All season long, it seems, Greg Van Avermaet is always up there. The Belgian may not have landed a Classic victory in 2018, but amid all the questions as to whether Gouden Gregs imperial phase had passed, his sheer consistency throughout the Spring was somewhat overlooked, as he knitted together top-five finishes at the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix and E3 Harelbeke. There was precious little respite thereafter, save for a couple of weeks of rest after overall victory at Mays Tour de Yorkshir...
On Thursday evening, Team Sunweb were the fastest team over the 24.3-kilometre Ladies Tour of Norway team time trial, a stand-alone event before the three-day race starting Friday 17 August. Sports director Hans Timmermans was happy with the result and confident in his teams strength looking forward to the defence of their World Championships TTT title in September. The six-rider team - consisting of Lucinda Brand, Leah Kirchmann, Liane Lippert, Floortje Mackaij, Coryn Rivera and Ruth Winder - ...
Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) will return to racing at next weeks Deutschland Tour (August 23-26), lining up alongside Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb), Romain Bardet (AG2R-La Mondiale) and Marcel Kittel (Katusha-Alpecin) as the German national tour returns after a 10-year hiatus sparked by doping scandals in the sport. Thomas rode a series of post-Tour de France criteriums after riding into Paris in yellow on July 29. He was given a public reception in Cardiff last week but recentl...
American time trial champion Joey Rosskopf has extended his contract with the BMC Racing team, which is being revamped for 2019 under new title sponsorship from CCC. The 28-year-old joined the team in 2015 after riding for the Hincapie Development squad. He won the Tour du Limousin in 2016 and has won the last two American time trial titles, as well as riding the Giro dItalia and Vuelta a Espaņa during his time with the team. In my four years with BMC Racing Team, the team management has shown...
The Bora-Hansgrohe team have confirmed that Peter Sagan will ride the Vuelta a Espaņa as part of a strong team that also includes Rafal Majka, Davide Formolo, Emanuel Buchmann, and Jay McCarthy. Sagan had been dropping hints that he would ride the final Grand Tour of the season but pulled out of the European Championships road race in Glasgow on Sunday, explaining he was still suffering with pain in his hip and back after his crash on a descent of stage 17 at the Tour de France. He is expected...
Quick-Step Floors have announced their eight-man squad for the 2018 Vuelta a Espaņa, which starts in Malaga on August 25. The Belgian teams star turn will be Italian sprinter Elia Viviani, who heads to Spain having missed the Tour de France, and should be firing on all cylinders if his Giro dItalia performance in May is anything to go by. The 29-year-old won four stages and came away with the purple sprinters jersey at the Giro, and went on to win three stages at the Adriatica Ionica and then ...
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All season long, it seems, Greg Van Avermaet is always up there. The Belgian may not have landed a Classic victory in 2018, but amid all the questions as to whether Gouden Gregs imperial phase had passed, his sheer consistency throughout the Spring was somewhat overlooked, as he knitted together top-five finishes at the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix and E3 Harelbeke. There was precious little respite thereafter, save for a couple of weeks of rest after overall victory at Mays Tour de Yorkshir...
On Thursday evening, Team Sunweb were the fastest team over the 24.3-kilometre Ladies Tour of Norway team time trial, a stand-alone event before the three-day race starting Friday 17 August. Sports director Hans Timmermans was happy with the result and confident in his teams strength looking forward to the defence of their World Championships TTT title in September. The six-rider team - consisting of Lucinda Brand, Leah Kirchmann, Liane Lippert, Floortje Mackaij, Coryn Rivera and Ruth Winder - ...
Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) will return to racing at next weeks Deutschland Tour (August 23-26), lining up alongside Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb), Romain Bardet (AG2R-La Mondiale) and Marcel Kittel (Katusha-Alpecin) as the German national tour returns after a 10-year hiatus sparked by doping scandals in the sport. Thomas rode a series of post-Tour de France criteriums after riding into Paris in yellow on July 29. He was given a public reception in Cardiff last week but recentl...
American time trial champion Joey Rosskopf has extended his contract with the BMC Racing team, which is being revamped for 2019 under new title sponsorship from CCC. The 28-year-old joined the team in 2015 after riding for the Hincapie Development squad. He won the Tour du Limousin in 2016 and has won the last two American time trial titles, as well as riding the Giro dItalia and Vuelta a Espaņa during his time with the team. In my four years with BMC Racing Team, the team management has shown...
The Bora-Hansgrohe team have confirmed that Peter Sagan will ride the Vuelta a Espaņa as part of a strong team that also includes Rafal Majka, Davide Formolo, Emanuel Buchmann, and Jay McCarthy. Sagan had been dropping hints that he would ride the final Grand Tour of the season but pulled out of the European Championships road race in Glasgow on Sunday, explaining he was still suffering with pain in his hip and back after his crash on a descent of stage 17 at the Tour de France. He is expected...
Quick-Step Floors have announced their eight-man squad for the 2018 Vuelta a Espaņa, which starts in Malaga on August 25. The Belgian teams star turn will be Italian sprinter Elia Viviani, who heads to Spain having missed the Tour de France, and should be firing on all cylinders if his Giro dItalia performance in May is anything to go by. The 29-year-old won four stages and came away with the purple sprinters jersey at the Giro, and went on to win three stages at the Adriatica Ionica and then ...