Tadej Pogačar stormed to stage victory over the Galibier on Tuesday and moved again into the yellow jersey once more, then on Wednesday we had Mark Cavendish win his thirty fifth Tour stage to enter the historical past books. EUROTRASH has all of the experiences, rider views, outcomes and video from the French Grand Tour.
Mark Cavendish and Biniam Girmay make historical past within the Tour de France – High Story.
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Crew information: Chinese language firm invests in Astana Qazaqstan, dsm-firmenich PostNL reveal 2024 Giro d’Italia Girls squad and Oatly and EF Professional Biking announce new partnership.
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TOP STORY: Mark Cavendish and Biniam Girmay Make Historical past within the Tour de France
Mark Cavendish: The Finest Sprinter of All Time
Mark Cavendish is the rider with essentially the most stage victories within the historical past of the Tour de France. The sprinter of Astana Qazaqstan took his thirty fifth stage victory on the finish of the fifth stage of the 2024 Tour, passing the Belgian legend Eddy Merckx. Sixteen years after his first victory, the British rider now holds the report.
Few riders can say that they’re higher than legend Eddy Merckx, however Mark Cavendish can now say he has gained extra Tour de France levels than the Belgian. In 2021, Cavendish matched the Belgian by sprinting to his thirty fourth stage victory. Now, three years later, the British rider has taken the report along with his thirty fifth victory within the final yr of his skilled biking profession.
In 2008, the then 23-year-old Mark Cavendish took his first stage victory in La Grande Boucle. The win in Châteauroux turned out to be the beginning of an excellent Tour for the Manx man. He opened his Tour account with 4 stage victories, which he repeated in 2016 and 2021. In 2010 and 2011, he gained 5 victories in every year and in 2011 he additionally gained his first inexperienced jersey. In 2009, Cavendish sprinted to 6 stage victories, together with a victory on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, a ft he repeated 4 instances in his profession. After his final victory in 2021 he was anticipated to experience in 2022, however crew boss, Patrick Lefevere, selected to take Fabio Jakobsen to his first the Tour.
In 2023, Cavendish wished revenge in France and that thirty fifth victory with Astana Qazaqstan, in what ought to have been the final yr of his profession and he practically did it. In stage seven, the very best sprinter of all time gave the impression to be on his solution to victory, however Jasper Philipsen received previous him. A day later, Cavendish was compelled to desert as a result of he crashed and broke his collarbone. Cavendish didn’t retire and signed up for one more yr… and we now know the outcome.
High Tour de France Stage Winners of All Time:
1. Mark Cavendish – 35 victories (2008-2024)
2. Eddy Merckx – 34 victories (1969-1975)
3. Bernard Hinault – 28 victories (1978-1986)
4. André Leducq – 25 victories (1927-1938)
5. André Darrigade – 25 victories (1953-1964)
“It’s laborious to totally grasp this success, however we labored in direction of it, and as a crew, we did all the things potential to make it occur. We now have an unimaginable crew, and I’ve superb teammates. All through not simply this Tour de France however all this time, I felt immense assist from the whole crew, and immediately we now have the second to have fun this success collectively. I’m very glad to be a part of Astana Qazaqstan Crew, the place I discovered pals and, basically, an unimaginable household. Right now, the crew was magnificent, all the things was completed completely, and I managed to win. I believed in success, however the principle factor is that the crew believed in success, we have been on the identical wavelength and had a typical objective. I acquired most assist, and we purposefully labored in direction of the objective we achieved immediately”, stated Mark Cavendish.
“For our crew, it is a nice success, a historic achievement that can stay in biking perpetually. Few believed that we might succeed, that Mark’s arrival in Astana Qazaqstan Crew would change historical past, however we believed and did all the things to make immediately’s victory occur. We have been near this final yr, however destiny had different plans. I consider that actual champions shouldn’t finish their careers after a fall and harm, and I’m glad that Mark determined to do one other season ultimately. This yr, we have been in a position to put together higher, create all the mandatory circumstances to strategy the Tour de France as finest as potential. The entire crew believed in success, and everybody contributed a little bit of their effort in order that immediately we may have fun success. I congratulate the whole Astana undertaking on this historic achievement. However we aren’t going to cease; solely 5 levels have handed, and many of the race remains to be forward. We’re prepared, and we are going to proceed to battle in every subsequent stage”, stated Alexandr Vinokurov, Normal Supervisor of Astana Qazaqstan Crew.
Mark Cavendish – The Tour stage report holder:
Biniam Girmay Makes African Historical past on the Tour
Biniam Girmay achieved a historic victory along with his stage win within the Tour de France on Monday. The Eritrean is the primary black African rider to win a stage within the Tour de France. The all-rounder of Intermarché-Wanty was beforehand the primary black African winner of a spring Traditional and within the Giro.
For the primary time a black rider was in a position to have fun a stage win in La Grande Boucle. The Tour de France had solely two African stage winners till Girmay’s win. The white South Africans, Robert Hunter and Daryl Impey have been stage winners. So Girmay’s achievement is a giant assertion. Though there haven’t been many black Africans within the Tour de France, an enchancment has been seen since 2015. That yr, it was Eritrean Daniel Teklehaimanot (MTN-Qhubeka) who wore the polka dot KOM jersey. Since then there was Tsgabu Girmay and Merhawi Kudus racing on the highest degree, however none of them managed to win a stage.
For Girmay, it’s not the primary time he has achieved such a historic win. In 2022, he was the primary black African rider to win a spring Traditional. In Gent-Wevelgem he beat Dries van Gestel (TotalEnergies) and Christophe Laporte (Jumbo-Visma). Two months later, within the Giro, the Eritrean made historical past once more, being the primary black African rider to win a stage in a Grand Tour. Within the dash he was sooner than Mathieu van der Poel. Sadly, when he opened the celebration Prosecco, the cork hit Girmay within the eye, forcing him to desert the Giro. Biniam Girmay now solely has to take a stage within the Vuelta a España to finish his trilogy. He can be the primary black African (or any African) to do this. Robert Hunter has gained two Vuelta levels and his Tour stage, however by no means gained within the Giro and Daryl Impey ‘solely’ has a Tour stage to his title. The Eritrean thus serves as an awesome instance for younger riders in Africa, the place he has a giant following of followers, lots of that are on the Tour.
Girmay has numerous followers – Within the Rund um Köln when he was second
Biniam Girmay was Very Emotional After his First Tour stage win: ‘That is for all Africans’
An emotional Biniam Girmay discovered it troublesome to carry again the tears after his win within the third stage of the Tour de France. “Since I began biking, I by no means dared to dream of ever being within the Tour de France,” the primary black African Tour stage winner stated.
“I wish to thank god for all the things. Since I began biking, I by no means dared to dream of ever taking part within the Tour de France. To win in my second participation is nice,” an emotional Girmay struggled to say. The Intermarché-Wanty sprinter tried to elucidate how particular his victory is for African biking. “I wish to thank my spouse, my household and the individuals in Eritrea and Africa. They have to be proud, we are actually actually a part of the large races. That is our second. That is for all Africans, I’m simply very very glad immediately.” Girmay additionally thanked crew supervisor Jean-François Bourlart. “We hadn’t taken a Tour win but, however now could be our second. We wished to supply a lead-out for Gerben Thijssen, but when it have been troublesome I must go for my very own likelihood. Within the final kilometre I misplaced the wheel of Thijssen and went for myself. Beating all the large sprinters right here could be very motivating.”
