Irishman counters a final kilometre move from Joaquim Rodríguez to take la Doyenne Dan Martin (Garmin-Sharp) took his long-awaited first major one-day victory as he escaped breakaway companion Joaquim Rodríguez (Katusha) in the final half kilometre of Liège-Bastogne-Liège. The Irishman […]
Stage win and overall for Astana rider as mechanical costs Bradley Wiggins Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) seized overall victory in the 2013 Giro del Trentino with an attack on the final climb to the finish of the fourth and final stage, […]
Bouet retains overall lead heading into final stage BMC Racing Team rider Ivan Santaromita has worked for several years for others but today he got a slice of the limelight when he beat two bigger names, Paolo Tiralongo (Astana Pro […]
Overall classification shaken up by tough mountain stage Seizing his chance after getting a green light from team leader Bradley Wiggins, Kanstantsin Siutsou raced to victory on stage two of the Giro del Trentino today. The Team Sky rider had […]
Aggressive race concludes with three riders fighting it out on the Mur de Huy World champion Marianne Vos scooped a record fifth win in the women’s Flèche Wallonne today, blasting in ahead of Elisa Longo Borghini (Hitec Products UCK) and […]
Katusha rider beats Henao, Betancur and Martin to summit, Gilbert cracks in sight of the line Taking up the reins from his injured team-mate Joaquim Rodriguez, Katusha’s Dani Moreno darted to the biggest win of his career today when he […]
GC favourites remain over six minutes back He’s just nineteen years of age but Josef Cerny, one of the youngest riders in pro cycling took over race leadership in the Giro del Trentino this afternoon on the basis of his […]
Czech escapes a breakaway group with seven kilometres to go and holds off the World champion Roman Kreuziger (Saxo-Tinkoff) took the biggest singe-day win of his career in the 2013 Amstel Gold Race as he escaped a breakaway group inside […]
Contador and Intxausti caught in final kilometre Rui Costa continued a very good weekend for the Movistar team, following up Nairo Quintana’s success in the Vuelta al Pais Vasco yesterday when he won the Klasika Primavera today. Costa was quickest […]
Swiss champ plays the waiting game in whittled down lead group, Terpstra wins sprint for third The overwhelming favourite coming into Paris-Roubaix, Fabian Cancellara (Radioshack-Leopard) confirmed that he is indeed the top classics champion of 2013 by taking a hard […]
Colombian rider grabs second place behind Tony Martin in final time trial Even though he started the final stage second overall, just six seconds adrift of race leader Sergio Henao (Sky), the name of Nairo Quintana was not discussed anywhere […]
Late attack seals victory in Beasain Team Sky rider Richie Porte darted to victory on the penultimate stage of the Vuelta al Pais Vasco, attacking from a select group just over a kilometre from the line and reaching the finish […]
Late attack seals victory in Beasain Team Sky rider Richie Porte darted to victory on the penultimate stage of the Vuelta al Pais Vasco, attacking from a select group just over a kilometre from the line and reaching the finish […]
Long distance break reeled in on final climb Nairo Quintana took the second Colombian success in as many days in the Vuelta al Pais Vasco, following up yesterday’s stage win by Sergio Henao (Sky) with a victory of his own. […]
Big shakeup upends general classification Although yesterday’s time trial winner Luke Durbridge said that he was relatively confident that he and his Orica GreenEdge team would be able to defend the race lead, the Australian lost his grip at the […]
Jungels misses out by fractions of a second One year after he won the time trial in the Circuit de la Sarthe, Orica GreenEdge’s Luke Durbridge went on to repeat that victory in the same race against the clock, albeit […]
Team Sky rider takes over race lead in tough finale Sergio Henao clocked up his second win of the year today, following up his earlier Volta ao Algarve stage victory with success on stage two of the Vuelta al Pais […]
German holds off late surge from Mark Cavendish to take sprinters’ Classic Marcel Kittel (Argos-Shimano) successfully defended his Scheldeprijs title as he sprinted to victory at the end of the 204km Belgian semi-Classic. The German’s victory was almost as close […]
