Vuelta CV Féminas (Sunday 9th), nine-day ‘stage’ (10th-18th) in Alicante and aero / material testing in Navarra (ends Friday) mark busy calendar of events for Blues this month The women’s Movistar Team will be starting their 2020 season this week as they pin their numbers for the first competition of the year, the Vuelta CV Féminas (Sunday 9th; 97.7km from Paterna to Valencia), and some key activities for the whole, 11-woman roster managed by Sebastián Unzué and Jorge Sanz. The Blues have spent the last two days into TT testing, adjusting biomechanical profiles and trying out new materials, at the Tafalla velodrome in…
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Henri Giroud
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The reigning World Champion pens two more years with Trek-Segafredo through the end of 2022. Mads Pedersen, the reigning road World Champion, has signed a two-year contract extension with Trek-Segafredo and will continue to represent the US-registered team throughout the end of the 2022 season. The new agreement sees the 24-year-old Dane commit to a six-year tenure at Trek-Segafredo, where he has been honing his skills as a professional cyclist since 2017. The support and belief showed to him by Trek-Segafredo management since the very beginning was a key factor that led Pedersen to commit to the extension: “Luca (Guercilena)…
On 3 July 2021, the Tour de France will venture farther north than ever before when it reaches the 70-kilometre mark in the second Danish stage, from Roskilde to Nyborg. The profiles of the first three stages were unveiled this morning in Vejle, another town that will host the 108th edition of the race. The show will get on the road in the capital of the country, Copenhagen, which is known as the most cycling-friendly city on Earth. The Tour de France has explored all sorts of coasts, from beaches, harbours and cliffs to rocky inlets, dykes and bays. In…
Polish road race champion Michał Paluta will make his CCC Team debut at Etoile de Bessèges, the five-stage race commencing on 5 February. With a solid roster, including sprinters Jakub Mareczko and Jonas Koch, and two Polish debutants, Kamil Małecki and Paluta, the team will aim for a strong start to the season, Sports Director Fabio Baldato, who won this race in 2003, said. “When you look at the route of Etoile de Bessèges, you will see that our fastest guys, Mareczko and Koch, will definitely have the opportunity to show off. That’s why we are bringing a young but…
Highlights from the 2020 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Dubendorf. Junior Women Junior Men U23 Women U23 Men Elite Women Elite Men
“We were always in the right moves. Collectively, we started the race exactly the way we wanted. We were in control. I attacked on the ridge road after Quentin Jaurégui and François Bidard set me up. Behind, the race was really heating up. I knew I had very good legs, and behind us we had Clément Venturini, able to control the situation in the pack. We had a lot of cards to play, so we might as well take the brakes off the race. I was maybe more concerned about Tom Devriendt than anyone. He’s a friend of Oliver’s (Naesen),…
Catalan completes 70km breakaway against big rivals, beats Mühlberger (BOH) into tough final slopes in Port d’Andratx; Blues with a double podium as Davide Villella takes 3rd A sound display, yet another one in the lasf few years, of top class rewarded Marc Soler (Movistar Team) on Saturday with the second win of his career and the Blues’ maiden victory in 2020 at the Trofeo Pollença – Port d’Andratx (168km), crowning a long breakaway – one of his signature moves – with a solo victory in his first multi-day competition of the year. More than three years after his first pro success at the…
With cyclocross World Championship races this weekend, we caught up with two-time world champ Sven Nys to get an inside look at what he’s anticipating at the competition. Sven is easily one of the best cyclocross riders of all time and the current manager of Telenet-Baloise Lions. The Lions have strong contenders for both women’s and men’s elite categories and Sven’s own son, Thibau Nys, is a favorite for the juniors’ category. Here’s what Sven had to say about this year’s CX battles for the prestigious title of world champion. As the World Cup schedule comes to an end, how did Telenet-Baloise…