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Tinkoff-Saxo Confirm Sagan Signing

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SaganTinkoff-Saxo have now officially announced that Peter Sagan will join the team in 2015. The Slovak star and Tinkoff-Saxo have signed a 3-year contract with the shared ambition of further strengthening the team and taking the career of the three-time green jersey winner to an even higher level.

 

Team Manager Bjarne Riis comments: ‘We are happy and proud to present and welcome Peter Sagan on the team in 2015 on a long-term 3-year contract. Peter is without doubt one of the biggest talents in cycling and one of the biggest names already. He has a winning mentality, he’s visible and active in the finales and he, without doubt, has the ability to bring home victories. It will be exciting to work with Peter also for me personally. He has a huge talent and he’s already very strong but I believe he has even more potential than what we’ve seen so far… Next year, we’ll have a very strong team to support him and to aim for big wins throughout the season’

 

As a combined sprinter, puncheur and classics specialist Sagan has, despite his young age, emerged victorious in an array of different races including three points classifications in a row at Tour de France, seven GrandTour stages and several one-day races.

 

More on Tinkoff-Saxo at tinkoffsaxo.com and on Sagan at petersagan.com

 

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Art of the USA Pro Challenge – Stage 3

Yesterday’s Stage 3 of the USA Pro Challenge – 170.4km from Breckenridge to Steamboat Springs – was won by Cannondale’s Peter Sagan in 4hr 4’18”; giving him his second victory (after day one’s opener) of the tour and his 16th win of the season. Sagan currently sits in third overall place with BMC Racing’s Mathias Frank in second and Lachlan Morton (Garmin-Sharp) retaining his GC lead.

 

Throughout the USA Pro Challenge, Cyclo is delighted to be bringing you daily works of art from Greig Leach, a one-time amateur club bike racer, participating in the DC and Richmond, Virginia areas of the US, who’s also a talented (and successful) artist sponsored by Richeson Art. His favourite work from Stage 3, entitled ‘Two out of Three Ain’t Bad’ depicts Sagan scoring his second Challenge victory.

 

To learn more about Greig Leach’s work and for details of his substantial output from this year’s races see greigleach.com and also theartofcycling.blogspot.com To see all of the work from both the USA Pro Challenge and Tour de France that we have featured on Cyclo click here.

 

Art of the USA Pro Challenge – Stage 3

 

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Art of the USA Pro Challenge – Stage 2

Yesterday’s Stage 2 of the USA Pro Challenge was a spectacularly mountainous affair, taking riders 202km from Aspen to Breckenridge with over 3,700m of climb. BMC Racing Mathias Frank attacked hard before a breathtaking final descent to take the stage win in 5hr 05’19” with Lachlan Morton (Garmin-Sharp) just 3seconds adrift to take second and Cannondale’s Stage 1 winner Peter Sagan on +14” for the third podium place. The same three riders, though in slightly different order, sit atop the GC: Morton in first, with Frank second and Sagan third.

 

Throughout the USA Pro Challenge, Cyclo is delighted to be bringing you daily works of art from Greig Leach, a one-time amateur club bike racer, participating in the DC and Richmond, Virginia areas of the US, who’s also a talented (and successful) artist sponsored by Richeson Art. His favourite work from Stage 2, entitled ‘Attacking the Final Climb’, shows Frank, Morton and Bontrager Cycling Team’s Lawson Craddock – who would ultimately finish fifth – battling it out nearing the top of the final climb.

 

To learn more about Greig Leach’s work and for details of his substantial output from this year’s races see greigleach.com and also theartofcycling.blogspot.com

 

To see all of the work from both the USA Pro Challenge and Tour de France that we have featured on Cyclo click here.

USA Pro Challenge – Stage 2

 

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Art of the USA Pro Challenge – Stage 1

During the Tour de France we were delighted to bring you daily works of art from Greig Leach, a one-time amateur club bike racer, participating in the DC and Richmond, Virginia areas of the US, who’s also a talented (and successful) artist sponsored by Richeson Art. With the USA Pro Challenge underway, we’re pleased to welcome Greig back with his unique stage-by-stage coverage.

 

Yesterday’s opener of the USA Pro Challenge – Aspen/Snowmass ,68.2miles with a climb of some 7,780feet – was won by Cannondale’s Peter Sagan in a time of 2:26:00 (best placed Brit: Joe Dombrowski of Team Sky in 35th) but Greig’s favourite artwork of the day shows Craig Lewis getting caught with a mere 5k. The Champion System Pro Cycling Team rider finished the day down in 99th place (2:30:59) despite a stunning series of climbs.

 

Throughout this week we will be bringing you more of Greig’s USA Pro Challenge highlights. To learn more about his work and for details of his substantial output from this year’s races see greigleach.com and also theartofcycling.blogspot.com

 

To see all of Greig’s work that we have featured on Cyclo click here.

USA Pro Challenge Stage 1

 

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Gerald Ciolek wins Milan-San Remo

Gerald Ciolek wins Milan-San RemoGerman Gerald Ciolek (MTN) has won the Milan-San Remo in spectacular fashion and despite appalling weather. The 26-year-old – the youngest ever winner of the German National Championships back in 2005 – crossed the line in 5h 37’20″ at the head of a six-man sprint finish in freezing conditions that had seen the withdrawal of several key riders and a curtailing of the official 298km distance after snow had made the climb of La Manie impossible. Riders were transported to a new start point 130km from the finish with the six-man lead group allowed to restart with 7’10” advantage, although several riders – including Matthew Goss (Orica-GreenEDGE), David Millar (Garmin) and Sky’s Geraint Thomas – abandoned at this point.

 

Ciolek beat Cannondale’s Peter Sagan – a firm race favourite – into second place and RadioShack’s Fabian Cancellara into third. Team Sky’s Ian Stannard, who looked in contention right up until the closing moments, was the highest placed British rider in sixth whilst Mark Cavendish for Omega Pharma-Quick Step took ninth place, 14seconds adrift of Ciolek. Despite Cav’s lack of overall form on the day, he was perhaps the most succinct in summing up the conditions with his tweet: ‘Fucking. Freezing.’

 

Commenting on his win rather than the weather, Ciolek said, ‘This is an unbelievable success for us and just an incredible day. We just came here as a wildcard and now we’re standing here with the trophy. This is great. I knew I had to follow all the best riders on the Poggio and it worked out perfectly.’ Team Principle, Douglas Ryder, added: ‘To win the first major classic ahead of Peter Sagan and Fabian Cancellara through these weather conditions is amazing… We were coming into the race hoping for a top 20 but every rider gave everything they could to help Gerald.’

 

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Road Rash at TdF

Carnage is really the only way to describe today’s Stage 6 (Epernay to Metz) of the Tour de France which was defined by a devastating crash with around 25km left to the line. The peleton was decimated, shaking up the general classification and leaving twisted frames and more than a little flesh across the tarmac with the lucky few, including the bulk of BMC and Team Sky (Cadel Evans, Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish amongst them) to forge ahead. However it was none of these that ultimately swept to victory, but rather, in a blaze of sprint prowess, points classification leader Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) taking his third Stage win of this year’s Tour. Reports are still coming in as to how badly injured and, indeed, affected for overall time, those caught up in today’s incident were, but it will be miraculous if one or more withdrawals aren’t announced. Cyclo will keep you posted…