Team Sunweb wins world TTT championship in Bergen,Norway.

Team Sunweb beats Team BMC and Team Sky to win their first world Team Time Trial Championship in Bergen, Norway.

 Team Sunweb scored a Worlds TTT double on Sunday, following up a victory in the women's event with the victory in the men's. Tom Dumoulin, Lennard Kämna, Wilco Kelderman, Soren Kragh Andersen, Michael Matthews and Sam Oomen comprised the winning team in Bergen, Norway, setting a time of 47:50.42 on the rolling 42.5km course.

 It's crazy. First the women, and now us. It's crazy," Dumoulin said after the gold-medal ride. "The team was so homogenous. It was absolutely amazing. Normally you would say, 'Maybe you're the best time triallist on paper,' but with this team ... it was so smooth, it was crazy."

 The men's team time trial kicked off under clear skies in Bergen with Norway-based Team Fixit.no the first squad to hit the road, followed by fellow Norwegian Continental outfit Team Sparebanken Sør.

 Norway will also host the second Hammer Series event next year, Hammer Stavanger

Final result from Elite Men's World TTT
 1, Team Sunweb - 47:50.42
2,BMC Racing Team - 47:58.71
3, Team Sky - 48:12.77
4, Quick-Step Floors - 48:25.62 5. Orica-Scott - 48:53.63
 6, Movistar Team - 49:09.65
 7, Team LottoNL-Jumbo - 49:10.00
8, CCC Sprandi Polkowice - 49:34.47
9,Katusha-Alpecin - 49:36.00
10,Bora-Hansgrohe - 49:45.52
11, Astana Pro Team - 50:06.21
12, Trek-Segafredo - 50:40.03 13. Joker Icopal - 50:58.51
14,Sangemini - MG. K Vis - 52:52.48
15,Uno - X Hydrogen Development Team - 53:00.16
16,Team Fixit.no - 53:11.91
17, Team Sparebanken Sør - 53:20.89

Team Sunweb wins women world team time trial championship in Bergen, Norway.

Team Sunweb beats defending champions Boels Dolmans to win 2017 World UCI Cycling Championship team time trial in Askoy, Norway.

 The six riders rode a well-paced race, tackling the steep climb after 30km at a careful tempo to avoid blowing apart the team. They went on to finish with four riders, stopping the clock on 55:41 at the end of the 42.5km course.

 World Women Team Time Trial Result

Team Sunweb Women - 55:41.63
 2, Boels Dolmans - 55:54.06
 3, Cervelo Bigla Pro Cycling Team - 56:09.66
 4, Canyon SRAM Racing - 56:46.42
 5,Team Virtu Cycling Women - 58:33.15
 6, FDJ Nouvelle Aquitaine Futuroscope - 59:04.67
 7, BTC City Ljubljana - 59:28.21
 8, BePink Cogeas - 59:48.92
 9, Hitec Products - 1:00:40

World Cycling Championship in Bergen, Norway 2017

The 2017 World Championships will take place from September 17-24.

 World Team Time Trial Championship, Sunday September 17 The team time trials take place early on in the proceedings, the day after the opening ceremony.
 Unlike the individual time trial and road races, men and women cover the same course. The route is 42.5km long and starts in Askøy archipelago, just outside Bergen.

 The opening kilometres will be fairly flat, before winding out to the centre of Kleppestø and over the Askøy Bridge. Once over the bridge, there’s a 4km stretch that becomes much more technical, and then a 600 m climb with an average gradient of 10 per cent at Loddefjord.
 Next, the route becomes flat again for around 10km, before ramping up for 3km in a climb to Birkelundsbakken – this averages at six per cent but pitches up to 16 per cent.



 

Matteo Trentin (Quick-Step Floor's) sprints to final stage in Madrid.

Matteo Trentin (Quick-Step Floor's) wins his fourth Vuelta a Espana stage in Madrid, Spain.

 Chris Froome (Team Sky) seals of Overrall title of 2017 Vuelta a Espana in Madrid, Spain.
 Miguel Angel Lopez (Team Astana) wins best young rider competition prize.

 Chris Froome (Team Sky), Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida) and Ilnur Zakarin (Katusha-Alpecin) on the 2017 Vuelta Espana podium.
  Davide Villellla (Cannondale-Drapac) wins in mountains jersey.
 Team Astana wins best team classification of 2017 Vuelta a Espana.

Final General top ten classification from 2017 VueltaaEspana.


 1, Christopher Froome (Great Britain) Team Sky 82:30:02,
2, Vincenzo Nibali (Italy) Bahrain-Merida 0:02:15,
3, Ilnur Zakarin (Russia) Katusha-Alpecin 0:02:51,
4, Wilco Kelderman (Netherland) Team Sunweb 0:03:15,
5, Alberto Contador Velasco (Spain) Trek-Segafredo 0:03:18,
6, Wout Poels (Netherland) Team Sky 0:06:59,
 7, Michael Woods (Cannada) Cannondale-Drapac 0:08:27,
8, Miguel Angel Lopez (Colombia) Astana Pro Team 0:09:13,
9, Steven Kruijswijk (Netherland) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:11:18,
10, Tejay van Garderen (United State of America) BMC Racing Team 0:15:50.

