Full Speed Time Trial Kicks Off Tour de Tochigi

Team Novo Nordisk | 2018 Tour de Tochigi

Race: Tour de Tochigi, prologue Start/Finish: Yanaka/Yanaka, Japan Distance: 7.25 kilometers Yanaka, Japan – Team Novo Nordisk kicked off its first 2018 race in Japan on Friday, with a flat, short and fast prologue at the 2018 edition of Tour de Tochigi. Sam Brand had the squad’s top time on the 7.25km circuit along the Yanaka reservoir, a popular destination for sailboating and windsurfing. The riders…

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Milestone Day For Planet at Milan-San Remo

Team Novo Nordisk | Charles Planet | 2018 Milan-San Remo

Race: Milan-San Remo Start/Finish: Milan/San Remo, Italy Distance: 291 kilometers San Remo, Italy — On Saturday, Team Novo Nordisk’s Charles Planet rode in the main breakaway at the 109th edition of Milan-San Remo, which puts a rider with diabetes in the break at the longest one-day race in the world for four consecutive years. “I…

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Get to Know Our Sponsor: Giessegi Srl (GSG)

TEAM NOVO NORDISK Sponsor: Giessegi Srl (GSG)

Team Novo Nordisk’s new clothing sponsor for the 2018 season is Giessegi Srl (GSG), which was founded in 1984 by Italian professional road and track rider Simone Fraccaro. Fraccaro was a standout on both the road and track during the 1970s and 80s and raced professionally from 1974-1984 with some of the biggest names of…

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Changing Diabetes® in Children: Uganda

Immy Anne - Changing Diabetes® in Children - Immaculate Anyango, type 1 Uganda

I AM GRABBING THAT HOPE Meet Immy Anne, a 14-year-old in Uganda that is living and thriving with type 1 diabetes after she was lucky enough that a doctor recognized her symptoms. The cicadas sing in the tall grass as I talk to Immy Anne at the front porch of her home in the outskirts…

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Get To Know TNN: Emanuel Mini

Emanuel Mini | TEAM NOVO NORDISK

New to Team Novo Nordisk’s professional squad for the 2018 season is 31-year-old Argentinian Emanuel Mini. He was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 26 and first met Team Novo Nordisk when the world’s first all-diabetes pro cycling team was racing at the Tour de San Luis in Argentina (2014). Mini had only been…

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Team Type 1 Prepares For Next Class of Global Ambassadors

Team Type 1 Global Ambassadors

Every January, TT1 starts the year off in the most inspiring way possible–by pouring through stacks of Global Ambassador scholarship applications in preparation for the 2018-2019 selection process! This spring, approximately 170 student-athletes with diabetes will be considered for $140,000 worth of scholarship funding. The purpose of TT1’s scholarship program is two-fold: Offset the cost…

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Team Novo Nordisk’s Top Race Videos of Early 2018

Team Novo Nordisk's Top Race Videos of Early 2018

Team Novo Nordisk kicked off the 2018 season at Dubai Tour, against a field of the world’s best riders, and came away winning the Intermediate Sprint jersey. Next, the world’s first all-diabetes pro cycling team went handlebar-to-handlebar at the World Tour event, Abu Dhabi Tour, where a TNN rider featured each day in the main breakaway. Check out our top 5…

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