Marc Hirschi: Last News

It’s not as if Ineos Grenadiers didn’t try. Tom Pidcock was sniffing around the early moves during the fast and frantic start to Stage 17 while Dylan van Baarle, second time lucky, got himself into the breakaway alongside Dani Martinez. Jonathan Castroviejo even tried to bridge over on the first of four climbs, the Col d’Aspin, giving Geraint Thomas three men up the road.

Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) considers his season to have gone «almost» perfectly, as he finishes 2022 with a second victory in Il Lombardia «It's really amazing to come back and repeat the victory,» said Pogacar after ending his racing season with a successful defence of his Il Lombardia title. Ad It makes him not only the first rider since Joaquim Rodríguez to defend the title, but the first rider ever to win the race from his first two appearances.

British cycling star Adam Yates has joined UAE Team Emirates on a three-year deal until 2025, the team confirmed on Tuesday morning. Yates, 30, joins the team from Ineos Grenadiers where he spent two seasons that included winning the Volta a Catalunya and Deutschland Tour.

ST GAUDENS, France : Defending champion Tadej Pogacar's Tour de France challenge suffered a huge blow on Wednesday when his team mate Rafal Majka pulled out of the race due to injury.

ST GAUDENS, France (Reuters) - Defending champion Tadej Pogacar's Tour de France challenge suffered a huge blow on Wednesday when his team mate Rafal Majka pulled out of the race due to injury.

UAE-TeamEmirates' Matteo Trentin is out of the Tour de France with Covid-19. Trentin's result is the latest in a string of positive tests in elite cycling, with Team Jumbo-Visma boss Merijn Zeeman also announcing his own positive test on Wednesday.

The Slovenian was unsurprisingly on Monday named in the UAE Team Emirates line-up for the race, which gets underway in Copenhagen on Friday. Switzerland's Marc Hirschi was a notable omission, but Polish climber Rafal Majka, Mikkel Bjerg, Brandon McNulty and Vegard Stake Laengen all made the cut. New Zealander George Bennett and Spain's Marc Soler, both signed in the off-season, are in the team, as is Italian sprinter Matteo Trentin. "We've worked very hard all year as a team to prepare for this," said the 23-year-old Pogacar. "So far this year has been positive for the team and we hope to continue this momentum." Pogacar is a strong favourite for the Tour after another impressive season which has seen him win the one-day Strade Bianche and two stage races. Meanwhile, Trek-Segafredo named former world champion Mads Pedersen as their team leader on Monday. Kazakh Alexey Lutsenko, who finished seventh last year, will be the main man for Astana, who will also have four Italian riders on the start line in Denmark.

Hopes of a fully fit line-up at this year's Tour de France are hanging by a thread after an outbreak of Covid-19 cases tore through the Tour de Suisse peloton.