Author: Henri Giroud

Highlights Report Primoz Roglic has won the overture of the Vuelta a España in an impressive way. The Slovenian leader of Team Jumbo-Visma arrived solo on the Alto de Arrate. The winner of last year’s Vuelta a España could therefore immediately put on the red leader’s jersey. It is the nineteenth victory of the season for Team Jumbo-Visma. Roglic’s victory came about through fantastic work by his teammates. Team Jumbo-Visma, together with a few other teams, controlled the entire stage and never let a group of escapees get a big margin. Robert Gesink took the lead in the final phase…

Highlights Report The Giro d’Italia resumed after the second rest day with an epic stage for Team Bahrain McLaren. Jan Tratnik did not miss his chance at the beginning of the third and last week. The Slovenian rider was part of the daily breakaway on the hilly course of stage 16 – from Udine to San Daniele del Friuli (229km) – and after also a solo attack, he went clear on the last steep section just before the finish to take the most important victory in his career. His teammate Enrico Battaglin – who was in the break too – proved…

Ed’s note: We are living through a new golden age of cycling. That is all. Highlights Report An exceptional edition of the Tour of Flanders got an exceptional final. Van der Poel and Van Aert were so daring that a very close sprint had to decide on the victory. Van der Poel won the 104th edition of Flanders’ Fienst before Wout Van Aert. Kristoff sprinted to third place in the chasing group. An atypical Tour of Flanders, that’s what awaited the riders today. In an edition in which the general public was invited to follow the race from home, a…

Highlights Report Tao Geoghegan Hart put in one of the finest performances of his young career to claim victory on stage 15 at the Giro d’Italia. The Brit rode his way to the front of the race on the Piancavallo summit finish, before out-sprinting Wilco Kelderman and claiming his biggest victory to date – and a fifth stage win for the INEOS Grenadiers. That success also moved Geoghegan Hart up seven places to fourth overall, 2:57 off the maglia rosa but just two seconds off an overall podium place. In the closing kilometres Tao was joined by Team Sunweb duo Kelderman and Jai…

Highlights Report Filippo Ganna put in a blistering performance to win his third stage of the Giro d’Italia and the team’s fourth stage victory of the race. Ganna led home an INEOS Grenadiers 1-2 as Rohan Dennis finished second, 26 seconds behind the world time trial champion in Valdobbiadene. The gap from second to third-placed Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates) was over a minute, with Ganna and Dennis dominating the second time trial of the race. Tao Geoghegan Hart put in a strong performance to finish 13th on the stage, which saw the Londoner move up to 11th overall ahead…

Highlights Report Diego Ulissi added to his glittering record at the Giro d’Italia with a sprint victory from a select group of favourites on stage 13 from Cervia to Monselice (192km). With two testing categorised climbs in the final 35km, it was Valerio Conti who piled on the pressure to detach the sprinters Arnaud Demare (Groupama-FDJ) and Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) on the 9.9% average, 2km final climb which crested at 17km to go. With only the GC favourites left in the main group, it was Brandon McNulty who took the reins in the final sprint, guiding his teammate Ulissi perfectly into the…

The Movistar squad travels to Irún, start of the Vuelta, with a roster almost identical to the one that finished on the podium of Tour de France. Mas, Valverde, Soler headline the eight-man team. Following three months packed with the most relevant events in the 2020 season after racing resumed in July, the Movistar Team will be putting an end to its 41st consecutive season in the peloton with La Vuelta a España, starting in Irún on Tuesday 20th October and scheduled to end in Madrid on Sunday 8th November. The squad managed by Eusebio Unzué, with sports directors José…

Highlights Report Jhonatan Narvaez continued the INEOS Grenadiers team’s impressive momentum at the Giro d’Italia with a rousing breakaway victory. The Ecuadorian claimed his first Grand Tour stage win in style after a day-long breakaway effort on the punishing hills around Cesenatico. Narvaez was able to hang tough as the 13-man group gradually whittled down over the climbs, eventually heading into the final 25 kilometres alongside Mark Padun (Bahrain-McLaren). When Padun was forced to stop with a front wheel issue Narvaez continued, and despite the gap between the pair falling as low as nine seconds, he was eventually able to…