2021 UAE Tour: Stage 4 Results
Sam Bennett of the Deceuninck-Quick Step team won the bunch sprint on the 4th stage of the UAE Tour (the Hope Probe Stage), besting David Dekker (Jumbo-Visma) and Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) at Al Marjan Island.
Sam Bennett of the Deceuninck-Quick Step team won the bunch sprint on the 4th stage of the UAE Tour (the Hope Probe Stage), besting David Dekker (Jumbo-Visma) and Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) at Al Marjan Island.
With the entire Alpecin-Fenix team, including Stage 1 winner Mathieu van der Poe, dropping out of the race due to a positive COVID result, Stage 2 of the 2021 UAE Tour was an open canvas for the TT specialists to make their mark.
Coming off of the cyclocross World Championships, Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix) did not expect to take a leadership role at the 2021 UAE Tour Stage 1, but found himself racing comfortably in the echelons and rode to victory.
Wout van Aert bested Julian Alaphilippe in a two man sprint to win the 2020 Milano-Sanremo.
Elia Viviani (Deceuninck-Quick Step) imposed himself for the first time on the roads of Tirreno-Adriatico as he won a bunch sprint in Foligno
Chris Froome became the first Briton to win the Giro d’Italia and the third rider to make the grand slam with three Grand Tours victories in a row.
German Maximilian Schachmann from Berlin scored a fifth victory for Quick-Step Floors at the Giro d’Italia, after Elia Viviani’s four bunch sprints, to equal last year’s tally
Chris Froome (Team Sky) took his first-ever Giro d’Italia stage victory at the dream location of the Monte Zoncolan as he fended off race leader Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) who rode superbly behind him and extended his advantage over the other favourites.
Former junior and U23 World Champion Matej Mohoric (Bahrain-Merida) took his first Giro d’Italia stage victory after opening his Grand Tours account at La Vuelta last year.
The 2018 Giro d’Italia hit the mainland today in a nearly flat 159km stage from Pizzo to Praia a Mare in southern Italy. All eyes were on Elia Viviani to go for another sprint win today but he was nipped at the line by BORA-hansgrohe’s Sam Bennett.