16✨8澳洲5最新开奖结果:Degenkolb exited the Tour of Flanders just beyond the halfway point when he crashed in the peloton, along 🐷with teammates Tim Naberman and Alex Edmondson. The trio were taken to a nearby hospital, with confirmation of fractures ♋for the German and Dutch riders and Edmondson escaping with a sprained ankle. 

Jakobsen was diagnosed with "flow limitation in the iliac artery in both his legs", described by his team, and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:surgery on April 2 was successful, with his recovery ⛄expected to take l🔯onger than expected.

“At the start of the year, both John and Fabio were on our long list for the Tour de France, but for both, the race comes �♓�too early," Rudi Kemna, head coach of Picnic PostNL, said in a team statement.

"Now our p🐻riority is to get them both back to full health and have a good training block where they can return to their high level, before we then look to a race program for the second half of the season.”

While Naberman did not require surgery to his wrist, he was off the bike for six weekꦍs. Degenkolb, however, suffered breaks to his🧜 collarbone, elbow and wrist and underwent surgery in Frankfurt in early April, several days after the crash. A return to competition for July has been pushed back.

“The injuries John sustained were more serious than we thought from those very first scans and analysis after Flanders. He has had extensive surgery and has been able to ride indoors o♉n the trainer in a controlled environment. However, he still needs follow-up surgery to remove some of the material that is in place to speed up his recovery," said Picnic PostNL team doctor Camiel Aldershof in a team statement.

"The timing of this means that he will not be ready to race at the beginning of ♍July. From there, he can ride indoors again, and once things are healed, we can then focus on riding outside and building up his training level and intensities.”

His recovery time was expected to take up to 12 weeks, taking a start at the Tour out of the picture, but the🦋n he set his sights on the Vuelta a España at th🍷e end of August. Like Degenkolb, the team has now assessed that he will need more time off.

"On the other hand, Fa💫bio had a successful operation and good rehabilitation so far. Firstly, after the needed time off the bike to fully recover from the operation, he was able to start riding indoors at low in🌊tensity for 30 minutes per day, and we’ve steadily built that up," Dr. Aldershoff added.

"Recently, he’s been able to return to training outside a bi,t which is great, but still at a lower intensity than is required to build up ♚the base again for a three-week Grand Tour.”

After completing the AlUla Tour and UAE Tour, Jacobsen pulled out of Paris-Nice on stage 5, having a tough time early on the hi✃lly course and was one of the first riders to be dropped out of the peloton. He did not finish the Bredene Koksijde Classic or Brugge-De Panne and then had the double artery surgery. 

"I was dreading the operation, because it was another major procedure. But the w꧅orst is behind us now, and everything is going in a straight line," the w⛎inter of six Grand Tour stages told NOS. 

"The operation✱ was successful, but you lose eight weeks of fitness. You have to build that up again. Then the conclusion is that the Tour comes too early. I dreamed of the Vuelta, which starts on August 23. But I'm advised against it."

The 28-year-old now looks🌳 to return to the peloton in the final weeks of the season, noting Tour of the Netherlands or Tour of Guangxi, both taking place October 14-19.

Pieterse, the reigning cross-country world champion, arriv꧋ed fresh off a victory in Nové Město Na Moravě, while Blevins has now secured fꦆour in a row, having also won in Nové Město Na Moravě, and both rounds in Araxá.

Pieterse caught her rivals off guard with a surprise attack on a five-rider front 💯group mid-race, and then crossed the line 16 seconds ahead of runner-up Samara Maxwell (Decathlon Ford Factory Racing) a💜nd 21 seconds ahead of third-placed Nicole Koller (Ghost Factory Racing), who had jumped ahead of fourth-place Mona Mitterwallner (Mondraker Factory Racing) on the final climb.

"It’s been good. It was a 🐠completely different short track from two weeks ago. Then it was way more cagey and ended in a sprint finish, and today it was like an XCO course, so I went for it early. Normally, after 10 minutes, riders start to 💎get tired, so I tried to make use of that," Pieterse said after her victory.

"I’ve some good memories from Leogang. I won my first U23 World Cup here, so it carries good m🧜emories.”

Inꦉ the elite men's short track eღvent, Blevins attacked on the final ascent to put himself in the best position on track as he led entering the descent, and crossed the finish line first.

It was a 1-2 finish for Specialized Factory Racing as Martin Vidaurre Kossmann finished second place in the two-up sprint against his teammate, while Charlie Aldridge (Cannondale Factory Racing) finishꦑed in third place one second back.

"I’m just taking𝓀 it race by race and focusing on my process. Right now, the process is working. That was the hardest one yet. Just look at that climb. Sometimes you’ve got to surf it and find the little pockets to shoot through. Sometimes the guys at the back are working harder than the guys at the front. But on a course like this, it’s max effort for 20 minutes, and everyone is so strong," Blevins said.

“Tactics here are more like how you’re pushing your body and how you’ll find that edge and go just to the tip of it every time, and then last ꧂lap it’s all 🐠out. I saved that final match and definitely burned it for the win."

Blevins also became the♔ first rider to𝄹 win the first four UCI XCC World Cups of the season. He is now turning his attention to the elite men's cross-country event, where he could win his third in a row this season after winning round two in Araxá and round three in Nové Město Na Moravě.

“The pressure is outside of you," he said. "It’s other people’s projections. I’ve been winning by just focusing on my process, the mental side of it, the emotional side of it, bringing the mind and body to the closest I could get to doing my best at every single race. You’re just focu🍰sing on the processes, you don’t really think about pressurꦕe.”

The elite women's and elite men's cross-country XCO events will take place on Sunday in Le🧸ogang🎉, Austria.

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The accomplished sprinter, with more than 80 road victories acroꦑss five pro teams and appearances with the US national team, announced Thursday that "2025 will be IT for my racing days".

The 34-year-old will be on the start line for Friday's McNellie’s Group Blue Dome Criterium in downtown Tulsa, now in its 19th edition, which will be live-streamed by race organisers, and the broadcast provided below on Cyclingnews.

With fast courses in Oklahoma that Magner called the "Super Bowl of crits," he will continue racing through the road season, expected to compete in the bulk of the six US events that make up the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:American Criterium Cup, which starts in Tulsa.

"In the spirit of this being the Super Bowl weekend of Crits, officially announcing that after 20+ years of chasin🍒g and living my dream, 2025 will be IT for my racing days. The past 15 years of my life has been dedicated to being a professional rider," Magneဣr posted to his Instagram the day before Tulsa Tough.

"I raced and worked with some of my best mate♌s and idols, met my wife Alexis, travelled the world, rubbed shoulders with some legends, won a lot, lost even more. Time truly does fly when you’re having fun…Can't wait to share stories at the races this summer!"

Magner's last victory came six months ago off the pavement, as he added the men's master 30-34 age division national title at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:US Cyclocross Championships to his resume, having already won U23 and USPro criterium national titles. Two years ago, he had 🌼several podiums at ACC races, including wins at Bailey Glasser Twilight Criterium in Idaho and IU Health Momentum Indy in Indiana. He won the Nellie's Blue Dome criterium in 2022.

Before the 2025 season, his fifth with L39ION of Los Angeles, Magner told Cyclingnews that he considered ending his professional cycling c🌃areer the previous summer, but recommitted to his team𒈔.

"Personally, I’ve had over 80 high-level wins in the crits, my drive now is to get the team back to winning. I know when the team is working as it should that leads to wins not only for me but for everyone on L39ION. I’m doing my best to be the best teammate I can be. The goal is pushing the sport for🐽ward as a team rather than individuals. Teams are the backbone of bike racing," he said.

Fans can watch Magner and all the top pros in Tulsa Friday night on the official , which is made possible by Tulsa Tough sponsor QuikTrip. The elite women's ACC race begins Friday night at 7:05 p.m. CDT, while the elite men follow at 8:20 p.m🅘. CDT.

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The Blue Dome Criter🎃ium begins a fourth season of the American Criterium Cup (ACC) series, a collection of six one-day races across the US. Four of the events - Tulsa Tough, LHM l CC Utah Crits, Chicago GRIT's Fulton Market GP and Bommarito Audi West County Gateway Cup finale - will live stream races individually. 

The other two races this 🦋season are the June 28 stop at the multi-week Kwik Trip Tour of America’s Dairyland and the standalone Bailey & Glasser LLP Twilight Criterium in Idaho.

Two events did not carry over f♈rom 2024: the Littleton Criterium in Colorado and IU Health Momentum Indy in Indianapolis. 

"For 2025, the ACC events are putting more resources into the r🉐ace day prize lists, a minimum of $17,200 per event, split evenly by gender. The $44K season-ending prize list represents a total ACC Purse of $150K," Mike Weiss, one of the managing members for the ACC, to🎶ld Cyclingnews. "The balance of the American Criterium Cup funding is being used to produce editorial, video, and social content showcasing the athletes, teams, and communities that define American criterium racing."

The elite fields are stacked with talent, with 100 women registered for their start❀ and 136 men. A flat course swe🦄eps around a figure-eight layout and skews towards the sprinters with finishes under the lights. 

Coming in with a four-race winning streak is Marlies Mejías of Virginia's Blue Ridge TWENTY28. USPro elite women's criterium champion Kendall Ryan (L39ION of Lo Angeles) will be on the start line to defend her title from last year's Blue Dome Criterium Friday night. Cynisca Cycling will contend with Alexis Magner, on the podium last year in Tulsa, and th🅠e new U23 time trial champion, Chloe Patrick. 

Fresh off a criterium national titles, junior winner Alyssa Sarkisov and U23 winner Cassidy Hickey will be part of a strong CCB p/b Levine Law Group squad. Fount Cycling Guild will be anchored by sprinter Andre🅰a Cyr.

There will be a new winner of the Blue Dome Crit for the elite men, as Luke Lamperti (Soudal🔯-QuickStep) remains in Europe after riding the Giro d'Italia. Magner will be part of a solid L39ION of Los Angeles squad with multi-time Tulsa Tough winner Justin Williams and veteran Danny Summerhill among the six riders. Red-hot Team Cadence Cyclery p/b Encore Wire will be led by their USPro criterium winners, Lucas Bourgoyne the elite champion and Luke Fetzer the U23 champion. 

German Dario Rapps (DCC) comes in from winning the Capito▨l Cup and Armed Forces Cycling Classic omnium last weekend, while Clarendon Cup winner Matth🤪ew Bostock will lead the Tekkerz team. MitoQ New Zealand Cycling Project will be led by Ben Oliver and Bikers Cycling has Jordan Parra, both had multiple podiums at ACC races last year. 

The ACC runs as a partnership with the USA Cycling Criterium National Series. Most of the events on the calendar are multi-daꦐy omniums, with one day designated for ACC points. The series concludes August 31 in St. Louis at the Bommarito Audi West County Gateway Cup. 

Yukon native Mara Roldan stole away 1♔4km from the line to the stage, while Alaskan 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Kristen Faulkner (EF Education-Oatly) beca꧋me the new race leader and goes into the last two stages in Scotland holding the green jersey.

Faulkner had been second on stage 1, narrowly beaten in a two-woman sprint by Kim Le Court (AG Insurance-Soudal). However, Liège-Bastogne-Liège champion Le Court was held up by a crash on the finishing circuit around Saltburn-by-the-Sea, putting the US and Olympic champion into pole position to move into the green jersey.

"My team was really good in the first half of the race, just keeping me safe at the front. Once the circuit came, i🅰t was just a race of attrition," Faulkner said after the finish.

"We 🧸dropped some of the GC leaders, which was great, and it allowed me to finish with the jersey."

After the crash by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) split the peloton with Le Court caught on the wrong side, Faulkner led the first group up Saltburn Bank with a lap to go a𒁃nd was first at the finish line to take three valuable✃ bonus seconds.

On the finishing c🔯limb, Faulkne🐲r led the charge behind escapees Roldan and Riejanne Markus (Lidl-Trek).

However, she was overtaken by stronger sprinters on the finishing straight, rolling across the line in ninth place with the chase group behind the two leaders, 18 seconds off Roldan.

“It was a toug✨h circuit, and I think a lot of people were really fighting to stay in the race. I felt really good on the last climb, both times up it," Faulkner said.

"I was towards the front at the top, but then there was the long straight b🔥efore the finish, and I got caught there. I liked it, it was kind of the perfect one-minute power."

Faulkner, who now also holds the red points jersey and blue queen of the mountains jersey, heads into stage 3 in the Scottish Borders with a GC lead of four seconds on Markus. Third-place finisher on the stage, Ally Wollaston (FDJ-Suez), lies in 🧸third at 12 seconds.

The UCI Women's WorldTour continues on June 12-15, and the UCI WorldTour continues on June 15-22 as the two series head to Switzerland for the Tour♓ de Suisse Women and men's Tour de Suisse.

A host of top riders will be heading to the country to🅰 take on 🥀the top-level stage races.

In the women's race, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez) is the headline name on the start list. She'll be doing battle with the likes of Mischa Bredewold (SD Worx-Protime), 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-Sram Zondacrypto), Marlen Reusser (Movistar), Noemi Rüegg (EF Education-Oatly), and Mavi García (Liv-Al﷽Ula-Jayco) during the four-day race.

They'll take on a series of hilly stages around Switzerland, with ea💟ch day having GC potential even if there aren't any high mountain s✱ummit finishes.

Over in the men's race, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost),🍸 and Ben O'Connor (Jayco-AlUla) are among the top names competing.

Oscar Onley (Picnic-PostNL), Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious), Marc Hirschi (Tudor), 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michael Matthews (Jayco-AlUla), and Arnaud De L🐭ie (Lotto) are also taking on the men's Tour de Suisse.

The eight-day race will featur♐e hard mount🅰ain stages on stage 2 to Schwarzsee and stage 5 to Santa Maria in Calanca, as well as a clutch of hilly stages, and a closing 10km time trial on stage 8.

The race is available on several platforms across the world, with live streaming options as well. Read on for all the details on how to watch the Tour de 𝓡Suisse online, on TV, and from anywhere.

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The British rider started his year out strong with an ov🍰erall win at the AlUla Tour and a podium at the Vuelta a Andalucía, also collecting podiums at Strade Bianche, La Flèche Wallonne and two stages of Tirreno-Adriatico.

He headed to Albania for the Giro's Grande Partenza with ambitions 168澳洲5最新开🐷ꦇ奖结果:"to win and to just race every day hard." He was on the attack several times during the race but didn't eventually c๊ome away with a stage win.

25-year-old Pidcock took three top-five placings at the Giro, including a third behind Mads Pedersen in Matera on stage 5, but with 45 race days in his legs come the end of the race, he admitted that it had been a long first half of 2025 and sa📖id it's now time for a break.

"It's been a long block, to be honest," he told Cyclingnews on Sunday. "Starting with a new team, you know it's always 🍎going to be difficult. I think the motivation was super high to start really well, which I did.

"The🌌 big goal was Milan-San Remo. I♊ crashed there and was a bit unlucky. From there, I was holding on a bit, trying to keep the form I had."

Pidcock's Q36.5 team only learned🉐 they'd be racing the Giro at the end of March, with wildcards handed out much later than usual as organisers awaited UCI approval to add an extra team to the start list.

That delay, not knowing his future pla♛ns, had a major effect on preparation, Pidcock𝔍 admitted.

"When you start so hot – even in January camp, I was really good – it's a long time to hold [form] until now. ෴But when you get an opportunity to ride the Giro, even if itღ's late notice, you give what you can," he said.

In an interview with on Thursday, Pidcock spoke about his experience on stage 19 of the Giro, which tackled a quartet of high Alpine paꦏsses.

He battled to make the breakaway and raid the overall top 10, but "blew myself up in the heat", a mistake withꦬ his relat♔ive lack of dedicated preparation, he admitted.

"On the second climb, the group were going quite a lot faster. I just went for it, and the first time I went pretty hard, trying to get in that breakaway. It was the first day in the heat. I'm good in the heat when I'm prepar🦋ed, but not when I'm not," Pidcock said.

"I didn't really have the preparation. No altitude training or anything, and coming from the Ardennes rac📖es... it is ver𒊎y different to all the other GC guys. I mean, we only found out we were coming a few weeks before the race. It doesn't give us the best chance. But I can say I made the most of it."

Pidcock said that stage 9 on Tuscany's strade bianche was "the da𝕴y" for him, a suitable aim given he's a former winner of the WorldTour one-day race. But bad luck🍒, including a crash and two punctures, put paid to any plans on a stage win, with a 15th place finish as his end result.

"The Strade stage was the day, but it didn't go all to plan, some bad luck. I think when you're getting a bit tired and the decision that you make, you make your own luck," Pidcock told Cyclingnews.

"I think when everything is perfect and when you're fresh in the head, it all goes well. I think it's time for a little break and hopefully come back fighting i𓂃n the second half of the year."

'I have more of a kind of responsibility to give my best even when I'm not going to win'

Later in the Gir🔜o as the race hit the Alps, he faded from 11th overall on stage 14 to 16th in Rom𒐪e.

His move on stage 19 to Champoluc didn't come off, while stage 20's arduous ascent of the Colle delle Finestre, the launchpad for his countryman 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Simon Yates' Giro-winning raid, also took its toll.

"What Yates did was pretty phenomenal. The speed📖 they went at the last climb was incredible. I did my best-ever hour in terms of power and was seven minutes behind,ღ" Pidcock told the Times.

"The thing is, for me, I'v𒀰e never raced up an hour-long climb before. And I've never trained for an hour-long effort. So, it's a big area that I haven't touched, and, obviously, if I ever want to podium a Grand Tour, I need to get much better at that.

"I think if I do mana🤡ge to ever win a Grand Tour or get on the podium, it would be one of the biggest achievements ev💖er."

Pidcock said he's been "stuck between a rock and a hard place" during his recent Grand Tour participations, calling the races a "difficult point for me". His next attempt will come at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España later this season, f👍ollowing a well-earned break after the Giro.

He said he'll d🌳iscuss a plan with his team, with both he and Q36.5 having a lot more time to prepare for the trip to Spain, in contrast to the build-up to May.

"We have a lot more time. I want to sit down with the team and figure outꦇ where the gaps are and what I want to do. At the end of the day, I like having success – winning. If that means just going only for stages and targeting those,༒ so be it."

Having admitted at the start of the Giro that he's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:"started enjoying cycling" with Q36.5 follo✨wing his move from Ineos Grenadiers. He also has a different role at the ProTeam, with the Swiss squad looking to hꦍim to get results.

"I have more of a kind of responsibility to give my best e🥀ven when I'🍷m not going to win. And it's something that I've always struggled with. I go for big results, or I don't care," he said.

"Now it's a little bit diffe🐷rent. I'm not doing it for me anymore, but I do it for everyone who's working hard and believes in me and wor♍ks hard for me. I owe it to them."