“That is very particular for us and we’re very proud of this. We will proceed with this and I believe we deserve this too. However you must implement it and I believe we did immediately. We have been convincing. We have been the crew that was finest in place within the final 900 metres, so it was not stolen immediately,” crew efficiency Supervisor Aike Visbeek defined. Intermarché-Wanty races this Tour de France with a number of sprinters, and that’s not straightforward in line with Visbeek. Right now it turned out properly. “The nice factor was that we wished them each to be within the high 10 at 900 metres. As a result of we have been in such a very good place, it was in fact pulled right into a ribbon and it was really fairly a quick and troublesome final 900 metres. That’s excellent for Biniam, so it labored out very properly.”
Visbeek additionally realises that it may all go incorrect within the Tour. “However I stated upfront that this Tour can even look very dangerous for us, in the event that they get in the way in which of one another or make sixth and fourth, or 14th and 133rd. Right now it appears to be like excellent, I’m very proud of that. However I realise that within the subsequent two weeks there will likely be one other dash during which it doesn’t look good. I’m glad it really works now.”
A really emotional Biniam Girmay:
Tour de France 2024
Stage 3 was gained by Biniam Girmay (Intermarche-Wanty), beating Fernando Gaviria (Movistar) to the road. Within the frantic dash in Turin, Girmay was too sturdy for his rivals, simply getting the higher of Gaviria, with Arnaud de Lie (Lotto Dstny) in third place and Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) and Dylan Groenewegen (Jayco-AlUla) finishing the highest 5. Richard Carapaz (EF Schooling-EasyPost) took the Yellow Jersey for the primary time in his profession.
175 riders took the beginning on the third day of the 2024 Tour de France with the route overlaying 230.8 kilometres between Piacenza and Turin, making it the longest on this yr’s race. The prospect of a doomed breakaway which might absolutely be managed by the sprinter’s groups, who deterred any critical potential attackers. There was a wierd, quick tour from the peloton for five kilometres by Jonas Abrahamsen and Johannes Kulset (Uno-X Mobility) early within the stage, however they shortly re-joined the group. The peloton was nonetheless all collectively because the riders accomplished the primary hour of racing at a median velocity of 37.3 km/h.
The race visited Tortona (70.8km) paying homage to considered one of Italian biking’s true greats and on the Côte de Tortone – Fausto Coppi (named after the ‘campionissimo’) Jonas Abrahamsen added one other level to his KOM classification tally, while sporting the inexperienced jersey. On the Alexandrie intermediate dash (94.3km) Abrahamsen added 9 extra inexperienced jersey factors in seventh place, with the dash gained by Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), simply forward of Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) because the quick males examined their legs for the end in Turin. For an area rider on the stage Matteo Sobrero (Crimson Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) there was a particular little win as he went over the Côte de Barbaresco (Cat.4, 156.1km) in first place, along with his total household and fan membership there to benefit from the second. TotalEnergies rider Fabian Grellier accelerated with 66 kilometres to go and left the peloton, going over the Côte de Sommariva Perno (Cat.4, 181.4km) alone with a 40 second benefit on the high of the climb. Grellier was later reeled again in by the bunch with 28km to go, however his efforts have been rewarded with the Most Combative rider prize.
The battle for stage victory got here all the way down to an anticipated bunch dash on the end in entrance of a giant crowd in Turin, with Girmay crossing the road first, forward of Gaviria, De Lie, Pedersen and Groenewegen. There was drama with a giant crash 2.3km from the end line that affected a dozen riders, amongst them, the stage favorite Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck), while his teammate Van der Poel was the sufferer of pricey a late puncture which meant he misplaced contact with the bunch. Richard Carapaz’ ending place on the stage places him within the Yellow Jersey for the primary time in an extended profession to make it an unimaginable day for him and the EF Schooling-EasyPost crew. Jonas Abrahamsen maintains possession of the polka dot and inexperienced jerseys.
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Stage winner, Biniam Girmay Hailu (Intermarché-Wanty): “It is a historic day, I’m so glad for myself, for my Intermarché-Wanty crew, but in addition for my nation and my continent. Ever since I used to be a baby, collaborating within the Tour de France was a dream, nearly unhoped-for. Profitable the Tour de France is so unimaginable, particularly in such a aggressive dash. I’d wish to thank my crew, particularly Jean-François Bourlart who dreamed of this Tour victory, my household, all my compatriots and all those that supported me. We will be pleased with this victory. We’ve proven that we will participate within the huge races and win. Our time has come. Right now, we confirmed that the Intermarché-Wanty crew had the very best dash prepare within the pack. The plan was to arrange the ultimate dash for Gerben Thijssen, with me as a free electron. I adopted the prepare after which snuck in to play my card. Lastly, I closed my eyes and gave it my all to win. My pleasure is indescribable.”
General chief, Richard Carapaz (EF Schooling-EasyPost): “It’s a dream for me due to all of the respect I’ve for the Tour, to put on yellow at the very best race on this planet. I’ve all the time ready a lot for this and immediately to take pleasure in this second is large. We knew we had the chance. We knew that the end was the primary dash of the Tour. There have been many nerves and we needed to be very properly positioned. There have been many dangers like crashing and the crew did such a tremendous job the place they left me at one kilometre to go and from there I may defend myself in addition to I may, after which Marijn and I simply went full into the end line. It was spectacular. I labored so laborious for this second. It additionally means rather a lot to my nation. There should not numerous us within the WorldTour and I hope this helps biking so it will probably develop in my nation. Tomorrow is a really laborious day. It’s a really laborious one to defend the jersey however I’ll attempt. Each day I really feel higher and I really feel able to defend the jersey.”
third on the stage, Arnaud De Lie (Lotto Dstny): “This was my first bunch dash within the Tour de France and it was particular. The crew did a very good job and ultimately I completed third. Am I happy with that third place? Anyway. I’m actually proud of this. The Tour remains to be lengthy and there are nonetheless alternatives to come back. I felt actually good. It’s the Tour. Everybody desires to win and so you must take dangers. And typically that results in a crash. I hope everybody concerned is okay.”
fifth on the stage, Dylan Groenewegen (Jayco AlUla): “If you’re the quickest, you shouldn’t be happy with this, that’s it. It was chaos, proper? It was what we anticipated within the first dash. That it could be hectic. If you’re the quickest, you shouldn’t be happy with this, that’s it. I had the sensation that I used to be by far the quickest, nevertheless it’s all about who crosses the road first. There was no area, in order that if we’re speaking a few straight line, I don’t suppose this was actually it. I do not know who it was as a result of all of it goes so quick, nevertheless it did hassle me. Final yr I didn’t really feel like I used to be the quickest, after which I used to be happy now and again. However now I’m not proud of it in any respect. I’ll even be sincere if I’m not the quickest, however I’m at times you must win. It’s good that the sensation is sweet, the crew did properly till the crash. In order that’s one thing we’ll take with us. However I simply wish to win and that’s what we’re going for.”
Factors and KOM chief, Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility): “It’s the Tour de France, the most important race on this planet so you must take no matter you’ll be able to. I’ve been dreaming about this since I began biking once I was 14 years-old. It’s so huge for me to come back right here and take the inexperienced jersey and the polka dot jersey. I’ll attempt to hold it like this so long as potential. Johannes (Kulset) is the youngest rider within the peloton right here and he simply requested me if we may make some present for TV and I’ve the inexperienced jersey and he’s the youngest rider and I believe he beloved it. Generally you must placed on a present and have some enjoyable. I believe it is going to be laborious for me tomorrow, I’m 80 kg and there are numerous hills. Perhaps if I get within the breakaway it is going to be finest however I believe it is going to be laborious on the primary climb. However we are going to see, hopefully I can hold one of many jerseys after tomorrow.”
third total and finest younger rider, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Fast-Step): “It was the primary dash stage of the Tour so everyone is aware of it’s going to be essentially the most hectic one. The primary goal was to reach safely to the end which we succeeded in and beside that we have been simply going to attend and see what the outcome would deliver out and ultimately it’s the identical state of affairs with one other chief however not me. In the long run I believe we succeeded in staying protected and arriving with none bruises and accidents. No one was actually within the breakaway immediately I believe everyone suffered fairly a bit the final two days, so it was the proper solution to have an extended restoration experience let’s say. To begin with tomorrow I want to remain the place I’m with out dropping time on Tadej and Jonas, that’s the principle objective. If it’s a dash end with a small group for certain I’ll attempt, however we must see concerning the breakaway as there’s a giant likelihood that they go once more tomorrow. We’ll attempt to survive and get the very best outcome potential.”
