Visit Victoria today announced the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race will not be staged this summer. Due to the ongoing global pandemic, a number of UCI WorldTour teams have made the decision to stay in Europe due to uncertainty around international travel conditions and logistics of quarantine requirements. The Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race is a UCI WorldTour cycling event held along Australia’s most iconic coastal region. The full event schedule is impacted, including the UCI WorldTour Elite Men’s Road Race and the UCI WorldTour Deakin University Elite Women’s Road Race, TAC Race Torquay, the Swisse People’s Ride…
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Henri Giroud
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Williams Racing Development, the company that uses marketing to promote and increase diversity within cycling, today announced the roster for their 2021 L39ION of Los Angeles USA Cycling Domestic Elite Team and the establishment of a Men’s UCI Continental Team, L39ION of Los Angeles. During an American racing season dramatically impacted by the global coronavirus pandemic affecting millions of people in the US and world-wide, L39ION of Los Angeles worked to continue its mission to create diversity in the sport of cycling. Despite the limitations created by Covid-19, the team continued its work with Outride, a public nonprofit dedicated to…
The route for the 2021 Tour de France was unveiled on Sunday night by Race Director, Christian Prudhomme, where he announced an overview of the route for the Grand Boucle which will run from 26 June – July 18. The race departs from Brittany before crossing over to the Alps and moving down to the Pyrenees and finally, climbing north to the finish in Paris. Tadej Pogačar reflected on his first glance of the new route : “It’s an interesting route. It’s more of a classic Tour de France route than the last few years. The first week in Bretagne should be exciting…
UCI Women’s WorldTour leader Lizzie Deignan and Italian Road and TT champion Elisa Longo Borghini have prolonged their respective contracts with Trek-Segafredo for two years. Deignan made the most of the condensed 2020 season and achieved great success upon the racing calendar’s restart, winning GP Plouay and La Course by Le Tour de France before soloing to victory in the prestigious Liège-Bastogne-Liège. In between these landmark triumphs, the 31-year-old Brit put up some great performances in the Giro Rosa, scoring two podium placings, a team time trial win, and a notable sixth place in the Road World Championships in Imola.…
Highlights Report Hugh Carthy took his first Grand Tour victory atop the mythical Alto de l’Angliru on stage 12 of the Vuelta a España. Our Prestonian also moved up into third overall ahead of the second and last rest day of the race. With the shadow of the mighty Angliru cast over the race for the past week, all eyes were on stage 12 of the 2020 Vuelta. A climb seldom used throughout the history of the race because of the punishing gradients that would often lead to riders protesting the race organizers’ decision to use it, the Angliru has…
Highlights Report Today, David Gaudu made another step in his – young – career. The French climber was looking forward to it for so long, and it finally came on the Vuelta on Saturday. In what he considered to be the queen stage of the 2020 Tour of Spain, the 24-year-old rider has today conquered his very first win on a Grand Tour. Furthermore, he did it in a mountaintop finish, which is a first for him since he turned pro. Beating Marc Soler on the line after a long breakaway and the invaluable support from Bruno Armirail throughout the…
Highlights Report Primoz Roglic has won the tenth stage of the Vuelta a España in an impressive way. The leader of Team Jumbo-Visma won on the uphill finish in Suances after a strong sprint. Due to the boni seconds and a split in the peloton, the Slovenian regained the lead in the overall classification. For Roglic it is his third stage victory in this Vuelta. He previously won the first and the eighth stage. It marked his tenth victory of the season, the twenty-first for Team Jumbo-Visma. With his stage victory, he also strengthened his leading position in the points…
Highlights Report After the start in Castrillo del Val, the riders set off on a 158 km slightly undulating course to Aguilar de Campoo, which today offered a second chance for the sprinters. Only two riders formed today’s leading group, which was able to break away relatively early from the field. The gap to the peloton levelled off at three minutes throughout the race and it was only a matter of time until they were brought back. Unfortunately, Pascal Ackermann went down after 60 km, but he was able to continue the race and caught up with the peloton not…