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Giant-Alpecin rider out-sprints Stybar and Van Avermaet in Roubaix
velodrome.
John Degenkolb rode
the perfect race to take the 2015 edition of Paris Roubaix in a sprint
finish ahead of Zdeněk
Štybar and Greg
Van Avermaet.
The German sprinter latched onto a dangerous move initiated by Van Avermaet and Yves Lampaert and even after the lead group swelled to eight riders he had more than enough to take his second Monument of the season after winning Milan-San Remo last month. April
12, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
 John
Degenkolb (Giant-Alpecin) spent much of 2014 rueing his second place at
that year's Paris-Roubaix. In 2015, he moved up to the top step on the
podium, earning himself a cobblestone trophy. Photo: Tim De Waele.
John Degenkolb spent
the winter reliving last year’s Paris-Roubaix.
His 2014 second-place haunted him as he trained at altitude and spent evenings watching the highlight reel over and over to see how he might have come out on top. A year later, he found the answer: attack and make the race unfold on his terms. April
12, 2015 (velonews.com)
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Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com (File).
Several
riders had a near-miss after crossing a railway line after the barriers
had come down during Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix one-day classic race.
A TGV (high speed train) passed a few seconds later, although by that point, a police motorcycle was controlling the pass and had stopped the remnants of the peloton. One rider from the Belgian Lotto-Soudal team was clipped by a barrier which came down as the peloton was passing. Several riders decided to cross anyway before the train came, against race rules, before a policeman stopped the rest. April
12, 2015 (velonews.com)
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British amateurs made up over one third of the 4,500 entries for the
Paris-Roubaix Challenge, but why would anyone want to ride it at all?
"It’s
raining, there’s a block headwind, the road sneaks uphill at a shallow
gradient, and you’re managing just 12mph. Your bike and body are being
shaken together like a can of baked beans on top of a spin dryer; your
bruised hands are getting hot from the friction of rubbing the bars.
You’re approaching a rider. Just as you plot out the best line to get around him, he somersaults into a ditch. This is the Paris-Roubaix Challenge sportive, which takes place the day before the elite race, and it’s the infamous Carrefour de l’Arbre sector of cobbles. And this isn’t even the worst bit." April
12, 2015 (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
2014-15
Races &
Results.
Paris Roubaix - Apr 12 (Results), Giro d'Italia 2015 - May 9-31 (Stages), Tour de France 2015 - July 4-26 (Stages), Vuelta a España 2015 - Aug 22-Sept 13 (Stages), UCI Road World Championship 2015 - Sept 20-27 (Stages), Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco - Apr 6-11 (Results), Circuit Cycliste Sarthe - Apr 7-10 (Results), Scheldeprijs - Apr 8 (Results), Tour of Flanders - Apr 5 (Results), GP Miguel Indurain - Apr 4 (Results), Driedaagse De Panne-Koksijde - Mar 31-Apr 2 (Results), Gent - Wevelgem - Mar 29 (Results), Volta Ciclista a Catalunya - Mar 23-29 (Results), E3 Harelbeke - Mar 27 (Results), Milan San Remo - Mar 22 (Results), Tirreno-Adriatico - Mar 11-17 (Results). April
11, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
Erick Rowsell and Dani King emerged
victorious in the respective men’s and women’s opening stages of the
Tour of the Reservoir in Northumberland on Saturday.
Strong winds played a part in shaping both races, with many riders struggling to maintain any sort of momentum and the peloton splintering into pieces. April
11, 2015 (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
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John Degenkolb won in style, this wasn’t the story of sprinter who sat
tight.
John Degenkolb wins
the sprint in the Roubaix velodrome.
As captions go “Degenkolb wins sprint” is predictable, he won Milan-Sanremo three weeks ago in this manner. But this time it was the art and the manner of Degenkolb’s win that was so different and impressive. He rode across to the breakaway of Yves Lampaert and Greg Van Avermaet, helped tow them to Roubaix and then saw off others who’d joined this group to win by a several bike lengths. April
12, 2015 (inrng.com)
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Velocio-SRAM Lisa Brennauer moves into the race lead (Bert
Geerts/dcp-bertgeerts@xs4all.nl).
Lisa Brennauer won
the overall title at the Energiewacht Tour following the stage 4 finale
on Sunday. She ended up taking the overall win by nine seconds ahead of
her teammate Trixi
Worrack and Christine
Majerus in third.
Anna van der Breggen won the finale after a solo move in Borkum. She crossed the finish line with over a minute ahead of runner-up Jolien D'hoore and Kirsten Wild. April
12, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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Jose Herrada is known as one of the most loyal domestiques in the
Movistar camp.
Jose Herrada
benefited greatly from a rare chance to chase personal success when he
took a beautiful solo victory in the hilly one-day race Klasika
Primavera de Amorebieta.
Originally part of an 18-rider front group, he attacked with teammate Marc Soler and Evgeny Shalunov whom he dropped on the final climb to take the win, with Shalonov and Carlos Barbero completing the podium. April
12, 2015 (cyclingquotes.com)
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Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky) after Paris-Roubaix (Getty Images Sport).
