Rob Sturney

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Derek Gee back in the Giro d'Italia GC picture after strong time trial

6 days ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

Derek Gee is back in the Giro d’Italia GC top-10 conversation after a strong time trial on Saturday in Albania’s capital. Gee faltered on Friday’s final hill and was in 47th place, +1:07 of winner Mads Pedersen, after Stage 1, but 20th place on Saturday saw him rise to 36th overall. Primož Roglič came runner-up to young Brit Joshua Tarling on Stage 2, the Slovenian plucking the pink jersey from the shoulders of Pedersen.
With Albanian victory Mads Pedersen pulls on the first Giro d'Italia pink jersey

1 week ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

His Lidl-Trek squad having ruled the day, Mads Pedersen claimed Friday’s first maglia rosa of the 108th Giro d’Italia after Stage 1 victory in Albania’s capital, Tirana. Pedersen, who claimed his consecutive Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields in late March, is the first Dane to wear pink. Derek Gee was dropped on the last climb of the day, a 6.9-km, 4.5 percent Cat. 3 ascent, losing almost a minute. The CourseFriday was the first of three stages in Albania.
Photos from the Giro d'Italia team presentation

1 week ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

In anticipation of the 108th Giro d’Italia’s start in Durrës, Albania on Friday, the teams were presented on Wednesday in capital Tiranë between flashes of Albanian traditional dress and non-traditional dance. Of particular interest were the Canadians. Israel-Premier Tech could boast two of them, Derek Gee and Hugo Houle.
Giro d'Italia 2025 preview: Gee, Roglič and van Aert ready to roll on Friday

1 week ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

On Friday Primoz Roglič will begin his quest to win a second Giro d’Italia and sixth Grand Tour. Running from May 9 to Sunday, June 1, the 108th edition features an Albanian start, a mountainous corsa rosa short on actual summit finishes, another mini-Strade Bianche stage, and the most time trial kilometres of the three 2025 Grand Tours.
Tour de Romandie: João Almeida wins consecutive WorldTour stage race titles

1 week ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

João Almeida, the Portuguese rider slated to be Tadej Pogačar’s mountains wingman at the Tour de France, won his second consecutive WorldTour stage race of the season on Sunday, jumping to the top of the Tour de Romandie GC by coming runner-up to Remco Evenepoel in the concluding time trial. Almeida also carried off the winner’s txapela at the Itzulia Basque Country last month. Before this season, Almeida’s sole WorldTour stage race triumph was the 2021 Tour of Poland.
Lidl-Trek rules the Vuelta España Femenina's opening team time trial

1 week ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

On Sunday Lidl-Trek won the Vuelta España Femenina team time trial for the third time in four years, with Ellen van Dijk first to cross the line in Barcelona and thus the first to wear the red leader’s jersey. All the Canadians’ team finished close together, Mara Roldan’s Picnic-PostNL the best at sixth, +0:08. Roldan is 31st on GC. The CourseThe opening team chrono was only 8.1 km, but had some tight corners. The intermediate time was taken at the 4-km mark.
João Almeida and Lenny Martinez scrap it out on Tour de Romandie's queen stage

1 week ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

Saturday’s penultimate day of the WorldTour Tour de Romandie was its queen stage, where Lenny Martinez beat João Almeida at the top of a summit finish and the Frenchman assumed the race lead with a time trial remaining. The Race So FarBrits Samuel Watson and Matthew Brennan took the first two days, both claiming the race lead.
Canada's Vallières, Baril and Roldan slated for the Vuelta España Femenina

1 week ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

Three Canadians will line up in Barcelona on Sunday for the start of the 11th Vuelta España Femenina. Magdeleine Vallières of EF Education-Oatly, Oliva Baril of Movistar and Mara Roldan of Picnic-PostNL will take on the first Grand Tour of the 2025 Women’s WorldTour. Vallieres was top Canadian last season in 29th, finishing two seconds faster than Baril. Last month Roldan impressed with tenth in the Amstel Gold Race. Canadian champion Baril came 12th in WorldTour Trofeo Alfredo Binda.
Alison Jackson triumphs on second day of Czech stage race

2 weeks ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

It’s not the best known stage race in the schedule, but on Friday Alison Jackson of EF Education-Oatly didn’t care much about the prestige of it as she won the second stage of Czechia’s 2.2-rated Gracia Orlová. Jackson was the fastest in a bunch of 30 that included compatriots Laury Milette and Anabelle Thomas. Alison Jackson wins the second stage of Gracia Orlova! She beat Marieke Meert and Caroline Andersson in the sprint of the first group.
Evenepoel fastest of the Tour de Romandie GC aspirants in opening chrono

2 weeks ago | cyclingmagazine.ca | Rob Sturney

In Remco Evenepoel’s first stage race of the season, he was the fastest of the GC men in Tuesday’s brief prologue of the 78th Tour de Romandie, the WorldTour round set in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. The day’s surprise winner and first yellow jersey wearer was Ineos Brit Samuel Watson. Lone Canadian entrant Michael Leonard was 71st.