John Degenkolb

The Giant-Alpecin rider and six of his teammates were hit by a car head-on during a training ride in January.

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The German and five of his teammates were injured when a car plowed into them during a training ride last month.

Warren Barguil talks about a head-on collision with a car that sent six Giant – Alpecin riders to the hospital last weekend.

John Degenkolb and some of his Giant-Alpecin teammates were hit by a car head-on during a training ride in Spain last week.

Team Giant-Alpecin picks up the pieces after Saturday's training crash

The Giant-Alpecin rider won Milano-Sanremo and Paris-Roubaix last season, and he's ready to prove that was no fluke.

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John Degenkolb doubled-up in 2015 with two monument wins, earning him the title as best classics rider of the season.

With Segafredo sponsoring Trek for the next three years, team officials have more bargaining power as they search for another classics king.

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The elite men’s road race will be a wide-open affair; with three short, steep climbs in the closing 5km and a chance of showers, almost anything can happen

When John Degenkolb raised his arms across the final finish line of the Vuelta, his missing confidence returned. Now, he says, he's ready for the worlds.

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The cycling world will turn its attention to Richmond, Virginia starting this weekend at the UCI Road World Championships.

The German sprinter closed the Vuelta a Espana with a stage win and is now preparing to take on the peloton in Richmond.

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Fabio Aru takes his first grand-tour victory as John Degenkolb salves Giant's wounds over losing the Vuelta on the penultimate stage

In another blow for Marcel Kittel, the German national team is overlooking him in favor of Andre Greipel and John Degenkolb for Richmond.

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André Greipel leads a one-two German finish in stage 15 as Peter Sagan, who featured in an early break, finds himself denied yet again

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Germans have found success at the Tour thus far, with Tony Martin and Andre Greipel winning a combined three stages

All-rounder John Degenkolb is confident he can fill the shoes of Giant-Alpecin sprinter Marcel Kittel at this year's Tour de France

Though Kittel is a proven stage winner, Giant-Alpecin feels it has more options than ever to collect victories at the Tour

The Giant-Alpecin star has eight Tour de France stage wins but will miss this year's race after an illness

The Norwegian has 18 wins so far this season, but several riders will challenge him in the mass gallops to the finish line

"We should not expect to see cycling liberated forever from these cheats," says classics champion John Degenkolb

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John Degenkolb and Alexander Kristoff have morphed themselves into strong classics riders capable of tackling the demanding spring races

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John Degenkolb revels in his second monument win of the season, one year after rueing a near-miss second place in Paris-Roubaix

German John Degenkolb (Giant-Alpecin) won Paris-Roubaix with a courageous late-race move, followed by a brilliant finishing sprint

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Can Alexander Kristoff pull off the Flanders-Roubaix double, or will someone else emerge from the dusty cobbles as Sunday's winner?

John Degenkolb rides Giant's Defy road bike for the bergs and cobbles of Flanders

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Without perennial favorites Boonen and Cancellara, a new generation of riders is elbowing its way to the top of the Flanders heap

Find out what it took for John Degenkolb to win his first-ever monument at Milano-Sanremo in Italy

Big names and bigger teams are fine-tuning form and team compositions in this week's semi-classics ahead of the major spring races

The German reels in the biggest catch of his cycling career by winning Sunday's Milano-Sanremo

Sprinter John Degenkolb shone brightly in Sanremo, but not before some other bright lights went dim on the long, cold road from Milano

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A rainy, crash-packed edition of La Classicissima ends in a mad dash to the line won by Giant-Alpecin's John Degenkolb

Sunday's edition of the sprinter's classic pulls from past races to present an old-school route that finishes on the Via Roma

The Paris-Nice route this year will offer something for everyone in the peloton

Why are bike races held in the sandy, sunny, and flat Middle East? Caley Fretz checks in from the Persian Gulf region.

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Mark Cavendish wins the final stage to take the overall in Dubai as John Degenkolb's leadout train gets derailed

The German takes a 4-second lead into Saturday's final stage

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Cancellara is keenly aware that his reign as one of the kings of the classics is reaching its zenith as up-and-comers vie for the crown

Giant-Shimano's John Degenkolb wins Paris-Bourges ahead of this Sunday's Paris-Tours

Alejandro Valverde has a tough row to hoe if he is to win the rainbow jersey on his home turf, with the Aussies and Belgians gunning for him

Though he's happy with his team, the German all-rounder knows something must change if he wants to win the Tour's points competition

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Degenkolb, recent winner of four stages at the Vuelta a España, is in the hospital, the result of a festering infection from a crash at the Vuelta

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John Degenkolb again proves fastest in the Vuelta's sprints, claiming stage 17 ahead of Michael Matthews

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The peloton cruises through a day in Rioja country, while Krizek makes a solo move that is ultimately squashed by Degenkolb

The sprinters enjoy one final day before the Vuelta returns to the hills, and John Degenkolb makes the most of stage 12's flat, fast finish

Tinkoff-Saxo puts Garmin-Sharp in trouble in the crosswinds. Degenkolb wins a fierce sprint, drawing the ire of Bouhanni

Tinkoff-Saxo shows their confidence, splitting the peloton in crosswinds, and Degenkolb prevails again in the sprint

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John Degenkolb out-sprints a Vuelta peloton that is whittled down by two hard climbs and hot weather

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With riders at the front for almost the entire day, Garmin capped stage 19 at the Tour with a victory by Ramunas Navardauskas

Tony Gallopin attacks twice in the final kilometers of stage 11 at the Tour, which leads to France’s second stage win

Bike racing sometimes goes according to the book, but there are days when it respects neither plot nor narrative

German sprinters take an unconventional route to the Tour de France via a return trip to high altitude deep in Spain's Sierra Nevada

A crash with 500 meters left takes out Mark Cavendish and several others vying for the sprint win

The Manx Missile fought Degenkolb bar to bar for the victory, and took it — by a tire's width

The 25-year-old German racked up a win and a runner-up in Belgium and northern France

Terpstra attacks a powerful group of contenders in the final kilometers to reach the Roubaix velodrome alone and seize a solo victory