Highlights Report It was a case of double celebration for Tadej Pogačar and UAE Team Emirates as the Slovenian took stage victory and moves into the overall lead on stage 4 of Tirreno Adriatico. On the uphill arrival of Prati di Tivo (14.7 km at 7%), an attack at 7.5 km from the finish and another dig at – 6 km allowed Pogačar to hold off Simon Yates (+6 “, Team BikeExchange) and Sergio Higuita (+29”, Ef-Nippo), as well as jumping to the top of the general classification with a 35 ”advantage over Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma). Pogačar, also leader…
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Highlights Report After having won the fourth and sixth stage, Primoz Roglic has also won the seventh stage of Paris-Nice. The Team Jumbo-Visma rider remounted the Swiss Gino Mäder in the last few metres with a strong final sprint and extended his overall lead on the competition in the battle for the overall victory. The short queen stage, with four climbs along the way, was controlled by Team Jumbo-Visma, among others. George Bennett and Steven Kruijswijk increased the pace on the final climb to La Colmiane, after which Roglic finished it off with his well-known jump. Roglic’s third stage victory…
It’s the news ASO didn’t want to have to share. So, uh, they kind of haven’t, instead quietly changing the Paris-Nice race route with just a small quote from Nice’s mayor in ASO’s sister publication L’Equipe on Friday. Yes, they’re changing the race route to avoid Nice’s Covid-19 lockdown. For the second year running, no Promenade des Anglais. The organizers were under pressure, and local authorities have won out. The race will now complete a route outside of the confined zone. Unlike last year, the race will complete all eight of its stages, instead altering Stages Seven and Eight to…
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…
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…