He’ll
always have Paris, but Roubaix was not to be. Bradley Wiggins has
spent much of the past two years espousing his veneration for Paris
Roubaix, to the point of declaring that he would swap his 2012 Tour de
France win for victory in the hallowed velodrome.
“Just google ‘Bradley’s love for Paris Roubaix,” he had told a reporter with mock exasperation on Friday when asked to revisit the topic once again. After placing 18th on Sunday afternoon, however, Wiggins ruled out the prospect of reneging on his departure from Team Sky and continuing at WorldTour level for one final tilt at the race next year. April
12, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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The cherry trees are in full bloom.
"The
road starts climbing right in front of I’s Bicycles shop. I have more
than 1600 m (5500 ft) to climb before I get to Miyama.
The cherry trees are in full bloom in Kyoto and amazingly beautiful. I soon reached Kurama with its beautiful temple. I didn’t have much time – dinner in Miyama was in 4 hours, and even though that seems like ample time for 80 km, once I had bought food and made it through Kyoto’s rush-hour traffic, my schedule was getting tight. But I couldn’t pass the temple without at least a brief visit. It is just one of the many temple buildings that dot the entire slope of Mount Kurama." April
12, 2015 (janheine.wordpress.com)
| April
12, 2015
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Armstrong’s relationship with French president Nicolas Sarkozy may have
been his most valuable power tie.
The
guests of Senator John
F. Kerry arrived at the upscale restaurant in Nantucket on
an August evening in 2008, joined together for a private dinner after
the Pan-Mass Challenge, a bike-a-thon benefiting the Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute.
An avid cyclist who had beaten prostate cancer, Kerry welcomed friends and the sport’s elite, including Greg LeMond and his wife, Kathy, along with Frankie Andreu and his wife, Betsy. The restaurant staff set up the party of 10 on the beach at a table covered in linens. It was sunset, a breeze tuned a perfect temperature and the conversation flowed. But inside any cycling circle, you can make a parlor game out of betting on a person to raise the name of Lance Armstrong. Betsy, even odds. There are disturbing tales of Armstrong’s bully tactics. “I have to admit I was sickened by what I read in the USADA report,” said UCI President Pat McQuaid on Oct. 22, when the international cycling union accepted USADA’s voluminous evidence on an Armstrong-led doping conspiracy and officially stripped the blue-eyed Texan of his seven Tour de France titles, wiping the disgraced American legend from the books. “The story of how (teammate David) Zabriskie was coerced, and in some ways forced into doping is mind-boggling.” April
12, 2015 (roopstigo.com)
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But here an unknown issue with his shifters meant that he couldn’t move up to the big chainring to make a move.
Paris Roubaix
concluded the cobblestone season Sunday afternoon in a dusty and fast
affair, where the favorites waited relatively long to open up the race.
Tinkoff-Saxo fell short of the team ambitions, as a bike change and stomach issues for team captain Peter Sagan made for a tough day at the office. Sagan finished 23rd, part of the big second group coming in behind race winner John Degenkolb. After the race conclusion in the famed velodrome of Roubaix, Tinkoff-Saxo sports director Lars Michaelsen notes that despite a dedicated effort, the team ended up with a minor result. April
12, 2015 (cyclingquotes.com)
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Stephen Hodge was the host for Cycling Australia's night of nights.
(John Veage).
When
Stephen Hodge
recalls his first of eight starts in Paris Roubaix, of which
he finished four, the memory is not a fond one, but it is ever-lasting:
he “hated” the race.
“Everyone said, ‘It should be your kind of race, you should be really good at this,’” Hodge tells Cyclingnews. “But I never quite nailed it. Part of the reason was probably because I just hated it. I really don’t like this race, unlike Flanders which I loved…” But with 19 years having passed his retirement in 1996, the 53-year-old Australian can find some reason to laugh some aspects of the ‘Hell of the North.’ April
12, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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The v650 is Polar’s first cycling computer in a long while.
The
v650 is supposed to be the product that gets the Finns back in the game
where bike technology is concerned.
They’ve taken a serious hiding from Garmin in the last few years on all fronts and have gone away and developed a few new products to give them a real shot at taking back some of the market share from their American counterparts. Size-wise it’s quite big. Not massive, but large enough that fitting it on a 110mm stem is a close call. it’s shorter than Garmin’s Edge 1000, but a little wider. April
12, 2015 (roadcyclinguk.com)
April
11,
2015
Who
can take on Alexander
Kristoff? The Norwegian has been invincible and his
biggest opponent could be misfortune, his chances were ruined last year
by punctures and mechanicals.
This is a race of last chances, the final cobbled classic of the season and just like last year time’s running out for Etixx Quickstep to get that big win, the same for Sep Vanmarcke. Meanwhile Bradley Wiggins longs to end his road career in the Roubaix velodrome. April
11, 2015 (inrng.com)
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