Planet Aggressive in Faced-Paced Japan Cup Criterium
Race: Japan Cup / Japan Cup Criterium Race Start/Finish: Utsunomiya, Japan Distance: 38.25 kilometers Utsunomiya, JPN — Team Novo Nordisk’s Charles Planet finished 15th on Saturday’s Japan Cup criterium. The 24-year-old Frenchman was aggressive throughout the short race and featured in one of the day’s many breakaways. Saturday’s 15-lap criterium around downtown Utsunomiya took place…
Read MoreFour Development Riders Advance to Team Novo Nordisk’s Pro Squad
Team Novo Nordisk, the world’s first all-diabetes pro cycling team, is bringing four of its best development team athletes—Swiss Oliver Behringer, Australians Declan Irvine and Sam Munday, and Uzbekistani Ulugbek Saidov onto the men’s pro squad for the 2019 season. Behringer and Irvine have been racing as stagiaires with the team since August. Team Novo…
Read More2018 Tour of Taihu Lake | Stage 7 Recap
David Lozano breaks the 7th and final stage of the 2018 Tour of Taihu Lake finale. “We showed that even though we started with just four guys we did our best to stay together in the front, protecting Charles. I think we raced a good race.”
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Read MoreFast-pace Finale at Tour of Taihu Lake
Race: 2018 Tour of Taihu Lake, Stage 7 Location: Wuxing / Changxing, China Distance: 137.5 kilometers CHANGXING, CHN – The 2018 Tour of Taihu Lake finished on Sunday, with the peloton racing three hours through densely populated and picturesque cities of China before a hotly contested sprint at the end of the day. With all riders classified in the same time…
Read More2018 Tour of Taihu Lake | Stage 6 Recap
Charles Planet recaps the penultimate stage at the 2018 Tour of Taihu Lake. “At the end, even if I’m not a pure sprinter, I took my chance to stay near the front and try to get something for the team.”
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Read MoreChanging Diabetes Around the World
Team Novo Nordisk exists to show the world that living with diabetes doesn’t have to stop you from being incredible. We use cycling as a platform because it’s one of the toughest endurance sports in the world, and one that competes globally. We’re an international group of 16 riders from 10 countries. Because diabetes is a global family.…
Read MoreWindy Day at Penultimate Taihu Lake Stage
Race: 2018 Tour of Taihu Lake, Stage 6 Location: Wujiang / Wujiang, China Distance: 116 kilometers WUJIANG, CHN – Strong winds picked up for the peloton in China on Saturday, pushing the Tour of Taihu to a sprint finish at the end of stage six. The world’s first all-diabetes pro cycling team managed the 116km stage from the main…
Read MoreTeam Novo Nordisk Gears Up for 5th Japan Cup
Race: Japan Cup Criterium (Oct 20) & Japan Cup Road Race (Oct 21) Country: Japan Total Distance: Japan Cup Criterium: 38.25 kilometers. Japan Cup Road Race: 144.2 kilometers Race Class: Japan Cup Road Race: 1.HC Team Novo Nordisk, the world’s first all-diabetes pro cycling team, returns to Utsunomiya, Japan for its fifth consecutive appearance at…
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