The prestigious stage race Tour of Oman concluded with a complete triumph for XDS Astana Team. On the final stage featuring the iconic climb of Green Mountain, Christian Scaroni claimed a brilliant victory, while his teammate Cristián Rodríguez secured second place. These results delivered a one-two overall success for XDS Astana Team in the General Classification: Scaroni won the Tour of Oman, and Rodríguez finished as runner-up.
Stage 1 of the 2024 Tour de France rolled out from Florence, Italy today. In what was said to be one of the hardest opening days in the history of the race, it was Romain Bardet and his DSM Firmenich PostNL teammate Frank van den Broek that made the opening salvo, crossing the line together just 100m ahead of a surging peloton.
Matej Mohoric took a photo-finish win over yesterday’s winner Kasper Asgreen to take Stage 19 of the 2023 Tour de France. Ben O’Connor, who was part of the leading trio, took third.
In Stage 15 of the 2023 Tour de France, Wout Poels claimed his first stage win at the Tour at the age of 35 after spending many years at the service of great leaders.
Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers) survived the breakaway to win Stage 13 of the 2023 Tour de France atop the Col du Grand Colombier on Bastille Day.
After a 31km solo ride at the front, Spanish rider Ion Izagirre of the Cofidis squad won Stage 12 of the 2023 Tour de France.
Michael Woods won Stage 9 of the 2023 Tour de France for his first Tour win as he out-climbed everybody on the steep percentages on Puy de Dôme.
Teams are starting to announce their rosters for the 2023 Tour de France, which kicks off Saturday, July 1 in Bilbao, Spain.
Nico Denz (Bora – Hansgrohe) has won Stage 14 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia, the 196km long Sierre-Cassano Magnago.
Niko Denz of the BORA-hansgrohe team won a 3-up sprint of a breakaway group to win Stage 12 of the 2023 Giro d’Italia. No change in the General Classification as all of the main maglia rosa contenders finished safely.