However, ahead of a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UAE Team Emirates-XRG training ride at Pico Veleta on Tuesday, the Slovenian was spotted covering up his rainbow jersey with an al🔥l-black t♎eam-issue Pissei jersey.

While the bike was all black and white, too, he wasn't going for colour coordination. The reason? Pogačar was setting off for a tune-up on his Colnago TT1 time trial bike, but instead, he was hiding rainbow stripes as he isn't the world champion in that discipline. Of course, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Remco Evenepoel (ౠSoudal-QuickStep) holds the rainbow jersey in the time trial, having beaten Filippo Ganna to the title by six seconds in Zürich.

There are no UCI regulations preventing riders of ཧany level from wearing a world champion's jersey during training. Pogačar is, of course, prohibited from wearing the rainbow stripes🦄 during a time trial.

"World champions must wear their jersey in all events in the discipline, speciality and category in which they won their title, and no other event, until the evening of the day before the commencement of 🌃the next edition of the world championships of said discipline, speciality and category," reads UCI regulation 1.3.063.

Still, Pogačar stuck to a piece of cycling etiquette and covered his rainbow stripes fo🐓r his t⭕ime on the time trial bike. 

The video, caught by 'jmisniak' and published on Lucas' cycling blog on Facebook, caught Pogačar tuckin🌺g the rainbow-piped sleeves of his jersey und✱er the black jersey to cover them up.

During training rides, Pogačar always takes a non-rainbow j🔥ersey with him 🦩for this express occasion. This fact was revealed by his UAE teammate Rune Herregodts during an interview with back in February.

"Do you know what I thought was great? During training, we sometimes switch from a regular bike to a time trial bike. Then he always insists on taking a regular jersey with him, in addition to the rainbow jersey he was wearing," Herregodts told the Belgian pap🎃er.

"He doesn't want to sit on his time trial b💦ike with his rainbow jersey. 'Out of respect fo🌳r Remco', he says. He would rather ride with a jersey in his pocket all the time.

"He even rolls up the rainbow bands on his pants when he&a♌poꦛs;s on his time trial bike. Fancy, right? In terms of respect, that counts."

Pogačar's training ride at his team's training camp in Sierra Nevada, Spain, came ahead of his return to racing at the Critérium du Dauphiné, where he'll face off against Evenepoel and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) ahead of the Tour ꦕde France.

The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Critérium du Dauphiné route features three summit finishes as well as a mid-race 17.7km time trial, while other 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:general🍨 classification contenders at the ꦆrace⛦ include Enric Mas (Movistar), Carlos Rodríguez (Ineos Grenadiers), and Florianꦿ Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe).

First held back in 1935, the Vuelta turns 90 this year, and Guillén said that having the top two stage racers in the current peloton on the168澳洲5最新开奖结果: start line in Turin on August 23 would be an ideal "anniversary present."

In comments reported by Spanish state news agenﷺcy , Guillén said that he was al🅺so hopeful that a widely rumoured, but as yet not confirmed, series of stages on the Canary Islands for the Vuelta was a "key target for the coming years."

He also explained that the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:La Vuelta Femenina may soon chan🍨ge from its curr🥃ent dates in May, although that has yet to be definitively decided.

As for the 2025 men's race, Vingegaard has already said he will be returning to the race where he finished second in 2023, while Pogačar has yet to decide. Other top names currently on the provisional startlist include Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), Carlos Rodríguez (Ineos Grenadiers), 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Pidcock (Q36.5꧙), João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Mikel La𝔉nda (Soudal-QuickStep).

"Having Pogačar 🥂and Vingegaard there would be the best gift for our 90th anniversary, but what we already know about the participation, we definitely like," Guillén said.

The Vuelta a España – the 80th edition of the race – will start on August 23 in Tur🌜in, Italy, and finish on September 14 in Madrid, with summit finishes at the Angliru, Bola del Mundo and the Alto de Morredero all considered major highpoints.

"It's designed so it'll be decided in the Bola del Mundo. We've got lots of short stages with the 𒁏emotion concentrated right at the end," Guillén ad🦩ded. 

As for a return to the Canary Islands for the first time since 1987, Guillén said that "hopefully, it'll happen sooner rather than latܫer. We're not dreaming about an uphill time trial on Teide, for exam꧟ple, it's more about getting the race there.

"We'd like to go up the ♏Teide, but only as paꦺrt of a mass start stage. Going to the Canary Islands is currently the most attractive challenge we are facing, and the one we'd most like to do in our short-term future."

Regarding upcoming editions of the Vuelta a España, Gullén said that there would be no problem with moving the race dates in 2027, when the next edition of the 'Super-World Championships' will be held.

That year, the Worlds, which will combine multiple disciplines as it did in Glasgow in 2023, will 🏅finish on September 5, roughly two weeks after the Vuelta usually starts.

As for the Vuelta a España Femenina, Guillén said that the latest edition – won by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez) in both 2024 and 2025 – "was a wonderful one, but it's a relatively new project, just three years old [in its c🉐urrent, week-long format] and that means we'll have to make some analysis and changes."

"In the coming years, the UCI is going to produce a new calendar, and we'lꦉl have to see if we continue in May or move to the end of the season. Those are the two alternatives."

Pogačar is set to cross swords with both 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) and Jonas Vingegaard 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:(Visma-Lease a Bike) in the upcoming Dauphiné, widely viewed a🅘s theꦿ dress rehearsal for the Tour, which starts on Sunday.

It will be the first time Pogačar has competed against Vingegaard and Evenepoel in a stage race since the Tour last year, and also marks his return to competition after conquering 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liège-Bastogne-Liège for a th🍸ird time back in lat🌺e April. He last took part in the Dauphiné back in 2020, finis💫hing fourth overall prior to winning the Tour that year, his first of three titles.

Fresh from their remarkable triumph in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia with S💙imon Yates against UAE's young racer Isaac del Toro, Visma-Lease a Bike have been keen to show they are ready to take the fighཧt to Pogačar in June as well.

But as UAE's sports director Hauptman, often in the lead team car when 🅷the Slovenian races, told national TV channel , UAE are more than happy to meet that challenge – and all others, too.

"We are sticking to our plan, which we believe is the right one. We are definitely aware that Vingegaard and Evenepoel will be a🅠t the highest level in the Tour, but we will be too," Hauptman said.

"We are noꩲt afraid of Vingegaard, we are not afraid of anyone."

Regarding t🧜he Critérium du Dauphiné, Pogačar has only raced the key warm-up race for the Tour de France oncꦏe before, back in 2020.

After last year, where Pogačar crushed the field in the Giro d'Italia but then rested up afterwards for the whole of June, 🦂Hauptman said that as a point of reference for this July, the Critérium will be vital.

"The Dauphiné will be a real test for the Tour de France with the same organiser and similar competition,"๊ he argued to .

"Tadej will definitely be at a top level there, we are used to him being in top shape all season. W𒈔e will see where we are, and then add the finishing touches with h♍is altitude training camp."

Pogačar has already been training at altitude in Sierra Nevada, and will go directly to the Dauphiné from the Spanish ski station, Hauptman said. He will go to altitude again, but in the Alps, after the Dauphiné ends on June 15. Frಌom there, it will be onto the Tour de France start on July 5 ♋in Lille.

"Every three-week race is brutal, but the biggest difference is created by the riders themselves. In the Tour, in particular, the competition is at its highest, and the pressure is mas♒sive," Hauptma🅠n observed about Pogačar's biggest stage racing target of the year.

Apart from the usual high temperatures of summer, "The first week in northern France c🧜ould be very nervous, and we'll have to be very careful. Having a strong team to handle all those stages will be important."

The 2025 Tour will also return to the Col de La Loze, where in 2023, Pogačar꧂, already on the back foot to Vingegaard after the previou♕s day's time trial at Combloux, definitively lost the overall.

Then there is also the ascent of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mont Ventoux, where Vingegaard dropped Pogačar in the 2021 Tour close to the summit, in what turned out to be the first indication t🧸hat 𓃲the Dane could one day beat the Slovenian in the high mountains, as he did in both 2022 and 2023. 

"൲There are quite a few climbs where Tadej has not yet won, including the Col de la Loze," Hauptman pointed out. "That will definitely be extra motivation for him."

However, the 33-year-old's actions on the penultimate stage over the Colle delle Finestre attracted attention as much📖 as any of his others during the Grand Tour. After making the day's early breakaway, he was eventually caught by the GC favourites on the brutal climb, with Simon Yates having already launched what would be his Giro-winning attack up the road.

But De Bondt didn't just let the maglia rosa contenders flow past him. Instead, the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale rider sat on the front to pace the chase group behind Yates, providing several minutes of tow for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Richard Carapaz ܫ(EF Education-EasyPost) and Isaac del💦 Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG).

Watching a breakaway rider not known as a climber and with no connection to either man put in wor🎐k in the chase was a strange sight, but De Bondt has explained exactly what he was up to during stage 20.

"I still haven't received clarity from my team whether I will be allowed to stay in 2026. So, it seemed like a good idea to market myself during the Giro," De Bondt told , explaining that he told fellow Belgian, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:EF Education-EasyPost coach Ken Vanmarcke, during the race, "If you're looking for riders𓂃 for 2026, I'm still on the market."

De Bondt said he alerted several teams to his availability during the race, while Vanmarcke came back to him with a proposition ahead of s🌌tage 20. Not for a contract, but for a deal of sorts.

"Before﷽ the team presentation of stage 20, Vanmarcke said to me, 'Are you planning anything today?'" De Bondt said.

"'It's going to be very difficult for us to send riders into the early breakaway. But look, if you're in there and you can play a role somewhere that's important in the final result, something serious can come from that.' That's what inspired me to do 🌊what I did 💫for Carapaz.

That led to the sight of him working on the front for the Ecuadorian, who ended up stuck in a st▨alemate with Del Toro as Yates raced off up the road to a famous Giro d'Italia victory.

De Bondt admitted that "Yates was to⛎o strong" but said that his three-minute pull on the front closed the gap to the Briton from 22 seconds down to just eight.

"At 73kg, my wattages were a lot higher than those of the climbers. They𓂃 could see Yates riding; he wasn't even that far ahead of us," De Bondt said.

"I had hoped that they had the brains and the legs to close the gap. Then the game could start again. But th💟at wasn'ﷺt possible anymore."

De Bondt said that 🍬he received "lots of questions" about his actions on the Finest🦋re. His answer was clear – "It made it clear to everyone that I'm on the market."

His Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale team is all set to bring on board dou🍰ble Giro stage winner Olav Kooij and⛦ Tiesj Benoot from Visma-Lease A Bike for 2026. has 🦂reported that Kooij will bring Daan Hoole, Cees Bol, and Robbe Ghys along as part of his spri🔯nt train.

De Bondt ack♌no𝓰wledges the moves are likely to leave spaces at a premium on the 2026 Decathlon AG2R squad.

"I think I'm the victim of the arrival of other riders♑," he said. "Those guys are also going to bring riders with them, which means there are fewer spots left, so then the team has to think hard about how they want to fill the remaining spots. It's not easy for the team to extend everyone who is out of contra🌳ct.

"Whether I will end up at EF, I don't know. If they bring me to the table with the right people to talk to, that's already a victory in itself. They only have to give me a contract if they're convinced they can use༒ me there." 

"We ar🍷e thrilled to be spending three days in this Swiss Riviera, which, beyond its stunning scenery, offers a high-quality sporting terrain," said race director Marion Rousse in a media statement.

The 2026 event from August 1 to 9 will begin with a loop from Lausanne, which was home to the opening stage of the Tour de Romandie Féminin and stage 8 of the men's Tour de France in 2022. The latter r༺ace was when the idea of hosting a stage of the women's race became an objective, said Rousse.

"The Tour de France Femmes avec 𒁏Zwift will get off to a cracking sta✨rt, with the favourites clashing in the puncheur-friendly opener, followed by a likely sprint finish in the glamorous harbour of Geneva," she said.

The 2026 Tour 🐎de France Femmes peloton will set off from the banks of Lake Geneva, taking in a loop that will see them pass by Lake Neuchâtel 🅷and through two climbs of 3.5km at an average gradient of 6.1% and 3.7km at 4.5%.

It then heads back toward the banks of Lake Geneva, though there will be the challenge of a 2.3km ascent at 5.4% after the Olympic Museum, which then leads to the 400m finishing straigh🦋t in🔯 Place Saint-François after 137km of racing.

The second stage will then take riders 150km from Aigle to Geneva, heading towards Lake Geneva via Montreux and Vevey, with the road rising to Lac de Bret and sweeping around Lausanne before heading to Geneva through undulating terrain. The last of three climbs, however, comes 35km from the finish line with the꧙ Jet d’Eau as its backdrop.

S🌠tage 3 will then also set off from Geneva with the race heading back toward the French border via a yet-to-be-announced route.

The first Grand Départ for the reborn Tour de France Femmes was held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, last summer. Back in March, race organisers ASO also confirmed that both the men's and women's Tour de France were set for a168澳洲5最新开奖结果: UK start in 2027.

The announcement of the Swiss start in 2026 means the event will begin not far from where the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2025 race concludes. The final victor in this year&🥃apos;s edition, which runs right across France, will be crowned in Châtel just over the French border and less than an hour away from🌜 the 2026 start.

The UCI WorldTour stage racing season will continue on June 9-15 with a visit to France and the 77th edition of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Critérium du Dauphiné. ඣThe race is a vital tuneup ahead of July's Tour de France, and features a mixture of sprint days, mo♏untain stages, and a time trial.

Look out for a big pre-Tour battle between 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and his yellow jersey rival Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) also ra🌳cing in𒁃 the fight for overall victory.

The quartet will be joꦑined on th𒊎e start list by a host of other GC contenders, including Carlos Rodríguez (Ineos Grenadiers), Matthias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), Enric Mas (Movistar), Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), and the Bahrain Victorious pairing of Santiago Buitrago and Lenny Martínez.

The race will kick off with a trio of sprinty and punchy days to Montluçon, Issoire, and Charantonnay before a 17.7km time trial on stage 4. The next day to Mâcon is another for the sprinters and puncheurs before the final♎ three stages bring the GC fight to the forefront.

Stage 6 to Combloux ends with a 2.7km, 7.7% climb, while the multi-mountain stage 7 features three HC-rated climbs, including the finisher to Valmeinier 1800 (16.2km at 6.8%). The race concludes with a race to the summit finish of Plateau du Moꦆnt-Cenis (9.7km at 7%).

The race is available on several platforms across the world, with li🐼ve strea🦋ming options as well. Read on for all the details on how to watch the Critérium du Dauphiné online, on TV, and from anywhere.

Can I watch the Critérium du Dauphiné for free?

The 2025 edition of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Critérium du Dauphiné is being broadcast💎 🤪for free in Australia, as well as in numerous European countries. 

SBS has the rights to the race in Australi🐬a, with all eight stages availabl𝔉e through the free streaming platform.

In Belgium, the action will be aired live on and , while Spanish viewers can watch the race on , or on in the Basque Country. If you're in Italy, meanwhile, you can watch via online.

Not in one of these countries right now? Geo-restrictions apply, but if that's where you usually watch your cycling, then you can still get your acce♏ss by using a VPN - more on that be✤low.

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How to watch the Critérium du Dauphiné in the UK

Fans in the UK can watch the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Critérium du Dauphiné through TNT Sports and Discovery+.

For TV viewers, theꦍ specific TNT Sports channel will vary daily. Online, all stages are available to watch on the Discovery+ streaming platform. 

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How to watch the Critérium du Dauphiné in the USA

The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Critérium du Dauphiné has live coverage in the USA on .

Peacock is the streaming service of broadcasting giant NBC, whꦏich has the rights to the Tour de France and with♐ it many of the races run by the same organiser, ASO.

You can get Peacock for $7.99/month or $79.99/year if you don't mind ads, or you could ಌgo for Peacock Premium Plus (no ads) for $13.99/month or $139.99/year. 

How to watch the Critérium du Dauphiné in Canada

In Canada, the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Critérium du Dauphiné is being shown live on the cycling s♚treaming se🌌rvice .

A subscriptไion to FloBikes, which has pretty much every race you could wish to want for Canadian viewers, costs $39.99 a month or $203.88 for the yeaꦗr. 

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2025 Cr⭕itérium du Dauphiné stage start and finis💧h times

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Swiss-based Tudor Pro Cycling, Norway's Uno-X Mobility and Team TotalEnergies of France all make debuts in the US at the men's one-day race, the highest-ranked event in the US on the UCI calendar. They will join WorldTour team 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Israel-Premier Tech, which won the 2022 Maryland Cycling Classic with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sep Vanmarcke and returned to the podium in 2023 with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Hugo Houle in third.

Tudor Pro features former US road national champion Larry Warbass꧟e, who last competed in the US two years ago when he finished 19th at Unbound Gravel. Israel-Premier Tech has eight North American's on their roster, including Houle, while Uno-X and TotalEnergies do not have North American riders𒈔 on their rosters.

Italian squad Solution Tech-Vini Fantini and Mexican outf💛it Team♓ Petrolike join Novo Nordisk and Team Skyline as the final teams confirmed today by organisers. 

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Other teams previously announced include t♕he WorldTour's Lidl-Trek, EF Education-EasyPost and Jayco-AlUla, as well as Project Echelon, Hustle Pro Cycling𝓰, Team Medellín and a composite Team USA.

"We've been working diligently to secure a great men's💞 field for the 2025 Maryland Cycling Classic," said former pro Bobby Julich, who now serves as the men's competition manager. "With seven Tour de France teams in the race, three of which will compete for the first time on American soil, it will be a fantastic way American fans hungry for world-class cycling to witness many of the world's top rideﷺrs and teams."

The Davis Phinney Foundation has been named the official national charity of Maryland Cycling Classic. The Sport & Entertainment Corporation of Maryland, which produces the Maryland Cycling Cꩲlassic, is pledging a donation and marketing support for the promotion and fundraising efforts of the Davis Phinney Foundation. The organizations also are developing a Pedaling for Parkinson's™ event to be staged online during the winter months.

Davis is one of the most decorated US cyclists, scoring 328 career victories, including a stage at the 1986 Tour de France. The connection to Maryland is strong for Davis, as he placed fifth overall in the 1989 Tour de Trump, winning back-to-back stages including stage 9 held in Baltimore. He was diagnosedꦡ with Parkinson's disease in 2000 and co-founded the foundation four years later with his wife Connie Carpenter Phinney, the gold medalist in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games women's road race. 

