Remco Evenepoel isn’t your typical professional cyclist and his Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe apparently isn’t your typical professional cycling team. Most riders and teams announce their racing schedules at the beginning of the season, both as a courtesy to sport journalists, fans and other teams. And without…
Filippo Ganna (INEOS Grenadiers) overcame two bike changes and broke the hearts of Wout van Aert (Visma–Lease a Bike) and all Belgian racing fans by winning Wednesday’s Dwars door Vlaanderen. Van Aert had been at the front of the race for nearly 40km, and had…
Jonas Vingegaard (Visma–Lease a Bike) dominated two mountain stages and easily won the Volta a Catalunya as Remco Evenepoel (Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe) faltered again on the climbs and João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates–XRG) and Tom Pidcock (Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling) crashed.
Thursday’s stage 4 of the Volta a Catalunya was going to be the first of three serious mountain stages that would decide the race winner among Jonas Vingegaard (Visma–Lease a Bike), Remco Evenepoel (Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe), João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates–XRG), Tom Pidcock (Pinarello Q36.5 Pro…