Second stage of Istrian Spring Trophy
The second stage of the Istrian Spring Trophy started in Novigrad, a beautiful historic town on the western coast of Istria in Croatia. Covering 173 kilometers, this was easily the most challenging of the race. The stage included a tough hilltop finish in the town of Motovun and as expected the stage brought some fireworks.…
Read MorePeron sprints to 11th on stage one in Greece
A windy opening stage of the inaugural South Aegean Tour saw Italian Andrea Peron win the sprint out of a chasing group just behind the late attackers to finish 11th on the day and frustrated at missing what turned out to be the winning move. Team Novo Nordisk suffered an early setback with Belgian sprinter…
Read MoreTNN Devo’s second day at Istrian Spring Trophy
Sergey Lagutin, Head coach, Sport Director: “Was a very easy classic stage, flat with some hills at the end. Sacha, Jacopo and Louis were very motivated to go in the early breakaway today but it didn’t work out. Breakaway was gone after 40km with two riders and they got 5 min max, no one was chasing them so these…
Read MoreDevo Race Report – Istrian Spring Trophy – Prologue
Date: 10 March 2022 Start time: 11:00 Avg. speed winner: 49.541 km/h Race category:ME – Men Elite Distance:1.5 km Points scale:2.2.Stage Parcours type: Flat out and back ProfileScore:0 Vert. meters:42 Departure:Vrsar Arrival:Vrsa Daniel Holt – Team Manager A very simple and boring prologue. 1.5km with two 180 degree turns on an aeroplane runway. There wasn’t any…
Read MoreTeam Novo Nordisk set for Greek epic over three weeks of racing in March
The world’s first all diabetes professional cycling team head south for a block of early races and a mini training camp on the Greek Islands that will take in the Tour of South Aegean, the Rhodes GP and International Rhodes Tour. First up and new to the UCI calendar is the two-day Tour of South…
Read MoreReport: Devo team continues campaign in Croatia
Start time: 11:00 Avg. speed winner: 44.802 km/h Race category: ME – Men Elite Distance: 155.5 km Points scale: 1.2 Parcours: Flat Vert. meters: 1258m Departure: Porec Arrival: Porec Daniel Holt – Team Manager This race plays out the same way every year, a small break goes early and stays clear until the final 40km, then the real race starts. We told the guys…
Read MoreTNN Development season opening at Umag Trophy in Croatia
Sergey Lagutin, Development Team Head Coach: “We are so excited and motivated to go to this race every year.Louis Evans, Sacha Bietry and Jacopo Colladon tried to be in an early breakaway, but unfortunately it didn’t work out. The breakaway left after 85 km consisting of 3 riders with the maximum advantage of 45 seconds. Celestin…
Read MoreFinal laps over Mur de Kigali bring thrilling Tour du Rwanda to a close
What an eight-days of racing it has been at this year’s Tour du Rwanda. There’s been a little something of everything, torrential rain, scorching sunshine, brutal climbs, flying finishing straights, crashes, abandons, top 20’s and battles to the line. What a week. What a place. Above all…WHAT FANS! At times it seemed like the whole…
Read MorePenultimate stage in Rwanda sees TNN rally with the finish in sight
David Lozano: “Today my legs felt better than the earlier stages and after yesterday’s strong finish I actually felt really positive at the start, but I had some difficulty breathing and found it hard to push through the limit so to speak and that restricted me a bit today.” Lucas Dauge: “It started really fast…
Read MoreLozano finds the outside line as teamwork starts to pay off for TNN in Rwanda
David Lozano (ESP): “Yet again it was hard from the flag drop today, but I feel like we did much better. Maybe we are finally acclimatizing because we managed to work really well over the three main climbs and everyone did a great job.” “Lucas did amazing work for me and Peter at the end…
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