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 …
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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 …