Tour de France Stage 3 Consequence:
1. Biniam Girmay Hailu (Eri) Intermarché-Wanty in 5:26:48
2. Fernando Gaviria Rendon (Col) Movistar
3. Arnaud De Lie (Bel) Lotto Dstny
4. Mads Pedersen (Den) Lidl-Trek
5. Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Jayco AlUla
6. Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Bahrain Victorious
7. Fabio Jakobsen (Ned) dsm-firmenich-PostNL
8. Davide Ballerini (Ita) Astana Qazaqstan
9. Sam Bennett (Irl) Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale
10. Bryan Coquard (Fra) Cofidis.
Tour de France General After Stage 3:
1. Richard Carapaz (European) EF Schooling-EasyPost in 15:20:18
2. Tadej Pogačar (Slo) UAE Crew Emirates
3. Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Soudal Fast-Step
4. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Visma | Lease a Bike
5. Romain Bardet (Fra) dsm-firmenich-PostNL at 0:06
6. Pello Bilbao Lopez de Armentia (Spa) Bahrain Victorious at 0:21
7. Guillaume Martin (Fra) Cofidis
8. Egan Arley Bernal Gomez (Col) INEOS Grenadiers
9. Jai Hindley (Aus) Crimson Bull-BORA-hansgrohe
10. Aleksander Vlasov (-) Crimson Bull-BORA-hansgrohe.
Tour’24 stage 3:
Stage 4 of the Tour de France was gained in model by Tadej Pogačar in Valloire, with the UAE Crew Emirates rider attacking on the Galibier climb earlier than descending to the end line to reclaim the Yellow Jersey. After controlling the break on the climbs to the Italian resort of Sestriere, then the Col de Montgenevre, the UAE riders put their chief into place on the Col du Galibier. It was 800 metres from the summit that Pogačar struck a giant blow to his rivals. The Slovenian then elevated his benefit on the descent to Valloire to say the twelfth stage victory of his profession on the Tour, additionally reclaiming the Yellow Jersey. He’ll begin the fifth stage 45 seconds forward of Remco Evenepoel and 50 seconds forward of Jonas Vingegaard.
There have been 174 riders firstly of stage 4 in Pinerolo after the withdrawal of Casper Pedersen (Soudal Fast-Step), who crashed in direction of the tip of stage 3 close to Turin struggling a collarbone fracture, forcing him to go away the Tour. After the peloton left Pinerolo for this quick, robust (139.6km) stage within the mountains, the positioning of the intermediate dash at 18.6km impressed Mads Pedersen, who instantly tried to launch an escape, although the assault wouldn’t succeed. So it was from inside the bunch that the Dane accelerated to the road to take the utmost 20 factors within the Castel Del Bosco intermediate dash, within the battle for the inexperienced jersey.
At 30km, on the ascent to Sestriere, with 20km of the climb remaining, there have been 17 riders who broke clear, with Chris Juul-Jensen (Jayco-AlUla), Julien Bernard (Lidl-Trek), Bruno Armirail (Decathlon-AG2R), David Gaudu, Romain Grégoire, Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ ), Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Oier Lazkano (Movistar), Raul Garcia, Cristian Rodriguez (Arkes-B&B Accommodations), Kobe Goosens (Intermarche-Wanty), Warren Barguil (dsm-Firmenich-PostNL), Alexey Lutsenko (Astana), Odd Christian Eiking, Tobias Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility), Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies) and Stephen Williams (Israel-Premier Tech) within the group.
It was 2024 Flèche Wallonne winner Williams who topped the Sestriere climb (Cat.2, 50.4km) first and by the point the break riders reached the summit of the second categorised climb, the Col de Montgenevre (Cat.2, 71,1km), their hole over the peloton was 2:10. Once more it was Williams who reached the highest of the climb first, incomes himself 10 factors for the KOM classification from these first two peaks of the day. On the descent from Montgenevre, Nils Politt set a really quick tempo for Pogačar and UAE Crew Emirates inflicting a number of splits within the peloton, which have been nullified when the bunch handed by Briançon (82.1km), with Richard Carapaz within the Yellow Jersey chasing his manner again to the GC group. The break’s benefit elevated to 2:30 because the escapees gained some momentum within the valley to the foot of the Galibier.
The break fell aside on the Galibier with Chris Juul-Jensen (Jayco-AlUla), David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ), Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility) and Oier Lazkano (Movistar), the final 4 to remain on the entrance, not opting to help one another. Solely 30 riders remained in the principle group of a decreased peloton when it caught and overtook Lazkano with 26km to go, pushed by the UAE Crew Emirates riders. The elimination recreation in the principle group noticed the Yellow Jersey Carapaz distanced at 6km from the summit and he would finally end 5:28 down on the GC. There have been solely 8 riders on the entrance at 3km from the highest of the climb: Almeida, Ayuso, Pogačar, Vingegaard, Rodriguez, Roglič, Evenepoel and Landa. Pogačar then produced a storming assault 800 metres from summit of the Col du Galibier, with Vingegaard hanging onto his wheel for round a 100 metres, however the hole grew with the UAE chief taking the Henri-Desgrange memento by 10 seconds forward of his rival. On the descent and within the remaining kilometres to Valloire, Pogačar opened up a transparent hole to win by 35 seconds from Evenepoel, Ayuso and Roglič, with Vingegaard in fifth, 2 additional seconds behind.
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Stage winner and total chief, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Crew Emirates): “I’m tremendous glad. This was roughly the plan, and we executed it fairly properly. It was like a dream stage, and ending it off solo was very particular. I wished to hit laborious immediately, as I used to be assured I may win and put some seconds on my rivals. I do know this stage fairly properly. I’ve skilled rather a lot right here and it felt like a house stage, passing by Sestrière and Montgenèvre. There was numerous headwind within the Galibier climb, so the tempo didn’t really feel that onerous when following wheels. Nonetheless, my crew did an excellent good job. I didn’t wish to assault too early due to the wind, so I saved my legs till that assault with 800 meters to go on which I pushed as laborious as potential with a view to make such huge variations as potential. I knew the downhill, and that helped rather a lot, nevertheless it was a bit scary and stunning to see that the primary few corners have been moist. The gaps I created are excellent news for me. I will be proud of the place and the form I’m in proper now. But there are three demanding weeks forward of us, and as for this week particularly there may be an ITT that may create some gaps.”
2nd on the stage and total, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Fast-Step): “I’m happy with my day. It was the primary mountain stage of the race, we went to excessive altitude and had numerous meters of climbing. The crew did an awesome job, we have been up there and will be content material with the way in which we rode. When the assaults got here on the steepest a part of the Galibier, I did my finest to restrict the losses, and on the descent, I attempted to come back again, however the roads have been a bit sketchy and I misplaced a while there. Regardless of this, I continued to battle and I’m fairly proud of my second place on the stage. It’s a very good outcome for the morale and we’ll look to construct on this.”