Maryland Cycling Classic 2025 teams

• EF Education-EasyPost (USA)
• Israel-Premier Tech (ISR)
• Jayco-AlUla (AUS)
• Lidl-Trek (USA)
• Team TotalEnergies (FRA)
• UNO-X Mobility (NOR)
• Tudor Pro Cycling Team (SUI)
• Team Solution Tech - Vini Fantini (ITA)
• Project Echelon (USA)
• Team Petrolike (MEX) 
• Team Medellin (COL)
• Team Skyline (USA)
• Novo Nordisk (USA)
• Hustle Pro Cycling (CAN)
• Team USA

Women's Maryland Cycling Classic

The 2025 Maryland Cycling Classic will be held for a third time in six years for elite men, while a UCI 1.1-ranked 168澳洲5最新开奖结果🍨:Women's Maryland Cycling Classic has been added this year for the first time.

The top-ranked women's WorldTour team Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto and Pro♓Team EF Education-Oatly were among eight squads confirmed for the inaugural women's race in Mary💦land, expected to use the same roads as the men in a separate UCI-sanctioned contest. 

"We're happy to announce we'll be back racing in the United States for the fi🍎rst time since 2019," said Ronny Lauke, CEO and team manager of Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto. "With many of our team partners having either headquarters or a strong presence in the U.S., it's exciting for us to finally bring our team back for the UCI 1.1 Maryland Cycling Classic."

Additional teams confirmed were Cynisca Cycling, Virginia's🍷 Blue Ridge TWENTY28, L39ion of Los Angeles, CCB p/b Levine Law Group, The Cyclery Racing Team and a composite Team USA. 

A total of 15 teams of six riders are expected to comprise the women's field. The final lineup, course details as well as start and estimated finish times will be announced by 💞organisers later this summer.

Women's Maryland Cycling Classic 2025 teams

• Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto (GER)
• EF Education-Oatly (USA)
• Cynisca Cycling (USA
• Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY28 (USA)
• L39ion of Los Angeles (USA)
• CCB p/b Levine Law Group (USA)
• The Cyclery Racing Team (CAN)
• Team USA
• more to come

The North York Moors between Dalby Forest and Redcar were a different matter, though, and Le Court had a plan for the stage. She had identified Langburn’s Bank, the second classified climb of the day, as the place to make a selection.

“We came into this stage with a plan and executed it perfectly. I attacked at kilometre 44, had Kristen [Faulkner] come with me, and we managed to hold off the chasers, both of us being strong engines,” Le Court described the action.

A 20-rider chase group bore down on the two frontrunners, but they held them off by five seconds, and Le Court beat Faulkner in the sprint to go from dead-last to race leader.

“It was pretty close at the finish, but I am delighted I could pull it off. I now look forward to the next stages, where we want to fight for more good results,” she concluded

It is not just the racing that she is looking forward to, thouꦕgh. Stages 3 and 4 take place in Scotland, the home country of Le Court’s🃏 mother, and on a she said that she had asked the team to prepare black pudding and haggis for her. With a leader’s jersey to defend, though, those treats may well have to wait until after the race is over.

Van der Poel's participation in the Dauphiné was thrown into doubt after he broke his wrist as a result of a double crash🌠 in the Nové Mesto MTB race last month.

However, fortunately, the injury proved not to be as severe as was first feared. Although Van der Poel had to miss out on an early part of a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France team altitude camp in the Alps, the former world champion was soon spotted riding six-hour training sessions in Spain.

Rather than perhaps switching to an alternative program in the Tour de Suisse to give him more time to 💛recover, given his fast bounceback, on Wednesday, the team confirmed via Instagram 🔯that he would be taking part in the Critérium du Dauphiné.

Just as for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep), this year's Critérium du Dauphiné is considered a critical warm-up race for Van der Poel en route to the Tour de France.

The eight-day event will be Van der Poel's first road race back after his brilliant Classics campaign, which saw him take wins at Milan-San Remo, the E3 Saxo Classic, and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Roubaix. 

Chances for Van der Poel to snatch a victory will come as soon as the rolling stage 1 to Montluçon. Stages 2, 3 and 5  also all look ꧟perfectly suited to Van der Poel's well-known talents for shining on undulating, punchy courses.

Van der Poel will be joined in the Critérium de Dauphiné by Alpecin-Deceuninck teammates Tobias Bayer, Lars Boven, Michael Gogl, Xandro Meurisse, Johan Price-Pejtersen and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Gianni Vermeesch.

Brailsford was widely considered to be the mastermind of British Cycling and Team Sky's success in the past decade. However, he step♛ped down as Ineos Grenadiers Team Principal and has been heavily involved in the overhauꦇl of the football team when a 25% minority share of Manchester United was bought by Ineos owner Jim Ratcliffe, he stepped down in 2023.

According to despite cutting back on commitments in other sports like rugby and yacht🧸ing and after a particularly challe🎃nging 2024-2025 season for United, Ratcliffe's interest in his company's cycling team remains intact.   

The reshuffling of top sports management positions in the Ineos/United organigram would apparently see Brail💦sford shifting some of his focus back onto the WorldTour squad he helped🌊 create back in 2010.

This could be with a view to overseeing 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Geraint Thomas' reported move into an as-yet unspecified senior management role at Ineos Grenadiers once the Welsh star retires after the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour of Britain this September.

In an interview with Cyclingnews𝄹 during the Giro, Ineos Grenadiers performance director Scott Drawer said that "We’d be crazy not to think about Geraint being part of the team in the future. Geraint’s got unique skills that we don’t have. We’d like t✅o tap into what Geraint knows."

After a dismal 2024, Ineos Grenadiers have seen a marked uptick in their success rate in 2025. They recently won a stage in the Giro d'Italia and have captured five other WorldTour victories this year, with th✨eir 14 triumphs to date as many as they took in the whole of the 2024 season.

The British WorldTour team are also in talks with TotalEnergies over a title spo🧔nsorship deal, which could be completed as soon as July 1.

No marginal gains, just major losses for Ineos and Manchester United

When Ratcliffe became co-owner of three-time European champions Manchester United and took over sporting control of the foಌotball club, Brailsford joined 🎀the board in a bid to help the club rediscover its title-winning success.

He led the club's 'Mission 21' and💮 Mission 1' projects, which aim to deliver a 21st top-flight title for the men's s🌼ide, which would be their first since 2012, alongside a first Women's Super League title.

While a third-place league finish does qualify the women's squad for the UEFA Women's Champions League qualification stages next season, securing a ꦇfirst domestic title remains a distant goal. However, the outlook for the men's side, , is much bleaker despite Ratcliffe injecting £238.5m in cash since taking on his minority stake.

The men's squad 🐠finished the 2024/25 Premier League season with their worst points tally since 1930/31 and placed 15th, just two spots above the relegation zo🌱ne. United lost their final game of the season, the Europa League final, to Tottenham Hotspur and with it a lucrative spot in next year's UEFA Champions League. 

Ratcliffe, a lifelong Manchester United fan, inspired fresh optimism from the fanbase w🤡hen Ineos bought a share of the club from unpopular American owners Joel Glazer and Avram Glazer for a reported £1.3 billion.

However, his own popularity among supporters has quickly diminished due to cost-cutting measures enforced b🐼y the British billionaire.

Approximately 450 staff members have been made redundant in two periods of staffing cuts over the last 12 m⛦onths in a bid to alleviate the club's bloated wage bill, with festive bonuses, free lunches, pre-match meals and accommodation for staff all being axed altogether or at least heavily reduced.

Ratcliffe, who now owns 27.7% of the club following a subsequent deal, is consci𒆙ous that these cutbacks are categorically unpopular, but believes tough decisioꦍns are required to steer the ship back into smoother waters. 

Perhaps what irks supporters of the club most about these financial reductions is that, on the footballing side, sizeable💎 transfer fees continue to be handed out. Overღ £110 million has already been put towards two player incomings this summer, with more signings likely to follow suit.

According to , Manchester United's debt amounts🎃 to £731 million, however, they currently remain safe for now from breaching English football's profit and sustainability rules – a measure of a club's tax profits and losses. 

Deꦯspite his expected return to a broader role within Ineos, Brailsford remains on the board at the football club and looks set to still advise on key decisions.

Cyclingnews has reached out to Ineos Grenadiers for comment.

The move comes after the crashes and deaths of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Gino Mäder at the 2023 Tour de Suisse and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Muriel Furrer at the junior women's road race atไ the World Championships in Zürich last year. Tour de Suisse race director Olivier Senn was also the director of the latter event.

The technology will be in place at the men's Tour de Suisse (June 15-22) and the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Suisse Women (June 12-15).

A repo෴rt by the Zürich newspaper confirmed the news announced on Wednesday. Both races will feature a security centre with acce🌃ss to the GPS signals, plus all television feeds and a weather radar.

According to the report, an alarm will sound if any GPS tracker stops moving for 30 seconds, if the speed of a tracker changes abnormally, or if a tracker l♏eaves the road. While races have used tracking for live timing, the full tracking of all riders and the alarm system is a first in 🍬cycling.

The innovations have been paid for by the Tour de Suisse organisers at a cost of ﷽CHF50,000 (£44,941 / $60,965).

Senn had brought up these measures in an back in May, noting that the Tour d▨e Suisse "will be the first bike race in the world to introduce comprehensive rider tracking."

He said that te🍬ams would be able to opt out due to concerns over the "possible commerc😼ial use of the collected data", but he hoped that all teams would opt in to using the trackers.

Participation is voluntary for the teams, but I hope th⛎at every team will take part," he said. "Each bike will be fitted with a small tracker that will sound an alarm in the event of certain anomalies, such as if the bike does not move for 30 seconds, leaves the route or abruptly changes speed. In such cases, we are notified immediately and can react.

"We will also use trackers in the convoy, as each radio is equipped with a tracker. The information is gathered in t🌃he safety command centre where we can monitor the entire situation and intervene immediately if necessary."

The move to introduce the technology comes in the wake of Furrer's crash last September. The 18-year-old suffered serious head injuries and died after an unseen off-road crash near Küsnacht on the Worlds finishing♓ circuit.

It's unknown exactly how long Furrer lay injured before she was discovered and treated. The Tour de Suisse's alarm system would, in theory, enable the immediate detection of any riders caught in similar situations and could help speed up reaction t♑imes by organisers and emergency services to incidents.

Wiebes has taken on the event three times already, steadily working her way up the general classification rankings untilౠ she came tenth last year while her team took overall victory with Lotte Kopecky. This year, however, there are a number of key differences which open the way for broader ambitions at the June 5-8 event. 

They start with Wiebes herself, who has been increasingly showing her ability to hold firm when climbs arrive, having just come from Vuelta a Burgos where she 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:won stage 1 on a tough uphill finish. On top of that, SD Worx Prot🍨ime is lining up without Kopecky, opening an opportunity for Wiebes in an edition which also offers up a more favourable course.

"There a🦹re tough stages, but no really tough mountain stage. That's why I cautiously dare to dream of the general classification," sai⛄d Wiebes in a team statement.

"I have won a number of stag🃏es in the past, but neve🌌r made a stab at the GC. Often there was one very difficult mountain stage in it, which made that impossible for me. That is missing from the course this year, so maybe something is possible."

That, however, doesn't mean Wiebes is taking anything for granted as she lines up among a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:strong field for the race that works its way from Dalby Forest to Glasgow across the four days and 423.6km. The route still holds some significant challenges, including the uphill f🤪inish of stage 2 to Saltburn-by-the-Sea.

"It does remain a tough stage race with really touꦆgh stages, but they are not really super long climbs. Although there is a very tough finish with sections up to 22% in it. We'll have to wait and see how I come out in front there," said Wiebes.

‘I had a good feeling in Vuelta a Burgos. The victory on the uphill finish gave me confidence, although that climb is a lot harder in Tour of Britain. The final time trial in Vuelta a Burgo🌊s also went well. The feeli💦ng was good, so I feel my form is growing."

Across three ꦐparticipations in the ev💞ent, Wiebes already has six stage wins, and added that she is hoping to compete for the win again in a "few stages" this year.

It is one step in a busy patch of the season for Wiebes, who will also be well and truly testing and stretching the climbing abilities at races like ꦓthe Giro d'Italia Women and Tour de France Femmes.

"The fact that I have become more complete by also competing on the uphill courses is also just ne💖cessary," said Wiebes.

"I am especially happy that I feel✤ I keep my sprint power🍌. And so Tour of Britain will be a good test for me."

Ayyorkun was transpor🍒ted to hospital with a fractured vertebra in his neck, according to the statement, but died suddenly on Tuesday, June 3, 2025.

In a statement, Turkish Cycling Federation President Emin Müftüoğlu said they had been in🐼 contact with the Turkish consulate in Iran since the crash happened.

"Immediately after the accident that occurred during the race, our Ministry of Youth and Sport🍌s was in close contact with our Tabriz Consulate, the Tehran Embassy, and Iranian o𓆉fficials. Since Saturday, we have been closely and meticulously following the process.

"We received information from the hospital that our athlete had a fracture in his neck and would be kept under observation for three da🦂ys. His health situation was progressing positively. However, the sudden news of his passing last night deeply shocked us all. We are very sad. Mustafa Ayyorkun was a great value for Turkish cycling," Müftüoğlu stated.

Ayyorkun, a two-time junior national champio♍n, competed with the Tu𝔉rkish team Spor Toto since 2023 and with the Turkish national team on the track.

Cyclingnews sends our deepest condolences to Mustafa's family, friends and teammates.

Last year, Evenepoel was ramping up for his first appearance in two months at the Dauphiné, having crashed and sustained fractures at Itzulia Basque Country. In 2025, it was the dooring incident in the off-season that put him out of ꧂action until April wit❀h several injuries, and his seen him searching for top form in anticipation♊ of the Tour.

𒅌With just four days to go until th♋e start of the prestigious eight-day stage race in France, Evenepoel's coach Koen Pelgrim is staying measured about the expectations of the Belgian, but gave a greater insight on a call to and international media into how the Olympic Champion's form is shaping up.

"Remco is definitely better on sc🌟hedule than last year. Then he started the altitude training camp for the Dauphiné with a disadvantage; he was struggling ൩at the beginning of that training camp, and he was really not where we hoped he would be," said Pelgrim, reported by . 

"In that respect, he is already a step ahead of last year. After the accumulation of competitions in the spring, the week of rest real🦄ly did him good, and he was able to start the altitude training camp at a pretty good level."

Despite this positive development, after Evenepoel 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:returned wiꦐth a bang at Brabantse💃 Pijl in April, and had mixed results from Amstel Gold Race through to the Tour de Romandie where he was fifth, again, Pelgrim ensured he was realistic with his a꧅mbitions.

"He is now one step further than last season just before the﷽ Dauphiné. But last year, Remco improved a lot between the Dauphiné and the Tour. So we'll have to see if Remco is still in a better position at the start of the Tour," said the coach.

"He stayed off the bike for four months. You can't just make up for something like that. You can get back to🉐 a good level relatively quickly, but it's those last few percentage points that are crucial. 

"For that, you have to be able to train consistently over a long period. We hope that Remco can ⛎gain those last two or three percentage points in the coming weeks. We cannot do magic."

One area where Pelgrim has seen clear, meaꦓsurable improvement was with Evenepoel's weight, already nearing the ideal race level for which the Belgian team were looking at the Tour's start on July 5.

"He is one-and-a-half kilos lighter than last year at☂ this time of year," said Pelgrim, confirming that the tapering down has been more gradual than after last year's Dauphiné🔥. 

"When you have to lose a lot of weight in a short period, it always takes its toll on your strength, recovery or even both. That was the story of last year: we had to chase ꧑both his competition weight and his form. The fact that he doesn't have to do that anymore this year is positive."

Evenepoel will be backed at the Dauphiné by Pascal Eenkhoorn, Valentin Paret-Peintre, Casper Pedersen, Pepijn Reinderink, Maximilian Schachmann and Louis Vervaeke, with the leader similarly not being overly bullish in pursuit of a top result against Pogačar and Vingegaard.

"I’m happ♐y to be back in action with the team. I had a solid altitude training camp in Sierra Nevada and now I’m ready for the Dauphiné," said Evenepoel in a team release. 

"I can’t say that I’m going there with any specific goals, as the most📖 important thing will be 𝓀to see how the form is. It goes without saying that I would like to be in the fight for a couple of good results, but the plan is to take it one stage at a time and see where this leads next week."

With the Tour just around the corner, Evenepoel will hope he's closed the gap to the Slovenian and Dane, and that he can at least once again finish third at the Tour ,after a great debut in 2024. Pelgrim said this ꦗcould still be his ceiling for the moment, against the respective ๊three-time and two-time Tour champions.

“We always aim higher, but Pogačar's level was exceptionally high last year and closing that gap is very difficult. And Vingegaard will also be better now than last year," added the coach. "So even though Remco has made a step, that♒ does not mean that he will necessarily do better than third place."

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This latest XTR groupset is a reassertion of the brands faith in electronic shifting, and, now that SRAM has gone fully electric at all tiers, and we are likely to see an 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:electric 13sp gravel🀅 groupset from Campagnolo on the horizon soon, 🅘a broader, industry-wide endorsement of electric as the way to go on all terrains.

Before we dive into the individual updates, I’ll wet the metaphorical whistles with the headline figures: We’re looking at the first fully wireless electronic groupset from Shimano, with a removable battery in the rear derailleur, a new 9t smallest sprocket on one cassette option (one smaller than you’d get from SRAM), and theꦇ potential for some interesting mashup groupset combinations.

Fully wireless shifting

It is sad as primarily a road cyclist that the MTB brigade get the cream of the crop when it comes to component evolution. I could bore you with the fact that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Dura-Ace Di2 wasn’t the first to do electric shifting back in 2009, with this accolade going to the long-forgotten Shimano Nexave Di2 for commuter bikes back in 2001, though this had automatic shifting. In any case, it wasn’t a top-end road groupset, an༺d neither was the mad Shimano Airlines that used a tank of co🐼mpressed air to shift instead of the movement of electrons, but that's by the by. 

In any case, XTR has finally broughtไ Shimano into the world of♍ proper wireless shifting. No battery in the seatpost, and fiddly wires to connect, but instead a battery in the derailleur that can be removed for charging as is the case with all SRAM electronic groupsets and the latest wireless Campagnolo options too. 

The new XTR M9250 rear derailleur is also designed to be lower profile, and more durable🍬, with a dual-spring design to increase tension in the system in a bid to improve chain 𝐆retention. This lower profile is designed to reduce the risk of rock strikes, which are more common as you shift to larger sprockets and the long derailleur cage gets closer to the ground, so in order to tackle this Shimano has done something novel with the cassette design, but more on that shortly. 

If you are to bash the derailleur in an impact then, instead of going int✅o crash recovery mode and needing a manual reset, as is the case with current Di2 systems, XTR Di2 will simply remember the gear you were in, take the impact, and then reset itself back to where it once was. 

