Paolo Bettini, 800 km by bike back to Athens
From Mount Olympus to Athens by bicycle remembering the Olympic medalist.
From Mount Olympus to Athens by bicycle remembering the Olympic medalist.
The sprinter from Friuli, who has already won 11 races this year, is one of the heralded stars of the European Road Cycling Championships.
The director of the Pink Race dreams big: “Cycling needs direct clashes between champions.”
The Slovenian on cloud nine: “I pushed hard, as always. Now I have to party.”
The Irishman on the Picon Blanco was ahead of Mas and the Slovenian, who has a more than two-minute lead over O’Connor when only the final time trial in Madrid is left.
The Red Bull Bora-Hansgrohe rider made stage 19 his own, ahead of David Gaudu and Mattias Skjelmose.
Ben O’Connor remains leader of the overall standings by 5 seconds over Primoz Roglic.
“He did his best, but it’s clear that it’s not normal that Philip had to give up on such a stage.”
Second success for the Australian, who grazes Wout van Aert on the finish line in Villablino. The Slovenian has mechanical problems on the descent, but returns in good time and loses no further seconds from Ben O’Connor.
The Canadian of Israel-Premier Tech pulls everyone away and alone to the finish line, Primoz Roglic gains another 2′ on the leader of the standings.
Red jersey still O’Connor who, however, has 37 seconds gnawed off Roglic.
The Lidl-Trek Friulian is unrivaled in the sprint at the Deutschland Tour.
The Slovenian won in a two-man sprint on the stage finishing in Cazorla, nipping nearly a minute off the overall leader.
Second stage win, again in a sprint, for the Belgian of Team Visma-Lease a Bike.
The Bahrain Victorious rider retains the lead in the Under-26 classification even after stage 5, won by Pavel Bittner.
The Slovenian won the fourth stage and jumped to the top of the standings
After a third and a second place, the Belgian is able to raise his arms to the sky at the finish line in Castelo Branco, confirming him in the red jersey.
The Belgian rider still narrowly misses out on the stage win, which goes to Kaden Groves, but takes the satisfaction of wearing the red jersey.
The men’s pursuit quartet returns to the podium after Tokyo 2020 gold.
The blue quartet beat Denmark in the ‘final’ of the men’s pursuit.
The Azzurri lose the confrontation to Australia (3:40.730) and will play for bronze against Denmark.
The Belgian after the time trial also wins the road race.
Verbanese’s statements after silver in the men’s time trial.
The Verbania native is silver in the men’s time trial behind Belgium’s Evenepoel, gold as an eve favorite. Bronze to the other Belgian Van Aert.
Eighth was Elisa Longo Borghii, the only Italian woman in the race.
“One of my goals was to go to the Olympic Games,” he admits.
“It could be my last Games, as Los Angeles 2028 is far away. I would like to leave a good mark, in this beautiful place, for Italy.”
The Belgian is one of the big favorites for tomorrow’s Olympic individual time trial.
“I tried, really, to file on everything. One day I allowed myself two beers, the ultimate in snark.”