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Sagan, Tinkoff continue to lead world UCI rankings

Despite skipping Liege-Bastogne-Liege in favour of mountain bike race, Tour of Flanders winner 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Peter Sagan maintained his spot at the top of the world UCI rankings, followed by his Tinkoff teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alberto Contador.

Following Michael Valgren’s second-place finish at the Amstel Gold Race, Tinkoff also remains atop the♔ WorldTour team standings, 94 points ahead of Team Sky in second and 199 points ahead of BMC Racing in🐟 third.

"The team’s on a good streak," Valgren said. "We’re first in the WorldTour and then first and secondꩲ in the rider classification. I think we did something right this winter with the training, so we can be really proꦏud of ourselves."

The team fought to b🌊e in the finale at Liege-Bastogne-Liege, but after missing the crucial move Tinkoff ended up seventh with Roman Kreuziger.

"On the new climb with co𒆙bbles, in the first half I couldn’t find my rhythm and couldn’t follow the other guys that attacked so I’m disappointed with this because nobody wanted to pull and really make the race to help catch the break,” Kreuziger said. “I'm very disappointed, as I saw in the last 500m that even into a head wind I was making up ground. I expected more than seventh, but that’s how the one-day races go – yo🐬u need some luck."

With the last of the Spring Classics now done and the Gi🦹ro d’Italia just around the corner, the team is returning its focus to the stage races. While Sagan and Contador are in build periods for their next season objectives, Rafal Majka is currently leading the ♛team at the Tour de Romandie.

BMC extends contract with Dylan Teuns

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Dylan Teuns will continue racing with BMC next season, the US 🔯WorldTour team 💧announced today.

Teuns, a 24-year-old Belgian who signed with BMC in 2015 after riding for its development squad during the 2014 season, most rec💮ently finished 17th at Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

BMC Racing Gene♏ral Manager Jim Ochowicz said it was an obvious decision to extend Teun’s contract.

"Since transitioning from BM♔C Development Team to BMC Racing Team and spending the past two seasons with us, he has proven time and time again that he has a strong ability to ride in a WorldTour team," Ochowicz said. "He’s a very capable rider and is still coming into his own form and finding💯 his place in the peloton alongside his teammates."

Ochowicz said Teuns shined for the team in the Ardennes Classics and has a bright futur🐻e with BMC.

"As one of six riders who have g⛦raduated from BMC Development Team to BMC Racing Team, Dylan is a꧟ fantastic example of how these riders not only make it into the professional peloton, but also excel," he said.

Teuns said he feels at home within the team and expects to continue his🌠 progres🐓sion in the pro ranks.

"It was a really natural decision because I have a lotౠ of support from the BMC Racing Team management and my teammates, which I felt during the Ardennes Classics, so I’m really looking forward to the rest of the season 🥂and beyond," he said.

Tour d'Azerbaijan announces 2016 route

Organisers for the Touꦯr d’Azerbaijan have announced the 2016 race route, which will take the peloton on♊ a trip across the entire country from the Caspian Sea and the capital city of Baku to the mountains around Gabala.

The five-day UCI 2.1 race opens Wednesday, May 4, with a 154km stage from Baku to Sumqayit. The stage, which includes a category 3 climb and three intermediate sprints, ends with five laps of a closing circuit in Sumqayit.

Cervelo Bigla targeting further prologue success at Festival Elsy Jacobs

Having won the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Euskal Emakumeen XXIX Bira prologue earlier this month with Lotta Lepistö, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Cervelo Bigla are aiming for further success against the clock at the Festival E⛦lsy Jac♛obs, starting Friday in Cessange.

After a weekend off from racing, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Clara Koppenburg is ready to go at F⭕estival Elsy Jacobs and aiming for a good performanc♊e.

"For sure I'm excited about the prologue on Friday because normally I'm good in that," she said. "This time it's quite long for a prologue so I have to think about how I will divide it up but I think at the end you don't have a choic🌌e because you have to go all out anyway if you want a good result, and that's what I want."

Two road stages follow the prologue and Koppenburg believes h🔥er teammates will be present at the front of the peloton and in with a chance of taking a win.

"The following two days are also important and I think that we will show a great team performance. In Flèche Wallonne we were not in full strength because Lotta, Ash [Moolman-Pasio] and me we were all sick but we recovered good and we're ready to fight a🌊gain and after Bira we're all hungry for success," she added.

Cervelo Bigla for Festival Elsy Jacobs: Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio, Carmen ღSmall, Clara Koppenburg, Joelle Numainville, Lotta Lepistö and Stephanie Pohl.