Primož Roglič had seized the Critérium du Dauphiné by the scruff of the neck in the two mountain stages leading up to Sunday’s stage 8 finale. He led the GC by over a minute, with the least difficult of the three mountain stages left to…
Another big road race. Another mass crash. More injuries, more riders forced to abandon a race, more riders forced to sit out the Tour de France. And another stage that had to be neutralized because all the available ambulances were taking the injured to local…
You might think that the Giro d’Italia is far from over since Tadej Pogačar’s lead in the GC is “only” 2:40 over second-place Dani Martínez (BORA-hansgrohe) with two weeks left to race. But you’d be wrong – and it isn’t because of the numbers.
A horrific crash in Thursday’s stage 4 of the Itzulia Basque Country injured about a dozen riders, including three of road racing’s elite, Jonas Vingegaard (Visma– Lease a Bike), Remco Evenepoel (Soudal–Quick Step), and Primož Roglič (BORA-hansgrohe).