Inspiring Weekend of Racing at Japan Cup
Race: Japan Cup / Japan Cup Road Race Start/Finish: Utsunomiya Forest Park, JAPAN Distance: 144.2-kilometer Utsunomiya, JPN — Team Novo Nordisk, the world’s first all-diabetes pro cycling team, took on the 144.2-kilometer Japan Cup Road Race under sunny skies on Sunday. The 14-lap race included a steep climb followed by a fast, technical descent through…
Read More2018 Japan Cup | Criterium Recap
Charles Planet breaks down the 2018 Japan Cup Criterium. “I’m close to the top 10 against a lot of good riders from World Tour teams, so I’m really happy and I look forward to tomorrow’s road race.”
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Read MorePlanet 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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