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Gianni Moscon (Team Sky) finished in the peloton to secure the overall victory at the second edition of the Tour of Guangxi on Sunday. Moscon beat Bora-Hansgrohes Felix Grossschartner with Sergei Chernetski taking the final spot on the podium. It was a sprint finish for the finale stage 6 of the race as Fabio Jakobsen (Quick-Step Floors) took his second stage victory of the week beating Pascal Ackermann and Rudiger Selig (both Bora-Hansgrohe). The peloton raced a relatively flat 164 kilometres...
Fabio Jakobsen put the finishing touches to Quick-Step Floors’ remarkable 2018 season when he clocked up the squads 73rd and final win of the campaign on the concluding stage 6 of the Tour of Guangxi on Sunday. In the final part of the season, Quick-Step Floors manager Patrick Lefevere set his team the task of beating Mapei-QuickStep’s tally of 71 victories during the 2000 season, and Jakobsen secured the record in China earlier this week when he won stage 3 in Nanning. The Dutchman repeated t...
German time trial specialist Tony Martin will ride with LottoNL-Jumbo in 2019 and 2020, the team has confirmed. Martin has signed a two-year deal with the Dutch team and joins Mike Teunissen, Taco van der Hoorn, Lennard Hofstede, Laurens De Plus and Jonas Vingegaard as new signings for next season. Martin has spent the past two seasons with the Katusha-Alpecin team but it has been rumoured since the summer that he would be leaving the team at the end of the year. Cyclingnews reported in August ...
Arlenis Sierra (Astana Womens Team) is a versatile rider. Although often labelled a sprinter, the Cuban is a strong climber too. That versatility brought her success in the final UCI Womens WorldTour race of the 2018 season. She won the sprint at the Tour of Guangxi after two climbs had reduced the peloton, shedding several other fast finishers. There were more difficulties to overcome than the climbs alone with the race run in rainy and foggy conditions. Mechanical issues also provided an addi...
Gianni Moscon is set to make his Giro d’Italia debut next season, though he has downplayed his prospects of leading Team Sky’s overall challenge at the corsa rosa. Speaking after he sealed final overall victory at the Tour of Guangxi on Sunday, Moscon revealed that he plans to line out at the 2019 Giro, but the Italian time trial champion stressed that his target would be stage victories rather than a tilt at the general classification. “I will do the Classics again until Roubaix and then the ...
Edward Theuns will return to Trek-Segafredo next season on a one-year contract after a year away, the team has announced. The move comes after Team Sunweb confirmed earlier this week that Theuns had agreed to end his contract with them prematurely. I cant wait to work with a lot of people that I know from the past and to be part of this big family again,” Theuns said in a short social media post published by the team. After two years with the Topsport-Vlaanderen team, Theuns stepped up to Worl...