Derek Gee and Brandon McNulty Confirm GC Promise with Top-10s at the Giro d’Italia
How the North Americans fared: Beyond the headlines of Isaac del Toro, Derek Gee and Brandon McNulty both hit GC career-bests in the Giro d’Italia.
How the North Americans fared: Beyond the headlines of Isaac del Toro, Derek Gee and Brandon McNulty both hit GC career-bests in the Giro d’Italia.
A few favorites crashed or faded, and rising stars like Del Toro and Gee confirmed GC promise in a wild three weeks at the Giro d'Italia.
Isaac del Toro bounces back to win stage and tighten grip on pink jersey in well-timed surge after surviving the Mortirolo: 'I have nothing to lose.'
The 2019 pink jersey Carapaz pounced on the closing climb to surprise the GC favorites to win the stage and revive his overall ambitions: 'I saw people were suffering.'
UAE’s ‘Three Musketeers’ strategy is paying off so far in the Giro d'Italia: 'We will race to keep the pink jersey on the team and win the Giro.'
Giro GC in the balance: Del Toro leads, UAE dominates, and Roglič reeling as Week 2 brings time trial and big climbs in crunch time for maglia rosa.
Del Toro, Gee, McNulty headline a 7-rider North American contingent chasing pink, stage wins, and glory at the Giro d'Italia.
With 8.4 w/kg climbs and a 7.4 w/kg late in the race, Pogačar’s LBL numbers are straight up absurd.
The Americans came out on top in the final stage of Paris-Nice, but let’s take a step back to see how we got here.
Back-to-back wins at Paris-Nice has convinced Jorgenson that a grand tour could be in his future: ‘Now it’s time to set the bar higher.'
Defending champion Jorgenson cedes yellow to Visma teammate in frigid, bracing cold: 'I didn’t have a good feeling at all on the final climb.'
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CONFIRMED: Bernal fractures clavicle in high-speed crash. Kwiatkowski hangs on after McNulty punctures late, Kuss and Van Aert suffer in wild road season debuts.
Bahrain Victorious go 1-2 at 2025's first mountain summit finish at the Volta a Valenciana, but Mathias Vacek held firm in the GC battle.
WorldTour representation continues to decrease while results and individual rider quality increase.
American Paris-Nice winner made a big leap forward, and believes more is to come in 2025.
First win, first bike, first contract: The US TT champion and Vuelta stage winner details his road to the top.
The WorldTour season-ender at the Tour of Guangxi could tip UAE over the top for the all-time win record set by Columbia-HTC in 2009.
American rider grabbed the race lead Thurday with a storming solo victory.
American rider lands eighth victory of the season: ‘Today was a good day, hopefully we can defend the lead until the end.’
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UAE's haul included three stage wins, the King of the Mountains jersey, the most combative rider prize, the team classification victory, and a top-10.
Stefan Küng wins first grand tour stage in final time trial as Ben O’Connor secures second overall ahead of Enric Mas.
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Stage win for Marc Soler and mountains jersey for Jay Vine on Covadonga see the 'super team' refusing to give up after GC chances look slim.
American rider McNulty slides under guardrail and down slope, dodges serious injury in fall.
The Vuelta is turning into a chaotic race where riders are trading-off having amazing days. Here's how Roglič, O'Connor, Carapaz and more have performed.
The Portuguese rider slipped out of a virtual podium spot while defending champion Kuss ceded another minute: 'I got held up by the crash.'
Crashes send three more riders home, including Colombia's Urán racing his 25th and final grand tour of his legendary career.
'It’s pretty cool to be up there with those guys:' Riccitello climbs to career-best grand tour 6th while defending champion Kuss limits the losses on brutally hot climb.
Key Kuss helper Van Baarle crashes out, McNulty cedes leader's jersey as Vuelta's first road stage ends in a reduced bunch sprint in a broiling stage.
With McNulty's red jersey Saturday, the team has now claimed 40 grand tour leader's jerseys out of 43 days of racing so far in 2024.
Kuss cedes early time to top GC contenders: 'We don’t have the same strategy like in the Tour.'
American champ becomes first leader of 2024 race, and fifth US rider in history to top the GC leaderboard.
Analysis: UAE's never won a grand tour without Pogačar. Now the team is poised to complete the 'grand tour sweep' if one of its stars comes up aces.
