Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) took his revenge as he managed to beat double stage winner Sam Bennett (Deceuninck-Quick Step) on the final stage of the 2021 UAE Tour while Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious), a former stage winner at the Abu Dhabi Breakwater, rounded out the podium.
Sam Bennett of the Deceuninck-Quick Step team won his second bunch sprint victory of the 2021 UAE Tour at Palm Jumeirah in Dubai
Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) emerged as the winner of Stage 5 of the 2021 UAE Tour atop Jebel Jais two years after his teammate Primož Roglič saw victory on the mountain.
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.
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) claimed the win atop Jebel Hafeet on Stage 3 of the 2021 UAE Tour
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.
Here’s the cycling news highlights for Thursday, February 18, 2021
British rider Tao Geoghegan Hart of the INEOS Grenadiers won the 2020 Giro d’Italia after a tense time trial.
Tao Geoghegan Hart claimed his first Grand Tour victory as he outclassed a Team Sunweb duo formed of Wilco Kelderman and Jai Hindley at the mountain top finish of Piancavallo in the 2020 Giro d’Italia.