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Justin Morris: Conquering Leadville 100
The Leadville 100 is undoubtedly the world’s most iconic mountain bike race. Starting in 1994, the race was instigated to help the economy of the local region after the closing of a large gold mine in Lake County, Colorado, USA. In 1994 the unemployment rate in the town of Leadville was the highest of any…
Read MoreTour of Sakarya – Stage 1
Daniel Holt Development Team General Manager: “Today was the first stage of the 4-stage Tour of Sakarya. 5 laps of a technical circuit with 2 medium climbs per lap. Goal was to hide and survive until the finish. The race pretty much exploded on the 1st lap. Doriand was our only guy to stay with the…
Read MoreDevo Race Report – Grand Prix Cappadocia
Daniel Holt Development Team General Manager: “Simple strategy today: Keep our 2 climbers Nathan and Doriand out of trouble until the final brutal 10km climb. The guys did well to protect and support our captains today. Everyone did their share of work, and none of the workers were expected to finish the race. In the end, Nathan…
Read MoreDevo Race Report – Grand Prix Develi
Daniel Holt Development Team General Manager: “Today was the flattest day of racing that we have in Turkey, so we lined up our best sprinters. We knew that it was hot and a lot of cross wind, and reminded the riders to mindful of that. Celestin and Nigel did great and made all of the…
Read MoreGoals achieved and objectives reached for TNN in Denmark
Team Novo Nordisk achieved their best ever result at the Tour of Denmark this week with Italian sprinter Andrea Peron seventh on the opening stage before neo-pro Filippo Ridolfo led the breakaway for 200km on stage three and Spanish climber David Lozano wrapped things up with a 31st place finish on the final stage. The…
Read MoreWaterfront Sprint closes stage four in Denmark
A fast fourth stage for Team Novo Nordisk around the fjords of northwest Jutland unfolded behind the early breakaway at the Tour of Denmark before a hectic bunch sprint brought the stage to a close by the marina in Skive. Andrea Peron (ITA): “This was the last chance for another go in the sprint, so…
Read MoreDevo Race Report – Grand Prix Tomarza
Start time: 11:00 Avg. speed winner: 44.802 km/h Race category: ME – Men Elite Distance: 133km Points scale: 1.2 Parcours: Flat Vert. meters: 1258m Departure: Kayseri Arrival: Tomarza Sergey Lagutin: “This was the first race after a long break, very hot weather, high altitude. We knew that it would be hard for our riders but expectations were higher than what we got. After first…
Read MoreIrvine starting to find some form at Tour of Denmark ITT
Australian rouleur Declan Irvine produced a strong ride in today’s individual time trial at the Tour of Denmark with the Team Novo Nordisk riders happily coming back into form at the business end of the season. Sports Director, Gennady Mikhaylov“Coming through yesterday’s stage with so many of the guys crashing, the main goal today was…
Read MorePeron storms to seventh on Stage 1 in Denmark
2022 GP Kranj winner Andrea Peron made a great start to this year’s Tour of Denmark by sprinting into seventh place for Team Novo Nordisk after a long, hectic crash field opening stage. Andrea Peron (ITA)“It started pretty much as we expected. The breakaway went in the early kilometres, then we thought ‘ok, now it’s…
Read MoreTour de Pologne comes to an end in downtown Krakow
This year’s Tour de Pologne drew to a close with the traditional high-speed sprint finale on the tree lined avenues of Krakow city center with Italian Andrea Peron coming close to another top 20 to cap off a hard week of racing for Team Novo Nordisk. The world’s first all diabetes professional cycling team started…
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