How does the Tour de France work?

The Tour de France points classification can be hard to wrap your head around. How can a cyclist take out the Tour without winning a single stage? What do the coloured jerseys mean? While the Tour is predominately held in France, it often passes through other countries. Almost 200 cyclists push through around 3,500km over…

Kittel wins opening stage of Volta ao Algarve

  Powerful sprint brings Kittel the win in Albufeira Riding the Volta ao Algarve for the first time in his career, the German took stage 1 and scored his fourth victory of the year 17-Feb-2016: Marcel Kittel is in scintillating form, and he proved this once again, by winning the inaugural stage (Lagos ? Albufeira,…

Hat Trick Of Wins For Marcel Kittel At Scheldeprijs

Marcel Kittel has taken his third win in a row at Scheldeprijs today, asserting his dominance on this sprinters classic. Having targeted this race for a while, the team set about executing the plan of protecting Marcel and riding for a bunch sprint. Everything worked to plan and Marcel jumped with just over 200m to…

Kittel Takes the Treble in Dubai

Marcel Kittel (GER) has won the fourth and final stage of the Dubai Tour, making it three in a row for Team Giant-Shimano. It was another seamless team performance, delivering Kittel to the final 200m in a perfect position to take his third stage of the race. The race panned out much like the previous…

Kittel Doubles Up

Marcel Kittel (GER) has won his second consecutive stage at the Dubai Tour, winning the bunch sprint on stage 3 in impressive fashion. The stage, labeled as the Queen stage, saw the riders tackle two climbs in the second half of the race, the latter falling in the final 10km with ramps of up to…

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