Factors and KOM chief, Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno X – Mobility): “It was a tough begin. I attempted to go along with a breakaway at first. Then we had one man within the breakaway earlier than the dash. Then they have been caught so I attempted to get some factors there for the dash and I used to be round fifth so I received sufficient factors to maintain the jersey for yet one more day. After that I simply took it straightforward to the end line. Perhaps we are going to see concerning the breakaway tomorrow, I believe I’ll assist Alexander Kristoff for the sprints tomorrow. Hopefully I’ve sufficient factors from yesterday too to maintain the mountain jersey as a result of I believe this isn’t straightforward to take after tomorrow.”
Most aggressive rider, Oier Lazkano (Movistar): “I didn’t really feel good in any respect within the first stage, however I’ve managed to show my physique round and regain a very good feeling as of late. It has not been a straightforward day for the breakaway, as a result of the groups within the normal classification wished to make the race robust so we by no means received greater than two or three minutes away, which was a disgrace. As soon as I used to be there within the breakaway, I wished to attempt till the tip. I managed to get on the rostrum in my first Tour, and that’s one thing very good. I’ve fulfilled each bicycle owner’s dream. What do I anticipate from the remainder of the Tour? Struggling and studying! The objective is to not get on the rostrum for Combativity, however to win a stage to place my crew and its sponsors in a very good place. I’ll hold in search of the breakaways as a result of, to win the lottery, you must purchase a ticket. Additionally, my teammates like Fernando Gaviria have proven good legs and so they have levels forward which are good for his or her qualities, so we are going to assist them.”
Tour de France Stage 4 Consequence:
1. Tadej Pogačar (Slo) UAE Crew Emirates in 3:46:38
2. Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Soudal Fast-Step at 0:35
3. Juan Ayuso Pesquera (Spa) UAE Crew Emirates
4. Primož Roglič (Slo) Crimson Bull-BORA-hansgrohe
5. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Visma | Lease a Bike at 0:37
6. Carlos Rodriguez Cano (Spa) INEOS Grenadiers
7. Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Soudal Fast-Step at 0:53
8. João Almeida (Por) UAE Crew Emirates
9. Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Lidl-Trek at 2:41
10. Santiago Buitrago Sanchez (Col) Bahrain Victorious.
Tour de France General After Stage 4:
1. Tadej Pogačar (Slo) UAE Crew Emirates in 19:06:38
2. Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Soudal Fast-Step at 0:45
3. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Visma | Lease a Bike at 0:50
4. Juan Ayuso (Spa) UAE Emirates at 1:10
5. Primoz Roglič (Slo) Crimson Bull-BORA-hansgrohe at 1:14
6. Carlos Rodríguez (Spa9) INEOS Grenadiers at 1:16
7. Mikel Landa (Spa) Soudal Fast-Step at 1:32
8. João Almeida (Por) UAE Crew Emirates at 1:32
9. Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Lidl-Trek at 3:20
10. Egan Bernal (Col) INEOS Grenadiers at 3:21.
Tour’24 stage 4:
A frantic bunch dash in Saint-Vulbas on Stage 5 was gained by Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan) in entrance of an excited crowd to make Tour de France historical past. Cavendish clinched his thirty fifth Tour stage victory in model, making him essentially the most prolific stage winner within the historical past of the race outright, now alone in entrance of the person he had beforehand shared the honour with, the nice Eddy Merckx. Cavendish used all his expertise in an electrical bunch dash to seize the historic triumph forward of Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) in second and Alexander Kristoff (Uno-X Mobility), who was third. Tadej Pogačar (UAE Crew Emirates) stays within the Yellow Jersey with no adjustments on the high of the GC on the fifth day of racing.
There have been 174 riders firstly of stage 5 because the peloton rolled out of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne taking the official begin after a 4.6km neutralised part. Following just a few unsuccessful escape makes an attempt, it was lastly at 25km that Clement Russo (Groupama-FDJ) left the peloton, joined at 31km by Matteo Vercher (TotalEnergies). The 2 riders from Lyon moved clear and took a most lead of 4:35 at 40km. The duo’s hole was managed by Lidl-Trek and Alpecin-Deceuninck, who led the peloton. The typical velocity after 2 hours of racing over flat terrain was 39.2kph. On the first categorised climb of the day, the Côte du Cheval Blanc (Cat.4, 104.6km), it was Russo who picked up the solitary level for the Mountain classification, with the peloton then at 2:20.
Russo was then first on the intermediate dash at Aoste (IS, 123.2km) adopted by Vercher, earlier than the peloton arrived and Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) gained the bunch dash forward of Sam Bennett (Decathlon-Ag2r La Mondiale), Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) and Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck). The riders then made their solution to second categorised climb of the stage within the rain with the peloton step by step decreasing the deficit to Russo and Vercher, lastly catching them with slightly below 36km to go, because the Côte de Lhuis (Cat.4, 142,8km) ascent began.
Going over Côte de Lhuis first and uncontested was Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility) for one more 1 Mountain classification level, making certain him management of the climbers’ rankings for a minimum of the following two days. Then on the end in Saint-Vulbas it was Cavendish who confirmed his class and energy within the hectic remaining dash to make Tour historical past, crossing the road forward of Philipsen, Kristoff, Arnaud de Lie (Lotto-dstny) and Fabio Jakobsen (dsm-firmenich-PostNL), while Girmay was ninth to take the inexperienced jersey.
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Stage winner, Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan): “Astana put a giant gamble on this yr to ensure we’re good right here on the Tour de France. My boss has completed a giant gamble for us to come back right here and win a minimum of one stage. That reveals he’s somebody who is aware of what the Tour de France is. It’s a must to go all in. We’ve completed it. We labored on precisely what we wished to do. How we constructed the crew, what we’ve completed with the tools. Each little element has been put in direction of particularly immediately. You see what it means! It doesn’t imply we’re going to be high of the UCI rankings or something however the Tour de France is larger than biking isn’t it. Usually it takes me just a few days to get into it. I understand how it really works, my coach and folks round me understand how it’s. If everyone knew the way it was everybody can be a motorbike rider and my job can be rather a lot more durable. I’ve completed 15 Tour de Frances now, I don’t wish to have dangerous days and I don’t wish to undergo however I do know it’s simply within the head and for those who push you get by it. You’re employed and you’ll have a possibility, issues nonetheless should go your manner. We didn’t nail it as a crew like we wished to do, however the boys improvised and received me there in the very best place and I shot onto no matter prepare was going and was in a position to win. Particularly when you’re not bodily nearly as good as everyone else, it’s undoubtedly helpful to make use of your head a bit.”
General chief, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Crew Emirates): “We have been within the bunch after which immediately one thing got here up within the center from nowhere, the fellows in entrance of me braked and we touched wheels just a little bit, touched shoulders, however fortunately I escaped the concrete factor. I reacted on intuition and was very fortunate to keep away from the crash. It’s a pure a part of flat levels. The bunch is all the time collectively, quiet, all the time calm, and that’s when hazard can come earlier than it, whenever you’re relaxed and also you by no means know what is going to occur. It was a pleasant feeling to experience with the Yellow Jersey once more, I loved it. It was a very good begin to the day, as I may have a chat round within the bunch. Anyway, the very best half is I may roll into the end protected and sound on a difficult stage. It was much less anxious than Torino, although, as issues on the entrance all the time remained comparatively calm. It’s unimaginable that Mark [Cavendish] received his thirty fifth stage victory. I noticed him after the end line and he informed me to not break his report, however I believe it’ll really stand for a very long time.”
