There was a big reason to celebrate after the Mercan’Tour Classic Alpes-Maritimes for the Israel-Premier Tech team. Jakob Fuglsang and Michael Woods scored a one-two finish. And Chris Froome scored his best result since the summer of 2019 with an 11th place finish.
Bora-Hansgrohe’s Jai Hindley became the first Australian winner of the Giro d’Italia on Sunday – and claimed his first-ever Grand Tour GC championship – when he lost just 7 seconds to his closest rival, Richard Carapaz of Ineos Grenadiers, on the final-stage ITT. The victory…
When Sir Dave Brailsford and Team Sky made this claim back in 2009, they were, fair to say, being ambitious. Setting such a lofty goal in a sport full of tradition was asking for trouble. But the then Team Sky boss was, to his credit,…