Tag: UCI World Tour
CYCLING: Peters surprises with first-time win, while Carapaz extends his lead in Giro d’Italia
In his first-ever ride in the Giro d’Italia, France’s Nans Peters had finished 75-104-38-119-48 in his last five stages before Wednesday’s 181 km climb...
CYCLING: Mountain man Ciccone rolls to impressive win as Nibali moves up and Roglic...
Tuesday’s misery-packed stage in the Italian Alps confirmed that Italy's Giulio Ciccone is the master of the mountains in the 102nd Giro d’Italia, winning...
CYCLING: Surprise win for Cataldo, but problems for Roglic in Giro Stage 15
Another crazy day at the 102nd Giro d’Italia, with 34-year-old Italian rider Dario Cataldo, who decided to go along with a breakaway by fellow...
CYCLING: Ecuador’s Carapaz wins brutal stage 14, takes the Maglia Rosa over Roglic
The 102nd Giro d’Italia is turning into a battle royal with the third new leader in the last four stages after the formidable Stage...
CYCLING: Russia’s Zakarin scores surprise win in Giro Stage 13 and rides into overall...
It had been three years since Russian Ilnur Zakarin had won a UCI World Tour stage, and certainly no one saw him coming to...
CYCLING: As the climbing starts, the leaderboard shifts at the 102nd Giro d’Italia
Most of the initial stages of the 2019 Giro d’Italia have been fairly flat, but not anymore. Thursday’s stage signaled the start of the...
CYCLING: Roglic routs Giro field in time trial again to close the first week,...
When Slovenia’s Primoz Roglic took the lead by winning the first-day time trial by 19 seconds over Simon Yates (GBR), he made a statement...
CYCLING Panorama: Stunning breakaway for Masnada and Conti shakes up the Giro d’Italia, while...
Slovenia’s Primoz Roglic had been riding steadily through the first week of the Giro d’Italia after winning the opening Time Trial by 19 seconds,...
CYCLING: Roglic confirms his favorite’s status with Time Trial win in Giro d’Italia; Sagan...
Slovenia’s Primoz Roglic entered this year’s Giro d’Italia undefeated in his three races in 2019: the UAE Tour, Tirreno-Adriatico and the Tour de Romandie....
CYCLING Preview: No clear favorite as former champs Sagan, Van Garderen and Bennett return...
The 19th Amgen Tour of California kicks off on Sunday, just a day after the start of the Giro d’Italia. Does this make any...
CYCLING: Roglic wins third straight stage event with dominant Tour de Romandie victory
It’s time to take Slovenia’s Primoz Roglic seriously.
At 29, he has stamped himself as a contender for all honors with his third stage-event win...
CYCLING: Close but no cigar for Kristoff at Eschborn-Frankfurt as Ackermann wins
A fifth straight win at Eschborn-Frankfurt looked possible for Norway’s Alexander Kristoff, but for the first time in eight years, a German rider took...
CYCLING Preview: Kristoff going for fifth straight Eschborn-Frankfurt title Wednesday
Founded in 1962 as a way to promote the Henninger Tower in Frankfurt, the Eschborn-Frankfurt race has one focus: can anyone beat Alexander Kristoff?
The...
CYCLING Preview: Tour de France champ Thomas warms up in 73rd Tour de Romandie
The Tour de Romandie in western Switzerland is mostly about the area’s mountains and has made it a favored race in advance of the...
CYCLING: Fuglsang and van Vleuten run away with Liege-Bastogne-Liege wins
There was no mad dash for the line in either the men’s or women’s edition of the famed Liege-Bastogne-Liege race on Sunday as winners...
CYCLING Preview: Ardennes Classics week finishes with Liege-Bastogne-Liege on Sunday
One of the most intense weeks in cycling finishes on Sunday with the third UCI World Tour race in eight days with the 105th...
CYCLING: Stunning finish-line win for van der Poel in Amstel Gold Race!
/Updated: see Endnote/ The race for the 54th Amstel Gold Race was surely a sprint to the line for France’s Julian Alaphilippe and Dane...
CYCLING: Mountains make the difference in the Presidential Tour of Turkey
The heavy climbs of the mountain stages are usually decisive in multi-stage races and so it was that the brutal fifth stage made the...
CYCLING Preview: New champ coming for 55th Presidential Tour of Turkey
One of the geographically important events on the UCI World Tour, the Presidential Tour of Turkey gives some balance to the Western Europe-heavy circuit...
CYCLING: Gilbert moves into elite company with sprint victory at Paris-Roubaix
Belgium’s Philippe Gilbert is no stranger to success. At 36, he has won more than six dozen races in his professional career, including the...
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