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By David Hunter Stage 1 Recap Contador the King! Alberto continued his fine winning streak with an outstanding display of climbing. He went with the attack of Valverde, and then destroyed him in the last kilometre of the climb. It was a typical Contador attack and he continued on the descent to claim the stage and…
16 teams enrolled, Team Sky replaces Richie Porte. Five Grand Tour winners at the start, including Horner and Evans, challenging Colombian climbers (in wait of Nairo Quintana) Seven World Tour teams (Astana, AG2R LaMondiale, Cannondale, BMC, Lampre-Merida, Movistar, Team SKY) made the final 16-outfit list along with 9 Continental-Pro lineups, including Italian Androni Giocattoli-Venezuela, Neri Sottoli Yellow Fluo, Bardiani-CSF…
By @pmpalermo Fully immersed in the Northern Classics season , it is appropriate to focus on a group of riders who stands out above the rest and usually seems to be in contention for a type of races so special and hard that may intimidate the majority, as such they are the ones that at the…
The Belkin Pro Cycling TEAM will work for Theo Bos on Wednesday in the Scheldeprijs. Sports Director Michiel Elijzen hopes that the team can help the sprinter to achieve a big result. “Looking at the course, we will have a very strong team at the start,” said Elijzen. “Normally a bunch kick decides the Scheldeprijs…
Apart from the national championships, Team MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung have yet to race in South Africa as a UCI Professional Continental Team. That will all change when the team line up for the Mzansi Tour starting in Johannesburg on Tuesday. A race that will showcase the beauty and diversity of our home country is one we…
By @pmpalermo The Tour of Flanders has finished, second Monument of 2014 , which gave a sea of emotions not only for what Fabian Cancellara accomplished today, but also for what many others who for good or bad have their place in this analysis. 1-Fabian Cancellara’s intelligence: impossible not to start with him, who rode with…
By David Hunter It’s a challenging opening stage with 6 cat 2 climbs and 2 cat 3s. Here are the climbs in order: The riders get the joy of climbing the Gaintza twice. It is a brut of a climb, 2.3km at an average of 13%. The section from 1-2km is at 16% and this…
For a lot of cycling enthusiasts, the spring is the nicest period of the cycling season. Classic races such as the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, keep many cycling fan glued to the screen the entire afternoon. According to tradition, the classics season starts with the Flemish opening weekend, featuring the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad…
The Belkin Pro Cycling Team kicks off its 2014 season with the Tour Down Under, January 21 to 26. Robert Gesink leads the team that includes three Australians. Gesink, who has been doing well overseas in recent years with victories in Quebec and Montreal, looks forward to starting his season in Australia for the first…
Team MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung is proud to welcome Thomas Campana and Manel Lacambra to its management team. Campana formally joins the team as the General Manager after acting in a consultancy role the past season. Lacambra joins the team as a sports director. Campana has a wealth of knowledge in professional cycling and spent a…
By @pmpalermo Why you signed for one year with Cannondale? Theres a lot of “unknowns” on both sides, for me it’s hard to know if I will adapt 100% to a completely new culture and team set up, for them it’s the same; how I will fit into their team environment with only 2 other english…
By @pmpalermo 1. What happened?you were listed to race Vuelta España and finally you´re not going.. I basically got to the middle of June absolutely exhausted and knew I needed some time off. I’d raced a lot and trained a lot in between races and it didn’t work so well for me…it was too much work…
By @pmpalermo Which was you reaction when you were informed about the proposal of the Malaysian federation? I see this as a clear sign of desperation from the incumbent President, Pat McQuaid. It is no wonder that many in the cycling family, as well as fans and sponsors, have lost faith in the UCI to govern…
By @pmpalermo How and when you started in cycling?who helped you? I started riding my bike when I was 12 years old. I had been riding my”school bike” around for some longer and longer rides, when some day my uncle came by and gave me an all new race bike. And that’s how I started. What…
By @pmpalermo You´re in your second year in Lotto…wich diferences you noted between amateur and pro cycling? The big difference is the style off racing. The pro’s race with more control and all the pro’s have a higher level. Till when do you have contract with the team? I have a contract untill the end of this…
By @sneaitsab Tony Martin has won the time trail in the Tour of Belgium. The German rider om Omega Pharma Quickstep rode faster than Tom Dumoulin (Argos-Shimano) and Artem Ovechkin (Rusvelo). Martin also has taken the lead in the General classification. The first best time of the day was for Artem Ovechkin. The Russian rider rode…
By @sneaitsab André Greipel has taken his second stage win in the Tour of Belgium. The Lotto Belisol rider beated Danny van Poppel and Tom Boonen in the bunch sprint after a hard stage with many climbs of the Tour of Flanders. At the beginning of the stage, five riders were breaking away. Their gap was…
Door @sneaitsab André Greipel heeft voor het derde jaar op rij de openingsetappe in de Ronde van België gewonnen. De Duitser van Lotto-Belisol was op de oplopende aankomst in Knokke-Heist sneller dan Belgisch kampioen Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quickstep) en Ramon Sinkeldam (Argos-Shimano). Greipel is ook de eerste leider. In hun thuisland waren het vooral de Belgen…