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The Ecuadorian cyclist Johnatan Narváez, from the Ineos-Grenadiers team, achieved this Friday the final victory in the Coppi and Bartali International Week, after the fourth and last stage, of 166.2 kilometers, starting and finishing in the Italian town of Forlì and in which the Dutch Pascal Eenkhoorn (Jumbo-Visma) won.  Narváez, his country’s long-distance road champion in 2017, took the final victory by finishing third, and scoring four bonus seconds, in the final stage, behind the

The world medalist Ignacio Prado, the Pan American champions, Gerardo Ulloa and Daniela Campuzano, and the continental medalist, Yareli Salazar, are some of the most outstanding riders who will compete this weekend in the National Road Cycling Championship, in Aguascalientes, which starts this Friday and ends on Sunday.  This is the first federated competition to be held in the country, amid the contingencies caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mexican Cycling Federation (FMC) decided to

After more than 3 months of total inactivity, the Nicaraguan Cycling Federation culminated this week its National Championships in the Road and Mountain Marathon modalities. The first to compete were the specialists from Contra Reloj en Ruta who met in the municipality of Tipitapa, a locality of Timal Hydraulic that links this city with Malacatoya 37 km from Managua, capital of the country, who opened the new hydraulic concrete highway that connects this city with

Imola’s motor racing circuit will host this year’s World Road Cycling Championships, the UCI announced on Wednesday after the original Swiss venue was abandoned due to coronavirus. The Italian track, which will host its first F1 Grand Prix this year since 2006, was selected ahead of Planche des Belles Filles climb in the eastern Vosges mountains of France. Aigle-Martigny in Switzerland was originally to host the Sept 20-27 event but organisers last month decided that

Kaden Hopkins and Caitlin Conyers successfully retained their Bermuda Time-Trial National Championships crowns at Clearwater Beach yesterday. In challenging conditions, both handled the overwhelming expectations to race home to victory in the Open Male category and Open Female category respectively. Hopkins held off strong competition from Connor White and Tyler Smith to take top honours in a winning time of 41min 18sec and maintain his scintillating form, having won three successive races — the VT

The Colombian was the best in a race of attacks and counterattacks that started without Roglic. Kuss, in the absence of his boss, signed the last stage. The 2020 Dauphiné became a shredder for aspiring Tourists, which starts in just 13 days. If on Saturday the winner of the yellow in 2019, Egan Bernal, did not start on Saturday due to back discomfort, this Sunday the one who was solid leader of the race, Primoz

The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) takes note of the Swiss Federal Council’s decision – linked to the current Covid-19 pandemic – to maintain, until 30 September 2020, the ban on events uniting more than 1000 people. Given this decision, the organising committee of the Aigle-Martigny 2020 UCI Road World Championships and the political authorities of the cantons concerned have sadly estimated that the conditions could no longer be met to host the event scheduled to

Richard Carapaz was the great protagonist of the third stage of the Tour of Poland. The Ecuadorian crossed the finish line first and stayed with this phase that was played between Wadowice, the test where Pope Juan Pablo Segundo was born, and Bielsko Biala. This 203.1 kilometer route had important ascents, where the carchense rider showed his best performance. Carapaz is a specialist in ascents, although the route was not clearly mountaineering. His triumph also

The Colombian cyclist Fernando Gaviria won, this Wednesday, the second stage of the Vuelta a Burgos that was played over 168 kilometers between the Spanish towns of Catrojeriz and Villadiego in the north of the country. Gaviria won the final sprint of the stage, which was run on flat, windless terrain. The Colombian remained in the main squad until the end, when he accelerated his pace and moved several meters in the last corner of

After the analysis and recommendations of the Ministries of Health and of Economy and Finance, the National Government confirmed the formal decline of Panama as the venue for the XXIV Central American and Caribbean Sports Games 2022. “We have to make these decisions to save lives in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, witness to its social and economic effects,” declared the Vice Minister of the Presidency, Carlos García Molino. At a meeting in the