Alberto Contador (Trek-SegaFredo) wins stage 20 atop Angliru, Vuelta a Espana.

Alberto Contador (Trek-SegaFredo) destroys Angliru to win his first and last race of his wonderful career.

 Chris Froome (Team Sky) finish third to keep his leaders red jersey.
 Froome is savouring the best moment to wins his Vuelta a Espana.

 Rain greeted the riders at the start of the most-feared Vuelta stage, which opened with an immediate unranked climb and some serious attacks as the overall contenders saved themselves for the final climb to the exposed Angliru.
 David De la Cruz (Quick-Step Floor's) crashed and was forced to abandon.

 Chris Froome (Team Sky) congratulates Alberto Contador (Trek-SegaFredo) on his stage win. 
Enri Mas (Quick-StepFloor's) wins most combative prize on stage.

 20 After nine kilometres into the only 117km long stage, a large group got away, sparking a fast day of racing. 

Overrall General Classification standings from stage 20

 1, Christopher Froome (Great Britain) Team Sky 79:23:37,
2, Vincenzo Nibali (Italy) Bahrain-Merida 00:02:15,
 3, Ilnur Zakarin (Russia) Katusha-Alpecin 00:02:51,
4, Alberto Contador Velasco (Spain) Trek-Segafredo 00:03:11,
 5 Wilco Kelderman 00:03:15,
6 Wout Poels (Netherland) Team Sky 00:06:45,
7, Michael Woods (Cannda) Cannondale-Drapac 00:07:56,
 8, Miguel Angel Lopez (Colombia) Astana Pro Team 00:08:59,
9, Steven Kruijswijk (Netherland) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 00:11:04,
10, Tejay van Garderen (United State of America) BMC Racing Team 00:15:36

Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) powers to Gp de Quebec victory.

Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) beats Greg Van Avermet (BMC) to win Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec as (Team Sunweb) Micheal Mattews wrap up third place.

 Peter Sagan (Borai-Hansgrohe) wins hundredth career win Greg Van Avermaet (BMC), Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Michael Matthews (Sunweb) on the podium

Top Ten General result finishers

 1, Peter Sagan (Slovakia) Bora-Hansgrohe 5:00:31, 
2, Greg Van Avermaet (Belgium) BMC Racing Team,
3, Michael Matthews (Australia) Team Sunweb,
4, Alexis Vuillermoz (France) AG2R La Mondiale,
5, Tim Wellens (Belgium) Lotto Soudal,
6, Tom-Jelte Slagter (Netherland) Cannondale-Drapac,
 7,Petr Vakoc (Czech Republic) Quick-Step Floors, 8, Sep Vanmarcke (Belgium) Cannondale-Drapac,
 9,Tony Gallopin (France) Lotto Soudal,
10,Sonny Colbrelli (Italy) Bahrain-Merida

Thomas de Ghent (Lotto-Soudal) wins stage 19 in Gijon, Vuelta Espana.

Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Soudal) outsprints (Trek-SegaFredo) Jarlinson Pantano and local hero Ivan Garcia Cortina (Bahrain Merida) to win a reduce breakaway stage 19 in Gijón, Vuelta a Espana.

 Winner on the Stelvio at the 2012 Giro and Mont Ventoux at last year's Tour, Thomas De Gendt has now claimed stages in all three Grand Tours. "Today was the last chance for the breakaway. Ok, tomorrow maybe, but that’s for the guys under 65 kilos and I’m not in that group so today was the last chance," he says. "We had a fantastic Vuelta with the team, with already three victories and today is the cherry on the top for me.

 Chris Froome (Team Sky) keeps red leaders jersey ahead of tomorrow's penultimate stage to Angliru. Nicolas Roche (BMC) attacks Romain Bardet (AG2R) attacks Chris Froome (Team Sky) softly brought the remains of the field home calmly the line. 

With just three days remaining and one of those destined to end in a bunch sprint, and another in a battle royale between the climbers and GC contenders, much was on the line as the breakaway formed on stage 19.

 General overrall top ten classification from stage 19

 1, Christopher Froome (Great Britain) Team Sky 75:51:51,
2, Vincenzo Nibali (Italy) Bahrain-Merida 0:01:37,
 3, Wilco Kelderman (Netherland) Team Sunweb 0:02:17,
 4, Ilnur Zakarin (Russia) Katusha-Alpecin 0:02:29,
5, Alberto Contador Velasco (Spain) Trek-Segafredo 0:03:34,
 6, Miguel Angel Lopez (Colombia) Astana Pro Team 0:05:16,
7, Michael Woods (Cannada) Cannondale-Drapac 0:06:33,
 8, Fabio Aru (Italy) Astana Pro Team 0:06:33,
 9, Wout Poels (Netherland) Team Sky 0:06:47,
10, Steven Kruijswijk (Netherland) Team LottoNL-Jumbo 0:10:26