UEC BMX Euro Cup 2023 Highlights – Round 5 (Valmiera) UEC BMX Euro Cup 2023 Full Broadcast – Rounds 5 & 6 This is going to be really long… Part One Part Two Part Three
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Harold Dalton
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Report As the evening sun set over the Adriatic Sea in San Salvo, Abruzzo, a new sprint king was crowned at the 106th Giro d’Italia. Team Bahrain Victorious’ Jonathan Milan, 22 years old and already an Olympic & European track champion, took the very first road stage of his very first Grand Tour, and with it the points jersey, the ‘Maglia Ciclamino’. “It’s just incredible. I’m completely shocked. I always give 100%, I always give my best. Everything that’s happened this season: the falls, the tiredness, the illnesses, I didn’t believe I could win this first sprint stage of the…
Report Three Giri Donne, one Tour de France, two Challenge by La Vuelta and, from Sunday, the first-ever La Vuelta Femenina. Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar Team) further increases her endless palmares as she rewarded the Movistar squad with her first success in 2023 at the best possible venue: the Spanish team’s home Grand Tour. Van Vleuten made it happen again at the 94km decisive, Queen stage in Asturias, over the Collado Moandi (Cat-2) and, most importantly, the legendary Lagos de Covadonga (Hors Categorie), her 1’11″ gap from the eve enough after a phenomenal exhibition towards Laredo on Saturday. It wasn’t…
Report Remco Evenepoel powered to an impressive victory on stage 1 of the Giro d’Italia (Fossacesia Marina – Ortona, 19.6km) – where he returned after two years – putting some considerable time into his opponents and claiming the coveted maglia rosa. Soudal Quick-Step’s leader was a man on a mission Saturday afternoon as he left the start house, wasting no time on the flat roads of Abruzzo and almost instantly opening a big gap on all the other riders as he hit a maximum speed exceeding 60km/h. At the half-way mark, the 23-year-old Belgian ITT Champion was more than twenty…
Report Gaia Realini went head to head with the world champion on stage 6 of La Vuelta Femenina and WON after a spectacular sprint to the line. The 21-year-old pipped Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar Team) to the line after a thrilling two-up sprint finish to secure the first UCI WorldTour win of her career. Realini saw an opportuntiy and seized it on the Puerto de Campo El Hayal, the second of two cateogirzed climbs in the final 50 kilometers of the stage, jumping across to a move from van Vleuten which saw the climbing powerhouses leave the rest of the…
Report Team SD Worx experienced the fifth stage of the Vuelta Femenina with mixed feelings. “With Niamh Fisher-Black, Marlen Reusser and Demi Vollering, we had almost no problem having all the spearheads in the final breakaway. Behind them, our riders were able to recover with a view to the final weekend. The goal was then to start the final climb with the three of us at the front and set the pace there,” indicated team leader Anna van der Breggen. But 35 kilometres from the end, Niamh Fisher-Black crashed unhappily when she wanted to take over a water bottle from…