Two versions of the wireless rear derailleur will be available, as well as a separate pair that can be hard-wired into an e-bike battery so they never need charging. Long cage versions will pair with a 12-speed 10-51t cassette, which already exists, while short cage versions wil🅘l work with a 9-45t cassette. Yes, nine. 

A nine-tooth sprocket

If you want to maintain a decent gear range, and don’t want to put a long cage derailleur on for fear of🥂 rock strikes, then instead of going bigger and bigger with the larg⛦est sprockets, as we’ve seen with SRAM’s Eagle options, Shimano has instead gone smaller, adding a 9t smallest sprocket to one of its cassette options, whilst maintaining the use of the microspline freehub body employed currently by Shimano MTB systems. 

A 9t is the smallest we’ve seen in what we can reasonably call ‘performance cycling’, though it has been common in the world of BMX for some time in an effort to reduce the size of the chainrings while maintaining the same gear ra🍷tio. The 9-45t cassette sets a new standard for spro😼cket size in any case, but maintains a 500% gear range. It’s still less than the 520% on offer from an Eagle 10-52 cassette, but in a substantially smaller package. 

These cassettes can be pair𝓀ed with either XC Race🍬 (read: lightweight) or Enduro (read: more durable) versions of the same crankset, both based on the tried and tested Hollowtech II blueprint. 

Choose-your-own-adventure braking and a new shifter pod

Unlike most (neigh, all, if I’m not mistaken) groupset options, where the braking setup was set in sto🃏ne, besides fitting larger or smaller rotors, XTR Di2 has three different braking options: A li☂ghtweight XC Race setup, a setup that’s a little heavier that prioritises braking power and modulation for trail/enduro riding, and a middle ground that tries to be the best of both. 

How Shimano has achieved this, I think, is by offering a pair of brake callipers (trail & XC), one being four-piston and the other two, and a pair of brake lever options (also trail & XC), and, I presume, allowing users to opt to run a trail lever with an XC caliper or vice versa, though it is not clear what is the suggested combination at this time. Shimano has offered 4-pot and 2-p🌼ot callipers as part of the same system before, but they b🐼oth used the same lever. Both systems use a new, lower viscosity (thinner) mineral oil that, Shimano says, helps to provide a consistent piston rebound speed over a wider temperature range. 

Finally there is a new shifter, given that, like an XC Bob Dylan, it’s finally gone electric. The little control deck has three c🍰onfigurable buttons, two for shifting and one to act as a bonus button for things like your bike computer. These can be purchased in a band-on configuration, or in a guise that bolts directly onto the XTR brake levers themselves for❀ a cleaner cockpit. 

This is, as far as we are aware, the first time thatꦓ bonus buttons have features on a mountain bike groupset, opening up possibilities for fl⛎at bar enthusiasts hitherto only available to drop bar riders. In reality, the ability to swap computer screens without taking your hands off the bars makes a lot more sense for MTB than it does for road riding.

What does this mean for the future of Shimano?

It is perhaps slightly outside of our normal wheelhouse to cover the launch of an MTB groupset, but this XTR launch prompts some educated guesswork and sp👍eculation about what the future holds for Shimano componen🐽try. 

Personally I think the move to a wireless syste🔴m is both welcome and overdue. I am a huge fan of Shimano groupsets, but the installation and maintenance headaches are significantly greater than that of SRAM options. I think, in the fullness of time, we will see wireless ꦏshifting on offer on gravel and road groupsets. 

I don’t thin✨k we will see the end of 2x, though thanks to SRAM’s patents we will probably see any Shimano wireless 2x systems adopting a pair of non-identical batteries as is the case with Campagnolo Super Record 📖Wireless. 

What is more intriguing is where this places the future of inter-groupset compatibility. Now we have electronic, 12sp shifting in 🧸road, gravel, and MTB, this means that there may finally be a path opening up for true intercompatibility between road, gravel, andꦯ MTB setups in the same way as in the SRAM ecosystem. 

The premise is relatively simple.♍ Inside the rear hub sits a dynamo, which powe🔯rs the rear derailleur, as well as an array of sensors which take information about the terrain and, with input from your shifting habits, learns when you’d normally shift so it can simply do it for you. 

This is not Shimano's first foray into auto shifting, with a handily-named ‘AUTO SHIFT’ system already available for e-bikes based around the electronic Cues, Nexus, and Deore XT Di2 gro🌼upsets. But this is the first time it’s been ported over to a non-e-bike system. 

How does it work? 

Within the rear hub, sensors track your speed, cadence, and the gradient over which you are rid🧜ing. Using these metrics, it automatically shifts the Cues rear derailleur to keep you riding at the optimum cadence. This is similar♎ to the AUTO SHIFT system, though this also considers torque from within crank-based motor systems.

The system is totally autonomous and needs no charging thanks to the dynamo held within the rear hub, but like many autonomous systems, there is a manual override setting. Bar-mount🎀ed Di2 gear switches mean you still have the option of shifting whenever you like, and over time, the system will learn your own personal preferences, to the point that you should need the shifter buttons less and less. According to Shimano, there are over 6,500 algorithmic patterns for the system to choose from, based on your historic inputs.

There will be hard limits on what the system will allow. If you are a particularly forgetful shifter, waiting until you are grinding a hard gear at a very low cadence before you shift, the system will simply take over before this point. This should make life easier for everyday riders, as well as reducing wear and tear on the components, several of which are brand new to the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Cues range.

The rear derailleur also has a selector b💙utton, which allows the rider to select from three modes. These modes aren’t outlined in the material we have seen, but it is reasonable to suggest that it is probably fully auto, fully manual, or a semi-automatic middle ground while it learns your style.

New components

The main event is, of course, going to be the new hub, with𝔉 the ever-memorable Shimano designation FH-U6060. Without this, the system does not function, and it needs to be paired with the new, Q’AUTO-compatible Cues RD-U8050 rear derailleurs, which will work with either 10 or 11-speed LINKGLIDE cassettes. 

There isꦉ also a new bar-mounted flat bar shifter, which features up/♔down shift buttons and an auto/manual selection button too. The rear derailleur is, however, compatible with all Di2 shifter switches, both flat bar and drop bar.

Pricing and availability

Pricing has yet to be provided, though it is likely that the system will be primarily be specced as stock on bikes at point of sale, rather 🦩than being sold as an upgrade package as many higher-end road groupsets are. 

There were 62 finishers in the elite women's field of Unbound Gravel 200, and 14 DNFs, many of the names among them expected to be right at the front of the field, including 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sarah Sturm, who came third at The Traka 360 earlier in the💧 month and was seventh from among the lead group at Unbound 200 last year. Crashes took quite a toll in the women's race.

In the elite men's race, 115 crossed the line and 28 were marked down as DNFs. There were also those who managed to cross the line but, due to everything from crashes to mechanicals saw all the training and preparation not reflected in their position on the results list. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mattia de Marchi, for one, was among the favourites at the start, particularly after coming fifth last year bu🤡t he finished in 61st after a broken chain early.

As always, the numbers aౠnd results only tell part of the story so we have trawled🅠 through the coverage and social media, asked questions on the ground and reached out to others to reveal some of the stories behind those DNFs or results that didn't match the form.

Elite women's race

Sarah Sturm (DNF) – Sarah Sturm had entered the race among the favourites, having taken third in The Traka 360 earlier in the month and also stood on the podium of the race in 2023. However, after a crash on Divide Road, she remounted her bike and got back into a threatening chase group, but ended the race, her first DNF in 🎐a big race, at mile 70 with concerns of a concussion.

"I knew I hit my head hard, I had an immediate headache but later, in my chase back to the lead group it had faded, making the decision extremely hard,ꦿ" she wrote on Instagraꦰm after the race. "Long game: brain health is everything. Bike racing is temporary."

Hannah Shell (DNF) - Finishing 12th two times💛 at Unbound Gravel 200, Shell's fifth appearance in Kansas ended in a DNF for the first time. She said she started with "diamonds in the legs", but crashed on Divide Road when a rider swerved then braked abruptly in front of her. She then slic𓃲ed her tyre on a sharp rock and could not keep a spare tube inflated to continue. She had been in the top three of the Life Time Grand Prix wildcard standings, but her race and series entry ended on the side of the road.

Rosa Klöser (4th) - The 2024 winner first had to fight back after having hit the deck as a rider 📖crashed in front of her, just as the crucial move including eventual winner Karolina Migoń was going. Still the defending champion continued to fight for a podium spot another mishap struck - a wrong turn. 

"I had to unclip, turn around and get back," Klöser told Cyclingnews. "The other three girls were already ahead of me, so I kind of already had to do a sprint to catch up with them on the line and then, unfortunately, I had to settle for fourth today."

Klara Sofie Skovgård Hansen (DNF) - Another of the victims of an early crash, she ended in a ditch with a "fractured, dislocated shoulder and an open knee". ꦡOn⛄ Instagram she said it took two hours before an ambulance moved her from the course to hospital, where she had successful surgery and was released Tuesday.

"Traveling across the world to race means accepting risks—but I never expected to feel unsafe. I truly hope the organizers work to improve emergency acc🅠ess. It felt ironi💝c looking up at a livestream media helicopter," the Danish gravel champion said on her social media.

Samara Sheppard (41st) – A crash in the bunch behind the New Zealand-born rider meant she was taken out 🌳from behind and had a broken front wheel and jammed rear, losing 13 minutes and leaving her with a chase to move up from 74th spot to 41st by the line.

Nicole Frain (DNF) - Things were looking good for the former Australian road champion when early on in the race she made the crucial front gꦰroup but then just as her race looked to be falling into a place another rider crashedꦦ and took her out.

Anna Yamauchi (DNF) - It wasn't a good day for the woman who after Sea Otter had been leading the chase for a wildcard entry into the Life Timeﷺ Grand Prix𝔍 series, with Anna Yam🌊auchi crashing early and having to pull the pin and end her wildcard chances at aid station 1.

Emily Newsom (DNF) - Another in the running for a Grand Prix wildcard who faced an outcome that ruined not just her race but also her series hopes. Newsom was third at Unbound 200 two years ago, but she went down and hit her head when a rider crashed in front of her, just four miles from the start in downtown Emporia as the sun began to rise🐠. "After forgetting all my maple gels in feed one and feeling nauseous I decided my head was worth more than gutting it out for 130 more miles so I called it a day."

Elite men's race

Mattia de Marchi (61st) - The big races just aren't falling in the Italian's favour at the moment with a brake out at The Traka 360 and then a broken chain early in Unbound 200 which leꦑft him posting "Always chasing, The story of my life." on his Instagram story. 

Lawrence Naesen (DNF) - The former AG2R Citroën WorldTour team rider simply that "s*** happens" and that it was a "Good day until blood came out𝓀."

Keegan Swenson (7th) - It may not have been obvious in the results but Keegan Swenson had quite a day out in the Flint Hills, crossing the line with ripped kit and a bloodied body after a crash at mile 130. On top of that he had a puncture, a failed tyre plug plus a wheel swap with teammate Tobin Ortenblad. Still, he got through the day without having to utilise the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:double valve hack. 

Tim Declercq (DNF)  - One flat, Tim Declercq could handle, even two but "the third time flat was too much"⛦ the Lidl-Trek rider told .

Jelle Van Damme (DNF) - An encounter with a barbed wire fence quickly brought an end to the race for the Belgian, with social media showing some pretty nasty cuts across his back to be treated as a result.

Chad Haga (78) - Last year's runner up wasn't having a great day, in what had 💧been a tough season after breaking his arm at the end of 2024 and the struggle continued at Unbound but a bit of perspective can change plenty. "So I rode around having a little pity party until a human moment presented itself when Jelle Van Damme wrapped himself in barbed wire. I was just one guy having a bad day, helping another guy having a worse day," ♚said .

Russell Finsterwald (17th) - A puncture put Russell Finsterwald out of the chase group but linkin﷽g up with a puncture hit Matt Beers and Petr Vakoc, who suffered in the heat, helped haul back some ground for all three.

Niki Terpstra (DNF) - It was an accident before Unbound that ruined Niki Terpstra's 🔯day, with a neck and back/shoulder injury caused by a crash in April going from uncomfortable to unbearable as the miles accrued. That left Terpst🐼ra having to step off at the second aid station.

Tom Dumoulin (DNS) - The former Giro d'Italia winner went home with mixed feelings after cheering on his compatriots from the feed zone after he didn't manag🎀e to make it to the start l🌳ine.

"I had a great time in Emporia, Kansas," Dumoulin wrote on Instagram. "It's crazy to see how this little townღ on the prairie turns into the Mecca of gravel racing for a week during Unbound. I was supposed to compete in the 100 miles, but unfortunately I couldn't start because of a stupid crash three days before. I hurt my hand and it was too painful to put any weight on the♉ handlebars in the days after."

Matthew Beers (16th) - Anoﷺther of the pre-race favourites who had a stop and start flat-filled day of racing, that left him joking that if he remembered how hard it was he wouldn't go𒐪 back, as his instagram post below outlined.

The Critérium du Dauphiné and Tour de Suisse mark major appointmen⛎ts in June but they are very much seen in the context of the Tour, with all eyes firmly on the build-up to the battle for the yellow jersey in July. 

The 2025 Tour de France kicks off on July 5 in Lille and finishes on July 27 in Paris, with 3,339 kilometres of racing over 21 stages. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tadej Pogačar and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jonas Vingegaard renew their rivalry after sharing the past five yellow jerseys between ꦍthem, with the world's best riders all in attendance. 

The Tour de France is one of the biggest sporting spectacles in the world, and every single minute will be broadcꦐast live around the world. 

Wondering where and how you can tune in? We'll have you covered right here in this gui🌊de, which we'll keep updated regularly in the build-up to the Grand D𒉰épart in July. 

Tour de France 2025: Full list of broadcasters

• ITV - United Kingdom 
• TNT Sports / Discovery+ - United Kingdom
• NBC Sports - United States
• FloBikes - Canada
• SBS - Australia
• France Télévisions - France
• Eurosport France - France
•  Max - Italy - Netherlands - Germany - Scandinavia
•  Eurosport - Europe - South East Asia
•  ARD - Germany
•  RTBF - Belgium
•  VRT - Belgium
•  TV2 - Denmark
•  RTVE - Spain
•  RAI - Italy
•  TG4 - Ireland
•  RTL - Luxemburg
•  TV2 - Norway
•  NOS - Netherlands
•  S4C - Wales
•  EiTB - Pays Basque
•  Česká Televize - Czech Republic
•  RTP - Portugal
•  RTVS - Slovakia
•  RTV SLO - Slovenia
•  SRG-SSR - Switzerland
•  ESPN - Latin America & Caribbean
•  CaracolTV - Colombia
•  Supersport - South Africa
•  Eurosport - South East Asia
•  CCTV - China
•  Zhibo TV - China
•  J Sports - Japan
•  Sky Sport - New Zealand
•  RCN - Colombia
•  Abu Dhabi Media - Middle East and North Africa
•  Servus TV - Austria

It's set to release on the streaming service on July 2, just three days before the Grand Départ of this year's Tour de France in Lille on July 5🅰. In 2024, the series was released 18 days before the race's start, while the year prior, fans had 22 days to digest the episodes before the first stage.

The trailer, released by Netflix France on Wednesday morning, shows a heavy focus on eventual race winner 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tadej Pogačar and his UAE Team Emirates-XRG squad, with several frames filmed in the 𝓡UAE.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mark Cavendish&apo🍃s;s record 35th stage win will also be one of the key storylines, likely alongside Biniam Girmay taking three historic victories, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Remco Evenepoel and Jonas Vingegaard challenging the Slovenian,🌠 and the crashes🅷 and chaos of the race, which have featured heavily in the first two seasons. 

It was confirmed in February that this would bﷺe the final seaso﷽n after just three serie🥀s, with a statement being issued to several media outlets to explain the decision to cancel Unchained.

"After three seasons, we are naturally coming to an end of this cycle. We're very proud of the work we've done and of the public resp🍬onse to the documentary series, which has allowed us to offer a fresh take on this legendary competition," the statement read.

"Netflix France will continue to explore new t💧erritories in the world of sport."

The series was designed to introduc🌃e cycling to a wider audience, with a focus on countries like💛 the USA, where Formula 1 has seen a big boost in recent years, thanks primarily to the popularity of Netflix's Drive to Survive series. 

Unchained was announced back in March 2022 with a host of top WorldTour teams signing on to take part in fﷺilming. It cut the 2022 and 2023 Tours, both won by Vingegaard and Visma-Lease a Bike, into eight-episode chunks, and was broadcast in 190 territories around the world.

Before the cancellation was confirme꧙d, reported that the viewing figures for season 2 of the series were "judged to be average" across the board, and "a little disappointing" in France, with production costs and payments to teams and Tour organiser ASO are also cited as factors in the decision to end the programme.

Campagꦚnolo has today released Super Record 13, a brand new, 13-speed version of the Super Record wireless groupset. 

This news comes not long after we spotted Team Cofidis' Look bikes fitted with an 168澳洲5最新开奖结🔴果:unfamiliar 13-speed Campagnolo Super 🐭Record at the start of the Giro d'Italia. This made us su👍spect that perhaps a new groupset release wasn't far away, an🍸d Campagnolo has now done just that. 

Campagnolo 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:released Super Record WR in May 2023, and it's probably fair to say the groupset, the company's first fully wireless, electronic group, has received mixed reviews over the past couple of years. The matte finish and slightly cheaper 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Super Record S groupset, also followed in December last year. 

Now, Super Record 13 is here. Th🥃ere are a lot of interesting changes and what appear to be improvements.꧃ SR13 is claimed to be 3.7% lighter than SR WR12, with a claimed weight of 2,445 grams compared to the old 2,520g.

This groupset is 2x13 speed, which makes it the world's first. Yes, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Campagnolo Ekar and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:SRAM Red XPLR are 13-speed, but they are both designed around a 1X front chainring, something which currently doesn't seem to be an inclusion for Supe💛r Record 13.

The Campagnolo thumb shifters have also returned, with a new shape and design. There are new shifter ergonomics and a wider range of gear ratio combinations as well as what appear to be a host of other refinements, which may help dissolve some of the criticisms which have been levelled at Super Record WR when compared to the rest of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:best road bike groupsets.

The RRP for a groupset without a power meter is €4,300 / US$4,750 / £3,900. This is $649 cheaper than the RRP for Suꦬper Record WR at launch two years ago. 

A Campagnol🍃o power meter chainset-equipܫped groupset comes in at €5,399 / US$5,899 / £4,950. 

We don't have individual prices or we🌳ights for ✤the groupset at this point. 

