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Having joined a strong 8-rider lead group with less than 1km to go, De
Troyer managed to distance his companions to win the Tour du Finistere.
(Fotoreporter Sirotti) (cyclingnews.com) Tim De Troyer took
the first victory of his short career when he emerged as a surprise
winner of the hilly French one-day race Tour du Finistere.
The Belgian joined a strong 8-rider front group with less than 1km to go in a very uncontrollable finale and managed to escape to take a solo win before his teammate Jerome Baugnies beat Julien Simon in the sprint for second. April
18, 2015 (cyclingquotes.com)
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Arno Wallaarde Memorial.
Wouter Mol second
and Twan
Castelijns third.
April
18, 2015 (cyclingfans.com)
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The cobbles are done with, the Ardennes are upon us.
fotoreporte sirotti "The
cobbles are done with, the Ardennes are upon us, but who will
challenge? Here's 20 to watch.
I sat down to have a look at the people likely to take glory in the forthcoming classics of the paved hills, and I wanted to make up a list of names before writing up any of them. I originally came up with twenty-two, shaved off the heretofore invisible Tom-Jelte Slagter, and prayed that a obvious candidate won Brabantse Pijl, to narrow my list to my preferred twenty. Well done Ben Hermans, the place on the list is yours, leaving me with twenty-one, before I realized that for some unknown reason, Bardet would be riding Trentino instead of the Ardennes. To the challengers!" April
18, 2015 (podiumcafe.com)
2014-15
Races &
Results.
Amstel Gold Race - Apr 19 (History), Giro del Trentino - Apr 21-24 (History), Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey - Apr 26-May 3 (History), 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), De Brabantse Pijl - Apr 15 (Results), Paris Roubaix - Apr 12 (Results), 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), Tirreno-Adriatico - Mar 11-17 (Results).  Amstel
Gold Race LIVE: The Cauberg is the ideal berg for Philippe Gilbert.
(cyclingupdates.com)
Sunday's Amstel Gold
Race ("the race to the beer") departs Maastricht at 10:15am CET (4:15am
U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Valkenburg at around
4:36pm CET (10:36am U.S. Eastern).
Amstel Gold Race live streaming video should get underway at around 2:00pm CET (8:00am U.S. Eastern, 5:00am Pacific). April
18, 2015 (cyclingfans.com)
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The 2015 Tour de Yorkshire is being held May 1-3.
2015
Tour de Yorkshire LIVE
May 1-3, Great Britain.
Stage 1 starts at -- BST (-- U.S. Eastern). Finish at around -- BST (-- U.S. Eastern). Live video from -- BST (-- U.S. Eastern). April
18, 2015 (cyclingfans.com)
 Finishing
the team's job on Oak Glen. Photo by Nate King.
"I
had a rough few weeks when I got back from Portugal at the beginning of
March.
Between jet lag and fatigue from a month of racing in Europe, I wasn’t able to put together a good block of training, so I signed up for the San Dimas Stage Race to see where my fitness was. The stage 1 uphill time trial suits me perfectly, and I’ve won it twice, but I finished fourth this year. Not what I’d hoped for, but not bad. I was tempted to continue the stage race and try to improve on my GC, but I nearly died crashing myself in that race in 2013. I thought I’d conquered my fear last fall when I returned to the scene of the crash." April
17, 2015 (velonews.com)
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Eric Marcotte (Team SmartStop) wins the US criterium nationals in Greenville (Jon Devich).
Eric Marcotte
secured his second national title, after winning the road race last
year, when he won the USA Cycling Professional Criterium Championships
on Saturday in Greenville, South Carolina. He made his winning attack
through the last corner, upsetting the United Healthcare blue train,
and crossing the finish line first ahead of Ty Magner and Luke Keough.
United Healthcare led through the last lap with Keough ready for the sprint, Hincapie’s Magner on his wheel. The surprise attack came from Marcotte, who jumped into the last corner and came out of it with a fierce sprint toward the finish line. It was a bold move that paid off with the victory. April
18, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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Team Tibco on the front. (Danny Munson / DMunsonPhoto.com).
(cyclingnews.com)
Kendall Ryan escaped
a last-lap pileup to win the women’s USA Cycling Pro Criterium National
Championship on Saturday.
The 90-minute race was run in warm conditions in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, on a narrow, rectangular 1-mile course with a downhill dash to the line. There were a couple of crashes early on as the 55-rider field settled down to work, with UnitedHealthcare patrolling the front on behalf of defending champion Coryn Rivera. With a field sprint in the offing UHC had three riders on the sharp end of the bunch — and then boom, the Blue Train derailed in the final corner, the leadout rider sliding out and Erica Allar, Rivera, and Ruth Winder all hitting the deck. Ryan stayed upright and took the win ahead of Tina Pic with Brianna Waller third. April
18, 2015 (velonews.com)
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Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) celebrates his Fleche Wallonne victory
(AFP Photo).
The
familiar scenario of 100-odd riders battling for position at the foot
of the Mur de Huy in next Wednesday’s La Fleche Wallonne may change
this year with the addition of a climb, the Cote de Cherave, in the
last six kilometers of the mid-week Ardennes Classics.
