One of the greatest rivalries in cycling – Chris Froome and Alberto Contador – will be revived in the world of virtual cycling on the BKOOL platform on Monday, November 25 at 6:30 p.m. CET. Their battles in the mountains of Europe through the 201os are legendary and Monday’s matchup will again see the two going head-to-head, accompanied by hundreds of amateur cyclists.
Stage 1 of the 2024 Tour de France rolled out from Florence, Italy today. In what was said to be one of the hardest opening days in the history of the race, it was Romain Bardet and his DSM Firmenich PostNL teammate Frank van den Broek that made the opening salvo, crossing the line together just 100m ahead of a surging peloton.
Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step) bested five or six of the best sprinters in the world to won Stage 18 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia, the 178 km long Fiera di Primiero-Padova.
Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceucninck) takes his second sprint win in Stage 5 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana, besting Filippo Ganna of the Ineos Grenadiers squad by a tire width.
Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers) survived the breakaway to win Stage 13 of the 2023 Tour de France atop the Col du Grand Colombier on Bastille Day.
After a 31km solo ride at the front, Spanish rider Ion Izagirre of the Cofidis squad won Stage 12 of the 2023 Tour de France.
Niko Denz of the BORA-hansgrohe team won a 3-up sprint of a breakaway group to win Stage 12 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia. No change in the General Classification as all of the main maglia rosa contenders finished safely.
Kaden Groves of the Alpecin – Deuceninck team takes the sprint win on a rainy, crash-ridden day for Stage 5 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia. Maglia Rosa Andreas Leknessund finishes the day safely to hold onto his race lead.
RCS Sport has today announced the list of teams that will participate in the 106th Giro d’Italia and in its spring UCI World Tour races for the 2023 season: Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adriatico and Milano-Sanremo.
Lennard Kämna (Bora-Hansgrohe) has won Stage 4 of the 2022 Giro d’Italia, the 172km long route, Avola-Etna-Nicolosi (Rif. Sapienza).