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Tour de Romandie
Tour de Romandie #5: Merhawi Kudus climbs with the best
Chris Froome (Team Sky) won the 4th stage of the Tour de Romandie, crossing the line a few seconds ahead of Ion Izaguirre (Movistar) and Thibaut Pinot (FDJ). Nairo Quintana (Movistar) was able to retain the overall race lead. After numerous attacks in the first 30km of the 4th Tour de Romandie stage, 11 riders […]
Tour de Romandie #3: Jaco Venter shows our colours in the break
Nairo Quintana (Movistar) won stage 2 of the Tour de Romandie after the judges relegated Ilnur Zakarin (Katusha) to 2nd even though the Russian crossed the line first, due to irregular sprinting. Rui Costa (Lampre-Merida) led home a select group of chasers to take 3rd on the stage. Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka were part […]
Tour de Romandie #2: Kristian Sbaragli secures a top 10 in the sprint
Marcel Kittel (Etixx-Quickstep) won a shortened stage 1 of the Tour de Romandie, beating Niccolo Bonifazio (Trek-Segafredo) and Michael Albasini (Orica-Greenedge) in the sprint finish. Originally today’s opening stage was scheduled to be 169km from La Chaux-de-Fonds but due to some early morning snowfall the orgnisers were forced to cut out the opening 60km of […]
Tour de Romandie #1: Wet and Icy start to Swiss Tour
Ion Izaguirre (Movistar) took the first leader’s jersey at the Tour de Romandie after winning the opening prologue ahead of Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin) and Michal Kwiatkowski (Team Sky). The Tour de Romandie got off to a cold and wet start but thankfully it was only a short 3.9km prologue that riders had to deal with […]
Team Dimension Data focused on key stages at Tour de Romandie
The Tour de Romandie gets underway tomorrow in Le Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. The 6 day UCI World Tour stage race will conclude on Sunday 1 May and a star studded field is expected. The event is comprised of a short 4km opening prologue, another individual time trial on stage 3 and then 4 road stages. Stage […]