Carapaz favorite to continue Ineos’ success at Giro d’Italia
MILAN: Ineos Grenadiers will be looking to make it a hat trick of victories at the Giro d’Italia, with Richard Carapaz the favorite at the Italian grand tour.
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Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas still possess ‘enough quality to win any race’ – Alberto Contador
Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas still possess “enough quality to win any race”, according to two-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador. Froome (Israel–Premier Tech) has disappeared as a force since his career-threatening crash in 2019, while Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) has also struggled to live up to the hype in recent seasons. Ad/> Froome won the Tour four times between 2013 and 2017, while Thomas triumphed at the 2018 edition.
Alaphilippe rushed to hospital after Lige-Bastogne-Lige mass fall
World champion Julian Alaphilippe hit a tree in a mass fall 60km from the finish line of the Liege-Bastogne-Liege one-day cycling classic on Sunday before being rushed to hospital complaining of severe back pain.
Lieja - Bastoña - Lieja, en directo: tercera clásica de las Ardenas hoy en vivo
Mientras tanto, en la prueba femenina se ha impuesto Annemiek Van Vleuten, del Movistar, tras una andadura en solitario. ¡Gran triunfo para el equipo español!
Tadej Pogacar pulls out of Liege-Bastogne-Liege following death of partner's mother
Tadej Pogacar has withdrawn from Liege-Bastogne-Liege following the death of his partner’s mother. On Thursday, Pogacar’s fiancee Urska Zigart revealed her mother had died — and it was understood that the two-time Tour de France winner had returned to Slovenia to be with her.
Pogacar rompe una racha imperial de carreras en el top-10
La gran mayoría de corredores del pelotón internacional valorarían com positivo un 12º puesto en una carrera de la trascendencia de la No así Tadej Pogacar, un auténtico devorador de récords que ha convertido en rutina lo extraordinario. Sus números, cada vez más imponentes (pichichi del año con siete victorias), le otorgan el cartel de máximo favorito allá donde va, aunque eso no le sirvió de mucho al esloveno en una clásica belga en la que rompió una racha tremenda tras una mala colocación en el Muro de Huy que le obligó a quemar energías extra para remontar posiciones.
Liege-Bastogne-Liege 2022: TV and livestream details, can Tadej Pogacar or Julian Alaphilippe stop the Ineos express?
Four days after the midweek outing at La Fleche Wallonne, the last and most important of the Ardennes classics plays out on the rolling roads south of Liege. One of the oldest classics on the cycling calendar, La Doyenne – the Old Lady – is the fourth Monument of the season and the last-chance saloon for the big one-day racers ahead of the Grand Tours.