Sagan leads quartet into cycling’s cobbled “Hell”
Three-time world champion Peter Sagan and a crop of other stars, including Van Avermaet, Stybar, Degenkolb, and Kristoff, are set to battle at this year's Paris-Roubaix.
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Three-time world champion Peter Sagan and a crop of other stars, including Van Avermaet, Stybar, Degenkolb, and Kristoff, are set to battle at this year's Paris-Roubaix.
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On a windy, tactical day of racing at Sea Otter Classic, Blevins fires off a winning attack on the final lap to beat the Canadian duo of Disera and L'Esperance.
Chances at GC victory increase for Bora-Hansgrohe following withdrawal of Alaphilippe and Kwiatkowski from the race.
The Deceuninck-Quick-Step team of Patrick Lefevere continues to dominate the classics season. With so many stars all vying for wins, how do they do it?
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With its punishing pavé and hard-man racing style, Paris-Roubaix favors the toughest men in the peloton. We look at five dark horses for Sunday.
It's been one year since Taylor Phinney's breakthrough ride at Paris-Roubaix, where the American gained valuable experience.
Dangermen Alaphilippe and Kwiatowski taken out of contention by late crash.
Deceuninck-Quick-Step return to winning ways after major contender Kittel taken out in late crash.
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USA Cycling's junior women's team needed a race, and the only one on the calendar was a men's kermesse in Belgium.
Milano-Sanremo winner Julian Alaphilippe carries his flying form into the Basque stage race, while Schachmann keeps GC lead.
The WorldTour may have to wait a little longer to see Mathieu van der Poel's true potential as the Dutch champ will return to mountain biking, focusing on the Olympics.
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The Belgian super-team takes a chance on a Tour of Flanders rookie, and the young Dane delivers a second-place result with a surprise solo attack.
Dutch champion van der Poel mounts a remarkable chase after breaking his wheel and crashing, sprinting to fourth place in his Tour of Flanders debut.
World champion Alejandro Valverde delighted in his Flanders debut, exceeding expectations to make the group of favorites and sprint to eighth.
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After losing some weight in the off-season, Italian Alberto Bettiol, 25, stuns Flanders favorites and scores EF's biggest victory in years.
Lead trio hold off chase group in final stretch to Oudenaarde, with Italian outsprinting van Vleuten and Uttrup Ludwig to take the win.
Italian takes first professional victory at one of the biggest races in the season, with EF-Education First teammates proving pivotal to success.
Key to success in Flanders is not the power over the bergs, but the sprint going into them, with course knowledge being vital.
Decision to race through to Liège means Sagan is only approaching peak form, but team and rivals still see him as Flanders threat.
James Startt and John Wilcockson chime in
Despite the hype following him into Belgium's biggest race, Wout van Aert keeps cool, insisting that the pressure he felt as 'cross world champion was greater.
Since he was young, Greg Van Avermaet has dreamed of winning Flanders. He has come close on several occasions but is still on a quest to win De Ronde.
Despite a WorldTour win drought, Boels-Dolmans riders confident in team strength and happy to see the peloton grow deeper and more competitive.
Olympic silver medalist Chloé Dygert makes an emphatic return to pro UCI racing with a victory in opening stage of Joe Martin Stage race after 11-month recovery.
The Absa Cape Epic is the crown jewel of the Epic series, and arguably the hardest MTB race in the world. So how did a couple of roadies measure up to South Africa's stunning, savage terrain?
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After stunning the WorldTour peloton with a win at Dwars door Vlaanderen, Mathieu van der Poel and his team say, "The surprise factor is gone."
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SRAM's new second tier electronic group delivers all the 12speed function of RED eTap AXS for significantly less.
It is a logistical puzzle to run men's and women's races concurrently on the same course, but it can give the women's race greater visibility.
Trek-Segafredo's Jasper Stuyven won't talk about it, but his SRAM eTap AXS bike has Shimano Di2 sprint shifters wired into it.
Proving his potential on the road, cyclocross champion Matheiu van der Poel sprints to victory in Dwars door Vlaanderen after animating the race.
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Wednesday's Dwars door Vlaanderen should be a wide-open opportunity for riders who usually live in the shadows of Flanders favorites.
With an increasingly strong Jumbo-Visma team at his command, Wout van Aert's confidence grows ahead of his second run at Tour of Flanders.
Rivals are flummoxed by Deceuninck-Quick-Step's control of the classics, but longer, harder races like Roubaix and Flanders may offer new chances.
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The men's and women's pelotons face a tough day of cobblestones and wind as a string of Belgian classics get underway with Gent-Wevelgem.
Peter Sagan confirmed his top form on Sunday by riding in the daylong breakaway at Gent-Wevelgem
Facing doubts about his team's classics chops, John Degenkolb delivers a solid second-place finish at Gent-Wevelgem, building confidence.
Although Gent-Wevelgem isn't generally regarded as the hardest race of the cobbled classics, the peloton made the 2019 edition a bruising brawl.
World cyclocross champion Mathieu van der Poel impresses with a fourth-place result at Gent-Wevelgem after a day of aggressive racing.
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Quinn Simmons became the first American to win the junior men's race at Gent-Wevelgem.
Kristoff sprinted long and into the wind from reduced peloton of favorites to take fast and furious edition of the race.
WNT-Rotor repeat success of Thursday's Brugge-De Panne victory, with Wild and Brennauer partnering perfectly.
Quick-Step hoping for adverse weather as cobbles season continues, with harder conditions playing into team's hands.
Luck, legs, teammates and know-how coming together perfectly mean Stybar goes into Flanders one of the hot favorites.
Greg van Avermaet hopes his strong legs bring him victories at the longer Monument races
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Thanks to an early attack by teammate Bob Jungels, Zdenek Stybar had the upper hand at E3 BinckBank Classic, beating Olympic champ Greg Van Avermaet in the final sprint.
Ardennes specialist Bob Jungels, winner of Liege 2018, turns over a new leaf at E3, proving to be a valuable teammate and even a threat to win on cobbles.
Wout van Aert is inching closer to a marquee win on the road. The last hurdle could be high-speed sprints.
Schachmann escapes early breakaway including van Garderen to win stage 5 at Volta a Catalunya.
After his teammate Jungels puts the peloton on notice with long-range attack, Stybar stays cool until final sprint to beat van Aert and Van Avermaet.
Some years it favors a bunch sprint. Other years, foul weather rips apart the peloton at Gent-Wevelgem. Who will be victorious this Sunday?
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After missing the podium in stage 3, Miguel Angel Lopez attacks with 8km to go on the summit finish to win stage 4 and take overall lead.
Olympic champion Greg Van Avermaet is left frustrated and angry by another lost opportunity at Milano-Sanremo and vows to deliver in northern classics.
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Don't pigeonhole him as a pure sprinter. Colombian Fernando Gaviria plans to contend at the cobbled spring classics.
Yates gets the better of Colombian climbers Bernal, Quintana, and Lopez. Martin battles his way to third place after being dropped on the summit finish.
Wednesday's sprinter showdown provides a preview of the action expected at Gent-Wevelgem. Groenewegen comes out on top ahead of Gaviria.