Sepp Kuss, the American Team Jumbo–Visma rider from Colorado, has won the 2023 edition of the Vuelta a España. He completed the 3133.2 km route around Spain in 76 hours 48 minutes and 21 seconds to finish seventeen seconds clear of his Danish team mate Jonas Vingegaard and one minute and eight seconds clear of […]
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Vuelta: Poels wins Stage 20 as Kuss retains lead
Dutchman Wout Poels, riding for the Bahrain Victorious team, won stage 20 of the 2023 Vuelta a España from Manzanares El Real to Guadarrama. It was a hilly course profile, with ten third category climbs along the 208 km route, and it came down to a tight finish between a small group of riders. Poels […]
Kuss on verge of Vuelta title
American cyclist Sepp Kuss is on the verge of winning his first grand tour title at the 2023 Vuelta a España, having safely negotiated stage 19 to Íscar, which was won in a sprint by Italian rider Alberto Dainese of Team DSM-Firmenich. Kuss holds the leader’s red jersey with a seventeen second advantage over his […]
Dennis retains Time Trial Title
Australian cyclist Rohan Dennis retained his men’s individual time trial world championship title with an emphatic victory on the 54 km route from Northallerton to Harrogate in Yorkshire. He completed the course in 1:05:05 to finish more than a minute ahead of second placed Belgian prodigy Remco Evenepoel. Italy’s Filippo Ganna took the bronze medal […]
Five Brits in 2019 Vuelta
The 2019 edition of the Vuelta a España gets underway on Saturday with an 18 km team time trial from Salinas de Torrevieja to Torrevieja. Team Ineos have announced their eight man squad for the race, with Spaniard David de la Cruz coming in as a last minute replacement for Kenny Elissonde after the Frenchman […]
Dumoulin joins Jumbo-Visma
Dutch cyclist Tom Dumoulin has announced that he will be riding for Jumbo-Visma next season, having spent the previous eight seasons with Sunweb. Dumoulin was world time trail champion in 2017 and he also won the Giro d’Italia that year. In 2018 he was on the podium of both the Giro and the Tour de […]
Weekend Racing Round-up
It was the last weekend of racing before the Vuelta a Espana starts and there were a number of minor races taking place around the world. In the far north, the Kazakh rider Alexey Lutsenko of Astana won the Arctic Race of Norway by just one second from Warren Barguil. In France, Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R […]