Finest younger rider and 2nd total, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Fast-Step): “It was a reasonably common stage, with fairly a low tempo particularly firstly. It’s true, although, that the physique experiences a special degree of stress within the final 50 kilometres, additionally due to the rain that made the roads a bit trickier. In any case, we didn’t have any main issues and the job is finished for immediately. It is vitally particular to witness Mark Cavendish setting a brand new all-time report, and to share the bunch with him. We now have been teammates and it’s been nice to be a part of his many feats. If there’s a man who deserves this report, it’s him.”
Factors chief and ninth on the stage, Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty): “It was a part of the plan to attempt to take the inexperienced jersey immediately. In fact, I’d have most popular one other outcome within the dash, nevertheless it’s nice. It’s a really stunning jersey, I really like this color. All the things goes very well, I used to be in a position to win a stage and this time I used to be nonetheless fairly shut. And I do know there will likely be different alternatives. Mark Cavendish, I noticed him win races once I was round ten and I all the time dreamed of being like him. So to seek out myself within the race the place he beats the report, it makes me very glad, I’m glad for him.”
KOM, Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility): “Right now I used to be going full fuel for Alexander Kristoff, and I’m very glad that he was third on the end. As for my job, I spent the entire day round him and carried out the ultimate a part of my responsibility coming into the final kilometre. I’m glad I’ve worn the inexperienced jersey for 3 days, and now I’m trying ahead to spending some extra days within the polka dot one. I’ll attempt to hold it for so long as potential, so I’ll most likely have to leap in some breakaways. I hope you see me rather a lot on TV within the subsequent few days!”
Most aggressive rider, Clément Russo (Groupama-FDJ): “I hadn’t precisely deliberate to go within the breakaway, however at one level I had the chance to do it. I knew that few riders have been motivated to do it, particularly with a headwind. I had spoken just a little with Matteo Vercher and he wished to go there as a result of we’re in our area. There have been solely two of us, so it was troublesome to hope to win, however we had enjoyable. I grew up about 15 km from right here and what’s extra, it’s my mum’s birthday, so I’m going to have a bouquet to provide her! With the rain that began to fall, I believe it introduced the peloton again faster and we have been caught fairly removed from the end, nevertheless it’s all the time nice to paved the way on the highway on the Tour de France.”
Tour de France Stage 5 Consequence:
1. Mark Cavendish (GB) Astana Qazaqstan in 4:08:46
2. Jasper Philipsen (Bel) Alpecin-Deceuninck
3. Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Uno-X Mobility
4. Arnaud De Lie (Bel) Lotto Dstny
5. Fabio Jakobsen (Ned) dsm-firmenich-PostNL
6. Pascal Ackermann (Ger) Israel-Premier Tech
7. Arnaud Démare (Fra) Arkéa-B&B Accommodations
8. Gerben Thijssen (Bel) Intermarché-Wanty
9. Biniam Girmay Hailu (Eri) Intermarché-Wanty
10. Marijn van den Berg (Ned) EF Schooling-EasyPost.
Tour de France General After Stage 5:
1. Tadej Pogačar (Slo) UAE Crew Emirates in 23:15:24
2. Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Soudal Fast-Step at 0:45
3. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Visma | Lease a Bike at 0:50
4. Juan Ayuso Pesquera (Spa) UAE Crew Emirates at 1:10
5. Primož Roglič (Slo) Crimson Bull-BORA-hansgrohe at 1:14
6. Carlos Rodriguez Cano (Spa) INEOS Grenadiers at 1:16
7. Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Soudal Fast-Step at 1:32
8. João Almeida (Por) UAE Crew Emirates
9. Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Lidl-Trek at 3:20
10. Egan Arley Bernal Gomez (Col) INEOS Grenadiers at 3:21.
Tour’24 stage 5:
Van Wilder is Aggravated by Criticism of the Tour Crew Round Evenepoel
Remco Evenepoel confirmed on stage 4 that he’s able to battle for the Tour podium by ending second within the Alpine stage to Valloire. The 24-year-old Belgian was additionally properly surrounded by his Soudal Fast-Step teammates on the Col du Galibier. One among his teammates, Ilan Van Wilder, had his say after the stage.
Van Wilder believes that Soudal Fast-Step’s Tour crew has acquired an excessive amount of criticism in current months. “I’m going to take a second to precise my disappointment to the media,” he stated to Het Nieuwsblad. “There are all the time feedback concerning the crew and that’s not good to listen to. I’ll inform it like it’s: typically we actually really feel like shit,” Van Wilder identified. “Folks neglect that we’re younger and that it’s the first Tour for a lot of. Sorry, however groups like UAE Emirates. These should not domestiques, however all leaders who race for a minimum of two million euros. That claims all of it. I all the time hear the identical factor: they gained’t do it with these males. They don’t have the crew for it. I’m a bit bored with it.”
Van Wilder not happy:
Rolf Aldag is Impressed by Remco Evenepoel
Tadej Pogačar was the large winner on Tuesday within the first mountain stage of the Tour de France, however Remco Evenepoel additionally impressed within the Alpine stage to Valloire. Rolf Aldag, sports activities director with Crimson Bull-BORA-hansgrohe, was additionally impressed.
“We might even have favored to take bonus seconds with Primoz Roglič, however Remco was very sturdy in these sprints,” Aldag informed Het Nieuwsblad after the end. “He was nice and the way he closed the hole on Pogačar and Vingegaard on Sunday in Bologna was additionally spectacular. Chapeau.”
“I believe his progress is spectacular. Within the Critérium du Dauphiné it actually felt like we had him underneath management, however now… The query is: can he keep at this degree or will he undergo a setback after this super-fast tremendous type?”
The German DS was additionally impressed by Mikel Landa, Evenepoel’s lieutenant within the mountains. Whereas Aleksandr Vlasov couldn’t grasp on, Landa managed to outlive the UAE Crew Emirates choice on the Col du Galibier.
“We have been hoping for the Soudal Fast-Step state of affairs, with Remco who nonetheless had Landa with him. It isn’t that Mikel may make the race laborious or imply a lot, however he was there. If Remco wanted a water bottle or gel, he was there. It is a huge benefit, particularly as a result of you’ll be able to’t get to all the things with the automobiles,” Aldag stated.
Evenepoel has been spectacular thus far:
Jan Bakelants Doesn’t See Vingegaard as a Loser on the Galibier
Tadej Pogačar dealt a primary blow to Jonas Vingegaard on the fourth stage of the Tour de France on Tuesday, however the Danish defending champion of Visma | Lease a Bike saved the injury in Valloire restricted. Jan Bakelants doesn’t see Vingegaard as a loser.
In his column for Het Laatste Nieuws, Bakelants sheds mild on the primary mountain stage of the Tour de France, and the relationships between Vingegaard and Pogačar. “Simply as he did final yr and as he did once more on Sunday in Bologna on the San Luca, Jonas Vingegaard additionally received caught into Tadej Pogačar’s wheel on the Galibier. However greater than on Sunday, this experience was an actual psychological enhance for Vingegaard.”
“Within the stage over the Galibier it was for Jonas Vingegaard and Visma | Lease a Bike is particularly essential in order to not lose time on Pogačar. Perhaps he overran himself a bit in the previous few hundred meters. And that he paid for it in money throughout these elements of the descent the place he needed to pedal. Even so, it is a success for Vingegaard. Realizing the place he comes from, he reaches a really excessive degree.”
The primary mountain stage confirmed what many already thought. UAE Crew Emirates is by far the strongest crew in the mean time. “So far as UAE is worried, we have been a bit hungry till yesterday,” Bakelants believes. “It was unclear what position Ayuso and Almeida would play. This was evident on the Galibier. And so that you see as soon as once more what a unbelievable crew UAE has purchased collectively. With this they will smoke out all the things and everybody.”
