FILE PHOTO: A guard stands next to a medical screening tent for coronavirus testing outside the University Hospital of Geneva (HUG), in Geneva, Switzerland March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy (Reuters) – Swiss professional cyclist Elise Chabbey has swapped her racesuit for her doctor’s uniform following the shutdown of the season […]
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German cyclist Max Schachmann, of BORA-hansgrohe, sealed overall victory in Paris-Nice on Saturday as Colombian Nairo Quintana won the seventh and final stage in Valdeblore-La Colmiane. Schachmann held a 36-second lead going into what became the final day, after the coronavirus outbreak led to the cancellation of Sunday’s scheduled eighth […]
The 26-year-old German from the Bora-hansgrohe team clung on to his lead after a summit finish in Valdeblore La Colmiane to win by 18 seconds from Belgium’s Tiesj Benoot with Colombian rookie Sergio Higuita in third, just under a minute down. Pre-race favorite Nairo Quintana of Colombia won the 166.5km […]
Demonstrations at cycle races are nothing new. In Jørgen Leth’s acclaimed documentary A Sunday in Hell, about the 1976 Paris-Roubaix Classic, greats of the sport such Eddy Merckx and Bernard Thévenet are shown gingerly negotiating piles of newspapers strewn on the course by striking printworkers, who clap stickers on the […]