The start of a new chapter

You can't help but get a sense of confidence from Campagnolo regarding Super Record 13; the Italian brand doesn't tend to share too much, but it must have high hopes for this relea🐓se, and it sounds like a period of change is underway. 

The brand's press material calls SR13 'The first groupset starting a general redefinition of the brand’s identity, a new strategy in line with Campagnolo’s legacy of innovationꦑ.'

It also sounds like more is coming; apparently a 'complete line of products' will be launched shortly to 'cover the various market segments.' We have already caught a glimpse of one such possible product at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Unbound Gravel, where we spotted a wireless 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:13-speed Campagnolo gravel groupset. 

Campagnolo mentions it was the first manufacturer to introduce 10, 11, 12, and now 13-speed groupsetsꦍ. Sprocket count certainly isn't a groupset's defining metric, but perhaps that one extra cog could indeed signify the start of a new era. 

Faster shifting

Campagnolo says SR13 is the &ap🅺os;fastest on the market', pr🦹oviding 'accurate, silent and immediate shifting.' 

Shifting is now claimed to be the fastest on the market, with a claimed full cassette shift in 2.4 seconds when shifting up and 1.9 seconds when sh💮ifting down. There are a range of other changes, let's get into them. 

There are now 13 rear sprockets, but the existing Campagnolo N3W freehub body spacing remains. So Campagnolo has further reduced sprocket spacing and probably tweaked a few other things to fit 13 🦹sprockets where 12 used to sit, the same as SRAM Red X😼PLR.

What isn't completely clear is whether the new chain will be 13-speed specific; the outer plates are staඣmped 13, so we assume, for now, it💫 is a new 13-speed specific component.  

A reduction in any jumps between sprockets has been a focus, and four ꦅcassette options will be available. Two will start with a 10-tooth sprocket and two with 11. The full breakdown is be൲low:

10-29 (10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/20/23/26/29)
10-33 (10/11/12/13/14/15/16/18/20/23/26/29/33)
11-32 (11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/20/23/26/29/32)
11-36 (11/12/13/14/15/16/18/20/23/26/29/32/36)

A new, larger chainring combination of 55/39 has been introduced, for a total of seven possible options. Other than that, the chainring sizes remain the same as the current SR WR groupset. The chainrings will have a new 'black chrome' surface treatment, said to incr🌌ease durability and a new tooth shape to speed up shifting. 

Chainring options will be: 45/29, 48/32, 50/34, 52/36, 53/3🍸9, 54/39 and 55/39.

Crank🎀 arms will be available in 165/170/172.5 and 175mm lengths, and the Ultra Torque axle system will remain. Cranksets and chainrings will be available separately, which should mean customers aren't locked into a combination they don't want. 

As mentioned, the groupset, at least without a power meter, is cheaper than its predecessor, and Campagnolo indicཧated it has made changes to production processes and invested in automation to achieve this, something that could impact all future releases and manufacturing going forward. 

Both wireless derailleurs have also been redesigned. The front is 10 grams lighter, with plenty of carbon fibre on the outer cage. It's capable of accommodating the 29-55T max size chainrings, which should please pro riders. A slimmer design and new battery also aid tyre clearance compared to the slightly bulbous unit on Su൩per Record WR. 

Quoted battery range in normal conditions is 750km, and a fuꦉll recharge is said to take one hour. Batteries can be charged on and off the bike. 

The rear mech has received a '25% reduction in lateral bulk', and it does look a lot more slimline with less overhang quoted. It will be UDH compatible with an adaptor for frames with regular hangers,꧋ and the derailleurs' pulley wheels will both have 14 teeth each.

The Super Record WR ergopower shift levers have been one of the more divisive SR components, and the SR13 groupset has seen them get a total re💎design.

First off, the shifters feature a new ♊version of the famous Campagnolo thumb shifter button, which is located on the inside of each shifter body. This new button looks like it will allow shifts to be made using a range of different hand positions. The introduction of the thumb shifter button means there is now only a single shift paddle behind each brake lever blade instead of the two buttons that SR WR has.  

There's also a new 'smart button' higher up on each shifter, which can be set up to control gear shifting, a computer or control any other Bluetooth device. This should be a much-needed improvement that puts SR13 on a more level pegging with competitors in t♐his department.

It also sounds like the MyCampy app has been upgraded, and users will be able to customise gear changes and﷽ derailleur settings from the app. Something that was missing before. 

Ergonomics and overall lever shape have clearly changed. The top of the shifter isn't as tall and doesn't stick up as prominently, and the levers appear to have a slight natural curve inwards, the same way 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Shimano Dura-Ace does.

Overall, it looks like a more comfortable overall shifter to hold and use. The gap underneath the shifter body that felt a little unfinished also appears to have been eliminated. Users can now adjust the brake lever blade reach to suit ඣtheir own preference, too. 

Finally, for the most part, the b✃rakes thems🌌elves look visually the same, but there have been a few changes. Thecalipers have two new titanium retention screws to reduce weight by 6 grams. There's a new sintered disc brake pad compound, and the floating rotors will be available in 140 and 160mm sizes. 

We hope to get🐽 our hands on a new groupset to test out soon. 

In June 2024, the two-time Tour winner was still a question mark, with his life-threatening crash at Itzulia Basque Country seeꦯing him confirmed as a starter just nine days before the Grand Départ.

But this season, despite another 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:crash and concussion at Paris-Nice putting him out of racing for almost three months, the Dane is improving by the day, with the grand aim of taking back the yellow jersey from rival 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and claiming his ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚthird overall win.

"Even last year, going into the Tღour, I was still kind of believing that I could go for the win," said Vingegaard, speaking to from training camp in Sierra Nevada. 

"Obviously, that didn't work out, but this year, I feel like a comp🐲letely different person, to be honest, in the way my body reacts to training, but also how my body is in general."

Vingegaard has most recently been spotted near Annecy, as he continues to ramp up his pre🔥parations for the start of the Tour in Lille, on July 5, and feels like his shape is steadily improving.

Having lost the Tour last year by more than six minutes and seen world cham🍨pion Pogačar reach new heights in the Grand Tour arena, Vingegaard is aware he'll need to discover a new peak if he is to defeat cycling's top rider.

"I've always enjoyed the process of getting to the highest possible level for the Tour de France; it's always the big goal, and I always enjoy doing the hard work here," said Vingeꦰgaard. 

"Everybody is taking a step at the moment, so obಌviously I also need to be better than I was two years ago," when he last won the Tour de France, "but I also have the feeling that I am🤪 improving."

Vingegaard will face off with Pogačar, and third Tour favourite 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Remco Evenepoel (S🧔oudal-QuickStep), for eight days of thrilling racing at the Dauphiꦦné next week, and it's a rivalry which the Dane is excited to renew. 

The star GC pair have not raced ea⛦ch other since the conclus꧑ion of the Tour last season.

"If I♓ were racing without T💧adej, it wouldn't be the same, and hopefully, he feels the same the other way around," added Vingegaard. "I actually enjoy having a rival like him."

The Dauphiné should act as the preview for what is to come across the three weeks of intense racing expected at the Tour in July, where the route will return to the site of two of Vingegaard's biggest triumphs over Pogačar: the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Col de la Loze and Hautacam.

The Giro d'Italia was the most lucrative race of the season so far, and left out three of the top teams, 168🎀澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lotto, who declined their a🅺utomatic invitation, and Uno-X Mobility and TotalEnergies, who were not granted wildcard i🦂nvitations.

Cofidis could have made up a lot of ground during the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia, and needed to bꦏecause they started the race 33 points outside of the top 18 of the 2023-2025 UCI Teamജ Rankings.

Howeve﷽r, the French team had a lacklustre performance in the Italian Grand Tour, scoring 325 points to XDS Astana's 1,397 and Picnic PostNl's 1,069.

The team were also denied on home turf in the Boucles de la Mayenne, where they only managed 90 points. Mea✅nwhile. XDS Astana won the race with Aaron Gate, further compounding Cofidis&ౠapos; woes.

Cofidis did not compete in the Tour of Norway, which they might regret come Oc✱tober, as the Pro Series race provided a decent points haul.

The French team are now 183 points outside of the top 18 and will be under pressure to score points on French soil during the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Critérium du Dauphiné and Tour de France to remain in tꦫhe Wor🐭ldTour in 2026.

Meanwhile, Pi𝓡cnic-PostNL had a decent Giro d'Italia, with a win by Casper van Uden on stage 4, as well as 11th overall by Max Poole. Romain Bardet helped the German team's cause by scoring 130 points for second♋ place on stage 17 and a handful more for 26th on GC, and other minor results for the team brought the total to 1,069 points.

They weren't as strong as XDS Astana, however, and the Kazakh team jumped ahead of them into 17th ܫplace in the three-year rankings with a 455-point advantage on Picnicও-PostNl.

XDS Astana went 1-2🌠 on stage 16 with Christian Scaroni and Lorenzo Fortunato, and the pair reve♔rsed positions in the final mountains classification. Those feats were worth 620 points of the team's total of 1,397 for the Giro.

The underdog of the Giro d'Italia, EF Education-EasyPost, may not have achieved their goal of winning the overall with Richard Carapaz, but the team had a superteam-level haul with 1,695 poi🅰nts, the fourth-most behind Visma-Lease a Bike,  UAE Team Emirates-XRG and Lidl-🐷Trek.

That buoyed the EF Education-EasyPost to 10th in the 2025 UCI Team Rankings and moved them back up ahead of Lotto into 11th in the three-year rankings - a far more comfortable position than 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:what they faced in the last relegati♏on cycle.

This article was corrected to reflect a mistake in the Giro d'Italia team totals.

2025 Team Rankings - The fight for 2026 wildcards

Almost as pressing as the WorldTour relegation fight is the battle between the ProTeams - as well as teams who get relegated🦹 - for the two autom𒅌atic invitations to the 2026 Grand Tours for the top ProTeams of 2025.

Lotto and Israel-Premier Tech, who lost out in the 2023 relegation race, stand to rejo🦩in the WorldTour in 2026 if their fortunes continue on as they have over the past two seasons.

That will leave two new WorldTour teams out of the running for 2026. At the moment, Arkéa-B&B Hotels are the team who need to be concerned the most. Not only are they lagging far behind in 21st, but they are facing funding issues and had to let go of several top riders in the off-season. This has put them in an eve🌸n worse position to score points.

Even more dire isﷺ their position in the 2025 rankings, however. Arkéa are 22nd this year and way behind Uno-X Mobility and Tudor Pro Cycling. They're also behind Cofidis and Picnic-PostNL, who are also on the cusp of relegation.

Of ꦬthe current ProTeams, Uno-X Mobility is over 2,000 points behind in their goal of promotion to the WorldT🅘our, but are leading the way toward the automatic WorldTour invitations for 2026.

If Cofidis and Picnic-PostNL get relegated, the💧 Norwegian team are in a prime position as the top ProTeam of 2025 so far. Second on the list is Tudor, who hold a slim lead on Q36.5.

Lotto, should they fail to hold onto their top 18 position, would be in a terrible spot as t🐻hey are in dead last in this year's rank♎ings and 2,000 points behind Tudor.

2023-2025 Team Rankings

With the Dauphiné, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Suisse and Tour de France coming up, the standi🐟ngs are by far from set in stone, but the weekly average of points gained so far this season - and over a variety of events - gives a strong hint of how the next month will go.

XDS Asta💖na are on a path to overtake Intermarché-Wanty in the next two mont❀hs of racing, should they continue on the same trajectory.

Picnic-PostNL are🐎 locked in a tight battle with Cofidis, whiꦫle Uno-X Mobility and Arkéa-B&B Hotels will need a minor miracle to get into the top 18.

The German outfit lose Romain Bardet, who is retiౠring without racing the Tour de France, and are missing sprinter Fabio Jakobsen, out with iliac artery endofibrosis. But Bardet will have his last hurrah at the Dauphiné and race alongside the in-form Poole.

Osﷺcar Onley will lead their team for the To♚ur, with stage hunters Julius van den Berg and Tobias Andresen in the mix.

Cofidis will be investing heavily in the upcoming Dauphiné and Tour de France, with riders like 🦋Dylan Teuns, Emanuel Buchmann aiming at the former and Ion Izagirre, Benjamin Thomas and Alex 🎀Aranburu for the Tour.

Formerly the Crystal Cup, Saturday's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:rebranded Capitol Cup races, and an amateur Challenge Ride, were held on city streets betwe🍒en the National Mall and the US Capitol building. It was the first time pro racing took place in the popular Washington, D.C.✃ area in 24 years.

After the women got underway at 11:30 a.m. EDT from the start/finish line on 3rd Street, across from the Capitol Reflecting Pool as a backdrop, the pace was high, but they couldn't outdistance the dark clouds that produced a heavy rainstorm. A total of 76 of the 102 starters finished the race, with no one catching the red-hot Cuban rider, coming fresh off wiꦛns at Winston-Salem Cycling Classic and Tour of Somerville the week before. 

“Armed Forces is my favourite criterium - I always come into it with the mindset that I 'have' to win. The first day, the Capitol Cup, threw everything at us. The rain, intense braking, and slick corners completely changed the race dynamics," Mejias told Cyclingnews, who won the Crystal Cup the last t🌌wo years and was𝓀 second to Kendall Ryan in the Clarendon Cup.

"Wet conditi🐓ons are always a challenge for me, but my teammates executed flawlessly and kept me protected when it counted most. Despite the chaos, I was able to take the win with confidence after an incredible lead-out from Emily Ehrlich."

Just two weeks ago Ehrlich won the elite women's US Pro road race championship, but in the criterium did not wear the stars-and-stripes as that honor went to three riders in the fray - elite national champion Kendall Ryan (L39ION of Los Angeles), U23 winner Cassidy Hickey (CCB p🌌/b Levine Law Group/American Systems) and junior winner Katherin Sarkisov (CCB p/b Levine Law). All three national champions finished in the top 10, Hickey second, Ryan fifth and Sarkisov seventh.

Now in its 27th 𝓀edition, the Clarendon Cup returned to nearby Arlington, Virginia, on Sunday. Mejias fought off a late acceleration by Ryan to win the two-rider sprint. Odette Lynch (Fearless Femme Racing p/b Robertet) edged Rylee McMullen (Virginia's Blue Ridge TWENTY28) for third.

"Day two at the Clarendon Cup was an emotional rollercoaster. The competition was the strongest I’ve seen in years, with a wid🌠e range of skill levels in criterium racing, which made the win even more rewarding," Mejias said.

"My teammates were absolutely impeccable. I’m so proud of how far we’ve come and how strong we are as a team. It was a phenomenal w꧂eekend, and Iꦺ truly hope we can return and do it all again next year.”

The eight riders with CCB p/b Levine Law Group pressed Mejias' seven-rider squad, as well as Fearless Femme and L39ION of Los Angeles, both starting with rosters of four. While Rylee McMullen factored in the leadout for Mejias this time, Lynch had two other teammates in the top 10 for her podium, but could not overcome 🌄the strong surge by Ryan for second place.

On the🦹 men's side, the field included 142 competitors each day, with German Dario Rapps (DCC) dominati♏ng with the win at the Capitol Cup and going second to Briton Matthew Bostock (Tekkerz) at the Clarendon Cup. Another British rider, Jim Brown (Golden State Blazers), scored two podiums - second on Saturday and third on Sunday - to finish second in the Omnium standings for elite men.

"It was super important, and after the win on Saturday, our main goal was to defend the lead overall. We did well," Andreas Mayr of d3stroycyclingclub, also known as DCC, told Cyclingnews.  "Dario knew the main competit♕ors in the end on Sunday. Of course, we're also proud he was second on Sunday."

The four-rider team ♑of Tekkerz stepped up Sunday with Alec Briggs in the main breakaway, which eventually swelled from behind from chasers and eventually all of the main group. Then 2022 Team Pursuit world champion Ollie Wood used his track skills to deliver teammate Bostock to the victory on Sunday.

"With only a few laps to go, I decided to just keep it fast enough to stop anyone rushing Bocky, as he was already positioned well with a few laps to go. Thankfully over the line with one lap to go, Oliver Wood used him pursuit power and speed to drop Bostock off to finish the job off like we planned from the start, so happy days," Briggs told Cyclingnews.

Full results are available at the Amazon Armed Forces Cy꧟cling Classic .

Their rivalry isn't bitter, however, but one that comes with respect and forces 🌳cycling&aposꦐ;s top two teams to get better, according to the former's Managing Director, Richard Plugge.

"Mauro Gianetti and I just spoke, and we have a lot of respect for each other," Plugge told Cyclingnews, after Simon Yates snatched a the Giro d&ap൩os;I🐼talia title from the Emirati squad's hands on the penultimate day.

"They push us to become beꦐtter, and I think, I hope, we do it with his team and him, and that's what makes sports really beautiful. 

"You win something, then you lose something, and you think next time, &apoꦑs;I have to beat him', but it's all out of respect, and that's w🧸hat makes this sport, and every sport, incredibly nice."

During last week's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia finale, it was Visma's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Simon Yates and UAE's Isaac del Toro who finished in the top two positions, with the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Brit comin꧟g out on top in dramatic fashio💖n. In July, it will be their top superstars – Jonas Vingega💃ard and Tadej Pogačar – who duke it out for the maillot jaune.

Having not seen Vingegaard race since he 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:left Paris-Nice with a concussion in March, his only appearance before the Tour's Grand Départ on July 5 will come at next week's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Critérium du Dauphiné.

Pogačar will also be racing the key eight-stage form-marking race, but with the T🅘our not far away, Plugge is onl♏y excited at the prospect of his star Dane coming face to face with cycling's top rider at the biggest race on the calendar.

"We did not 🐲raise the bar [for July by winning the Giro], we know Jonas made a step this year in the wintertime," said Plugge. 

"We have a very strong opponent, but I think in a three-week race, they are getting closer to each other than in the one-day races, because Pogačar is phenomenal in these. In a🍸 three-week race, it will be very exciting to see how far we get."

Yates took the latest of Visma-Lease a Bike's Grand Tour wins at the Giro, winning with a stunning attack on the Colle dell𒅌e Finestre, and a strong assist from Wout van Aert on stage 20. He will be at the Tour, too, 💧but as Vingegaard's super climbing domestique.

The Brit's overall win brought the Dutch team's Grand Tour title tally up to eight since Plugge took over and transformed the then Rabobank squad into Visma as we know it𒉰 today, with the culture and idea𒐪 of winning together being crucial to their rapid rise.

Yates is also their fourth rider from the team to win one of cycling's pre💖stigiou🌠s three-week races, while UAE have only been able to triumph through Pogačar, with the likes of Del Toro, João Almeida and another super prospect, Juan Ayuso, falling short in the past three seasons.

