Ellis Bacon and Stephen Farrand

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Paracombe
Tour Down Under set to take shape on slopes of Paracombe - Preview

By Ellis Bacon and Stephen Farrand Published

Preview 'If you win there, you'll be hard to beat overall' says Dennis of stage 3 summit finish

Preview
Deceuninck-QuickStep’s Sam Bennett is all smiles after taking the ochre leader’s jersey as the winner of stage 1 of the 2020 Tour Down Under in Tanunda
Sam Bennett on a high after first win with Deceuninck-QuickStep at Tour Down Under

By Ellis Bacon and Stephen Farrand Published

News 'I think the team had more confidence in me than I did in myself'

News
Analysis: The 8 stages that shook up the Tour de France
The 8 stages that shook up the 2019 Tour de France

By Ellis Bacon and Stephen Farrand Published

Where did this year's race all go right?

Racing
Greg Van Avermaet (CCC Team) speaks to the media after the stage 2 team time trial
Tour de France: Van Avermaet targets Champagne finish to stage 3

By Ellis Bacon and Stephen Farrand Published

'It's a good finish for me but it will be all about positioning' says Belgian

Teams & Riders
Michael Matthews is starting his third season with Team Sunweb in 2019
Tour de France: Matthews left disappointed after Sunweb's TTT fourth place

By Ellis Bacon and Stephen Farrand Published

'But I think we did everything we could' says Australian

Teams & Riders
Hugh Carthy (EF Education First) recovers from his efforts at the end of stage 12 of the 2019 Giro d'Italia
Carthy's 11th overall at Giro d'Italia 'just a good sign of potential' says rider

By Ellis Bacon and Stephen Farrand Published

EF Education First's British climber happy to keep his feet on the ground

Teams & Riders
Primoz Roglic finishes stage 15 at the Giro
Giro d'Italia: 'He needed us and we weren't there' says Roglic's Jumbo-Visma DS

By Ellis Bacon and Stephen Farrand Published

Sports director Addy Engels explains sequence of events surrounding bike change

Teams & Riders
EF Education First's Simon Clarke descends the Poggio to set up a top-10 finish at the 2019 Milan-San Remo
Bettiol and Clarke animate Milan-San Remo for EF Education First

By Ellis Bacon and Stephen Farrand Published

Italian attacks on Poggio, Australian chases back to front group on descent

Teams & Riders
Elia Viviani (Deceuninck-QuickStep) leads bunch on stage 2 of Tirreno
Viviani eyes up sprint finish at Tirreno on Friday

By Ellis Bacon and Stephen Farrand Published

Italian road race champion thinks Gaviria could be the rider to beat

Teams & Riders
Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe)
Peter Sagan: Nobody's beaten on the start line

By Ellis Bacon and Stephen Farrand Published

Slovakian road race champion on way back to form after illness

Teams & Riders
Ben King climbs La Covatilla on the way to his stage 9 win at the Vuelta
King crashes in Worlds road race but fights back to finish

By Ellis Bacon and Stephen Farrand Published

American ends successful season in Innsbruck and readies himself for 2019

Safety
The 2018 UCI Road World championships time trial podium: Tom Dumoulin, Rohan Dennis and Victor Campenaerts
McGee: Dennis' Worlds TT was the near-perfect ride

By Ellis Bacon and Stephen Farrand Published

National team selector says there's more to come from the Australian

Teams & Riders
Nick Schultz (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA)
Nick Schultz replaces sick Richie Porte on Australian Worlds team

By Ellis Bacon and Stephen Farrand Published

No place for Michael Matthews on squad for road race

Teams & Riders
Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data)
Cavendish hoping for better as Tour de France sprint stages return

By Ellis Bacon and Stephen Farrand Published

Stage 7 likely to be decided in bunch gallop

Teams & Riders