According to market specialist Daniel Benson, Nairo Quintana will remain with Movistar Team for another season. The Colombian returned to the team this year after being disowned by half the peloton following his positive for tramadol at the 2022 Tour de France and, after completing a good Giro d’Italia, getting into breakaways and coming close to a stage win, it looks like he will remain with the Spanish team for at least one more year.
Perris Benegas from the United States won the silver medal in BMX Freestyle cycling at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, an event dominated by China’s Deng Yawen, while Natalya Diehm from Australia won the bronze medal. For the Americas, in addition to the podium, the most outstanding performances were those of Colombia’s Queen Villegas and Chile’s Macarena Pérez, who finished fourth and fifth, respectively, in the women’s final. The gold of China’s Yawen is a
31 July, 2024
Argentinean José ‘Maligno’ Torres and the excitement for BMX Freestyle gold in Paris 2024
He is still in disbelief. Without bombastic gesticulations José “Maligno” Torres Gil still can’t believe he won the gold medal in BMX freestyle cycling at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Wednesday, July 31. The Argentinean not only won the first gold medal for his nation in the his nation in the French capital, but it meant the first gold of any Latin American athlete in what had been disputed in Paris 2024. “I am
After a spectacular Giro d’Italia and an even better Tour de France (both won by Tadej Pogacar, becoming the first cyclist since Marco Pantani in 1998 to complete the double), expectations for a Vuelta a España, where Sepp Kuss will defend the 2023 title, are low. The line-up of participants, according to the news that has been filtering in, does not point to be the most exciting. The Vuelta has long been considered the craziest
29 July, 2024
What is pavé and how many sections will the cyclists at the Paris Games ride on this surface?
Part of the magic of the Olympic Games is that each edition includes new sports and disciplines that attract the attention of millions of people. Still, another reason why this event is so important and popular is that it brings together the best athletes of the most historic sports in the world. This is for example the case of cycling, which can boast of being one of the few sports practiced since the first edition
France’s Pauline Ferrand-Prévot completed her immense list of achievements with the gold medal in the women’s Mountain Bike event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in a race controlled from start to finish by the Ineos Grenadiers star. The final podium was completed by the American Haley Batten, second, and the Swedish Jenny Rissveds, third. The best South American rider of the competition was Raiza Goulao Henrique from Brazil, who finished 28th. An impressive victory
28 July, 2024
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot se lleva el oro en el MTB (f), seguida por la estadounidense Haley Batten
La francesa Pauline Ferrand-Prévot completó su inmensa lista de logros con la medalla de oro en la prueba femenina de Mountain Bike de los Juegos Olímpicos de París 2024, en una carrera controlada de principio a fin por la estrella del Ineos Grenadiers. El podio final lo completaron la estadounidense Haley Batten, segunda, y la sueca Jenny Rissveds, tercera. La mejor suramericana de la competencia fue la ciclista de Brasil, Raiza Goulao Henrique, que concluyó
British all-rounder Thomas Pidcock staged an epic comeback to take the gold medal Monday in the men’s Cross Country event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The INEOS Grenadiers rider, who had a mechanical mishap on the third lap, made a spectacular comeback to beat France’s Victor Koretzky and South Africa’s Alan Hatherly, who completed the final podium with the silver and bronze medals. Pidcock, who withdrew from the Tour de France after testing positive
Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel was crowned Olympic champion on Saturday after a spectacular performance in the men’s individual time trial at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which took place on a rainy afternoon through the streets of the French capital on a 32.4-kilometer course. Evenepoel celebrated his first Olympic title in the individual time trial and brought the gold medal to Belgium, beating Italian Filippo Ganna, silver medalist, by 15 seconds and his compatriot Wout van
In the event that opened the cycling calendar at the Paris Olympic Games, the women’s individual time trial, Australia’s Grace Brown gave her rivals no Grace Brown gave her rivals no chance and from the very first meter, despite the wet asphalt that caused wet asphalt that caused numerous crashes, swept the records in each of the two intermediate points. In the first part of the race it seemed that the fight was going to
