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Ecuadorian Esther Galarza became the first champion of a Women’s Tour of Costa Rica, while Colombian Lina María Rojas won the last stage and rounded off the performance of the Mexican team Pato Bike BMC Team-Strongman, which gave no chance to its rivals and won three of the four stages. The final podium left Galarza at the top, who was also champion of the mountain prizes. The Ecuadorian was escorted by Guatemalan Gabriela Soto (Macizo

He who is a gentleman repeats! Neilson Powless won the Japan Cup for the second time in his career. The American from EF Education-EasyPost was the strongest of the breakaway and took another victory of the season after 144.2 kilometers in the city of Utsunomiya. The podium of the important Japanese one-day race was completed by Belgian Ilan Van Wilder (Soudal Quick-Step) and Slovenian Matej Mohoric (Bahrain – Victorious), who took 2nd and 3rd place,

It was known and now it’s official: Jefferson Cepeda is a new Movistar Team rider. The Ecuadorian rider has signed for two seasons with Movistar Team after having performed at a high level the last few seasons with Caja Rural. This is the fifth signing of the team sponsored by Telefónica. Born in Quito in 1996, he comes from a great year 2024, the best of his professional career, finishing fourth in O Gran Camiño

The British continental team Saint Piran has had to admit that it used in some races during the 2022 season generic Chinese bikes that did not have any type of UCI homologation for use in competition, an aspect that the team avoided by applying false homologation stickers to those bikes. The British team has explained that in order to do so without causing the suspicion of the judges, it falsified the identifying logo that all

The organizers of the Volta a Catalunya have announced another high finish for the 2025 edition of the race. It is the mountain of Montserrat, which will witness a finish for the third time in its history after those of 1960 and 1995 in the celebration of the Millennium of the Monastery. This will be one of the most emblematic stages in the history of the Catalan race, one of the most prestigious in Spain

Just a few weeks ago, during the Road World Championships in Zurich, Switzerland, Mauricio Vargas, President of the Colombian Cycling Federation, received for his high contributions to world cycling the UCI symbol necklace from David Lappartient, head of the International Cycling Union, while José Peláez, President of COPACI, presented him with a parchment. Lappartient spoke to the audience accepting his “poor knowledge of the Spanish language”, but said that “In this case it is about

The formidable Colombian rutero, Rigoberto Urán, Olympic road runner-up in London 2012, announced that he will retire as a professional cyclist at the end of this season, during a recent interview with the Podcast El Arranque, of the newspaper El Colombiano. In addition to his successful career in international cycling, the ‘Toro de Urrao’, who has established himself as one of the most media figures in the national arena, revealed that he plans to venture

Although the Grand Depart of the 2026 Vuelta a España is already known to be held in Monaco, surprisingly the Grand Depart of the 2025 edition remained a mystery… until now. As revealed by the Italian media La Repubblica, the start of La Vuelta will take place next year in the Piedmont region. The 80th edition of the race will start in Venaria Reale, a municipality located in the city of Turin, and will remain

Everything is ready for the Tour of Guatemala 2024 and the national and foreign teams confirmed their participation for the most awaited tour of the national sport, which is part of the America Tour of the International Cycling Union (UCI) as part of the international cycling season and will be held from Friday, October 25 to Sunday, November 3, 2024. The cyclists are in the final stages of their preparation and need to finalize the

With the 2024 road cycling season practically over, the teams are already starting to think about the 2025 campaign, which has the peculiarity of being the second time that the World Tour licenses will expire. Only the best 18 teams on the international calendar will manage, on the one hand, to maintain the category and, on the other, to move up to it from the Pro Tour. Let’s take a look at how the picture