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.
Andrea Vendrame (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) attacked a nineteen man break with about 25km remaining to take a solo win in Stage 19 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia. It is his second win of the 2024 Giro.
A breakaway of four riders denied the sprinters their chance for a win today in Stage 5 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia, with Ben Thomas of the Cofidis squad crossing the line just ahead of a surging peloton.
Rui Costa (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty) maneuvered perfectly to win stage 15 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana in Lekunberri at the end of an extremely intense day of racing on Navarra roads.
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.
Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers) power to his first ever victory in the Vuelta a Espana as he got the best of World Champion Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) in Valladolid.
Long time leadout man Geoffrey Soupe of the Total Energies team takes an unexpected sprint win today in Stage 7 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana. Lenny Martinez finishes safely in a dangerous finale to hold onto La Roja for one more day.
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.
Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceucninck) takes his second sprint win in Stage 5 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana, besting Filippo Ganna of the Ineos Grenadiers squad by a tire width.
Sprinter Kaden Groves of the Alpecin-Deceuninck squad took advantage of a late crash to power to an uphill sprint stage win in Stage 4 of the 2023 Vuelta a Espana. Remco Evenepoel finished with the peloton to hold onto the La Roja.