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Arkéa-Samsic leader Warren Barguil has apologised to Dimension Data s Enrico Gasparotto , both privately and publicly on social media, after having called the veteran Italian rider an idiot for allowing eventual Arctic Race of Norway winner Alexey Lutsenko (Astana) to get a gap in the sprint to the line of the final stage , which meant that Barguil lost the leaders jersey by a single second. Barguil had accused Gasparotto of flicking him: of intentionally letting the gap to...

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EF Education First have confirmed their eight-man squad for the upcoming Vuelta a Espa�a , with Rigoberto Uran , Tejay van Garderen and Dani Martinez featuring as the US WorldTour teams marquee riders when the third and final Grand Tour of the year gets under way on Saturday. A three-pronged attack, then, � la Movistar Not according to sports director Juanma Garate, who says that the team is fully behind Uran as their main GC hope. Indeed, not only does the Colombian have the luxur...

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UAE Team Emirates have announced 2015 Vuelta a Espa�a champion Fabio Aru and this years winner of the Tour of California, Tadej Pogacar , as their leaders for the 2019 Vuelta a Espa�a , which starts on Saturday. Colombias Fernando Gaviria will be their main man for bunch sprints, and the eight-man team will be completed with a trio of Italians - Valerio Conti, Marco Marcato and Oliviero Troia - and two more Colombians in Sergio Henao and Sebastian Molano. As always, the Vuelta a ...

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Bernhard Eisel is set to continue racing for another year, expressing his desire to take his career into a 20th season, although it would not be with his current team, Dimension Data . The Austrian turned pro with Mapei in 2001, before going on to ride for T-Mobile, HTC-Highroad, Team Sky, and Dimension Data from 2016. He had seemed set to retire at the end of the 2018 season after being diagnosed with a serious brain injury, but set off on the comeback trail and signed up for another ...

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Philippe Gilbert will leave Deceuninck-QuickStep at the end of this season to join Lotto Soudal , where he has signed a three-year contract. The 37-year-old Gilbert previously spent three seasons at Lotto between 2009 and 2011. Winner of Paris-Roubaix in April, Gilbert was left out of the Deceuninck-QuickStep team for the Tour de France and had been linked with a move to Lotto Soudal in recent weeks after it was reported in the Belgian press that he had not been offered a multi-year con...

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Floyds Pro Cycling became Worthy Pro Cycling last week for the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah , and although the race organisers and the team management were tight-lipped about the reasons why, team sponsor Floyd Landis told Cyclngnews the race demanded the name change. We were told the team could come to the race as long as no Floyds branding appeared anywhere, Landis told Cyclingnews by phone from Denver on Sunday afternoon. When the Tour of Utah announced the initial roster of tea...

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Nairo Quintana , world champion Alejandro Valverde and Giro dItalia winner Richard Carapaz have all been confirmed in the Movistar line-up for the Vuelta a Espa�a , which gets underway with a team time trial in Torrevieja on Saturday. The strong Movistar selection also features Marc Soler, Imanol Erviti, Nelson Oliveira, Jorge Arcas and Antonio Pedrero. As expected, there is no place for the Bahrain-Merida-bound Mikel Landa, who placed 6th overall at the Tour de France, having alread...

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