Plugge didn't have an exact answer for his rival, but credited much of Visma'﷽s continܫued success, even after the departure of Grand Tour mastermind Merijn Zeeman last summer, down to the team's culture of togetherness.

"We now have four winners, Sepp [Kuss], Jonas [Ving❀egaard], Primož [Roglič] and Simon [Yates]," said Plugge.

"I think what we try to do is have a really good programme, a really good team. Our team culture, which Wout van Aert is a perso▨nification of, is that we put in 100% for everyone, and we help everyone to win."

Yates, after 11 years at GreenEdge Cycling, bought into this, and it enabled him to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:find a possible 𝔉unseen pr༺evious top level, and allowed him to complete the𒆙 ultimate redemption victory story on the cl🐷imb, which infamously saw him lose the Giro back in 2018.

"Simon is very good indeed, maybe better than he ever was before, but he also has ♒a team now that works for him, sacrifices for him, puts him in positions in front of the race," said the Visma team boss. 

"For example, when crashes happened, we were in the right spot there. Of course, it&ꦜapos;s a bit of luck on one hand, but on the other, it's where you need to be at that time, and that's where the team helps a lot. 

"That's how we do it: working together, winning together, and losing tog🀅🌱ether."

Their decisive sprint this year played out with Villafañe edging most-recent champion Klöser for third pl෴ace, then Cecile Lejeune in fifth and 2021 winne🗹r Lauren♓ De Crescenzo in sixth. 

Well ahead of a four-rider duel at the finish line, two-time Traka 360 winner Karolina Migoń (PAS Raci⭕ng꧙) stole the show with a solo victory ahead of her teammate Cecily Decker. Last year was a historic finish for the elite women's race in the 200-mile distance, Klöser won from a hotl✤y-contested nine-rider sprint.

The winner in the 200-mile endurance test in 2022, Villafañe now has a sweep of the medals at Unbound Gravel 200, adding third place to the runner-up spot she took in 2023. Last year, two flat tyres snarled her momentum, and she finished 15th. Going in with a debut victory at The Traka 200 and a third-time win at Belgian Waffle Ride California, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Villafañe was a favourite in Kansas. 

"You know, from winning to second to I don't even know where I finished last year, to get back on the podium, [also] managed to now be tied with Cecily on th𒁃e Grand Prix points, it's pretty sweet," Villafañe said after the finish to race organisers.

"An amazing, amazing race for those girls that kind𓄧 of took the race by the horns and just challenged it. It was just impressive. I would get updates on my Karoo Hammerhead, and I was like, wow, they🦄're on one. Super impressive for them, and happy to salvage third."

While Gabby Tra🍒xler carried an early solo lead across the first 50 miles of the race and two groups chased, it was on Divide Road just beyond mile 40, on the first major section of rough gravel, where Migoń made a decisive move with her teammate Decker and US gravel champion Lauren Stephens. Many of the other favourites from that bunch ꧒did not react in time, and the trio was off.

"On Divide Road, it was pretty muddy, and there was ju༺st a lot of carnage - crash after crash after crash, and that kind of made these selections," Villafañe recounted.

"🍎I remember on a kicker, I was behind Melisa Rollins, and Cecily [Decker] was like, five bike lengths ahead, and I'm like, 'Oh, she's g🅠ot this. She's gonna close it.' And then next thing I know, Cecily is gone. 

"And then once you kind of get onto that big road [headed to Alma], you had Rosa [Klöser] saying [Carolin] Schiff isn't here, I'm not working. Paige saying Haley's [Smith] up the road, I'm not working🌠. You coul✅dn't get a cohesive group together."

As much as heat and fatigue factored into the back half of the 200-mile race, teamwork and tactics made the biggest noise in a decisive move in tꦍhe first half of t𝄹he race.

By the time Villafañe's bunch made it through Alma at mile 70 for the first aid station, the trio of Migoń, 𒊎Decker and Stephens had passed Haley Smith, Kirstine Frida Rysbjerg and Ann-Christine Allik as well as lone leader Traxler, and they had more than five minutes to their advantage. Later, Stephens would drop back, and even Decker was distanced from the front.

Not only was time an advantage for Migoń and Decker, but also being teammates. Villafañe said the Specialized riders could depend on each other as well, especially when she couldn't push on her own, and others around helped her dig deeper. One of those was Annika Langvad, with whom she paired at🦄 Cape Epic for the overall title.

"This race is so long, it's 200 miles. You'll feel great in one minute, and then you feel not good on another. So it's actually when you're feeling good that's kind of when you need𝐆 to hide, unless you're real🔥ly willing to go for those attacks.

"I also had Annika [Langvad], a super strong teammate. We tried to go, got reeled back real quick. I had Gee [Schreurs], a p🔯seudo-teammate. It was super impressive ride from her after fracturing her elbow," she said. Schreurs and Langvad would finish five and half minutes behind their fellow Specialized rider, seventh and eighth, respectively.

"I don't come from a road background, so I've come a really long way and I'm really proud of my tactics. It's sometimes about who can get to the finish line with the least amount of watts, 🐈and I think I played it super conservative, and was really🐎 smart. I salvaged third."

Along with third place, Villafañe remains at the top of the women's standings in the Life Time Grand Prix, however, now🐈 tied with Decker, who moved up as the top Grand Prix 🦂finisher in the field. 

Villafañe can also take consolation on her performance, as her average speed, 19.52 mph, was faster than Klöser's winning average of 19.44 mph a year ago. However, the new best average speed of 20.1🍸2 mph, and title, belong to Migoń, at least for one y𒁃ear.

UCI president David Lappartient has revealed more of the governing body's red lines regarding One Cycling in a recent interview with Marca, as he appears to kick the One Cycl🌳ing can down the road and so beyond a possible 2026 launch date.

Lappartient claims he is open to new investment and funding from Saudi Arabia, but appears to beಌ defending the current WorldTour race calendar and so the status quo, rather than allow One Cycling to shake up the sport and try to change the current business model.

"We welcome any initiative to engage the cycling audience and make our sport more attractive, to bring in additional revenue. Therefore, all investors are welcome. And we welcome our Saudi friends," Lappaertient told Marca last week.

"That said, we also ꦚhave to respect the UCI rules and the existing♔ races.

"We have to be🅺 careful not to give an advantage to a particular race just because it's part of One Cycling. Paris-Roubaix will always be Paris-Roubaix, whether or not it's part ꧃of that project."

Documents seen by Cyclingnews and other media suggest that One Cycling and SURJ aim to generate new revenue streams by organisin✤g new races and working with existing race organisers, to create the 'One C❀ycling Global Race Series.'

They also want to monetize fans, sponsors and broadcasters more by looking at e🍃very aspect꧋ of the sport. The revenue and the $250 million SURJ investment would fund a long-term business plan and be shared with the shareholder teams and organisers that sign-up to the project.  

Visma-Lease a Bike, EF Education-Easypost, Ineos Grenadiers, Soudal-QuickStep, Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, Lidl-Trek and other major men's and women's teams are said to be ready to sign up to become shareholders in the One Cycling management company, with race organisers Flanders Classics and perhaps Giro d'Italia organiser RCS Sport also ready to be part of the project but have always refused to answer questions from Cyclingnews.  

A number of teams are against or not convinced by the One Cycling project, with UAE Team Emir🌼ates-XRG sitting on the fence. Tour de France organiser ASO is firmly against One Cycling as it could undermine their dominance of the sport and the significant profits the T🍨our de France generates.

Those involved in One Cycling refuse to reveal details of the project, citing non-disclosure agreements, but the next ten days couldꦐ determine wheth⛄er One Cycling launches in 2026 and whether it will achieve its goals.

The UCI Professional Council ♕will hold an important meeting on Wednesday, with the 18 members from the sports' different stakeholders voting on the WorldTour race licences for 2026-2028. Their decision will then be ratified by the UCI Management Committee meeting in Arzon, France, between June 10 and 11.  

Cyclingnews un🦹der🐓stands that One Cycling will also make a presentation to the PCC, after a series of informal presentations to cycling stakeholders failed to reveal details of the project.

Some stakeholders are becoming frustrated with One Cycling and their reticence to fully reveal their plans. The UCI have reportedly created its own working group to study simi🔜lar reforms that involve all of the sport, including Tour de France organiser ASO, rather than a select few.

Jayco-AlUla team owner Gerry Ryan is said to be against the One Cycling project, with a source recently telling Cyclingnews tha🍰t Q36.5 billionaire team owner Ivan Glasenbe𓃲rg is "200% against the One Cycling business model."

Glasenberg owns ProTeam, the Q26.5 clothing brand and Pinarello bikes and is apparently becoming more involved i💜n the governance of professional cycling. He could become a thorn in the side of those driving the One Cycling project.    

'We must all build together, not just by a few' - David Lappartient

Key leaders of the One Cycling project met in Rome on Monday after the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia, apparently to finalise their strategy before their key presentation to the UCI Profession🅠al Cycling Council on Wednesdaꦉy.  

One Cycling reportedly wants to create at least three or four new races for 2026 and work with existing race organisers to create the One Cycling G🔜lobal Race Series.

The UCI have previously stated that WorldTour races for 2026-2228 would be assessed on the basis of their "strategic fit into theꦍ calendar based on the number of events and race days per country, before evaluation of their commercial value, sporting interest 𝔍and compliance with UCI regulations and directives."

According to documents seen by Chris Marshall Bell and Escape Collective, the One Cycling Global Race Series would include ten existing European races and begin with a race in Australia in January, followed by others in the Middle East or Asia in February. s💛uggested the UAE Tour and the Tour of Guangxi in China could become part of the One Cycling series.

A final race and gala event would be held in Saudi Arabia in late October. There have been reports of new races in North and South America, but little is known about who would organise the rac💜es or when they could be held.  

The UCI approves all race🌳 dates and usually issues three-year WorldTour race licences. The current WorldTour calendars are already packed with races, leaving little room for the new One Cycling races on key dates of the season.

The UCI could even refuse to grant🐬 the new One Cycling races WorldTour status be✨cause of a lack of information on the wider project.

Lappart▨ient said as much in his interview with after conꦜfirming some initial red lines at the Tour Down Under.

"The🧜 red line is that we don’t want to have a breakaway league, we don’t want to have a private league, and we want to make sure that we respect races like t🤪he Tour Down Under that are here for years, " Lappartient said in January.

"We know that the economic model of cycling can be improved. We know that the power of cycling can be bigger than this, but we also want the discussions to be under the umbrella of the U💃CI."  

We need to know exactly what the One Cycling project is all about," Marca reported Lappartient as saying last week.  

"We need to understand more about the (One Cycling) economic model because that way we can evolve. It's clear they have to contribute something to the stakeholders, the cyclists, the organizers. Not just destabilize what we have already, to create a potential new model, whose final outcome⛄ we can't yet see. We have to be very careful not to jump in this way.

"It's som🎀ething we must all build together, not just by a few."

For what the Giro d'Italia lacked in A-list stars, it made up for in an enthralling general classification battle that ran right up to the wire 168澳洲5最新𝐆开奖结果:on the gravel slopes of the Colle d🐼elle Finestre. Simon Yates rid the demons that loomed over him from the very same climb seven years prior, when the maglia rosa was snatched from his grasp, and in doing so, kickstarted a Grand Tour season that surely can only get even better as the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France Femmes come into view.

Before Le Tour, though, there's the small matter of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Critérium du Dauphiné and an almighty startlist vying for the best preparation ahead of a lap of France next month. Reigning Tour de France champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) arrives in southeastern France off the back of a busy Classics campaign and altitude camp, ready for a first rendezvous of the year with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) as well as Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep), Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trekꦐ), Enric Mas (Movistar) and Carlos Rodriguez (Ineos Grenadiers) also taking to the start line.

However, the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Critérium du Dauphiné is just as valuable to the racing journalists assessing pre-Tour form as it is for the techꦰ journalists, who are searching out the latest innovations launched💞 ahead of the biggest race on the calendar - whether that be entirely new bike models, fresh groupsets, or the latest in wearable tech. 

The Cyclingnews team wil෴l be on the ground for the opening days of the key Tour de France warm-up race as Senior Tech Writer Will Jones will cover all the latest tech releases - ಞbe sure to keep your eyes peeled for a tech gallery that's always hotly anticipated. At the same time, Engagement Editor Pete Trifunovic will bring you the latest storylines from the race across our website and social channels. 

Our global team, spread across Europe, North America, a𝄹nd Australia,🐓 will ensure you don't miss out on any of the major storylines across racing and tech from not just the Critérium du Dauphiné but also the Tour of Britain Women, the men's and women's editions of the Tour de Suisse, a whole host of national championships and Copenhagen Sprint too.

What's more, we'll also bring you plenty of in-depth content from the world of gravel, including a two-part comprehensive tech gallery from last weekend's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Unbound Gravel and an insight into the ever-fascinating gravel pit stoﷺp from those inside the action.

That's alongside debriefs and analysis from the Giro d'Italia, plus interviews and features building up to the Tour and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France Femmes. 

Cyclingnews subscribers can also enjoy a deep dive feature on the challenge that junior riders face handling the training workload of a newly-professional rider, and whether it's the right approach. Plus, there's the aforementioned Critérium du Dauphiné tech gallery, and a Cyclingnews Labs feature putting a range of the industry's best aero socks head-t༺o-head to see which opti♛ons truly live up to the hype.

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Speaking exclusively to Cyclingnews, Ryan said he꧋ had decided it was time for change.

The men's WorldTour team won two stages at the Giro d'Italia with Luke Plapp and then 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Harper on stage 20 thanks to his attack ov𝕴er the Colle delle Finestre on Saturday. 

However, the men's team have only won four WorldTour races this season: Mauro Schmid won the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Roa🦂d Race, Letizia Paternoster wore the leader's jersey for a day at the Vuelta España Femenina for a day and Silke Smulders was second at the Tour Down Under. The Liv-AlUla-Jayco women's WorldTour team has still to win a race this season.

"Matt White left a mark on the team but if you keep doing the same thing, you get the same result," Ryan told Cyclingnews, with respect and 🔯affection for White but with a desire for change.

"We're doing a restructure. We sat down with Matt and saw where he wanted to be. O🎉ut of it came a decision by mutual agreement to move on."

Ryan seems committed to sponsoring the men's and women's teams for the next three-year WorldTour cycle but knows they need to adapt and move faster to compete against t𓆉he bigger budget super 🌼teams on both the men's and women's peloton.

"When I first started in 2012 it was a different 🍨game. Now it's not just about the riders and the coaches, there's all the sports science too. You've got to keep improving," he said.

"You may think you're getting better🍃 but so is the opposition. We want to follow a more structured process and have accountability. We're trying to move forward and compete with the biggest teams. We've got to be faster to beat them, we're going to be faster at reacting.

"It&apos⛄;s not about the dollars but how we do things. We've got to get the best out of everyone because we can't afford to have waste. I'm involved in a lot of organizations, from sports to business and the bigger you get, the seepage and the waste happens. We can't afford that."

Ryan has 🔜decided to act now to strengthen the team's performance structure.

"We weren't expecting this to happen. So we're i☂n the process of searching for new people. The problem is, that if you wait till the end of the season, it&apo🌠s;s too late," he said.

"We've a🐬lready brought a few new people in. We'll upda꧟te the process and then fit the people who are best for that process and to make it happen."

Ryan and Jayco AlUla are hoping Ben O'Connor can do well in next week's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Critérium du Dauphiné and of course at the subsequent 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France. Liv-AlUla-Jayco will targe🌜t the Tour of Britain Women, the Giro d'Italia Women in July and then the Tour de France Femmes.

"The season is certainly not over. We've got to look and see where we can get the opportunities to win some more races and g꧒et some more UCI ranking points," Ryan said.

"We can&ap﷽os;t say we'll have a better year next year. Why can't we do it the next race or the next Grand Tour?"

Isaac del Toro held the race lead going into the Colle delle Finestre but crossed the finish line in Sestriere 45km later, almost four minutes off 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Simon Yates, foll𓆏owing a stalemate between the Mexican and 💫Richard Carapaz in the chase group.

Adam Yates, Del Toro's teammate at UAE, said that the team had controlled the Giro throughout and "did a good race", but noted that it's al✤ways hard to keep control if there's one "super strong" rider like Simon.

"I said yesterdayꦦ [after stage 20] also that we did a good race. We controlled pretty much for three weeks straight without any help," Yates to🦋ld before Sunday's closing stage in Rome.

"Even yesterda🧸y, me, Rafał, and Brandon were a little bit behind, but everyone else was alone, and we have guys that can support a leader. When you have one guy who's super strong like that, it's difficult to control.

"In the end, we did a good race, and I think we can be proud of how we rode. Isaac is still young, he's 21. I even forget sometimes how young he is. I thinꦇk he's got a big future ahead of him and for sure many chances like this to come."

Yates also said that he supports Simon, even if his employment means that his loyalty on Saturday lay with Del Toro rather than his brother.

He said he was "super happy" for Simon to win the Giro, with the victory meaning he could banish the bad memory of the 2018 race, where he held pink until the final weekend saw him crack badly two days in a row to end up 🌠finishing 21st.

"As I said yesterday, if anyone was going to win other than us, my favourite to win is Simon," Yates said. "I'm super happy for him. All those years ago, when he lost the jersey in the last couple of stag𝓡es, I t💦hink it's been in his memory for a long time now.

"He's tried many ti🎃mes and come up short, but he finally managed ꧅to pull it off, so chapeau."

Yates jokingly admitted that he has catching up t♎𒊎o do to match his brother's Grand Tour palmarès.

"To be 𝓰fair, he's won a lot of races in his careᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚer already. It's not easy. He's won a Vuelta, he's won all these races, I don't know how many Giro stages he's got already," he said.

"He's not a bad b𓃲ike rider. Two Grand Tours – not many people have done that, I guess. I need to find one first of all, never mind catching up.

"I'm super happy for hi🌳m and tonight I'll al♋so celebrate with him. "

According to UAE Team Emirates-XRG directeur sportif Fabio Baldato, who was in the team car behind Del Toro, the young Mexican simply lacked the legs and the confidence to chase Yates. It was a fatal wea♊kness and tactical mistake, with UAE unable to help as a team.

Del Toro preferred to stay with Carapaz on the Colle delle Finestre rather than chase Yates and then risk coming under attack and losing the Giro to the EF Education-EasyPost rider. UAE road captain Rafał Majka offered a similar explanation to Cyclingnews and Bici.Pro.

Neither Baldato nor Majka blamed Del Toro. They praised him for riding so well for three weeks, but losing the Giro on stage 20ꦚ hurts.

However, the history book will show that Del Toro wore the maglia rosa for 11 days but then lost it due to his fear of his biggeﷺst rival. Del Toro and Carapaz refused to ride together and so ended up 3:56 and 4:43 down on Yates, respectively, in the final general classification in Rome.

