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German direct-to-consumer bike manufacturer Canyon Bicycles have announced the launch of the worlds first professional eRacing team: Canyon ZCC. The team, formed of five male and five female riders, will race in the Zwift KISS Community League where both squads won the inaugural events. The 10 riders are joined by a team manager, Rhys Howell, who will communicate with the teams riders during racing through a radio giving instructions and providing information throughout the race. Canyon say th...
During a break in the USA Cycling national calendars, This Week in American Cycling hosts Brad Sohner and Dave Towle take a look at USA Cyclings long list to make the US National Team for the upcoming Amgen Tour of California, Americas only WorldTour race that starts May 12 in Sacramento and concludes May 18 in Pasadena with several finishing circuits around the Rose Bowl. The weekly video series from USA Cycling also takes a look at the recent teams announcement from the Larry H. Miller Tour o...
Aevolo Cycling, the U23 development team run by Michael Creed, will support a composite womens squad for the Tour of the Gila stage race in Silver City, New Mexico, May 1-5, the team announced today. The three-year-old mens team has found success on the US domestic circuit, sweeping all three disciplines of the USA Cycling U23 Road Race Championships last year and placing Mexican time trial champion Luis Villalobos with WorldTour team EF Education First for the second half of this season. Now C...
Michael Woods (EF Education First) is once again aiming for a top result in Liege-Bastogne-Liege, although this time around there are plenty of differences compared to 2018. The course, whilst still very hilly, is also radically altered from 2018, with a much harder middle section to the 260-kilometre race as well as the return of a flat run-in to central Liege, rather than a long grind up to Ans. And after last year’s runners-up spot, Woods can no longer be described as an outsider. On the pl...
Rafal Majka (Bora-Hansgrohe) landed yet another third place at the Tour of the Alps in Cles on Thursday, but after a difficult 2018 season and his last victory coming during the 2017 Vuelta a España, the Polish climber and Grand Tour rider is just happy to be back at the sharp end of the action. In the absence of teammate Peter Sagan, Majka and Davide Formolo will lead Bora-Hansgrohe at the Giro dItalia, with Pascal Ackermann the German teams designated sprinter. Majka is using the Tour of the...
Vincenzo Nibali eased up before the finish line in Cles after sprinting shoulder to shoulder with Tao Geoghegan Hart (Team Sky), admitting defeat to his younger rival and accepting that stage 4 of the Tour of the Alps would not be the day to end his 13-month spell without a victory. The Bahrain-Merida team leader ended his altitude training camp a few days earlier than in recent years to be fresh for the Tour of the Alps and so perhaps find a morale-boosting victory. He has attacked on each of ...