Super talent Sebastian Kienle set the fastest bike split time in the 2012 Kona Ironman World Championship aboard his SCOTT Plasma. In his rookie appearance at the event, the young German hammered out an amazing effort on a windy Queen K course to earn the best time of 4:33:23.
With the World Championship win in the bag, Nino Schurter's season ends with a demonstration of power. But Nino was not the only SCOTT athlete who celebrated a great victory.
Simon Clarke wrote history on Sunday when he clinched the mountain classification jersey at the Vuelta a España after three weeks of racing. In his Grand Tour debut, the 26-year-old delivered ORICA-GreenEDGE their first Grand Tour jersey, the second polka dot jersey for Australia.
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.