"It was a battle of nerves and legs between Isaac and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Richard Carapaz, but the strongest and the smartest rider won the Giro," Baldato told Italian website Bicisport.

"We underestimated Simon Yates because he did a fantastic ride, just look aꦉt the times."

The EF team surge and Carapaz's attack at the very foot of the Colle delle Finestre distanced Del Toro's teammates and perhaps caused him to opt for a defensive strategy in the hope Majka and Brandon McNulty would join him for the valley road to Sestriere. The loss of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Juan Ayuso and Jay Vine meant Del Toro had just five teammates, with the bes🧸t climbers🥂 out of the race.

"✅Our race strategy was for Isaac to mark Carapaz because we thought he'd attack hard. We were surprised that he attacked so hard, but Isaac replied. Simon was smart because he rode at his own pace and then kept going," Baldato s✤aid.

Del Toro was aware that Yates was gaini🦩ng time on the Colle delle Finestre but opted to stick with Carapaz and play poker with him by refusing to work together. The Ecuadorian was also willing to lose everything to have a chance of victory. In the end, they both lost.

"Isaac knew that Yates had Van Aert up the road🍌 in the break, we'd told him. Halfway up the climb, we trie൲d to tell and encourage Isaac to think about Simon, too," Baldato revealed.

"We only did it once because he was the one on the b﷽ike; he knew how his legs were feeling. His goal was to reach the summit of the Colle delle Finestre with Carapaz. He opted to save his strength for the final, but they just ended up arguing with each other."

"As we say ✅in Italian, 'Tra i due litiganti il terzo gode - When two people argue, someone else wins.'"

Baldato and Majka admitted that the Giro was lost even before the ✱summit of the Col🅠le delle Finestre, when Yates was the virtual maglia rosa and then had Van Aert to drag him along the valley road to Sestriere.

"When we caught him, it was late, everything happened in the last 2km of the Finestre," Majka said to Cyclingnews and BiciPro in Rome.

"We were just one step away from winning the Giro, but the🉐re was nothing we cou🐟ld do.

"It hurts to lose like that, but I think it will help Isaac. Whe🍨n you make mistakes, you l⭕ay the foundations for future success."

Baldato agreed and pushed back against any criticism෴ of his talented young rider.

"Losing the Giro on the last big day🎃 hurts. It hurts him, it hurts me and all the team. But after a week of racing, if you said Isaac would finish second and win the white jersey, we'd have been happy," he said.

"It's easy to say afterwards that Isaac should have chased Yates, that he could have doneไ this or that. It's easy to analyse things with hindsight and blame people. But 🥀Isaac knew the legs and energy he had.

"It's important to remember that Isaac is only 21 and it was the first time he was racing a Grand Tour, on climbs over 2,000 metres, with great rider🤡s Carapaz and Yates.

We're disappointed, but we've fuওlly realised that we have a great rider for the future. He's only 21 and is second in the Giro. Finishing second is part of life and part of cycli🐻ng; you have to always get back up and go again. That's what Isaac and all the team will do."

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Simon Yates (Visma-Lease A Bike) pulled off a stunning turnaround to take the race lead on the penultimate stage and thus 🦋take it home with him on Sunday.

In contrast to Isaac del Toro's (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) slender hold on pink and his eventual loss of the race lead, the battles for the maglia Azzurra and maglia ciclamino were non-existe🃏nt during the three weeks.

Lorenzo Fortunato (XDS-Astana) and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mads Pedersen (Lidl-♛Trek) took control of the climbing and points classification before the rಌace had left Albania and easily held them all the way to the finish.

Elsewhere, Del Toro and his UAE squad came away with the white jersey of b🐓est young rider and the team classification. But that's not all… Part of the Giro's charm is its long list of minor classifications, competitions which roll on quietly in the shadow of the main, jersey-giving classifications.

Many of these prizes – such as the maglia nera, a best descender competition꧅, and various alternate team💝 classifications – have fallen by the wayside over the years.

Several remain, however, with one of this year's minor prizes being taken home by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease A Bike). The Belgian fought back from illness to play a pivotal role in aiding Yates to overall victory on stage 20 through the Alps, assist 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Olav Kooij to two stage wins and take one for himself.

As a result, he was handed the Trofeo Bonacossa, a prize voted upon by a panel of journalists which aw🅰ards the 'greatest exploit'ꦇ of the race.

His fellow Belgian 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Dries De Bondt (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) 👍also came away with a competition victory. You may have noticed him doing battle with Mads Pedersen at numerous intermediate sprints during the Giro, but it wasn't in some misguided attempt to close the Dane's unassailable advantage.

Instead, De Bondt was targeting the points on offer towards the intermediate sprin☂t prize. He took over the lead of the classification from Alessandro Tonelli on stage 17 and eventually beat the Italian by 115 points to 88 in Rome.

Polti-VisitMalta may not have come away with their man Tonelli delivering a classification victory, but fellow Italian wildcard squad VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faꦜizanè did.

Their rider, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Manuele Tarozzi, walks away from the Giro with two prizes in🅠 the bag, the new-for-2025 Red Bull Kilometre prize and the long-running Fuga prize.

For the former, Tarozzi picked🐼 up 45 points at Red Bull Kilometre sprints to beat Del Toro, on 33, into second place. For the latter, Tarozzi simply spent the most time on the road in a breakaway of fewer than 10 riders. His 418km beat out Tonelli's 368km for the win.

Finally, we come to the 'fighting spirit' combativity prize, won by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lorenzo Fortunato. The Italian climber was on the attack day after day during the Gir𝄹o, rꦍacking up mountain points and also taking home three of the daily combativity awards. It's no surprise, then, that he won the overall prize, too. 

The top women's contenders ꦡcoming into Kansas were Anna Yamauchi, Emily Newsom and Hannah Shell, but all three failed to finish the race. Both Newsom, who was third at Unbound 200 two years ago, and Yamauchi withdrew after having crashed.

Van der Linden and Dumke had been in the top five of the wildcard standings after Sea Otter, and Quinones was eighth but ultimately shifted up into the top three of the wildcard selections after finishing 33rd at Unbound. Van der Linden was 20th over the line in Emporia and Dumke cam♏e 🌄39th.

Petr Vakoč had actually led the men's wildcard standings after the first round at168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Sea Otter Gravel in April. He finished 15th overall at Unbound 200, third among the wildcard competitors, but declined the invitation. His spot was filled by Taylor. Wilson, Jones and L'Esperance were all among the🎃 top four after🌞 Sea Otter.

With seven fresh foes for the series contenders to now watch, t꧃he points standings were re-calibrated the day after Unbound's race-within-a-race outcomes. 

After his Unbound 200 win Jones entered the competition right near the top of the leaderboard, in a three way tie for third 😼with Matthew Beers and Unbound runner-up Simon Pellaud. L’Esperancꦡe slotted in to eighth position, Wilson is tied in tenth and Taylor sits 14th. On the women's leaderboard Van der Linden is in a three-way tie for 13th, Quinones 21st and Dumke 22nd.

Now in a fourth season, the off-road series this year reduced the total number of riders from 60 to 50 rid🍷ers - 25 women and 25 men - with three spots reserved in both divisions for wildcards to be added after Unbound Gravel 200.  

Based on the final results from Unbound Gravel 200, combined with April&ap𒅌os;s lead-off event at Sea Otter Gravel in April, those six riders, plus a seventh in the men's field,  now take part in the chase for a share of the hefty prize purse, $200,000 split evenly among top 10 elite men and elite women after Big Sugar 𒈔Gravel in October.

Originally, there were three spots for women and three spots for men on offer, but an extra spot for men opened when Howard Grotts (Specialized) pulled outꦦ, as꧅ he made the decision to stay sidelined and recover from a serious crash last August at a mountain bike race in Colorado.

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"It's like a ketchup bottle, when it's almost finished, you keep shaking and shaking. Nothing happens but then suddenly everything comes out at once. That's what ha✨ppened at our Giro," V🧔an Aert said after hugging Yates and his teammates beyond the finish line.

"We came here with three leaders and all three were successf🎃ul," he p▨ointed out.

Van Aert was talking about himself, Yates and 𒊎Kooij, who won two sprint sta🌼ges. Van Aert was overjoyed to win stage 9 in Siena and appeared to take huge pride and satisfaction in helping his teammates.  

"It's been a crazy 24 hours since Simon decided to turn everything u༺pside down. We were really focused to finish it off and win with Olav," he said on the final Giro w🍷eekend, the emotions still high.  

"It was the first time I've seen Simon so emotional. He's a relaxed guy but you could really see that it means so much to him. What heꦗ did on the Colle delle Finestre was speci💃al."

Van Aert began the Giro in Albania with doubts and limited expecꦯtations after falling ill during a key pre-Giro training camp in Tuscany. He was second on stage 1 but then struggled during the first week, only to show his true talents and determination by winning the Siena gravel stage.

He🌄 appeared to get better, stronger and more ambitious as the Giro rode north. He was second to Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) in Vicenza on stage 13 and then went on the attack three times in the final week, to try and win in Cesano Moderno on stage 18 and in order to help Yates in two mountain stages.

He played a fundamenta🌟l role on Saturday by joining the break of the stage and staying out front over the Colle del👍le Finestre to then give his all to pace Yates to Sestriere and Giro victory.

"The start of the Giro wasn't a nightmare for us but at that point we were struggling," Van Aert sa♈id.  

"But in the end it's been a brilliant three weeks. It's mission accomplished for us."

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168澳洲5最新🌠开奖结果:Yates was crowned 𒈔the winner of the 2025 Giro in Rome on Sunday, with Del Toro and Carapaz obliged to stand a step lower than the Visma-Lease a Bike rider on the final podium overlooking the Foro Imperiale Roman ruins. There was only one emperor in the 🧜Eternal city.

Del Toro won the best young riders' white jersey and sportingly praised Yates on his victory during the early kilometre of the final stage. There was a briefer exchange with Carapaz but the 21-year-old Mexican insisted he had c𝓰hosen the right tactic to ride defensively and not ride wi🌞th Carapaz to try to keep Yates under control on the Colle delle Finestre.

"I don't think I did anything wrong," Del Toro s🦩aid in Rome.

"Richard had to protect his second place and so marked me closely. He said I should have wไorked with him but if I'd worked with him, he would have attacked me and could have gained time on me. He thought he was doing the most intelligent thing for his place on the podium. You can win that way but you can also lose."

Del Toro 𒁃promised to🍌 return to try to win the Giro and will surely be a protected Grand Tour team leader in 2026.

"I wanted to win but I can't honestly believe I've finishe♏d s♒econd. For sure I'll be back to try to win the Giro," Del Toro confirmed.

"I'm really happy with my Giro. I was always up there, always learning. I've got to be proud of mysᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚelf and of the team that was always there for me."

Carapaz is a man of few words but always chooses them carಞefully. On Saturday in Sestriere he blamed 😼Del Toro for not wanting to work with him and so chased Yates.

"We could have been the strongest, but it was the most intelligent who won," he said on Saturday. "Del Toro lost the Giro. He didn't know how to race 🐈well."

After the Giro ended in Romeᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ on Sunday evening, Carapaz again chose his words carefully.

"We all played the same game, the game of trying to win, and♓ only one could win," he said.

"We went ⭕all in for it and it ended how it ended. For me, a third place is a reward for all the hard work we put in to be on the podium, so I think we can all be very😼 happy.

"I gave🌼 it all for three weeks and I wouldn't change anything. I think this is the game, and sometimes y✱ou win, and sometimes you lose."

It was Carapaz's fifth Grand Tour podium place. He won the 2019 Giro but now has a second and this place o🍌n his palmares, plus a third place at the Tour de France.  

Yet the Ecuadorian climber has no regrets. He is happy to be back on the podium after two injury and illꦗness hit seasons with E🎐F Education-EasyPost. The US-registered WorldTour team won two stages, with Carapaz on stage 11 to Castelnovo ne' Monti and with Kasper Asgreen on stage 14 to Gorizia.

"For me it's a special race so to return to the podium again is really special for me and my team. This has been the project for three years, and now finishing  on this podium𒅌 is super special. I want to enjoy it," Carapaz said. 

"I think we're happy about the work we did all Giro. We'll leave with the feeling of having been present in this Giro as a team. From the very𒉰 first day we said we wanted to fight and try to win and that's what we didꦏ. We'll leave with a good third place and enjoy that."  

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Twenty-🃏four hours later, tears turned to laughter as Yates stepped onto the podium in Rome and chuckled in disbelief as the trophy he so longed for was handed to him.

The 32-year-old Brit only 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:had a day to start realisi🌞ng what he had achieved – and his team had only hours to sort out full pink kit and accessories for stage 21 – but as he sat down amongst the history of the Mu﷽sei Capitolini in the Italian capital, it was finally starting to feel real. 

"It feels really amazing. I think it's slowly, slowly sinking in," he said, later reflecting on th💮e outpouring of emotions he'd shown on stage 20.

"I'd normally consider myself quite unemotional, let's say, and quite focused, but I just couldn't hold it bac📖k. Yesterday it really got to me, and not to keep repeating myself, but it's something I've really worked for and really sacrificed for a long time. I just couldn't believe that I had managed to pull it off. It just came pouring out," he said.

"It'𝓡s still sinking in as well. Also today we finished in such a great way with the stage win as well, I think everyone's just on cloud nine as well, so you really start to realise what we've accomplished here. We had a great Giro, and we'll see what happens after this."

Yates is already a Grand Tour winner, after taking the Vuelta a España in 2018 – at the time a comeback of its own after his dramatic loss at the Giro a few months prior – but 168澳🐼洲5最新开奖结果:winning the Italian Grand Tour is a huge addition to his palmarès, for both personal and⛎ professional reasons. 

"Even since I turned professional, I always dreamed of winning the best races, and of course the Grand Tours are the pinnacle of our sport," he said. "I fell in love with the Giro in 2018 and I think you guys alre♚ady know that I've had my ups and downs here, but it's a race that kept calling my name and I've finally managed to win the race. I still can't believe it but it's a dream come true."

There are lots of reasons why 2025 was finally Yates' year after so many ups and downs at the Giro, but one is certainly his move to Visma-Lease a Bike, now winners of seven Grand Tours in the last five years, after the Brit spent 11 se🎀asonsꦑ with Jayco AlUla.

"I think I just needed a change, and I wanted to come to a team that knew how to win the Grand Tours. They've done it successfully with different riders, and it's looking like it's paid off," he said about his move. "That's also one of the reasons why I made 🎐the change, because I was searching for more. 

"But of course I have no regrets with staying at Jayco for so long. I have some lifelong friends and some great memories – prett♚y much all my successes other than the Giro right now have been there."

Yates also paid tribute to his rival Isa🔥ac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), who had worn pink up until stage 20, and happens to be the teammate of Yates' twin Adam – though when the brothers road through Rome together on Sunday, they weren't talking about the race, just about meeting the Pope.

"Isaac himself, he's such a young guy, I think he has a really bright future – he's already world class," Yates said of Del Toro. "I think when I was 21 I was still just a neo pro or maybe I was not even professional yet so I'm sure he will bounce back and he'll have a lot more success🔥⛄ in his future."

Next, Yates will head to the Tour de France to ride as a domestique for Jonas Vingegaard – there's "no debate" about his role, he affirmed – and has the chance to win the Tour as a teammate for the first time ever. But, whether that happens or not, and no matter how the rest of his time with Visma-Lease a Bike pans out, there's a sense that anything after this Giroꩲ win is really just a bonus.

"I thin𝄹k I'm at the pinnacle of my career," Yates said. "I don't know how much better you can get from here."

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As well as Pedersen's ciclamino triumph, the team won six stages with three different riders – four for Pedersen, one apiece for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Daan Hoole and Carlos Verona – marking the team's most successful Grand Tour in recent memory. To make it even more exceptional, Pedersen himself also led the Giro for five days, too, during the first week before losing it on stage 7's summit finish to Tagliacozzo to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe).

This is the Dane's second sprints jersey victory, after taking the equivalent title at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España in 2022, and a comeback from when ℱhe targeted the classification in the 2023 Giro but had to abandon the♊ race. 

Though Lidl-Trek lost GC r🅺ider Giulio Ciccone i൲n the second week – he still came to Rome to celebrate with the team – they'll leave the Giro more than contented. 

"We didn't have the time of our lives but we had a r💙eally good time," Pedersen said after stage 21. 

"We have six stage victories and the ciclamino jersey, it's incredible. Not a lot of teams will ever be able to do this, so for ♊us this is absolutely insane to be able to do it."

Prior to this race, Pedersen had six Grand Tour stage wins to his name, and bolstered that up to 10 over three weeks in Italy, beating his personal record by winning four stages in a single Grand Tour. That, and his pursuit of intermediate sprints🦂 even in the hardest stages, earned him the ciclamino jersey with a healthy margin of 110 points over Olav Kooij (Visma-Lease a Bike).

This year, Pedersen will skip the Tour de France, where he's won two stages, with Lidl-Trek opting for Jonathan Milan in France instead. Whilst that may have initially seemed like a disappointment, Pedersen has seized the opportunity at the Giro,♏ where early wins allowed Lidl-Trek to race more aggressively. 

"I've always liked the🌼 races like this, the Giro and the Vuelta. The Tour is really stressful and it takes a lot of attention and pressure, not only from ourselves but also from management and sponsors and so on," he explained.

"While here, there's a bit more freedom and you can play around a bit. Okay, we were also lucky, in the first five days🌠 we already had three victories and of course that helps to make it more free, to play aroun💎d and try what we want.  But I really enjoy it as well."

Prior to stage 21, Pedersen told the media that he didn't want to risk it in t꧋he sprint in Rome, but he did end up mixing it in the final dash for the line, eventually ta✨king fourth. 

"It's oꦯne of these days, I was not really willing to risk it to win, but I ended up in a good position in the last corner. To be honest I didn't have the legs to pass Kooij in the sprint or even open the sprint," he said. 

"I just found myself in the wheel and opened the sprint in his wheel and then stayed there until we passed the finish line. In the end, no risk today and I'm here still today with all my skin and tha🥀t's successful."

That meant there was no sitting up and celebrating across the line, arm in arm with hiꦺs teammates, but Pedersen was clear that he did want to celebrate what Lidl-Trek had achieved to the full.

As he put it,"I know this is not the Tour, and this is not the pink jersey or anythin💝g like that. But with the race we've had I th🐽ink we can give ourselves a big round of applause and be proud of what we did."

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Racing with Canyon-SRAM-MAAP on the gravel, Klöser was clearly heading into the event with solid form, having taken second at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:The Traka 200 earlier this month in Spain. But the chips weren’t falling in her favour from early on in the 💯200-mile race in Kansas.

