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Rohan Dennis is set to line out alongside Vincenzo Nibali at the Tour de France in 2019, his debut season at Bahrain-Merida. The time trial world champion last rode the Grande Boucle in 2016 and instead competed at the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España in each of his final two years at BMC. Following the Rio 2016 Olympics, Dennis set himself the objective of exploring his potential as a general classification contender, and he was handed a protected role by BMC at the Giro. After being forced o...
As the teams begin to gather with their 2019 rosters for training camps, press conferences and official presentations, the 2019 kits are also among the unveilings this week in the pro cycling world. Team Sky, AG2R la Mondiale, Lotto Soudal, Deceuninck-QuickStep, Team Sunweb, Katusha-Alpecin, Cofidis, CCC Team, Bahrain-Merida, Roompot and Trek-Segafredo have all shown off their new colours for 2019, with Sunwebs switch from black and blue to red; Cofidis move from red to white; and Team Skys swi...
Danny Van Haute, the longtime manager of the Jelly Belly-Maxxis US Continental team that folded after this season when the title sponsor didnt renew, will return in 2019 with a new Continental team called Wildlife Generation Pro Cycling Team p/b Maxxis. There has been no official announcement, but Van Haute shared a Facebook post on Friday that revealed the new project. Cycling News: Danny Van Haute announces the formation of the 2019-2021 mens continental professional cycling team Wildlife Ge...
This article first appeared on BikeRadar. Zwift has announced that four pro cycling teams will race in the first dedicated eSports competition of its kind in 2019. The teams form the new KISS Super League, which was teased earlier this month. Now we can reveal that they are all UCI teams:ADVERTISEMENT Team Wiggins Canyon dhb p/b Bloor Homes Hagens Berman Axeon Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka U23 The first live race will take place at a launch event in London on January 23, 201...
Trek-Segafredo directeur sportif Steven de Jongh says that he will be back behind the wheel of a team car in a race by the beginning of February. De Jongh is still recovering from the after-effects of a training crash in mid-October but believes his current recovery progress means he will be back in action at the five-day Etoile de Besseges, which starts on February 6. “I think that Etoile de Besseges will be my first race in the team car, but there’s still a big window to there,” De Jongh tol...
Cofidis, like Team Sunweb, Team Sky and several other teams, have changed their colours for the 2019 season, swapping their traditional red for a white base decorated with the Cofidis name in red and the large yellow and red sun rays of the Cofidis corporate logo. The French Professional Continental team has added the #cofidismyteam hashtag under the Cofidis name on the back of the jersey as part of its social media campaign. A video and photographs of sprinters Nacer Bouhanni and Christophe La...