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Italian Pro Continental team Bardiani CSF-Selle Italia Guerciotti presented their 2019 roster, team kits and bikes Tuesday evening in Milan, with sprinter Andrea Guardini taking centre stage alongside the new Italian bike sponsor. The team switched from Cipollini bikes to Guerciotti for 2019 and will apparently ride the Eureka Air frame that Guardini hoisted aloft at the presentation. The new 2019 jerseys are similar to the 2018 iteration but feature less green on the front and more white. Th...
Movistar presented their mens and womens teams at the Telefónica headquarters in Madrid on Tuesday. Centre stage were world champion Alejandro Valverde, Grand Tour leader Nairo Quintana and Spanish national champions Mavi García and Eider Merino. There were 37 riders in total, combined mens and womens squads, under coordination from general manager Eusebio Unzué, who outlined the team plans for the upcoming season. On the mens side, Unzué revealed that his three Grand Tour riders, Quintana, Va...
Organisers of the Vuelta a España announced Tuesday that they would be introducing an official young rider competition in the 2019 edition of the Spanish Grand Tour. The highest placed under-26 rider in the general classification will wear a white jersey. The Vuelta a España has used a white jersey in previous editions, however, it was worn by the rider leading the combined points ranking. This year, Simon Yates won the red jersey as the overall champion, and the white jersey as the rider with ...
Filippo Pozzato announced his retirement on Tuesday, bringing the curtain down on a long, varied and colourful career. The Italian was among the longest-serving riders in the peloton, having started his professional career in 2000. From the outset, Pozzato was lauded as a predestinato and he bypassed the amateur category by moving directly from junior racing to Mapei, the peloton’s most star-studded team. After a three-year apprenticeship, Pozzato hit the big time when he moved to Fassa Bortol...
Movistar have confirmed their three top leaders Grand Tour program for 2019, with Nairo Quintana and Mikel Landa heading to the Tour de France whilst World Champion Alejandro Valverde will be present at the Giro dItalia and Vuelta a España. Speaking at the Movistar Team launch in Madrid on Tuesday morning, longstanding general manager Eusebio Unzue made it clear there would be no repeat of the teams unsuccessful line-up of their three best-known racers at the Tour de France in 2019. Instead, V...
Peter Sagan has proclaimed the 2019 incarnation of Bora-Hansgrohe as their strongest Classics squad yet following a number of shrewd signings in the transfer market. The German team were already among the strongest squads in the world when it came to the one-day race scene due to Sagans success and the key acquisition of Daniel Oss for the start of the 2018 season, but they have recruited wisely ahead of the coming campaign with veteran Oscar Gatto joining from Astana, while Jempy Drucker and a...