Strong Opener for Peron at Tour of Hainan
Race: Tour of Hainan, Stage 1 Start/Finish: Xinglong/ Xinglong, China Distance: 88.3 kilometers Xinglong, China – Team Novo Nordisk kicked off the nine-day Tour of Hainan with Italian sprinter Andrea Peron taking 14th on Saturday’s 88-km circuit race through Xinglong. The Team Novo Nordisk squad set out to put a rider in the breakaway, but when that didn’t pan out, they shifted focus to setting…
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Read MoreVerschoor Comes in Just Outside Top 10 at Fast Japan Cup Crit
Race: Japan Cup/ Japan Cup Criterium Race Start/Finish: Utsunomiya, Japan Distance: 38.25-kilometer Utsunomiya, Japan — Team Novo Nordisk’s Martijn Verschoor finished just outside the top 10 when he sprinted to 11th place at the Japan Cup Criterium. Saturday’s 15-lap criterium around downtown Utsunomiya took place on a 2.25-kilometer circuit with two u-turns. Several riders attempted to escape on…
Read MoreTeam Novo Nordisk Taking Experienced Squad to Japan Cup
Race: Japan Cup Criterium (Oct 22) & Japan Cup Road Race (Oct 23) 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 third consecutive appearance at…
Read MoreSetting the Record Straight: Stephen Clancy
There is one thing people living with diabetes need to learn – possibilities do not vanish after diagnosis. Team Novo Nordisk, is on a mission to show that if you are living with diabetes, you are still able to live life the way you’d hoped. Stephen’s Story At 19 years old, Stephen Clancy was diagnosed…
Read MoreSetting the Record Straight: Karolina Witek
Read 19 year-old Karolina Witek’s story of her struggle and triumph to do what they said could not be done. Karolina is from Poland and was inspired by Team Novo Nordisk when she came across our video on Facebook page. Karolina’s story Before my diagnosis, I was training as a cyclist – mountain biking, cross-country and…
Read MoreThe Team Novo Nordisk Pipeline
Chris Williams (Pro Team): Team Novo Nordisk is unlike any other pro cycling team in that every single rider on our team is living with diabetes. Ben Dilley (Ambassador): Our ultimate goal is to put the first all-diabetes pro cycling team in the Tour de France by 2021. Gerd de Keijzer (Pro Team): This means we…
Read MoreTNN Talks: Gerd de Keijzer
You might have known that Pro rider Gerd de Keijzer began cycling with his local cycling club when he was seven years old and that he was diagnosed with diabetes while following the Tour de France in a camper with his family. But did you know that Gerd also loves “Band of Brothers” and is unable to race…
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TNN Tackles a Wet Münsterland Giro
Race: Sparkassen Münsterland Giro Start/Finish: Gronau / Münster, Germany Distance: 208 kilometers Münster, Germany – On Monday, Team Novo Nordisk took on the Germany’s one-day Sparkassen Münsterland Giro. The 208-km race kicked off in Gronau and followed a relatively flat course that was punctuated by seven small climbs before a rainy sprint finish in Münster. After approximatley 20km of racing, a group…
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