Race: Tirreno-Adriatico, stage 7 Start/Finish: San Benedetto del Tronto Distance: 10km San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy — Team Novo Nordisk completed its first ever appearance at Tirreno-Adriatico on Tuesday, finishing the one-week World Tour Italian stage race with a 10km individual time trial along the shores of the Adriatic sea. In seven stages over 1000km,…

Race: Tirreno-Adriatico, stage 6 Start/Finish: Ascoli Piceno/Civitanova Marche Distance: 168km Civitanova, Italy — Joonas Henttala put himself in the breakaway at Tirreno Adriatico on Monday, attacking from the start with seven other riders on the next to last day of the Italian World Tour stage race. Henttala and his breakaway companions attacked for different reasons,…

Race: Tirreno-Adriatico, stage 5 Start/Finish: Rieti/Fermo, Italy Distance: 209km Fermo, Italy — Team Novo Nordisk and the rest of the professional peloton paid tribute on Sunday to the victims of last August’s earthquake near Amatrice, rolling quietly past the site of ruined homes and uprooted villages during stage five of the Italian World Tour stage…

Race: Tirreno-Adriatico, stage 4 Start/Finish: Montalto di Castro/Terminillo Distance: 171km Terminillo, Italy — Romain Gioux set out to ride in his first World Tour breakaway on Saturday on the Queen Stage of Tirreno-Adriatico, slipping into a 6-man group at the beginning of the race to build a maximum 10-minute advantage before the final climb at…