Uphill there may be little to say about their superior numbers, however Bakelants doesn’t wish to draw hasty conclusions but. “It’s removed from over and it’s early for conclusions. However Pogačar and his crew put the ending touches on Tuesday. In stage nineteen (from Embrun to Isola 2000) we get an identical stage. The Cime de la Bonette (2798 meters) is greater than the Galibier and it could turn out to be even hotter there. I anticipate UAE to be aggressive on this too.”
Vingegaard – Not so dangerous:
UCI Pressured Dylan Groenewegen to Take away his Nostril Glasses
Dylan Groenewegen stole the present on Monday on stage 3 of the Tour de France. The Dutch champion had a nostril piece on his glasses. The Jayco AlUla rider had requested sponsor Scicon to make use of it. But Groenewegen completed in Turin with out the glasses as a result of the UCI the banned glasses in the course of the stage.
The 31-year-old Lion of Amsterdam defined the UCI intervention to WielerFlits. “They stated the glasses weren’t available on the market and the ‘nostril’ needed to be eliminated. In order that’s what I did,” Groenewegen stated. But he wore the identical glasses once more firstly of the fifth stage. The answer was easy. “It’s available on the market now, so I can put on it immediately, haha! It’s now on-line on the web site, so I also can put on it in the course of the race.”
WielerFlits requested concerning the nostril piece on the Scicon stand at EuroBike: It prices 350 euros, making it one and a half instances dearer than the Scicon Aeroscope sun shades at 220 euros, that Groenewegen wears. His set-up prices 570 euros. In keeping with the corporate, the explanation why the Scicon Nostril Cowl has this value is as a result of improvement behind it and particularly as a result of it’s 3D printed. Along with the Aeroscope, it is usually suitable with the Aeroshade and Kunken fashions. The glasses seem like the Scicon Aeroscope biking glasses, however are geared up with a particular cap over the nostril that’s harking back to a crow’s beak. The black cap has been positioned to information the airflow extra effectively alongside the consumer’s face, which Scicon did on the request of Groenewegen himself. “Oakley has it too. The goggles gained’t be an issue, each little bit of aero pays off. Generally it will probably actually come all the way down to a photograph end, I do know all about that.”
No nostril for Groenewegen:
Peter Sagan Retires as a Street Bicycle owner: “Unhappy, however Additionally Proud and Filled with Pleasure”
The biking profession of the 34-year-old Peter Sagan is now over. The three-time World champion rode his final aggressive kilometres on Sunday in his house race, the Tour of Slovakia. In an emotional message on social media, Sagan bowed out. “After so a few years it’s laborious to consider that my journey in skilled biking has come to an finish,” he wrote.
“Crossing the end line immediately within the Tour of Slovakia was a second filled with combined emotions: unhappiness, nostalgia, but in addition pleasure and pleasure,” stated Sagan after Sunday’s remaining stage. “It’s a bittersweet feeling to say goodbye to this chapter of my skilled profession, however I couldn’t have requested for a greater place than right here. In my house nation and in my house occasion.”
“I nonetheless keep in mind my first stage within the Tour Down Below on January 19, 2010. I used to be only a younger lad, not but 20, and I may by no means have imagined that I’d have such an extended and profitable profession on this sport would have. It’s been an extended highway, with ups and downs. And ending my profession within the Tour of Slovakia, surrounded by the assist and love of my compatriots, is a reminiscence I’ll cherish perpetually. Thanks to everybody who has been a part of this unimaginable journey. Your assist has been my driving pressure and I’m so grateful for each encouragement. With out you I’d by no means have gotten this far,” stated Sagan.
Sagan initially hoped to finish his profession within the Olympic mountain bike race in Paris, however he didn’t qualify for the Video games. On the finish of final yr he had already ended his WorldTour profession by leaving TotalEnergies. He rode just a few extra races with the Continental Pierre Baguette Biking from Slovakia, however June 30, 2024 will likely be remembered because the day of Sagan’s final highway race.
It’s throughout (on the highway) for Peter Sagan:
Joris Nieuwenhuis Breaks with Sven Nys – No Improved Contract
Joris Nieuwenhuis will instantly go away Baloise Trek Lions, Sven Nys’ cyclo-cross crew. The Dutch champion hoped for an improved contract with the Belgian cyclo-cross crew, however no settlement was reached and they also have parted firm. In keeping with the crew, “each events say goodbye to one another on good phrases”.
In an announcement on social media, Baloise Trek Lions introduced the break with Nieuwenhuis. The 28-year-old rider determined to cease highway racing in 2022, after three and a half years with DSM within the WorldTour, with a view to focus extra on cyclocross. This resulted in good outcomes final winter, together with the Nationwide Championship title, silver on the World championships behind Mathieu van der Poel and second locations within the World Cup and the Superprestige.
The contract negotiations subsequently got here to an finish, Baloise Trek Lions stated in an announcement: “Logically, a lot of riders additionally hoped for an improved contract for the longer term. Comprehensible, however sadly it’s not possible for the crew and the funds to go together with all these will increase. We wish to be a crew that may rating throughout the board within the close to future.”
In keeping with supervisor Sven Nys’ crew, ‘a very good settlement has been reached’ with Nieuwenhuis, permitting the Dutchman to go away the crew instantly. Nieuwenhuis himself has not but responded to his departure from the crew.
In keeping with Het Nieuwsblad, Nieuwenhuis is about to signal with a brand new cross crew of Hans van Kasteren and sports activities director Richard Groenendaal, two previous acquaintances within the cyclocross world. Van Kasteren was crew boss of Telenet Fidea Lions earlier than he offered it to Nys in 2016. That new crew can be supported by bicycle model Ridley.
Joris Nieuwenhuis leaves Sven Nys:
Laurens ten Dam third within the Tour Divide: “Subsequent degree to hell”
Laurens ten Dam completed third within the Tour Divide. The Dutchman took a complete of 15 days and 6 minutes to finish the extremely race that runs from the northern border to the southern border of the USA through the Continental Divide.
The Dutchman had been on the rostrum for the reason that third day, far behind leaders Justinas Leveika and Ulrich Bartolmoes, however far forward of the fourth rider, Cade Reichenberger.
“I really feel proud now, however after the end I used to be upset for a second and was utterly numb and exhausted. The beers instantly after the end didn’t go down properly both, I had to fall asleep immediately,” Ten Dam responded after the race in his podcast Dwell Gradual Journey Quick.
“I actually screwed up subsequent degree. Throughout the race I used to be utterly exhausted a number of instances and thought of giving up a number of instances, however each time I received by it. My eye is contaminated and my ft nonetheless harm, however I’m doing higher. I can take three-quarter steps once more. At first they have been quarter steps.”
Lithuanian Leveika finally gained the Tour Divide in a report time of 13 days, 2 hours and 16 minutes. In doing so, he broke the previous report set in 2016 by Mike Corridor, who had a high time of 13 days, 22 hours and 51 minutes. The unofficial report is held by Unbound winner Lachlan Morton, who accomplished the 4,200 kilometre extremely race in 12 days, 12 hours and 21 minutes.
Ten Dam third within the Tour Divide:
Chinese language Firm Invests in Astana Qazaqstan
Chinese language carbon merchandise producer XDS Carbon-Tech, one of many largest corporations in that trade on this planet, will put money into the Astana Qazaqstan crew. The long-term technique of the collaboration is to supply competitors to the most important groups within the WorldTour by reinforcements. As well as, the crew can even change bike suppliers.
The Shenzen-based firm will turn out to be a significant investor of the crew for a interval of 5 to 10 years. The crew will obtain a funds that comes near that of the main groups on the high of biking, comparable to UAE Crew Emirates and Visma | Lease A Bike.
