2024 Giro d’Italia: Stage 18 Results
Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step) bested five or six of the best sprinters in the world to won Stage 18 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia, the 178 km long Fiera di Primiero-Padova.
Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step) bested five or six of the best sprinters in the world to won Stage 18 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia, the 178 km long Fiera di Primiero-Padova.
A shortened Stage 16 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia still served up some excitement. Julian Alaphilippe led for most of the stage but no one was stopping Pogacar in his domination of the race. He took his fifth stage win with what looked like little effort.
The Australian ex-pro Mark Renshaw (40), who collaborated with Astana Qazaqstan Team during the last Tour de France as a sprint and lead-out consultant, is going to join the Kazakh project in 2024 as a Sports Director.
Mark Cavendish – undeniably one of the greatest sprinters in the history of cycling, has decided to postpone the end of his professional career for another year.
Alberto Dainese (DSM-Firmenich) took an emotional win on stage 19 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana as he sprinted to victory in Iscar, after 177.5km of racing from La Bañeza.
Jesus Herrada (Cofidis) showed talent, craft and mastery to win stage 11 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana on the slopes up La Laguna Negra. The Spanish puncheur made his way into a hard fought breakaway and eventually powered to victory with a perfectly timed acceleration on the most gruelling slopes of the final climb.
Sep Kuss and Primoz Roglic of the Jumbo-Visma squad ruled Stage 8 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana, taming the brutal slopes of Xorret de Cati.
American Sep Kuss takes a solo win at the Observatorio Astrofisico de Javalambre to win Stage 6 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana while Lenny Martinez (Groupama-FDJ) finishes second and takes over La Roja from Remco Evenepoel.
Lorenzo Milesi, who recently won the U23 ITT World Championships, again found himself atop a big stage, winning the opening TT of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana.
Felix Gall wins the queen stage of the 2023 Tour de France, besting Simon Yates by 34 seconds. Pello Bilbao rounded out the podium.