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Dan McLay’s incredible sprint at the Grand Prix de Denain (VIDEO)
Back in April of this year, Dan McLay (Fortuneo-Vital Concept) took an incredible win at the 199.6-kilometre Grand Prix de Denain in northern France. The Briton won the bunch sprint after squeezing through seemingly impossible gaps in the run to the line. Inside the last one hundred metres of the race, it seemed that Thomas Boudat (Direct Energie) would take...
Highlights of the 2016 Giro d’Italia (VIDEO)
This year's Giro d'Italia was an incredibly exciting race which saw eight different riders wearing the pink jersey with eventual winner Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) only taking over the lead on the penultimate stage. The race started in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands with home rider Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin) winning the opening 9.8-kilometre time-trial. Marcel Kittel (Etixx-Quick Step) won the following two...
The best of the 2016 Tour de France (VIDEO)
This year's Tour de France was the 103rd edition of the race, and the 3,529-kilometre race was won by Great Britain's Chris Froome (Team Sky) for the third time. The opening stage of the race was won by Mark Cavendish which enabled the Briton to wear the yellow jersey for the first time in his career. Unfortunately for previous race...
Groningen and Drenthe to bid for 2021 Road World Championships
The Dutch provinces of Groningen and Drenthe are aiming to bring the 2021 UCI Road World Championships to the northern Netherlands rather than 2020 as originally planned. A feasibility study has shown that the organisers are better focused on 2021 and beyond as the 2017, 2018 and 2019 Worlds are all being held in Europe. "A delegation from our organization travelled...
Peter Sagan takes a spill during guest appearance at ice hockey game (VIDEO)
Peter Sagan may be well known for his bike handling skills, but his ice hockey skills do not appear to be at quite the same level based on this video posted by Žilinský večerník. The double World Champion was making a guest appearance this evening at the game between his hometown club MSHK Zilina and HKM Zvolen in the Slovakian...
UCI announce overhaul of the ranking system for men’s professional road cycling
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) have today announced that as part of the overhaul of the ranking system for men's professional road cycling, the same points scale will be used to calculate the UCI World Ranking and the UCI WorldTour rankings from 2017 onwards. Introduced in 2016, the UCI World Ranking – for individuals and nations – takes into...
Fernando Gaviria to make his Grand Tour debut at the Giro d’Italia in 2017
Fernando Gaviria (Quick Step Floors) is set to make his Grand Tour debut next year, at the 100th edition of the Giro d'Italia. The Colombian sprinter was arguably the best neo-pro of 2016, a season which saw him win stages at the Tour de San Luis, Tour de Provence, Tirreno-Adriatico and Tour de Pologne, but also GP Impanis-Van Petegem...
Thomas de Gendt pays a visit to Tom Simpson memorial
Thomas de Gendt (Lotto-Soudal) has visited Mont Ventoux where he gave a helping hand to the restoration work that has been taking place on the memorial to Tom Simpson on the climb. De Gendt is the most recent winner of a stage of the Tour de France on Mont Ventoux having won stage 12 of this year's race. Work has...
An Post-Chain Reaction to kick off 2017 season at Grand Prix Cycliste La Marseillaise
The Irish UCI Continental team An Post-Chain Reaction are listed amongst sixteen teams set to line up at the first French road race of the season - the Grand Prix Cycliste La Marseillaise (1.1). The race takes place on 29 January and features a mix of World Tour, Pro Continental and Continental teams. The three World Tour teams taking...
Bahrain Merida unveil their jersey for the 2017 season
New World Tour team Bahrain Merida are the latest team to present their kit for the 2017 season. The predominant colour of the jersey is 'Bahraini Red’ and according to the team, "the unique design of the jersey carries many symbolic meanings and visualizes the team’s values and origins." The team are currently preparing for the forthcoming season at their...
Highlights of the road racing season from Cycling Ireland (VIDEO)
Cycling Ireland have produced a short video of some of the highlights from the 2016 road racing season both at home and abroad from an Irish perspective. Amongst the footage included are the stage wins by both Eoin Morton (UCD) and Eddie Dunbar (Ireland) at the An Post Rás, which was won overall by Clemens Fankhauser (Tirol Cycling Team) for...
Riders come to blows at the Vuelta a Costa Rica (VIDEO)
The Vuelta Popular a Costa Rica (UCI 2.2) is taking place at the moment and tensions were high on yesterday's stage as two riders came to blows after a crash. The incident happened on the 114-kilometre fourth stage of the race from Cuidad Quesada to Guápiles when Gabriel Marin (Nestle-Giant) tried to kick Dylan Castillo (Team Costa Fruit) off his...
“We had a good chat and everything is finished” – Jens Debusschere on his clash with John Degenkolb
Belgian rider Jens Debusschere (Lotto-Soudal) has spoken about his clash with John Degenkolb at the World Championships in October, and how the two riders have put the incident behind them. The 2015 Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix showed his anger by squirting liquid at Jens Debusschere at the Worlds when the German rider's efforts at orchestrating a chase to try and...
Tiesj Benoot extends his contract with Lotto Soudal until 2019
22 year-old Tiesj Benoot and Lotto Soudal have extended their agreement until the end of 2019 adding another two years onto the rider's previous contract. In 2015, Tiesj Benoot had a remarkable first pro season, with his fifth place at the Ronde van Vlaanderen as the most stand-out result. In addition, he also finished 2nd overall at the Tour of...
Aqua Blue Sport Names Team for Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
Aqua Blue Sport has announced its first race of the 2017 season - the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race on Sunday, January 29th in Victoria, Australia. Seven riders have been named on the team set to compete in the UCI WorldTour race, among them Australian sprinter Leigh Howard (26), who took second place in the 2016 edition. Also competing in...
Quick-Step Floors Cycling Team unveil 2017 jersey
Quick-Step Floors Cycling Team launched its new jersey today, which is predominantly blue, although in a lighter tone than the one of 2016. In addition to that, the sleeves are now white, which the team feel will make the kit much easier to get spotted in the peloton. It's a nod to the past as blue and white were...