The crew can even swap bike suppliers as a part of the deal, transferring from Wilier to lesser-known Chinese language model X-Lab. The deal could possibly be finalised and introduced in the course of the Tour. The Chinese language funding ought to allow crew boss Vinokourov to draw some reinforcements to attain sufficient factors to remain within the WorldTour. One of many meant names for the crew is Kaden Groves. The Australian sprinter, who will likely be out of contract with Alpecin-Deceuninck on the finish of the season, ought to earn the mandatory factors within the sprints for the crew, which is decided to retain their WorldTour standing for the following license interval of 2026 till 2029.
Extra money for Vino:
Crew dsm-firmenich PostNL Reveal 2024 Giro d’Italia Girls Squad
With the summer time months quick hotting up, the motion within the Girls’s peloton will quickly do the identical as riders prepare for one of many oldest races on the calendar – the Giro d’Italia Girls. Right now, Crew dsm-firmenich PostNL announce their seven-rider squad which can tackle the thrilling eight days of racing throughout Italy.
Kicking off with a time trial within the historic metropolis of Brescia, the riders gained’t have a lot time to absorb the beautiful surroundings as they blast across the 15-kilometre-long route. From there, the open highway levels await with a dash alternative on stage two earlier than the primary mountain-top end on day three. A mixture of hilly and rolling terrain follows, though the sprinters ought to get an opportunity as soon as extra on stage 5, earlier than the queen stage on the penultimate day of motion. There, the riders will tackle over 3500 metres of climbing paced into solely 120 kilometres of racing, with a summit end atop the well-known Blockhaus ascent awaiting what is going to little question be a drained peloton. Relying on how huge the gaps are from the day past, the ultimate stage may have potential for a GC raid but when not the breakaway or punchy riders stand a very good likelihood.
With remaining preparations nearly full after good current coaching blocks and stable racing, Crew dsm-firmenich PostNL are set to go away their mark as they as soon as once more look to place up a battle within the GC with finisher Juliette Labous; aiming to placed on an identical sensible show that noticed the crew end second total in 2023.
Crew dsm-firmenich PostNL coach Kelvin Dekker defined: “We’re trying ahead to travelling to Italy for the second Grand Tour of the season with this thrilling squad. Our goal for the race is obvious, with Juliette as our finisher for the GC battle, and we’re assured that the crew we now have right here can assist her in the very best manner for us to attain our objectives collectively. We now have actually good recollections of this race from final yr with our second place total, so we now have as soon as once more made this considered one of our goal objectives for the season. Nevertheless, we might want to hold the deal with the place our energy lies, and that’s displaying some sensible teamwork all through the race in order that we will hold one another within the battle on daily basis. We’re trying ahead to getting underway and displaying our crew colors out on the highway.”
One among Crew dsm-firmenich PostNL’s resident Italians, Francesca Barale added: “I believe we’re all trying ahead to the Giro. Personally, I’m in fact actually excited for it as a I actually take pleasure in racing in my very own nation. All of us have some good recollections from final yr with Juliette’s GC podium, and that was particular for me too with it being my first Giro. This yr we wish to intention for much more. I’m assured that with Juliette and the remainder of the crew’s type, then we will go for an awesome outcome. I believe it could be a profitable Giro if we already managed to do what we did final yr; work properly as a crew, race aggressively and make an influence on the race. I believe the outcomes will then come if we do this. We now have a pleasant group, and everybody is basically motivated to do this and get the very best GC outcome with Juliette. Personally, I believe final yr I made some good steps within the Giro so this yr I wish to do the identical. I’ve simply had a very good coaching block and I’m trying ahead to seeing how I develop, and the way I can assist Juliette within the race.”
Line-up:
Francesca Barale (ITA)
Eleonora Ciabocco (ITA)
Franziska Koch (GER)
Juliette Labous (FRA)
Josie Nelson (GBR)
Becky Storrie (GBR)
Nienke Vinke (NED).
Becky Storrie to the Giro:
Oatly and EF Professional Biking announce new partnership
Oatly turns into co-title sponsor of girls’s squad, now using as EF-Oatly-Cannondale
Oatly, the world’s unique and largest oatmilk firm, and EF Professional Biking are getting into right into a multi-year partnership. As a part of the collaboration, Oatly will turn out to be an “Official Efficiency Accomplice” of each our males’s and girls’s squads and an official co-title sponsor of our ladies’s squad, now referred to as EF-Oatly-Cannondale.
“One among our key aims is to deliver the Oatly magic to extra individuals and this partnership with EF Professional Biking is definitely geared in direction of that. As some of the standard and watched sports activities globally, we’re excited to indicate the world how dairy-free merchandise will be an integral a part of skilled athlete and non-athlete diets alike,” stated John Schoolcraft, Chief Artistic Officer at Oatly. “We’re additionally proud to turn out to be a co-title sponsor of the ladies’s crew. We will’t wait to have fun each groups’ triumphs within the years to come back and assist gasoline their success.”
Particulars of the Oatly/EF Professional Biking sponsorship embrace:
- Coaching Camp Naming Rights: EF Professional Biking’s coaching camps will now be referred to as “Oatly Efficiency Camps” offering ample collaboration alternatives for analysis and meal-planning to include Oatly’s dairy-free merchandise into athletes’ diets.
- Distinguished Emblem Placements: Oatly’s emblem will now seem on crew uniforms worn whereas racing and coaching, and throughout a number of EF Professional Biking properties, together with crew automobiles, buses, vehicles, chef and soigneur vans.
- Occasion-Particular Activations and Integrations: Oatly and EF Professional Biking will associate to ship dairy-free fan activations in key markets, hospitality applications, post-event events, and rider-specific occasions.
- Content material Improvement: Each organisations will collaborate on a daily collection of video, web site, and social media tasks highlighting the partnership and spotlighting cyclists’ use of Oatly merchandise.
“We’re excited to welcome Oatly into our household of companions, and we sit up for working with them in quite a lot of methods,” stated Jonathan Vaughters, CEO of EF Professional Biking. “Oatly is an progressive and irreverent model whose merchandise are already utilized by a number of of our riders, and so they’re an ideal match to what we’re making an attempt to inject into the game. We’ve already begun engaged on some nice issues collectively and might’t await individuals to see them.”
Oatly makes a scrumptious vary of oat-based, non-dairy milk options that supply the identical creamy style, frothy really feel, and performance as cow’s milk whereas typically having a decrease environmental influence. Oatly’s fortified drinks profit from the inherent goodness of fibrous oats and, in most markets the place you discover their merchandise, additionally comprise quite a lot of helpful nutritional vitamins and minerals.
Our males’s squad is within the Tour de France. The Tour de France Femmes begins on August 12.
A very good begin for Oatly:
Giro d’Italia Girls: The Grande Partenza is Quick Approaching
Brescia is making ready to welcome the primary version of the ladies’s Corsa Rosa organised by RCS Sport, which can begin on 7 July with a person time trial. Grand finale on the 14th in L’Aquila. Blockhaus is the ‘Cima Alfonsina Strada’, the very best peak of the race, established in reminiscence of the bicycle owner who took half within the males’s Giro d’Italia in 1924. Among the many huge names introduced firstly are the world champion Lotte Kopecky, the Italian champion Elisa Longo Borghini, 2023 runner-up Juliette Labous, and 2023 Maglia Bianca Gaia Realini. Scarpetta Rossa would be the Charity Accomplice of the race.
