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Marieke Kerkvliet wins time-trial as race leader Rikke Lønne tightens her grip overall
Marieke Kerkvliet (WV Breda) scored an comfortable victory in the stage four time trial on the Waterford Road in Kilkenny as overall race leader Rikke Lønne (Team Crescent DARE) tightened her grip on the An Post leader's jersey. Kerkvliet was the only rider to record a sub 16-minute time on the out and back 11km solo test, finishing 14 seconds...
Peter Sagan takes his 8th WorldTour win this season at GP Cycliste de Québec
Peter Sagan bounced back in perfect fashion after withdrawing from his last race due to sickness by taking an emphatic win at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec today in Canada. It's Sagan's second Canadian WorldTour win after claiming the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal in 2013. “We started pulling from early on as we had a clear...
Onboard highlights from Stage 19 of the Vuelta a España (VIDEO)
Chris Froome (Team Sky) won yesterday's final time trial of the Vuelta a España and gained a significant amount of time on his GC rivals to stay in contention for the title after cutting Nairo Quintana's lead down to 1'21". The Tour de France champion, second in GC, clocked a best time of 46'33". Alberto Contador (Tinkoff), who finished...
Steve Cummings takes over the yellow jersey at the Tour of Britain
Wout Poels (Team Sky) won the stage 6 hilltop finish at the Tour of Britain today with Rohan Dennis (BMC Racing) and Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin) rounding out the podium. By finishing 8th on the stage though, Steve Cummings (Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka) moved into the yellow jersey and overall lead of the Tour of Britain. As has been...
Race leader Rikke Lønne takes victory on Mount Leinster in An Post Rás na mBan
Race leader Rikke Lønne (Team Crescent Dare) scored an imperious victory on Stage 3 of An Post Rás na mBan in an epic summit finish at Mount Leinster today. The Danish rider raced clear of her two breakaway companions, Lydia Boylan (Team WNT) and Erin Kinnealy (CCN Energy HR Australia) at the foot of the final ascent, with 9...
Onboard highlights from Stage 18 of the Vuelta a España (VIDEO)
Danish rider Magnus Cort Nielsen (Orica-Bike Exchange) won a bunch sprint on the 18th stage of the Vuelta a España in Gandia. The 23-year-old finished ahead of Nikias Arndt (Giant-Alpecin) and Jempy Drucker (BMC Racing) who had won the previous bunch sprint in Peñíscola on Monday. The GC contenders had a relatively quiet day and Nairo Quintana retained the overall leader's...
Mount Leinster to feature in An Post Rás na mBan for the first time
With it's move to Co. Kilkenny, this year's An Post Rás na mBan will include the well-known climb of Mount Leinster for the first time. The climb will feature on the 112-kilometre third stage starting in Kilkenny and finishing at the Nine Stones on Mount Leinster. The riders will be tackling the climb from the Bunclody side. Mount Leinster is a...
Jack Bauer’s Tour of Britain stage win signals the end of a long road to recovery
New Zealander Jack Bauer won the Tour of Britain’s fifth stage into Bath on Thursday. The win marks the first European road stage victory of Bauer’s career and also signals the end of a long road back to top form. It was nearly a year ago that Bauer first clipped back into the pedals after surgery and rehab to repair...
Melissa Van Neck sprints to victory on second stage of An Post Rás na mBan
Dutch rider Melissa Van Neck led in a large group to take the spoils on stage two of An Post Rás na mBan in Castlecomer today. The Regio Team Noord Holland rider outsprinted Grace Garner (Cliff Pratt Racing), Helene Gerard (Team Breizh) and the rest of the 55-rider group which assembled on the roads approaching the finishing town in the...
Onboard highlights from Stage 17 of the Vuelta a España (VIDEO)
Swiss rider Mathias Frank (IAM Cycling) soloed to victory on one of the demanding stages of this year's Vuelta, prevailing at top of the incredibly steep Alto Mas de la Costa at the end of the Camins del Penyagolosa. Frank earned his team their second victory in this edition after Jonas Van Genechten. As the battle for the stage...
Rikke Lønne takes victory on the first stage of An Post Rás na mBan
Rikke Lønne (Team Crescent Dare) has raced home solo to take victory on the first stage of An Post Rás na mBan in Kilkenny. The former Danish National Time Trial Champion held off a group of over fifty riders by 30 seconds to take the first leader’s jersey of the week. Lønne, racing with the Swedish squad, Team Crescent Dare squad,...
Nicolas Roche and Dan Martin on provisional startlist for European Champs
The provisional startlist for the forthcoming European Championships has been released and features some big names for the inaugural running of the Elite race. Amongst the names on the provisional startlist are the last four World Road Race Champions - Peter Sagan (Slovakia), the current rainbow jersey wearer, Michal Kwiatkowski (Poland), Rui Costa (Portugal) and Philippe Gilbert (Belgium). Other...
Peter Sagan to lead Tinkoff at Canadian World Tour races
Peter Sagan will lead Tinkoff at the double header of one-day WorldTour races in Canada – Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec and Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal – the first return to Canada for the UCI world champion since his Montréal win in 2013. He also took a top ten in Québec that year, and will be joined at...
Julien Vermote solos to victory in Tour of Britain and takes over yellow jersey
Julien Vermote (Etixx-Quick Step) who was one of the 15 riders to make it into the original break of the day, is the new leader of the Tour of Britain. On yesterday's second stage of the race, Vermote jumped clear of the peloton once the neutral zone was left behind after the start of stage 2 and was...
Onboard highlights from Stage 16 of the Vuelta a España (VIDEO)
Luxembourg's Jempy Drucker claimed the biggest win of his career when he prevailed in Peniscola, outsprinting Germans Rudiger Selig and Niklas Arndt on a searing hot day on the Vuelta. The BMC rider perfectly timed his effort and held off Selig (Bora-Argon18) and Arndt (Giant-Alpecin), who took second and third place respectively. Nairo Quintana (Movistar) retained the overall leader's...
Top class field set to start An Post Rás na mBan – Ireland’s premier women’s stage race
Four of the top six from last year’s An Post Rás na mBan are on the start list for this year’s event which begins in Kilkenny this coming Wednesday (7th) and last year’s runner-up Eileen Roe will be bidding to go one better this year in the six stage, five-day race having found a last minute berth on the...