'We didn't want to go for the stage': Pogačar won a fifth stage Tuesday without really wanting to and then gifted his pink jersey to the rider he beat.
UAE keeps its core Tour de France group together, with Rafal Majka, Diego Ulissi and Mikkel Bjerg also to remain two more years.
UAE Emirates on the ropes after loss of fourth rider as pressure mounts on Tadej Pogačar; Tim Wellens latest to leave with COVID-19.
Nobody, that's who.
'“If the doctor and the UCI say that he can start then I suppose they know what they’re doing,' says Pogačar's team boss.
Welshman sits fourth overall as the race moves deeper into the Alps on stage 11.
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After his wink became a GIF in 2014, the UAE Team Emirates offered another theatrical gesture on stage 7
"Hold my beer," said UAE Team Emirates to Jumbo-Visma. Sort of.
Majka and teammate Pogačar made time for a quick game before the finish of stage 4 of the Tour of Slovenia.
Rafal Majka and Tadej Pogačar go one-two in the mountains, just like Primož Roglič and Jonas Vingegaard did at the Dauphiné.
Slovenian takes stage 3 win and the race lead but COVID-19 cases at UAE Team Emirates takes some of the joy away.
Majka takes the stage as the Tour de France favorite eliminates all but one of his GC rivals.
Here's what the stars said after Rafał Majka flew solo and Odd Christian Eiking continued to defy expectations at the Vuelta on Sunday.
Odd Christian Eiking retains red jersey after huge effort by his team, Adam Yates nabs 15 seconds in GC battle.
Doctors confirm veteran climber Rafal Majka did not suffer fractures in late-race crash, and will take Saturday's start.
UAE-Team Emirates confirms strong Tour de France squad with more mountain support for the defending champion.
What riders landed in what position after the penultimate stage of the 2020 Giro d'Italia.
João Almeida finally ceded pink, while Wilco Kelderman took a tenuous grip on the race lead. Tao Geoghegan Hart emerged as perhaps the best contender to win the overall. Thursday's stage 18 at the Giro d'Italia upended the GC picture.
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The 31-year old is at the end of his contract with Bora-Hansgrohe, and has signed on with UAE Team Emirates for two seasons.
Wilco Kelderman clawed back valuable time, while João Almeida turned himself inside out to hold pink. Veterans flailed while youngsters soared. Here's how the GC stars fared during the Giro d'Italia's 15th stage.
João Almeida soared while Jakob Fuglsang struggled. A few pure climbers did better than expected. Here's how the Giro d'Italia's stage 14 ITT shook up the race's GC standings.
Domenico Pozzovivo, Rafal Majka and Wilco Kelderman have been gifted the opportunity to step into the limelight after the GC shakeup Monday. Here's what you need to know about three of the sport's eternal nearly-men.
Monday's third stage of the Giro d'Italia saw the GC standings upended on the battle to Mt. Etna. Fred Dreier examines how the pre-race favorites fared on the push to the summit.
The Bora-Hansgrohe climber recognizes that with an abbreviated season he'll have to ‘give everything.’
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Peter Sagan says the Tour's ninth stage was a crazy ride across Northern France's cobblestones. He could only manage fifth.
Bora-Hansgrohe will try to balance Peter Sagan's green jersey aspirations with a GC attack by Rafal Majka.
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Rafal Majka was named in a police report as taking testosterone and humane growth hormones, a claim he said is not true.
Rafal Majka is aiming for a top-five finish at the Tour de France — and no more bad luck.
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GC hopeful Rafal Majka exits the Tour de France after losing time in stage 9 due to a major crash. He will target the Vuelta a España.
World champion and five-time green jersey winner Peter Sagan leads an ambitious Bora-Hansgrohe team at the Tour de France.
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Rafal Majka sprints out of a breakaway group to win stage 2 of Amgen Tour of California. The Pole also takes the overall lead.
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With the trading season opening August 1, teams, riders, and agents are jockeying for position in the market.
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Rafal Majka rode the Giro's stage 9 TT aboard a Specialized Shiv
The Tinkoff rider is piloting this Dura-Ace Di2-equipped Tarmac for the three-week Giro d'Italia.
Rafal Majka is Tinkoff's best hope for a podium finish at the Giro d'Italia, and he was 13th overall entering Wednesday's stage 5.
Rafal Majka will ride the Giro d'Italia as the Tinkoff team's leader, one year after his teammate Alberto Contador won the season's first grand tour.
Rafal Majka will open his 2016 campaign in Argentina at the Tour de San Luis
Rafal Majka stayed with the top contenders in Spain and was able to ride into third place on the race's final weekend.
Fabio Aru won a Spanish grand tour that was filled with crashes, abandonments, and an ejection.
Fabio Aru takes his first grand-tour victory as John Degenkolb salves Giant's wounds over losing the Vuelta on the penultimate stage
Four upcoming stages at the Vuelta a Espana will most likely decide who wins the overall title. Andrew Hood previews the action.
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Tinkoff-Saxo notches its first stage win of the 2015 Tour with a bold solo win by Rafal Majka, king of the mountains in last year's race.
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The Paris-Nice route this year will offer something for everyone in the peloton
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The Tinkoff-Saxo rider will work on his time trialing over the winter as he looks to improve his grand tour results
Though he’s sitting second overall, Rafal Majka has been frustrated by his inability to win in Colorado
The American wins stage 3 of the USA Pro Challenge with peerless climbing prowess and rides his way into the GC lead at the Colorado tour
A few GC conclusions after two stages of the USA Pro Challenge, as the race heads into a decisive summit finish atop Monarch Mountain
On a short stage that climbed to 8,200 feet on three occasions, Tinkoff-Saxo rider Rafal Majka showed no issues with the thin air
Tom Danielson and Tejay van Garderen headline the list of GC favorites at the USA Pro Challenge, which starts Monday
The week-long Colorado race features domestic and international talent that will battle for GC supremacy
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It was the biggest career win for the 24-year-old Pole, who won two stages at the Tour in July, and finished sixth overall at the Giro d’Italia in May
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Majka fights off the two Spaniards he faced the day before to win by 10 seconds in Bukowina Tatrzanska
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Majka pipped Spanish duo Benat Intxausti and Ion Izaguirre at the end of a rainy, hilly, 190 kilometer stage