Author: Henri Giroud

Report A long, solitary winning ride gave Davide Formolo his fourth career success with the Italian champion crossing the finish line of stage three of the Criterium del Dauphiné, from Corenc-Saint Martin de Belleville of 157 km, in first position, after cycling for 65 km alone at the head of the race, climbing the Col de la Madeleine and the final Cat 1 ascent. Already after 30 km of racing, Formolo had jumped from the peloton in the company of 8 other riders. With the average pace very high (50.3 km / h after the first hour of racing), the…

Report Primoz Roglic has claimed yet another victory for Team Jumbo-Visma. The Slovenian leader was supreme on the Col de Porte and climbed to the second consecutive stage victory for his team in the Criterium du Dauphiné. The national road champion also takes over the overall lead from teammate Wout van Aert. It is the twelfth victory for Team Jumbo-Visma in 2020 and the eighth in the last thirteen days. For Roglic it is his fifth victory of the season. In the stage with the finish on top of the Col de Porte, an early breakaway was successfully controlled by…

An incredible climber, Bardet has tasted success at the most prodigious race in the world – the Tour de France – where he has won three stages, finished both second and third on GC alongside two sixth place finishes, and has claimed the famous polka dot jersey as King of the Mountains. Despite such palmarès, Bardet can’t be pigeonholed as only a pure climber; the Frenchman has also excelled in challenging one-day races. Most notably, his silver medal at the World Championships in Innsbruck, third place at Liège-Bastogne-Liège and second place in brutal conditions at Strade Bianche highlight his versatility…

Report Wout van Aert has continued his impressive victory march. The 25-year-old Belgian, who already won Strade Bianche and Milan-SanRemo this month, won the opening stage in the Criterium du Dauphiné today. After 218 kilometres, Van Aert was the fastest in the sprint of a reduced peloton and claimed the tenth season victory for Team Jumbo-Visma. The stage was animated by an early breakaway, controlled by Team Jumbo-Visma. After the breakaway was caught and Tony Martin had finished his work, Robert Gesink and Sepp Kuss increased the pace at fifteen kilometres from the finish line, with the three team leaders…

Forget the misleading headlines on other sites: the World Championships are not canceled. At least, not yet. The UCI has in fact shared that the Swiss Federal Council has decided to maintain its ban on events of over 1,000 people, meaning that the UCI and the organising committee of the Aigle-Martigny 2020 UCI Road World Championships have decided not to host the event in Aigle and Martigny. “Given the sporting importance of the UCI Road World Championships for cycling, the UCI would like to clarify that it will work towards finding an alternative project to ensure the 2020 edition of the…

The Dutch Champion will soon return to his home country. Following his accident on stage 1 of the Tour of Poland, Fabio Jakobsen’s condition has improved further and he is now able to travel back to his homeland of the Netherlands. A team statement reads: “Fabio Jakobsen’s condition is evolving favourably, to the extent that he will be transferred Wednesday to the hospital in Leiden, the Netherlands (LUMC), where further follow-up treatment of his injuries will take place.”

24-year-old Spaniard, one of the country’s biggest hopes on both classics and sprints, joins Telefónica-backed squad as a reference for the upcoming seasons The Movistar Team announced Monday Iván García Cortina (Gijón, ESP; 1995), currently riding for the Bahrain-McLaren squad, has reached an agreement for the next three years (2021-23) with the organisation managed by Eusebio Unzué. Cortina is Spain’s biggest future hope for one-day races, especially those with cobblestones. A lover of the Northern classics -where he’s already shone at with a great breakaway during the 2018 Ronde van Vlaanderen-, he left his best signs of quality just before the 2020 lockdown, with…

Wout van Aert has won Milano-Sanremo in a beautiful way. The Belgian was the fastest in a sprint-a-deux with Julian Alaphilippe, winning his first monument and the first monument of Team Jumbo-Visma since the Rabobank era. Van Aert, who was labeled a top favourite by many, has had a successful Italian week. He won Strade Bianche and sprinted to third place in Milano-Torino. It is Team Jumbo-Visma’s seventh victory of the season after a bizarre week that was overshadowed by the serious incident in the Tour of Poland. Van Aert: “Unfortunately it was a week with intense and mixed emotions.…