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Watch highlights of Stage 4 of Critérium du Dauphiné
Nacer Bouhanni managed to collect a second stage victory for Cofidis in a bunch sprint despite being left with only one team-mate, Julien Simon. Rohan Dennis (BMC) kept the yellow-blue race leader's jersey. The stage was the longest stage of the 67th Critérium du Dauphiné with 228 kilometres to be covered. After three kilometers, Martijn Keizer (LottoNL-Jumbo) and Tosh...
Watch highlights of Stage 3 of Critérium du Dauphiné
Below are highlights of Stage 3 of the Critérium du Dauphiné, which was a 24.5km team time-trial from Roanne to Montagny. Team time trial world champions BMC Racing Team won the TTT that hadn't been part of the history of the Dauphiné for 35 years. This put Australia's Rohan Dennis into the overall lead exactly two years after he had...
Highlights from the 2015 UCI Women’s Road World Cup – Philadelphia Classic
The Philadelphia round of the UCI Women's Road World Cup took place at the weekend with nineteen teams taking to the start line. The race featured a 19.8km circuit along the Schuylkill River which the riders had to tackle six times. The main difficulty of the race was the Manayunk Wall. The climb is 800m long with gradients up...
Uphill time-trial in a multi-storey car park
To mark the start of the Tour de France in Utrecht in a few weeks time, the race organisers held an uphill time trial in the city. They overcame the challenge of hosting an uphill time-trial in a flat city, by holding it in a multi-storey car park. The event took place in the P+R De Uithof parking garage, and...
Watch the final kilometres of Stage 2 of Dauphiné Libéré
Stage 2 of the Dauphiné Libéré took the riders from Le Bourget-du-Lac to Parc des Oiseaux Villars-les-Dombes covering a distance of 173kms. Team Sky's Peter Kennaugh went into the stage as race leader, having won the opening stage of the race on Sunday. Despite having to take in the Cat. 1 climb of the Col de Cuvéry, the stage was...
Team3M in An Post Rás (VIDEO)
Team 3M from Belgium competed in the recent An Post Rás, and this behind-the-scenes video was made by the team focusing on their performance on the opening stage of the race. The video features interviews with British cyclist Elliott Porter and Irish cyclo-cross champion David Montgomery amongst others. The opening stage went well for Team 3M, as three riders from...
Leonardo DiCaprio in talks on feature film focusing on Jock Boyer and the Rwandan cycling team
Variety magazine have reported that Leonardo DiCaprio is in early talks with Paramount to produce a movie about the Rwandan cycling team. The movie is said to be focusing on Jonathan (Jock) Boyer, rather than the Rwandan cyclists themselves. Boyer became the first American cyclist to race in the Tour de France in 1981, and would later go on...
UCI and WADA terminate CAS case concerning Roman Kreuziger
The UCI has announced that they along with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have dismissed the biological passport-related anti-doping case against Roman Kreuziger. In August of last year, the UCI had given Kreuziger a provisional suspension based on his anomalies in his biological passport. This followed on from his team, Tinkoff-Saxo, excluding him from their Tour de France line-up after...
The Impossible Hour – Ole Ritter’s World Hour Record Attempt (VIDEO)
In advance of Bradley Wiggins' attempt to break the World Hour Record on Sunday, The Impossible Hour, a film from Danish director Jorgen Leth is well worth a look. Leth, renowned for making A Sunday in Hell, the brilliant documentary about Paris-Roubaix, decided to make a film about the attempt by his compatriot, Ole Ritter, to regain the World Hour...
Alan McCormack talks about his career and Schwinn from ’88 (VIDEO)
This is a nice video from The Pro's Closet of Irish ex-professional Alan McCormack talking about his bike from 1988 when he raced for Team Wheaties. His bike is a Schwinn Paramount, which is now on display, along with various other vintage bicycles, at The Pro's Closet's Vintage Bicycle Museum in Boulder, Colorado. Dubliner McCormack had a very interesting career,...
Matt Brammeier has disastrous start to the Tour of Luxembourg
Matt Brammeier (MTN-Qhubeka) had a nightmare start to the Tour of Luxembourg yesterday evening when he finished in last position in the prologue, 1'22" behind the winner, Adrien Petit (Cofidis, Solutions Crédits). He was a full 39 seconds behind the next two slowest riders. However, the Irish rider later tweeted information explaining what had happened, saying "3'52" with 1 cleat...
Adam Hansen finishes Giro d’Italia to claim incredible record
Australian rider Adam Hansen finished the Giro d'Italia in Milan on Sunday, in 77th place, and in doing so has achieved an incredible record. It means that he has become the first rider to start and finish eleven consecutive three-week Grand Tours. The Lotto-Soudal rider's run stretches back to the 2011 Vuelta a Espana which he finished in 129th place....
“You’re just jealous” – Lotto-Soudal team-mates arguing at the Giro d’Italia
There appears to have been a lot of tension on the Lotto-Soudal team at the Giro d'Italia, as team-mates Jurgen van den Broeck and Maxine Monfort have been arguing in public. At the stage finish in Cervinia last Friday, an altercation took place between the two which was captured on film. It's not known what the reason was for the...
Great montage video from An Post Rás
This is a great montage video from the recent An Post Rás. The video shows off stunning scenery, especially from the west coast of Ireland and includes some great filming from drones. It features a mix of sprint finishes, climbs, crashes and other action. Lukas Postlberger of the Tirol Cycling Team won the race overall, despite a bad crash on...
Deignan, Martin and Roche to line up in Dauphiné Libéré
Dan Martin (Cannondale-Garmin) and the Team Sky duo of Nicolas Roche and Philip Deignan have been named on the provisional list of starters for the 2015 edition of the Criterium du Dauphine (June 7-14) which has been released by race organiser ASO. The race will kick off with an undulating stage from Ugine to Albertville, and the riders will face...
Alberto Contador becomes only the second rider to win each Grand Tour more than once
In winning the Giro d'Italia today, Alberto Contador (Tinkoff-Saxo) has achieved something that only one other cyclist has ever achieved, and that is taking more than one victory in each of the Grand Tours. Contador has now taken his second victory in the Giro, and he already has won the Tour de France twice and the Vuelta a Espana...