"I think the race today was characterised, unfortunately, from the start, by a lot of crashes," Klöser said.

"There was a lot of nervousness♋ in the group, and then once we hit the road divide, there were a lot of small mud s🐷ections and ruts and at this point, I would say the race kind of split open, or was decided.

"Unfortunately, me and Geerike Schreurs, we went face down into the mud because a rider crashed in front of us sideways. Then, as we were back on the bike and back with the group of main favourites, we only figured out that there were th🅰ree riders up the road when they already had three or five minutes."

That group was a strong one, including PAS Racing teammates Karolina Migoń and Cecily ꦦDecker along 🔴with Lauren Stephens, last year’s Unbound 100 winner.

"The race was kind of almost over at that point, because theꦬre was no good collaboration in the group at all," said Klöser. "It was a big group, so no one really wanted to work."

Staying true �💮�to her pledge not to make it easy on her rivals, the rider from Germany wasn’t going to leave it at that.

"I got really fr𓄧ustrated and really tried to put in a lot of attacks," she said. "In the end, fortunately, it worked and t𒅌hen four riders got away."

The three remaining with Klöser included two other former winners, Sofia Gomez Villafañe (Specialized) and Lauren De Crescenzo (Factor), along with Cecile Lejeune (CCB p/b Levine Law). The quartet collaborated to try and pull in the riders out front, but they only managed to pull back Stephens, so given Migoń and Decker had already swept up 🍎the top spots, the four approached the line together to sprint for th🌸ird place.

"I was actually quite confident that I had the sprint," said Klöser, wo secured the victory in a nine-way dash to the line last year. "So 😼I didn't mind going to the finish line with the girls, because I usually have a good sprint after such a long day."

However, then the defending champioღn spotted an excited spectator waving and cheering and thought s💟he needed to turn one way, when the route actually went another. 

"Unfortunately, I just took a wrong turn befor🦂e the finish line so I had to unclip, turn around and get back," s♍aid Klöser. 

"The ot♏her three girls were already ahead of me, so I kind of already had to do a sprint to catch up with them on the li🌄ne and then, unfortunately, I had to settle for fourth today."

Villafañe would grab the final spot for the podium ahead of Klöser. It was the﷽ second time this month that the leader of the Life Time Grand Prix would go one position better than the German, as Villafañe won The Traka 200, though on that occasion the difference was 44 seconds.

"But yeah, that's racing. I will, for sure, come back next year and try to better that resu♐lt.🍌"

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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Stage 20 of the Giro saw 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Simon Yates (Visma-Lease a Bike) soar to the top place overall after he broke away from podium contender Ri♐chard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) and Del Toro on the Colle delle Finestre ascent.

Yates' attack initially saw Del Toro partly rely on chasing by Carapaz and Derek Gee (Israel-Premier Tech) to try and maintain the Briton within a safe distance. But finally after the Mexican's previous 1:21 GC lead evaporated, and amidst disagreements amongst the chasers, 168澳洲5🅠最新开奖结果:Yates finally clinched his plaꦦce in pink by more than three minutes.

Barring major disaster, Yates will now ride into Rome Sunday evening as the outright winner of the 2025 Giro d'Italia, with Del Tꦓoro in second and Carapaz in third. 

Speaking on his podcast about stage 20 with teammate Laurens de Plus, Thomas - a former Giro d'Italia podium finisher both in 2024 and in 2023 - described himself as feeling "angry, happy, confused -✤ everything watching that stage".

After providing a resume of how things changed so fast on the Finestre, from Carapaz and EF blazing into the foot of the climb, but with Yates in pink by the finish, Thomas began his analysis of the 168澳洲5最新ꦡ开奖结果:dramatic final turnaround to the Giro. 

"Don't get me wrong, second for Del Toro in his first-ever Grand Tour at 21 is a great result," Thomas said. "But the way ♍he rode all race, it🐟 was like something happened overnight.

"He followed Carapaz really well, and then when Yatesy went" - 13 kilometres from the top of the Finestre - "he didn't pull.

"Then Carapaz was riding and we were all like, why is Carapaz riding? Make Del Toro ജride, he's the pink. It's his race to lose and he's got to chase."

Finally Carapaz swung over, and as Thomas put it, Del Toro failed to chase, despite being thౠe maglia rosa. Rather, for half a minute the pursuit all but ground to a halt, then followed by🌳 a brief cameo by Gee, working hard at the front of the trio. After that, Del Toro began to take up the pursuit, and Carapaz opted to mix in the chase with some attacks.

"I felt like Carapaz was doing the right thing - sit on, and then bam, try and get rid of him, attack," Thomas argued, "but Del Toro had the legs to follow. Then they get to five seconds of Yates, Carapaz sits up 𓆉and Del Toro doesn't close it." 

As Thomas' fellow podcaster De Plus put it, there were multiple changes of dynamic on the climb, with Del Toro and Carapaz looking like the strongest, prior to Yates moving away. Thomas argued that the Ecuadorian and Mexican were the two strongest throughout the race, as their top two positions ratified before stage 20, when Yates was lying third overall.

But somehow𒅌, Yates caꦑme through for the victory, and as Thomas put it, "don't get me wrong, he deserves the win".

Contrasts on the Finestre

However, Del Toro's ability to follow Carapaz showed he was still strong, "and there was one point on the Finestre when he [Del Toro] started riding and I thought - OK, he'll go now. But then he kind of stopped and he looked nailed, but then as soon as Carapaz started doing his 600 watts attack for a minute, he cou꧙ld fol♑low. The contrast for me was so baffling."

Del Toro defended his strategy after stage 20 claiming, "Everyone was playing🥃 games. Sometimes you win ൩and sometimes you lose".

"Simon came up and I🌳 know he has experience 🔴and that he'd ride steady and smart. I think I could have stayed with him but I knew I had to mark Carapaz because he was the closest to me in GC," Del Toro said. "Yates was third and Richie was second, so Richie needed to follow him. I had 1:20 on Simon and so I could let him go a bit.

"I told Richard that I 🍎wouldꦫn't work so that he could attack and drop me on the last climb. He told me he wouldn't ride and I said 'OK'. Everyone then saw what happened."

Thomas, though, also had fulsome praise for Yates, pointing out that his race-winning move took place on the climb where Yates h🌳ad lost the Giro t⛎o Chris Froome in 2018. 

"What a st🌌ory," he concluded, "couldn't have written it.💙"

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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Van Aert is one of the most talented riders in the peloton, able to do almost everythi꧋ng, including playing a vital team role on any terrain♏.

He has gradually rebuilt his form during the Gro after his disappointing Spring Classics campaign. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:He won the gravel stage to Siena and was also second to Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) on stage 1 to Tiran꧟a and stage 🐎13 to Vicenza. In the final week of the Giro, Van Aert joined the attacks three times, either to try and win for himself or be there for Yates.

He was a superb 'GC Van Aert' on Saturday, just as he has been for teammate Jonas Vingegaard at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France in recent years.

Van Aert jumped across to the♊ break of the day, perhaps surprising UAE Team Emirates-XRG who did not opt for a similar tactic. He then produced a huge effort to stay clear of the GC riders over the Colle delle Finestre to be there for Yates after he attacked on the climb.

They joined forces for the descent and valley road to Sestriere, Van Aert's long turn on the front helping Yates gain almost five m🍒inutes on Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) as they squabbled,ﷺ sat up and threw away their chances of overall victory.

“Wouꦰt, you are the game changer!” Visma-Lease a Bike directeur sportif Marc Reef shouted to him as Van Aert came to a virtual stop after his huge effort.

"It's not the first time that he shows himself to be one of the best teammates in the world, and at the same time a huge champion. I am incredibly grateful to him and the rest of the team," Yates said, aft✱er Van Aert and other teammates stopped in the podium area to hug him and celebrate executing the perfect race strategy.

Van Aert evenไtually rode int𒀰o Sestriere with a huge smile on his face.

"It's incredible," Van Aert said at the finish, as happy and proud💃 as if he had won himself.

"When I was in the breakaway and we got a lot of time on the peloton, I knew I had a small chance of surviving the Finest✅re. I pla🌠yed a role but this is an achievement by the entire team.

"I can’t explain how deep I went to survive that climb. Halfway up I knew I could do it, but it was the harဣdest mom🐽ent of the day.

"What a brave effort from Simon to go all in from that far out. I love it when people don't ra♏ce for a place of honour. 'Chapeau' to him.🌠"

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Whilst Visma-Lease a Bike celebrated and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:EF Education-EasyPost criticised UAE's tactics, rather than any tactical hand-wri൲nging or blaming, Del Toro's team honed in on the success of the Mexican rider.

It's unusual to seꦗe a team as happy as UAE were on Saturday after losing the lead of a Gജrand Tour at the very last minute, especially in a situation where in many ways, it seemed more like a racing tactic than a lack of legs that had scuppered the team's plans. But they celebrated, nonetheless.

"I congratulated Isaac on what he's෴ done at the Giro in the last three weeks," team manager Mauro Gianetti recounted of 🍷what he said to Del Toro after the line. 

"I told him he should be proud of what he's achieved. He's become a different and better ri꧋der."

Del Toro started the race planning to be a domestique for pre-race leader Juan Ayuso, but took the pink jersey on the gravel road to Siena on stage 9.  After Ayuso&apo🌠s;s fitness declined through injury, he then moved into sole leadership.

The 21-year-old stepped up fully to the challenge and will ultimately be rewarded with a stage win, winner in the best young rider's cl🅺assification and second overall in his second-ever Grand Tour. Long-term, he's the youngest podium finisher at the Giro in 85 years, which for his team is more important than his capitulation on stage 20.

"What he's done in these three weeks is something exceptional," G🔯ianetti said. "I am very, very proud of him, of the team, and of how fast he's learned. Of course, it would have been better to win the Giro, but certainly we've discovered a great💯 rider."

When asked if Del Toro might be a 'possible' phenomenon, his teꩲam boss was clear that he thinks he is already there.

"I🐬 don't think it's just possible, he is a phenomenon and that's for sure," Gianetti said, adding that this result will likely change t🍰he immediate future of Del Toro's career.

"Now he'll have to learn to deal with a𒁏ll the attention and expectation, he'll have to race up front, perhaps a little further 🎃up front."

UAE also refused to be drawn into the blame game around whether Del Toro or Richard Car𓃲apaz should have worked tog♏ether or not, suggesting that the young Mexican just didn't have the strength on the day. 

"He did what he had to do, but in th♊e end his legs were missing," DS Fabio Baldato told

The only inter-team rivalry that UAE did indulge was their ongoing Grand Tour battle with Visma-Lease a Bike, the team they've gone up against at the Tour de France with Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Ving𒅌egaard for the last four years.

Though neither rider were in Italy, it was a Visma rider that beat a UAE rider on stage 20, with Gianetti saying it was "a little bit of revenge for the Tour" from the Dutch team.  In any case, Grand Tour hostilities are seܫt to✤ resume in France next month.

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It was a hard-fought and emotional day that showcased not just Decker’s grit but her growing stature in the gravel world. Decker’s time of 10:12:29 over 200 miles—at an average speed of 19.84 mph— to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:secure second place marks a major career milestone for the Santa Fe-based racer, especially after a tumultuous 2024 season marked by mechanicals🐽 and b꧃ad luck. 

“I really wanted to win, but to go one-two with Karo is just ins✤ane🌱,” Decker said after the race.

The day wasn’t without its challenges. Decker made a critical mistake at the first feed zone, leaving her with only two bottles of water for a long, sun-exposed section of the course. “It was super delicate,” she admitted, but a moment of generosity from Migoń, who shared her own water, helped Decker stay in the race. “It was h🍬er win. Super sweet.”

The toll taken by what Decker described as the "botched" feed, however, was clear with the rider visib✅ly exhausted after the finish line, barely even able to muster up enough energy to celebrate as she cros🌟sed.

“I'm just completely wrecked,” said Decker. “I was out of water a lo🗹ng t꧟ime and just so horribly dehydrated.” 

Still, even with the mishap the PAS Racing pair had worked together with🧔 Lauren Stephens to establish a commanding gap on the field early in the race, a lead that ballooned to over ten minutes by the halfway point. But as Migoń powered away solo with 50 miles to go, Decker was left to fend off a surging chase group that included three former Unbound champions.

“I was just so, so wrecked by the time we came through that second feed, and Karo was ahead of me 🐻and I just couldn't go anymore, so I just kind of chugged everything," said Decker. "It took a little while for the water to just seep back into my legs and then I kind of just survived.”

In the final stretch, by just surviving, she held off the pursuit group behiꦯnd, keeping her grip on that second spot 🐈with a gap of nearly ten minutes to Villafañe, who led the chasing riders over the line.

“I kind of knew I ha꧂d a big lead. But, to be honest, my brain wasn't even working anymore," said Decker. "I was like hallucinating and kind of just the only thing on my mind was just going at a really controlled pace to the finish.”

The former alpine ski racer on the U.S. Ski Team, who pivoted to cycling after a devastating knee injury ended her skiing career, turned to gravel racing as her second act – one she’s made count. Decker has steadi♒ly climbed the ranks with standout results, including a win at BWR Kansas 2023, a fifth place at Mid South 2024, and a third place at Se𝔉a Otter Gravel earlier this year. It has all culminated in this career-defining podium in Emporia, where she held her ground against a stacked international field on the Flint Hills’ rugged roads.

“I m🐻ean I came here and I really wanted to win and I was willing to risk losing to do that frankly,” saidꦓ Decker. “Obviously attacking at mile 40 and going off the front was super, super risky but it was really worth it and I’m just super happy it worked out in the end.”

As the dust settles on Unbound, Decker’s focus will turn to keeping the momentum rolling through the rest of the Life Time Grand Prix series. The runner-up finish in Em♍poria puts her in a tie with Villafañe for the top spot in the series standings, setting up a thrilling showdown for the second half of the season.

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After 202 miles of relentless Kansas gravel, Jones sprinted away from Simon Pellaud (Tudor) on the final climb into Emporia to take his first Unbound 200 victory and, with it, assཧure himself a ꧟position in the Grand Prix series via one of the four men's wildcard spots on offer.

Jones, who had applied for the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2025 Grand Prix earlier this yꦫear but was not initially selected, knew Unbound was his best shot at earning a wildcard. The rec🐠ipients of the wildcards would be decided based on the results of the first two series races of the season – Unbound and Sea Otter Gravel, where he came across the line 12th but was third among those chasing a wildcard.

“This whole wildcard thing, it’s kind of in my best interest to play it safe—like, it’s not just the race I can lose, it’s the chance to be in the Grand Prix,” Jones said. “But every time I sit down, I’m like, ‘Who am I kidding?’ I always go out and race like I’ve got nothing 🌼to lose. And yeah, it worked out this time.”

That all-in approach was clear from th💃e start. Jones made his move around 150 miles to go, bridging across to an early breakaway before going clear alongside Tudor Pro Cycling’s Simon Pellaud. From there, the duo never looked back, building a gap of over seven minutes on a fragmented chase and working together deep into the Kansas headwinds. For Jones, the risk was part of what ꧋drove him toward the reward. 

“Bridging across the breakaway, you get a sense of risk there, and that definitely gives yo𓂃u a few ext🎉ra watts,” he said.

The effort wasn’t without its challenges. Jones admitted the toughest stretch came after the Alma aid station as the pair faced a relentless headwind with about 30 miles to go. “That was definitely the hardest moment, digging d😼eep into the headwind,” Jones said. “But once we turned the corner, we had a cross or tailwind all the way home, and the splits going up gave us extra morale.”

Jones credited not only his legs but his meticulous preparation for the win. After struggling with hydration in last year’s Unbound, he and h🦩is team—his parents in the feed zones—came prepared. 

“♔Last year, my🏅 undoing was those feed zones and not taking enough water. This time, I brought way more than I needed and ate it all anyway,” he said, noting he took on nearly five and a half liters of water and multiple ice socks to stay cool. “If the only thing that went wrong today was not doing up my first hydration bottle properly, that’s a pretty lucky day out.”

Jones also dialed in his equipment choices, descri෴bing his setup as “perfect” for the demand✨s of the Flint Hills. 

The win secured Jones the top spot among the🅺 men’s wildcard contenders so with the victory, Jones not only proved he can g🔥o long and fast against the world’s best but also punched his ticket to the rest of the Grand Prix season.

“Guess it’s time for Leadville now,” Jones said with a grin, already looking ahead to the next challenge in th♋e six-race series. 

After a dominant performance in Emporia, he’s no longer a wildcard, he’s a con🌊tender.

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Among the💖m, a beaten Keegan Swenson stood battered and bruised from a crash at mile 130. The American fought to a top ten finish despite suffering a difficult day that also included a puncture, a failed tyre plug and a wheel🐠 swap with teammate Tobin Ortenblad. 

Their bikes, Santa Cruz Stigmata CC gravel bikes with Reserve wheels, looked like any other in the holding pen at the finish line, splattered with dried mud. But beneath the remna👍nts 🍸of the Flint Hills, that disguised the light blue paint, hid a subtle but unusual tech detail that we've never seen before. 

Each of their wheels was somehow fitted with not one, but two valves, on opposite sides of the rim. But why🎀?

To find out, I first tried Swenson, but when asked if he could tell me about it, my request for information was met with a short, sweet, b🍒ut ultimately unhelpful "no," accompanied by a wry smile. 

Luckily, Ortenblad, acc🐬ompanied by a helper from his bike sponsor Santa Cruz, was more forthcoming with an explanation. 

He explains that the wheel is set ඣup tubeless as normal but that the second valve belonged to a flat inner tube that was fitted inside the tyre alongside the tubeless sealant. He explained that the tube was a last-resort backup, to be inflated in the event of an irreparable puncture. 

When asked whether this was something Reserve was planning to brꦍing to market, he laughed off the idea and confirmed that the pair had personally drilled the 𒉰wheels themselves.

In a sea of techy tips, tricks and hacks here in Emporia, this is certainly one of the more creative and un🃏ique on show, but it ultimatelಞy wasn't needed on the 202.5 mile course north of Emporia. 

"I punctured and the plug came out," Swenson explained, clearly hap😼pier to discuss his race than his hack. "I got it fixed and chased. After the first feed zone, the plug came loose, and I ended up switching wheels with my teammate Tobin. He gave me his wheel and we got back to the group."

Ortenblad later explained that ⛎the tyre ended up holding air without issue, but that given Swenson's leade༒rship of the Santa Cruz team, they decided to swap. 

"It was fine, but I was like 'dude, jusꦉt make sure you have a good wheel. You 🎐don't want to risk it.'"

The pair didn't directly explain why the hack wasn&apo⛄s;t deployed instead, but given the circumstances, it's likely that the pair decided a wheel swap was the best solution in that moment.