12 days separate us from the Grande Partenza of the Giro d’Italia Girls, organised for the primary time by RCS Sport in partnership with the FCI – Italian Biking Federation. Brescia is on the brink of welcome the nice stars of girls’s biking, who from 7 to 14 July will battle it out to win the Maglia Rosa in what is among the most eagerly awaited and coveted occasions of the yr. On Saturday 6 July at 18.00, the groups presentation will happen in Piazza della Loggia, preamble to a collection of occasions and actions aimed toward highlighting the competitors. The grand finale will likely be in L’Aquila, after eight levels.
The Trophy
As infinite because the potential of this competitors that continues to develop day-to-day, that is the white gold trophy of the Giro d’Italia Girls 2024 that embodies greatness, ardour and sacrifice. The image of infinity really represents way more: the dream, the autumn and the victory.
The Giro d’Italia Girls’s Medals and the Dedication to Alfonsina Strada
Eight blossoms to signify the eight levels of the Giro d’Italia Girls on an limitless path indicating the ‘Strada’ to the victory. Strada is certainly the title of the medal for the 2024 version, which retraces the brave story of Alfonsina Strada within the yr that celebrates the centenary of her presence on the Giro d’Italia. The best peak of the race, the Blockhaus, the place the seventh stage will end, can also be named after her.
With one month to go, L’Aquila, web site of the Grande Arrivo, has colored considered one of its benches purple and pink. The initiative, promoted by Scarpetta Rossa, Charity Accomplice of the occasion, is aimed toward bringing to mild the theme of gender violence
The Official Jersey and the Sponsors of the Giro d’Italia Girls
The chief jerseys of the Giro d’Italia Girls are designed and produced by CASTELLI
- Title Sponsor, Madeinitaly.gov.it
- Maglia Rosa, chief of the Normal Classification, sponsored by Polti
- Maglia Rossa, chief of the Factors Classification, sponsored by zondacrypto
- Maglia Azzurra, chief of the Gran Premio della Montagna (KOM), sponsored by Banca Mediolanum
- Maglia Bianca, Finest Younger Rider, sponsored by Autostrade per l’Italia
- Stage winner, sponsored by Trenitalia (Official Inexperienced Service)
Timekeeper
- Tudor – Official Timekeeper
Official Sponsor
- GLS – Intermediate Sprints
- Velux – Superteam
- Astoria – Official Wine
- Suzuki – Official Automotive
- Valtellina – Official Sponsor
- Castelli – Official Sponsor
- Clivet – Official Sponsor
- Lauretana – Official Sponsor
- Terna – Official Sponsor
- CNH – Official Sponsor
- RTL 102.5 – Official Radio
Official Suppliers
- Pata – Official Provider
- Drivalia – Official Provider
- Pastificio Rana – Official Provider
Licensors
Italian champion Elisa Longo Borghini and world champion Lotte Kopecky at Strade Bianche Girls Elite
Giro d’Italia Girls, The Groups
15 UCI Girls’s WorldTeams:
- AG INSURANCE – SOUDAL TEAM (Justine Ghekiere, Kimberly Le Courtroom)
- CANYON//SRAM RACING (Neve Bradbury, Elise Chabbey)
- CERATIZIT – WNT PRO CYCLING TEAM (Arianna Fidanza, Katrin Schweinberger)
- FDJ-SUEZ (Vittoria Guazzini, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig)
- FENIX-DECEUNINCK (Greta Marturano, Pauliena Rooijakkers)
- HUMAN POWERED HEALTH (Ruth Edwards, Katia Ragusa)
- LIDL – TREK (Elizabeth Deignan, Elisa Longo Borghini, Gaia Realini)
- LIV-ALULA-JAYCO (Mavi Garcia, Ingvild Gaskjenn)
- MOVISTAR TEAM (Liane Lippert, Arlenis Sierra)
- ROLAND (Elena Hartmann, Anna Kiesenhofer)
- TEAM DSM-FIRMENICH POSTNL (Franziska Koch, Juliette Labous)
- TEAM SD WORX – PROTIME (Lotte Kopecky, Blanka Kata Vas)
- TEAM VISMA | LEASE A BIKE (Rosita Reijnhout, Fem Van Empel)
- UAE TEAM ADQ (Chiara Consonni, Silvia Persico)
- UNO-X MOBILITY (Katrine Aalerud, Rebecca Koerner)
Certified by rating:
- COFIDIS WOMEN TEAM (Julie Bego, Hannah Ludwig)
- TASHKENT CITY WOMEN PROFESSIONAL CYCLING TEAM (Yanina Kuskova, Olga Zabelinskaya)
Wild Playing cards:
- BEPINK – BONGIOANNI (Nora Jencusova, Monica Trinca Colonel)
- EF EDUCATION – CANNONDALE (Letizia Borghesi, Kim Cadzow)
- ISOLMANT – PREMAC – VITTORIA (Beatrice Rossato, Asia Zontone)
- LABORAL KUTXA – FUNDACION EUSKADI (Usoa Ostolaza, Ane Santesteban)
- TOP GIRLS FASSA BORTOLO (Iris Monticolo, Gaia Segato)
Ticket Gross sales Open for 2024 UCI Monitor Champions League Remaining Rounds in London
Ticket gross sales are actually on normal sale for the ultimate two rounds of the 2024 UCI Monitor Champions League season which will likely be hosted at London’s award-winning Lee Valley VeloPark on December 6-7.
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Since opening in 2012, this iconic observe has been house to many jaw-dropping performances; the 2012 Olympic Video games noticed the likes of Chris Hoy, Laura Kenny, and Jason Kenny, amongst others, storm to victory, taking seven out of a potential 10 gold medals; Sir Bradley Wiggins’ profitable try on the UCI Hour Document in 2015, and extra lately, the back-to-back, sold-out rounds of the UCI Monitor Champions League up to now three seasons.
In 2021, the inaugural Grand Finale of the UCI Monitor Champions League supplied the stage for thrilling sprints and intense endurance races that saved spectators on the sting of their seats. Among the many standout performances, Dutch legend Harrie Lavreysen claimed victory within the males’s dash class, whereas Katie Archibald from Nice Britain dominated the ladies’s endurance occasions. The 2022 version noticed record-breaking performances and dramatic picture finishes, with Lavreysen unsuccessfully combating to defend his dash title in opposition to Australian rising star Matthew Richardson, and American Jennifer Valente rising within the ladies’s endurance class. The 2023 season continued to captivate audiences with breathtaking races and galvanizing comebacks. Lavreysen reclaimed his trophy within the males’s dash, and Katie Archibald did the identical within the ladies’s endurance.
2024 UCI Monitor Champions League total winners: Ellesse Andrews (New Zealand), Harrie Lavreysen (The Netherlands), Katie Archibald (Nice Britain), Dylan Bibic (Canada)
The enduring venue was designed by architects at main apply Hopkins Architects, and has a capability for over 6,000 spectators. The observe sits at seven metres extensive and 250 metres lengthy. Manufactured from Siberian pine, and with a banking of 42° at its highest and 12° at its lowest, it’s clear the observe is constructed for velocity.
Emma Hinze (Germany), Gavin Hoover (USA), Mathilde Gros (France), Claudio Imhof (Switzerland), Dylan Bibic (Canada), and Ellesse Andrews (New Zealand) additionally know what it feels wish to carry the UCI Monitor Champions League Trophy on this legendary stage. With the stakes greater than ever, we will anticipate spectacular performances within the remaining two rounds of the 2024 UCI Monitor Champions League on December 6-7.
Season 4 of the UCI Monitor Champions League kicks off on November 23 on the Vélodrome Nationwide in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, which can crown the Paris 2024 Olympic Champions in only a few weeks. The league will then transfer to Apeldoorn on November 29-30, earlier than concluding in London on December 6-7.
For extra info on the UCI Monitor Champions League, go to www.ucitrackchampionsleague.com.
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