Vincenzo Nibali

Here's the news making headlines for Thursday, February 11.

Is Filippo Ganna the future for Ineos Grenadiers? Who's in form ahead of the classics? And who the heck is Jake Stewart?

Time trial champion blitzes short final stage to make it two wins in two days.

Etoile de Bessèges this week to play host to three grand tour greats with career-defining questions to answer.

Former Tour de France winners Vincenzo Nibali, Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal are among marquee starters for the French race.

Mads Pedersen and Bauke Mollema also lead Trek-Segafredo at Bessèges debut in France.

Five-stage race returns after taking a pause in 2020, with Vincenzo Nibali, Simon Yates, Thibaut Pinot, Tao Geoghegan Hart likely to start.

In an attempt to keep the public away for health and safety concerns, race organizers keep quiet on the actual route.

As the 2021 racing season approaches, Vincenzo Nibali is gearing up for another busy campaign.

Geraint Thomas discusses the 2021 Tour de France route, his crash at the Giro d'Italia, and life at Ineos Grenadiers without Chris Froome.

Olympics taking center stage in 'revenge' season for Italian superstar.

Trek-Segafredo signals it will bring all-star cast to Tour de France, with Giulio Ciccone seeing leadership shot at Vuelta a España.

This is a picture that says a lot about early season racing — but also about the courage of cyclists in general.

History is on his side: Every five-time Tour de France winner won one of their yellow jerseys in a year ending in 'one.'

The Sicilian veteran turns 36 on Saturday but insists that age is no object after subdued 2020 season.

What riders landed in what position after the penultimate stage of the 2020 Giro d'Italia.

Ineos Grenadiers, Bora-Hansgrohe among major figures to criticize Friday's rider protest as Vegni vows vengeance.

Vincenzo Nibali couldn't hold the pace of the young upstarts on the Stelvio on Thursday and falls to eighth overall at the 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.

Nobody attacked during Wednesday's summit finish at the Giro d'Italia. This year's long, daunting course may have sucked the excitement out of the race, writes Andrew Hood.

Race favorites Almeida, Hindley, Kelderman, and Nibali prepare to do battle on an epic Giro climb.

With the GC delicately poised and three tough mountain stages to come, the fight for the lead is far from settled.

The Giro's final week is still scheduled to pass over 2,700 meter passes. Riders are steeling themselves for freezing conditions and the risk of snow.

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.

Vincenzo Nibali and Jakob Fuglsang both struggled in Saturday's ITT at the Giro d'Italia. Now, both veterans must look to the coming mountain stages to gain back the lost time.

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.

Cycling's 'Gen Z' continues to shine at the Giro d'Italia as Brandon McNulty and João Almeida score top finishes during the second ITT.

Two-time winner defends Giro d'Italia from critics who want to end race early.

Rivals will want to distance João Almeida in this weekend's time trial and summit finale at Giro d'Italia.

Potential for rerouted or canceled stages in the high Alps leaves GC contenders unable to leave anything to chance as Kelderman rises to favorite status.

Italian remains optimistic for the second half of the Giro.

'Once the Giro is over, Astana and Trek are probably not best friends' writes the Dane after Vincenzo Nibali's team attacked when he punctured Saturday.

Many expect the untested grand tour rookie to crack, but what happens if he doesn't?

Since the start of this year’s Giro d'Italia, I have been waiting for this stage to Matera.

VeloNews looks at how a lack of any single dominant team is shaping this year's race, balancing riders in two grand tours, and how long João Almeida will remain the current race leader.

Peloton will be wrong to overlook Joao Almeida if he can defend pink Sunday.

We traveled to Messina, Italy to spend time with Giovanna Nibali. She told us endless stories of her son, Vincenzo.

VeloNews examines the potential effects of bad weather in the Alpine stages, as well as the chances for a darkhorse win, and the importance of time trials at the 2020 Giro d'Italia.

Check out Matt De Neef's author page.

View the exciting highlights and final kilometer of stage 3 of the 2020 Giro d'Italia

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.

