Team Ineos shared the following statement: It is with the greatest sadness that we announce the passing of our much loved team mate, colleague and friend Nico Portal who died suddenly this afternoon at his home in Andorra.We are all overcome with grief at this terrible news and would ask everyone to respect the family’s privacy at this difficult time. RIP Nico – your spirit will always be with us on the road and you will forever be in our hearts.
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Watch the race highlights from all the finals on the final day of the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships presented by Tissot.
Watch the race highlights from all the finals on day four of the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships presented by Tissot.
A superb display of dominance carried the young Dane Kasper Asgreen to the biggest victory of his career to date in astounding fashion. Kasper Asgreen notched up Deceuninck – Quick-Step’s eighth victory at Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne after a towering effort which saw him attack with more than 30 kilometers to go, catch and drop the members of the breakaway and hold off an entire furious peloton, thus leaving an indelible impression on the Opening Weekend. “It’s definitely the biggest victory of my career! Taking a classic is so important, because when I turned pro, I had the goal of developing myself into…
Watch the race highlights from all the finals on day three of the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships presented by Tissot.
After a substandard 2019 Classics season, Jasper Stuyven opens the 2020 season with victory in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad There is no better way to make amends for a disappointing 2019 Classics season than winning the opening race a year later. The Trek-Segafredo Classics Team showed they have returned with a vengeance when Jasper Stuyven won a two-up sprint over Yves Lampaert (Deceuninck-Quick Step) to claim victory in the much anticipated first cobbled classic, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, his biggest win to date. “I told the team that we needed to be in the front all day, and I think the focus…
Watch the race highlights from all the finals on day two of the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships presented by Tissot.
Cycling is back! For real. Many races come before it these days, but Omloop is the traditional season opener, and the first look at how the single-day races will play out this year. The bookmakers’ favorite, Mathieu van der Poel, has pulled out due to sickness, but last year’s winner, Zdenek Stybar, and runner-up Greg van Avermaet will be on the start line looking for another strong performance. Deceuninck-Quick-Step 1Zdenek Stybar (Cze)2Kasper Asgreen (Den)3Tim Declercq (Bel)4Bob Jungels (Lux)5Iljo Keisse (Bel)6Yves Lampaert (Bel)7Florian Senechal (Fra) Trek-Segafredo 11Mads Pedersen (Den)12Koen De Kort (Ned)13Alex Kirsch (Lux)14Emils Liepins (Lat)15Ryan Mullen (Irl)16Jasper Stuyven (Bel)17Edward Theuns…