The Polartec-Kometa continental team will have two new riders by the end of the season. Italy’s Stefano Oldani and Alejandro Ropero from Granada are joining the continental training discipline as’stagiaires’. More youth for a young squad, in constant formation. Oldani (Busto Arsizio, 10 January 1998) comes from the Transalpine Team Colpack and will debut in…
95ª Prueba Villafranca-Clásica de Ordizia 25 July: Ordizia-Ordizia (165.7 km) The Ordiziako Klasika took another step into its century with an edition marked by the very high speed from the initial shot in which the Mitchelton-Scott, a priori great favorite for the victory with Simon Yates, signed a double with the Australian Robert Power and…
95ª Prueba de Villafranca-Clásica de Ordizia 25 July: Ordizia-Ordizia (165.7 km) After the brilliant participation in the Giro d’Aosta, where the team won the always prestigious general squad and the Dutchman Kevin Inkelaar caressed the final victory in the general classification, the Polartec-Kometa returns to the competition this Wednesday in a race of great historical…
During this week the German town of Friedrichshafen has become the Mecca of the bicycle sector thanks to a new edition of the Eurobike. The great fair of the sector, where the main industries related to the world of cycling meet, changed its format for 2018, reducing it to three days, bringing forward its celebration…
55° Giro Ciclístico Internazionale della Valle d’Aosta – Mont Blanc Stage 4: Valtournenche – Breuil Cervinia (109,8 km) In its first season as a continental team, the Giro della Valle d´Aosta had become one of the major events on the Polartec-Kometa calendar, along with the Giro d’Italia U23 and the upcoming Tour of Hungary. A…
55° Giro Ciclístico Internazionale della Valle d’Aosta – Mont Blanc Stage 3: Antagnod and Champoluc (160.7 km) The Dutchman Kevin Inkelaar took the lead in the Giro della Valle d´Aosta 2018 after finishing fourth in a very hard fourth stage, more than 4,000 metres of unevenness in his 160 kilometres, where the yellow jersey, the…
55° Giro Ciclístico Internazionale della Valle d’Aosta – Mont Blanc Stage 2: Tavagnasco – Quassol (148.6 km) On his own, the Briton Mark Donovan (Team Wiggins) won a second stage of the Giro d’Aosta that did not bring about substantial changes in the noble part of his classification, where the Italian Matteo Bellia (IAM Cycling)…
55th International Cycling Tour of the Aosta Valley – Mont Blanc This Thursday’s stage was not so sweet for Polartec-Kometa despite the great victory of Kevin Inkelaar and his promotion to the team standings of the Giro d’Aosta. During their dispute, the Madrid squad lost the services of Colombian Wilson Peña and Eritrean Awet Habtom…
55th International Cycling Tour of the Aosta Valley – Mont Blanc Stage 2: Rhêmes-Saint-Georges-Rhêmes-Notre-Dame (158.8 km) The Dutchman Kevin Inkelaar won the second stage of the Giro della Valle d´Aosta, a mountainous day ending in Rhêmes-Notre-Dame, and made the eighth success of the season, the first without Matteo Moschetti’s signature, for the continental Polartec-Kometa. Inkelaar…
55th International Cycling Tour of the Aosta Valley – Mont Blanc Stage 1: Saint-Gervais-Mont-Blanc – Saint-Nicolas-de-Veroce (7.9 km CRI) The Spaniard Juan Pedro Lopez was the first rider of the Polartec-Kometa in the general battle for the Giro della Valle d´Aosta after finishing fifth in the seven-kilometre climb that, on French soil, hosted the start…
55° Giro Ciclístico Internazionale della Valle d’Aosta – Mont Blanc From 11 to 15 July Few races in the world of cycling have a’proloescalada’ as their calling card, a concept that has been little explored in itself, but the Giro al Valle d’Aosta is certainly one of those chosen and with this proposal, on French…