Whilst the traditional and highly popular three ascents of the Mur de Huy remain, in recent years La Fleche Wallonne has been criticized for a tedious lack of variety in how the WorldTour’s only Classic ending with a summit finish has been won and lost. Only three breakways have culminated in a triumph this side of the millennium, in fact, all of them over a decade ago - for Rik Verbrugghe in 2001, Mario Aerts in 2002, and Igor Astarloa in 2003. April
18, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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The final selection came down to Cassani and Gianetti. Pic: Cor Vos
The
Amstel Gold Race signals the start of the Ardennes Classics, and the
first signs of who’s looking good for the Giro. Raced over the hills,
dales, and forests of south eastern Holland, the course selects its own
worthy winner.
Twenty years ago it was Mauro Gianetti who was making the news. Gianetti rode for Polti back then and had just pulled-off the biggest win of his career, in the 1995 Liege-Bastogne-Liege – LBL was the week before the Amstel in those days. Some said that his win owed more to craftiness and luck than talent; Gianetti would soon dispel that notion. April
18, 2015 (pezcyclingnews.com)
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Like most power meters, it’s a strain gauge.
The
world of power meters will be shaken up this week when an inventor
seeks crowdfunding for a novel system called Limits, which promises
breakthroughs in price, simplicity and technology.
Inventor Ken Norton, technologist and keen cyclist, says the first models will cost just £260 (US$385), which would make this one of the cheapest power meters available. It’s the first meter that calculates the rider’s power at the pedal spindle. The small cylinder fits between the crank and the pedal; it screws into the crank and has a threaded hole to accept the spindle. April
18, 2015 (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
| April
18,
2015
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Tayler Wiles was all smiles after winning this year's race (Mark
Gunter).
USA
Cycling has announced the revised selection for the 2015 Pan Am
Championships to include Tayler
Wiles, who will take the place of double Olympic gold
medallist Kristin
Armstrong in the individual time trial.
USA Cycling announced on Tuesday that Armstrong was nominated to the four-woman roster, however, the Selection Committee reconvened two days later to discuss the selection process and determined that recent modifications to the Principles of Athlete Selection (last published in 2008) were not published in a timely manner. April
18, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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Anton, Intxausti and Moreno still in contention after another
aggressive showing by Movistar.
Almost
seven-and-a-half hours were needed to cover the 208km stage two of the
Vuelta a Castilla y León, almost completely ridden on Portuguese soil
with two hard climbs, Penhas Douradas and the Alto da Torre (Cat-1),
close to the start in Guarda.
Mist and cold menacing the peloton from the botton of the first climb turned into snow halfway through the second, a situation which forced the jury to neutralize the descent towards Manteigas - the section between 84 and 102km into the stage - as Bravo and Rubio held almost three minutes of advantage in the early break. April
18, 2015 (cyclingquotes.com)
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Reigning champion Philippe Gilbert faces stiff competition as he bids
for a fourth victory in the Amstel Gold race on Sunday.
The
biggest and longest one-day classic in the Netherlands will see riders
complete 258km and tackle 34 climbs – amounting to more than four
vertical kilometers of climbing – on their way from Maastricht to
Valkenburg.
Alongside three-time winner Gilbert, there will be six other former victors in the field, as well as a new breed of hungry, talented potential champions. Most notably amongst those is current road race world champion Michal Kwiatkowski from Poland. He had a fantastic Ardennes Classics campaign in 2014, earning top five finishes in all three events – the other two being Fleche Wallonne and Liege-Bastogne-Liege. The finish in Valkenburg, 1.8km beyond the final, tough Cauberg climb, is ideally suited to a rider like Kwiatkowski. April
18, 2015 (pelotonmagazine.com)
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Nibali stands a good chance of doing well on these difficult stages.
"If
you were totally new to the world of professional cycling then at this
time of year you’d be forgiven for thinking everyone who rides, watches
or has even a passing interest in road cycling is obsessed with
cobbles. And you’d be correct.
Just days after the brutal Paris-Roubaix astonished spectators and punished riders, reports are filtering through that last year’s Tour de France winner is studying some well known French cobbles. Vincenzo Nibali and his Astana team mates are spending time in Northern France preparing for the tough pavé littered stages they’ll need to dominate in order to do well during this year’s Tour." April
18, 2015 (veloballs.com)
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"Giro del Trentino Melinda is a beautiful race, that suits our
characteristics and brings back several good moments, such as our first
success in 2012 with Darwin Atapuma on the Pordoi Pass."
Like
every year, Giro del Trentino Melinda (April 21-24) will stage the
challenge among some of the best climbers of the moment in one of the
most mountainous regions of Italy, and after Fabio Duarte’s
overall fourth place last year, Team Colombia-Coldeportes will be at
the start of the 2.HC race with the ambition of equaling, or possibly
improving, that performance.
The race will feature four stages: after the opening team time trial, the queen stage will be on the agenda for the riders on April 22nd, with the uphill finish to Brentonico after the dreadful climb to Monte Velo. The third stage, Ala-Fierozzo, will offer another uphill finish, while a medium-mountain stage from Malè to Cles will wrap things up. April
18, 2015 (cyclingquotes.com)
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17,
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