Biggest news first: Brendan Fairclough is back racing at full speed and one week before the world cup finals in Norway, Brendan took the win at the European Cup in Châtel.
Excitement was high as the winners of the EUROBIKE Award were honored on the first day of EUROBIKE 2012. A total of 84 products were honored with an award but the SCOTT All Mountain Tech outfit outperformed all the others and was given the Gold Award, only given to the eight most outstanding innovations.
Last week in marked the 20th anniversary of La Ruta de los Conquistadores in Costa Rica. This race is modeled to mirror the footsteps taken by Spanish Conquerors Juan de Cavallon and Perefan de Ribera as they explored Coast Rica in the 1500’s.
ORICA-GreenEDGE controlled the second stage of Tour de Poitou Charentres from start to finish to deliver Aidis Kruopis to back-to-back victories in France. The Lithuanian has extended his overall race lead to eight seconds ahead of tomorrow's double day.
Simon Clarke took his first professional win in his Grand Tour debut on the fourth stage of the Vuelta a España. Having eyed the stage ever since he reviewed the route, Clarke set himself up perfectly for his career-changing result atop the Valdezcaray summit finish.
Cycling is one of our biggest passion that’s why, we enjoy every day riding a bike to share good times and good vibrations with our teammates. This is also one of the main reasons that we support you – athletes – all around the world on the major events and international races. But sometimes sport can go from good to bad pretty quickly.
ORICA-GreenEDGE dominated the Eneco Tour stage six time trial. Svein Tuft powered to victory with an untouchable time of 20:25 over the 17.4 kilometer course to take his first WorldTour individual win of the season. The Canadian powerhouse leads the Benelux race after the penultimate stage.
