Profile Highlights https://youtu.be/wEXS7oJ4n_c Report Wout van Aert has claimed his second stage victory in this Tour de France. The Belgian won the tumultuous seventh stage, a stage with crosswinds to Lavaur, in a superb way. Van Aert positioned himself well in the slipstream of Stuyven and Sagan, after which he finished it off in a dominant way once again. For Van Aert it is already his third stage victory in the Tour de France in his second participation. It is his sixth victory of the season and Team Jumbo-Visma’s seventeenth. “I am very proud of this victory”, Van Aert said.…
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Henri Giroud
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Profile Highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbI0BGLDXJA Report It was a day of glory for the Kazakh cycling as the national champion of Kazakhstan Alexey Lutsenko took a great solo win atop Mont Aigoual at the 6th stage of the biggest race in the world the Tour de France. Lutsenko made a decisive attack from the daily breakaway with some 17 km to go on the final climb of the day. The Kazakh Champion was able to drop all the rivals and to go solo. Taking over 50 seconds on the chasers, Lutsenko finished alone atop Mont Aigoual, taking his biggest success in career. …
Profile Highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7JgmAzVjbI Report Wout van Aert has impressively won the fifth stage of the Tour de France. A day after Primoz Roglic’s victory, the winner of Milan-Sanremo on the sloping finish lane in Privas was the fastest in the bunch sprint. Van Aert positioned himself well in the wheel of Cees Bol, after which he finished sovereignly. After his victory in Albi last year, it is his second stage victory in the Tour de France and his fifth victory of the season. Earlier this year, in addition to Milan-Sanremo, he also won Strade Bianche, the Belgian time trial championships and a stage…
Profile Highlights https://youtu.be/Zju4ixNmCMI Report Primoz Roglic has won the fourth stage of the Tour de France in an impressive way. The Slovenian champion completed fantastic teamwork from his teammates in the first uphill finish. He is now third in the classification with Tom Dumoulin just behind him in seventh place. It is the fifteenth victory of the season for Team Jumbo-Visma. The peloton maintained a tight pace in the stage from Sisteron to Orcières-Merlette, which made the gap with the breakaway never grow larger than five minutes. Team Jumbo-Visma was always at the front of the peloton and kept the…
World’s best rider for the last three seasons signs two-year deal (2021-22) with Telefónica-backed squad; Dutchwoman adds her polyvalent, unbeatable talent to the organisation managed by Eusebio Unzué The Movistar Team is extremely proud to announce Monday that Annemiek van Vleuten (Wageningen, NED; 1982), the reigning World Road Race Champion, has signed a contract for the next two seasons (2021-22) with the Spanish women’s outfit led by Sebastián Unzué.With Van Vleuten’s signing, the squad sponsored by Telefónica takes a decisive step forward in its goal to become a reference in the UCI Women’s WorldTour peloton, with the same ambition they’ve displayed for the…
Route Highlights Results Stage 1Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal05:17:422Sam Bennett (Irl) Deceuninck-Quickstep3Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) NTT Pro Cycling4Hugo Hofstetter (Fra) Israel Start-Up Nation5Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe6Edward Theuns (Bel) Trek-Segafredo7Cees Bol (Ned) Team Sunweb8Matteo Trentin (Ita) CCC Team9Bryan Coquard (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept10Niccolò Bonifazio (Ita) Total Direct Energie General Classification 1Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck-Quickstep13:59:172Adam Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott00:00:043Marc Hirschi (Swi) Team Sunweb00:00:074Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates00:00:175Davide Formolo (Ita) UAE Team Emirates00:00:176Egan Arley Bernal Gomez (Col) Ineos Grenadiers00:00:177Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma00:00:178Sergio Andres Higuita Garcia (Col) EF Pro Cycling00:00:179Guillaume Martin (Fra) Cofidis00:00:17 Points 1Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe792Alexander Kristoff (Nor) UAE Team Emirates773Sam Bennett…
Eight-time Grand Tour stage winner and 2017 Tour de France green jersey champion Michael Matthews will return ‘home’ to Mitchelton-SCOTT next season. After four years with Team Sunweb, the recent Bretagne Classic winner has signed a new two-year contract that will see the 29-year-old reunited with the Australian team until 2022. A complete package, ‘Bling’ has 35 individual professional career victories, including 18 during his time in GreenEDGE Cycling colours between 2013 and 2016. A two-time podium placer at Milan-San Remo, including in 2020, Matthews will be a serious contender for monument and one-day Classics success, as well as adding stage winning capabilities to…
Preview Highlights Report A magnificent display helped Julian Alaphilippe continue to build upon his extraordinary legacy, as he took a fifth stage victory at the Tour de France, moving into the race’s overall lead on Nice’s Promenade des Anglais. Just like last year, when a superb attack on the roads of Marne netted him an emphatic win and the iconic yellow jersey, Alaphilippe made his move on the final climb of the day, some 13 kilometers from the finish. Up until that moment, Deceuninck – Quick-Step was prominent with Danish Champion Kasper Asgreen, who spent almost the entire day in…