Author: Henri Giroud

The CCC Team has been forced to suspend the majority of team support staff contracts due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, while all rider salaries will be heavily reduced for the rest of the season. In order to allow the team to operate at a minimum level during the non-racing period, a very small number of support staff will retain their roles. CCC Team President Jim Ochowicz said the team has been forced to take these measures in the hope that racing will resume this year. “The decision to make widespread cuts has been a painful process and one that…

Partnership will offer athletes unprecedented access to augmented reality experience to ride IRONMAN bike courses around the world. IRONMAN today announced a multi-year partnership with ROUVY, an industry leader in virtual cycling. As the Official Virtual Training Partner of IRONMAN, ROUVY will offer up to 35 IRONMAN® and IRONMAN® 70.3® bike courses on its platform, providing IRONMAN athletes from around the world a virtual riding experience based on existing event courses. ROUVY’s technology mixes real-world footage with 3D virtual racing. Athletes will experience accurate elevation profiles, as well as real-time Augmented Reality integration through their avatar allowing them to ride…

For the second time in two weeks, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) brought together all representatives of professional road cycling’s families – AIOCC (organisers), AIGCP (teams) and CPA (riders) – on Wednesday 1 April to discuss the situation of professional road cycling linked to the coronavirus pandemic. Following the meeting, given the severity of the health situation throughout the world, the UCI and its stakeholders unanimously decided to prolong the suspension of cycling competitions until 1 June 2020, and until further notice. The UCI also decided that this extension would apply to all cycling disciplines and all categories of riders. In…

The event that all of Flanders is more passionate about than any other will not take place on Sunday 5 April. This prompted Flanders Classics and Belgian national sports broadcaster Sporza to go in search of an innovative alternative that is equally thrilling for both fans and cyclists. Although it is currently forbidden to cycle in groups and has been for a little while now, they will be announcing the very first virtual edition of Flanders’ Finest for professional cyclists today: DeRonde2020, the lockdown edition. Because you can still cycle on your home trainer. Flanders Classics developed a unique concept in collaboration with technology…

Tour de Suisse, ROUVY and Velon start the first digital race with the best pro teams in the world. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the sporting world has ground to a halt. The prestigious spring classics and the Giro d’Italia are being postponed or cancelled. Of course, in this serious situation, the priority is to contain the virus and keep the population healthy. There have not been months without sporting events like this since the Second World War. For this reason, the Tour de Suisse, ROUVY and Velon have joined forces to launch a world premiere in digital pro racing.…

It was 4 Pm, a bright Afternoon on Via Roma, San Remo’s main road, and Dr. Maurizio Piombo, with his White protective gear, was leaving a house of a patient with corona suspected symptoms – when it hit him. “I was standing there in the empty street, frozen with the memories of being here just a year ago when we all arrived with the Milano – San Remo race convoy. Thousands lined the streets, excited to welcome the first group of riders fighting it out to the finish line… “ But now it felt like it was a scene taken…

CCC Team is set to participate in “The Digital Swiss 5” – a series of five individual races on parts of the same parcours planned for the Tour de Suisse 2020. Velon is working with the organisers of the Tour de Suisse and the ROUVY Indoor Cycling Reality platform to bring racing to fans everywhere whilst respecting the global restrictions on everyday life as a result of the COVID19 pandemic. Armed with their Elite smart trainers, CCC Team’s riders will gear up for five races over five consecutive days and go all-out over some of the most challenging parts of…

The six-episode series, an unprecedented look at cycling’s three Grand Tours embedded in the Telefónica-backed squad during 2019, airs globally on Netflix from Friday The documentary ‘The Least Expected Day’, a six-episode series produced by Telefónica Broadcast Services (TBS) on the Movistar Team, the longest-standing team in cycling’s top tier UCI WorldTour, was made available globally on Friday. The series, more than three hours in length, is a thorough story, with unprecedented access, around the Telefónica-backed squad’s 2019, which focused on the three Grand Tours of the sport: the Giro d’Italia, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España. ‘The Least Expected Day’ shows the inside story of Richard…