We serve up our takes on the high-speed downhill TT that opened this year's Giro d'Italia, and take a look at the early GC shakeups.

The 2018 Tour de France champion took more than one minute against several key rivals in the opening day of the Giro d'Italia.

World time trial champion swaps rainbow jersey for maglia rosa after 58.8kph time trial while Geraint Thomas came home fastest of the top GC contenders.

Loaded with veterans, this year's Giro d’Italia bucks youth trend

Fred Dreier lays out the five storylines he's following during the upcoming Giro d'Italia.

This year's Giro d'Italia is set to see climbers do battle with time trialists and the whole peloton brace for a fight with the elements.

Geraint Thomas and Vincenzo Nibali headline a Giro that will play off the climbers against the time trialists.

Belgian-style 'bergs,' cool temperatures and strong chance of rain set to make men's race in Imola about survival of the strongest.

Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas, Mathieu van der Poel and Vincezo Nibali line up for eight-stage Italian race Monday.

The 2020 Tirreno-Adriatico will challenge riders with more than 15,000 meters of vertical elevation gain, as well as offer sprinters and rouleurs multiple chances for wins.

Check out Caley Fretz's author page.

Nibali, van der Poel, Woods and Bennett among those looking to shut down Evenepoel at Saturday's Italian monument.

Longest race of the year and minimal race days leaves a number of contenders without the final race-winning watts.

Insiders agree that summer heat, new route and smaller teams will add up to alter outcome of season's first monument.

Return to WorldTour racing saw many contenders lose out due to heat or mechanicals.

Young Belgian hoping to gain advantange in the race's three time trials and defend in the mountains

Strade Bianche, Milano-Sanremo, Il Lombardia, Tirreno-Adriatico highlight Sicilian's pre-Giro schedule.

At 35, Nibali is still one of pro cycling's most exciting riders. He shares his favorite Giro d'Italia memories, as well as his thoughts on this year's race.

20-year-old hotshot hopes to light up Giro d'Italia, feels no pressure at prospect of team leadership.

Trek-Segafredo will split into two training camps — in Italy and France — to prepare for a very compressed 2020 racing season.

Nibali's contract with Trek-Segafredo expires at the end of 2021, but that won't necessarily mark the end of his career.

Competing on Italian courses that mimic the Stelvio and Tucson countryside, the startlist has all the firepower of a grand tour.

Nibali to ride all-Italian calendar to also include Strade Bianche, Milano Sanremo and Tirreno-Adriatico.

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While few would confuse Nibali with the specialists of the Hell of the North, he rode brilliantly over the same cobbles during the 2014 Tour de France.

Van der Poel, Nibali, Pedersen and Ewan all due to take part in knock out virtual tournament

The two GC contenders should have traded blows at the Giro's opening stage Saturday, but instead are having to wait until October for La Grande Partenza

In part three of a conversation with Philippe Brunel, the legendary French journalist riffs on Felice Gimondi, Andy Hampsten and Vincenzo Nibali as he looks back on his 40 years at the Giro d’Italia.

Canada became the first nation to pull out of the Olympics while Australia told its athletes to plan for a rescheduling.

The Italian star is waiting to see if his Olympic dreams will be fulfilled in a season thrown into disarray.

The Italian proved he was in good form in France, but now everyone is wondering where they will be racing again.

The pandemic is on the minds of nearly everyone here, but strangely, once the race actually started, Paris-Nice seemed like just about any other bike race.

Despite the many rumors regarding the coronavirus and how it will affect professional cycling, stage four of Paris-Nice was really about racing.

Dutch races this weekend seeing increasingly-powerful line ups as teams scramble to find opportunities for riders scheduled to start northern classics.

French health authorities banned large public gatherings of more than 1,000 people, forcing Paris-Nice race officials to close off start and finish areas to the public.

Although called the 'Race to the Sun', it is easy to forget just how brutally hard Paris-Nice can be.

The Official Guide to the 2020 Giro d’Italia will be published in the May issue of VeloNews magazine

Races in Portugal and Spain provide important early season climbing and time trial tests for many marquee names.