There was never a moment over this seven-day race when Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates–XRG) did not look like the inevitable winner, not even when his good friend and rival Giulio Pellizzari (Red Bull–BORA–hansgrohe) took over the GC lead by 2 seconds after Thursday’s…
Professional cycling celebrates winners. The images we remember are the finish-line celebrations, the arms raised in triumph, the podium ceremonies, and the leader’s jersey pulled over a rider’s shoulders. Yet those moments rarely belong to one rider alone. Behind almost every victory is a lesser-told…
Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates–XRG), fresh from a strong podium finish in last weekend’s Strade Bianche, has a slim lead in one of this week’s two Tour de France warm-up races (the other being Paris-Nice), with all the difficult climbs still to come. After…
Tadej Pogačar did what he always does at the Strade Bianche, he took off on his own and let his rivals eat the road’s white dust as he became the first rider to win the race four times and three times in succession.
