Image 1 of 5 Nairo Quintana (Movistar) in the points jersey at the 2019 Vuelta a Espana (Image credit: getty images) Image 2 of 5 Nairo Quintana at the 2019 Vuelta a Espana (Image credit: getty images) Image 3 of 5 Alejandro Valverde leads the way at the 2019 Vuelta a Espana (Image credit: getty
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Related Articles Rigoberto Urán (EF Education First) and Nicolas Roche (Team Sunweb) have abandoned the Vuelta a España after being involved in a massive crash with less than 90km left on stage 6. The extent of their injuries is unknown. Urán, who was his team’s principal hope for the GC, came into stage 6 placed sixth overall, 59 seconds behind race
Related Articles David de la Cruz got Team Ineos back on the front foot after a terrible start to the Vuelta a España on Thursday, but he fell short of taking the victory or overall lead on stage 6, his struggles on the final climb hardly inspiring him with confidence despite his rise up the general classification. The Spaniard
EF Education First suffered a knock-out blow to their Vuelta a España hopes after the squad were involved in a major crash halfway through stage 6. Team leader Rigoberto Urán was one of the worst affected, with both the Colombian and one of the team’s best climbers, Hugh Carthy, forced out of the race. Others who suffered badly in the
Image 1 of 5 Victor de la Parte (CCC Team) at the 2019 Giro d’Italia (Image credit: Getty Images) Image 2 of 5 Victor de la Parte (CCC Team) at the 2019 Paris-Nice (Image credit: getty images) Image 3 of 5 Victor de la Parte (CCC Team) at the 2019 Giro d’Italia (Image credit: getty
Nathan Haas will leave a Katusha-Alpecin team mired in uncertainty and ride for Cofidis next year, signing a two-year contract with the WorldTour-hopeful French team. Haas joined Katusha in 2018 after spending two seasons with Dimension Data and his first three as a pro with what’s now EF Education First, but has struggled for results.
Related Articles The Vuelta a España’s lead changed hands for a third time in six days on Wednesday as Bahrain-Merida’s Dylan Teuns claimed his first-ever Grand Tour overall leader’s jersey at the end of a long breakaway. Teuns was easily pipped to the line on stage 6 by Jesus Herrada (Cofidis) in a two-man duel at Ares de Maestrat’s
Related Articles When it comes to betting on the UCI Road World Championships Road Race in September, one rider who already has worn the rainbow jersey, Belgium’s Phillipe Gilbert (Deceunink-QuickStep), is surely an option that the bookies will have high on their list of possible winners. But in this year’s Vuelta a España, so far, Gilbert has been flying a
Related Articles New Zealand’s George Bennett has described as “real nasty” the stage 6 Vuelta a España pile-up that saw four riders, including former race leader Nicolas Roche (Team Sunweb), abandon the race. The Jumbo-Visma rider was one of three from his team who went down, including Tony Martin and American Neilson Powless – both of whom had already crashed in
For the second day in a row, the peloton opted not to chase down the break of the day and the stage victory went to one of the four Pro Continental teams in the race, as Cofidis’s Jesús Herrada claimed his first Grand Tour success, compensating for his elder brother José’s defeat to Burgos-BH duo
Four days after he gained the race lead of the Vuelta a España on its opening stage, Miguel Ángel López (Astana) is back in red again. Related Articles The Colombian climber could not win on the summit finish at the observatory atop the Alto de Javalambre, but he revealed himself to be, for now at
Primoz Roglic‘s bid to win his first Grand Tour remained firmly on track after the Vuelta a Espana‘s first summit finish, as the Slovenian star comfortably limited his losses on the climb to new race leader Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana). After Astana and EF Education First upped the pace on the higher slopes of the
Alejandro Valverde may be approaching 40, but the Movistar racer continues to deliver his trademark top-level performances at the Vuelta a España, moving up to fourth overall on the Alto de Javalambre with an aggressive performance. Related Articles On this occasion shortly after Astana and Team EF’s Hugh Carthy had shredded the field, Valverde blasted
Frederik Frison has re-signed with Lotto Soudal for a further two years, which will keep him at the Belgian squad until at least the end of the 2021 season, the team has announced. Frison has been with the WorldTour outfit since 2016, but rode for the squad’s under-23 feeder team prior to that. He’s mainly
Lotto Soudal‘s performance manager, Kevin De Weert, has been “temporarily suspended with immediate effect” following an as-yet unnamed incident that occurred last Friday, the day before the start of the Vuelta a España, which De Weert was attending, the team has announced. “Following an incident on the eve of La Vuelta, and after an earlier
In just two years of professional road racing, Brodie Chapman (Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank) has compiled a palmarès that belies her relatively late entry into the women’s peloton. Related Articles To date, the 28-year-old Australian has won the women’s Herald Sun Tour and finished third overall there, won the Gravel and Tar La Femme, won a
Sam Bennett (Bora-Hansgrohe) took a career-first victory at the Vuelta a España on Monday, winning stage 3 in a bunch sprint from Edward Theuns (Trek-Segafredo) and Mitchelton-Scott’s Luka Mezgec. While it was Bennett’s first Vuelta win, it was the Irish road race champion’s fourth victory this month, following three wins at the BinckBank Tour ahead
Fabio Aru (UAE Team Emirates) has roared back into contention in the 2019 Vuelta a España despite his bad crash on stage 1 in the opening team time trial. Related Articles Aru fell heavily during the TTT and ended the stage 1:07 down on the rest of the field. But on stage 2, when he