Can Sepp Kuss strike twice? A wildly unpredictable GC field and a mass of mountaintop finishes will determine his title defense.
No Pogačar or Ayuso for season dominators, but heavyweight team including a fleet of top climbers and Mexican prodigy Del Toro will line out as favorites.
American women dominate Paris Olympics with record-breaking medal haul for Team USA: 'There's nothing better than this.'
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The Idahoan was one of the strongest in the race and leaves Paris with a bittersweet 9th: 'I had the best feeling I ever had in a one-day race, I wish I would have used it to medal.'
'We have a limited hand, but we have a pretty good hand': Team USA brings outsider hopes of disrupting the favorites to mine Olympic gold in this weekend's road races.
Catch up on the Olympic Games so far and learn what you need to know for the road race and track cycling events still to come.
Wheel choice, and a puncture from Josh Tarling, help Van Aert earn emotional bronze medal: 'It's only a bronze, but I can be proud of that.'
5th is decade best by US male, while Magnus Sheffield sees medal chances deflate in spill on wet roads: 'It was like I was on ice.'
Belgian rider Evenepoel takes Olympic gold six days after finishing in podium in first Tour de France.
USA Cycling is predicting up to 4 medals, but perhaps even more: 'We have athletes who can be competitive every day.'
Flat, sheltered Paris TT route could prompt Wout van Aert to race with a full disc wheelset: 'We will decide Saturday. It mainly depends on the wind.'
Threat of rain and a choppy urban course on the flat roads of Paris make an already wide-open race even more unpredictable.
From Dygert and Van Dijk through Ganna and Evenepoel, here are all the start times for Saturday's fast and furious 34km 'race of truth.'
The top Tour de France finishers, except Pogačar and Vingegaard, are heading to Paris for the Olympic Games time trial and road race.
Dygert and McNulty along with Taylor Knibb and Magnus Sheffield give Team USA its first chance to earn a medal in road racing in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Ten men and 13 women will represent the United States across the five Olympic disciplines of road, mountain bike, track, BMX racing, and BMC freestyle.
A slate of familiar professional WorldTour road riders is joined by professional triathlete Taylor Knibb.
A daring solo move and a three-up sprint cap a thrilling week of racing at the 2024 US road national championships.
Both winners earn a spot on Team USA for the Paris Olympics this summer.
The winners of the women's and men's time trials will earn an automatic berth to race the Olympic Games in Paris.
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American duo dominate race against the clock in Swiss race, Juan Ayuso nudges into overall lead ahead of decisive climbing stage.
The first of the Ardennes Classics promises dramatic racing on twisting, hilly courses.
Christophe Laporte returns in time for Paris-Roubaix for Visma-Lease a Bike, while Soudal-Quick Step loses two more to injury in what's been a harrowing week of injuries in Spain.
Roglič rolls on, and Bora-Hansgrohe officials confirm Lennard Kämna is in 'stable condition' after being struck by a vehicle while training in Tenerife.
Arizonan rider caught on final climb but stays calm, aces the final descent and wins.
Bobby Julich became the first American to win Paris-Nice in 2005. Two decades on he’s elated to see more American success at the high-profile stage race.
The American star lifts the lid on opportunistic tactics that won him 'strange' Paris-Nice and frustration with Skjelmose: 'I won the race on La Colle-sur-Loup.'
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Remco Evenepoel settles for second in a week that saw a subdued Primož Roglič in his debut with Bora-Hansgrohe.
Jorgenson in pole position with one stage left to go: 'I believe the win in Paris-Nice is possible.'
McNulty and Jorgenson go 1-2 on GC to leave race poised for wild weekend finale.
Brandon McNulty defends podium spot: 'We didn't get much help. There's more than just us in the race who want to win.'
New Year’s Eve talisman brings good fortune to American rider, who is having a breakthrough season.
American slots into the overall lead at the 'Race to the Sun' as rain and wind impact the team time trial stage: 'Some of the speeds were crazy.'
Jay Vine takes over from teammate Brandon McNulty as race leader on first summit finish.
American rider once again defending a leader’s jersey, weeks after winning the Volta Valenciana.
American national champion heads a UAE Team Emirates one-two-three podium sweep to secure red jersey.
American rider backing teammate Adam Yates in race, but flat time trial could hand him an early buffer over designated leader.
Project Echelon continues on its 'David vs. Goliath' European campaign: 'We are knocking on the door of a major result in Europe.'
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