriatico. Deceuninck – Quick-Step delivered a tactical masterclass on stage 2 of the race, sending Giro d’Italia revelation João Almeida on the attack with over 25 kilometers to go, a move which ended up giving more trouble to the peloton then they had expected, after the Portuguese was joined by three other men. Going into the last…
Highlights Report Sam Bennett made it two Deceuninck – Quick-Step victories on Thursday by delivering a hugely impressive sprint in Bollène, where a Paris-Nice stage concluded for the first time in 50 years, just minutes after the team notched the win across the border, at Tirreno-Adriatico. The Irishman relied again on a bulletproof lead-out train, and even though he was temporarily off the wheel of Michael Mørkøv ahead of the final kilometer, he found the power to accelerate and jump again aboard the Deceuninck – Quick-Step train with the flamme rouge in sight. Tucked back on the wheel of the…
The Maryland Cycling Classic, America’s top one-day professional cycling race and the only UCI-sanctioned road race in the U.S., today announced the first five teams confirmed to compete at the inaugural event, scheduled for September 5, 2021. WorldTour teams Trek-Segafredo and Australia’s Team BikeExchange will be joined by America’s top ProTeam Rally Cycling and U.S. pro Continental Teams Aevelo and Wildlife Generation Pro Cycling, when the event kicks off this fall. “After the challenges of postponing last year’s first edition due to the pandemic, it’s exciting to look forward and start introducing some of the world’s top teams into the…
Highlights Report Wout van Aert has won the first stage of Tirreno-Adriatico. On the boulevard of Lido di Camaiore he finished off Caleb Ewan and Fernando Gaviria in the bunch sprint. Six escapees were allowed to gain an advantage by the peloton. Ten kilometres before the finish the leaders were caught by the large group. In the streets of the start and finish town of Lido di Camaiore, Van Aert started his sprint early. The competition was unable to come alongside. Through his victory in the opening stage of the Italian race the Team Jumbo-Visma leader starts Thursday in the…
Highlights Report Primoz Roglic has won the fourth stage of Paris-Nice. The Slovenian from Team Jumbo-Visma attacked three kilometres before the finish and finished with a twelve-seconds advantage over the chasing group. Roglic is the new leader in the general classification thanks to his victory. The fourth stage of Paris-Nice was fairly quiet until the final. A group of six riders escaped early in the race. They were allowed to ride free for a long time, until Team Jumbo-Visma increased the pace in the peloton fifty kilometers before the finish and took control. In the nervous final, the leader of…
Highlights Report Stefan Bissegger won Stage Three and now wears the yellow jersey at Paris-Nice after a show-stopping finish today in Gien, France. “It feels really great to show what I’m capable of and to take the win here,” said Bissegger. His performance at the Paris-Nice time-trial shook up the cycling world and nobody really outside of the team could have expected him to take the win. The 23-year-old was up against some of the most experienced and successful riders in the sport. And yet in his first full season as a pro, Bissegger proved that he’s a name worth…