It took cycling’s new Wunderkind, Paul Seixas, less than four and a half hours to win the six-day Itzulia Basque Country and register his first WorldTour stage race victory.
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…
Because of injuries he suffered in the Dwars Door Vlaanderen on March 27, Wout van Aert will not be riding in this year’s Giro d’Italia, the 29-year-old Belgian said in a video statement on the website of his Visma–Lease a Bike team. “I’m really happy…
The 21-year-old Spaniard Juan Ayuso, with stellar support from his UAE Team Emirates, won the crash-marred Itzulia Basque Country, overturning a deficit of 4 seconds to race leader Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) on the final climb of the race.
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).
