Lennert van Eetvelt was one of the most impressive performers on stage 4 of the 2024 Vuelta a Espana. Having talked a big game pre-Grand Tour, the Lotto Dstny proved himself a real general classification contender on the brutally steep slopes of the final climb.Sadly for the young Belgian however,...

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After two days in the overall lead at the 2024 Vuelta a Espana, Wout van Aert passed on the Red Jersey to his former teammate Primoz Roglic after the first summit finish of the race on stage 4."It was especially warm today," reflected the Team Visma | Lease a Bike star in his post-stage interview a...

CyclistPro Log: Track sprinter Matthew Richardson switches from Australia to Great Britain, Julian Alaphilippe signs with Tudor Pro Cycling and Tour de France FemmesWelcome back to another edition of Pro Log. Were into the first week of racing at the Vuelta a Espaa with Primo Rogli where he belongs in the red jersey.Elsewhere, Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) won the Tour de Pologne with teammate Olav Kooij taking the win on the final stage. The Tour de lAvenir is ongoing; Italys Ludovico Crescioli broke away for victory on Stage 2 atop the Plateau dHauteville.Now lets delve into a cracking edition of the Tour de France Femmes and huge track cycling gossip.ICYMI: Kasia Niewiadoma wins Tour de France FemmesJulien De Rosa/AFP via Getty ImagesFour seconds was the winning margin of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes the tightest in Tour history across the mens and womens races. Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) won the maillot jaune ahead of Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) in a tight finish decided on the summit of Alpe dHuez.Vollering had lost the yellow jersey after a chaotic late crash on Stage 5. Despite trying hard on the final day of racing and breaking away with Pauliena Rooijakkers (Fenix-Deceuninck), ten bonus seconds on the line from the stage win would not be enough to top Niewiadoma in the standings. Rooijakkers completed the podium ten seconds behind Niewiadoma.Niewiadoma was dropped on the Col du Glandon but fought back to win her first Tour de France Femmes also as the first non-Dutch rider to do so.After the finish, she said, Throughout my whole career there were so many times I missed out on victories. I feel like this week was perfect for me and my team. To be able to win big races, you need everything on your side.Read more: Tour de France Femmes reflections: Winners, losers and future stars Related Posts Who won the most prize money at the Tour de France Femmes 2024? The best photos from the Tour de France Femmes 2024 Tour de France Femmes reflections: Winners, losers and future stars Pro cycling transfers 2024/2025: Alaphilippe and Hirschi sign for Tudor and Labous moves to FDJ Matthew Richardson swaps Australia for Great BritainBritish-born sprint cyclist Matt Richardson will be joining the Great Britain Cycling Team programme after being successful in his application for change of nationality via the UCI.Welcome to the team, Matt British Cycling (@BritishCycling) August 19, 2024 Track sprinter Matthew Richardson has switched to the Great Britiain Cycling Team from Australia. Born in Maidstone, Kent, Richardson moved to Australia at nine years old, maintaining dual citizenship. He has changed his nationality via the UCI and will be part of GBs sprint squad. The 25-year-old recently won two silvers and one bronze medal at the Paris Olympics for Australia.Speaking on the move, he said, Switching nationality was a difficult decision, and not one I took lightly. It was a personal choice, made after careful consideration of my career and future. Its not something I decided on quickly or easily.This decision is about following my passion and pushing myself to new heights. This isnt about leaving something behind, but about embracing a new chapter in my journey and chasing a dream, a dream that is to race for the country in which I was born.Per regulations, Richardson cannot race the 2024 World Championships or 2025 European Championships.Julian Alaphilippe signs with Tudor Pro CyclingLoulou or Juju, call him as you wish! But get ready to see @alafpolak1 with the TUD jersey from 2025 onwards.Read the news: https://t.co/JQuOEBswUs#TudorProCycling #BornToDare pic.twitter.com/tenxAegJok Tudor Pro Cycling Team (@TudorProCycling) August 19, 2024 In the latest cycling transfer news, two-time world champion Julian Alaphilippe will join Tudor Pro Cycling in 2025. The Swiss squad is a UCI ProTeam and have riders such as Matteo Trentin, Alberto Dainese and Michael Storer on their roster.It marks the end of a decade-long partnership between Alaphilippe and Soudal-QuickStep that included Tour de France stage victories, an almost yellow jersey win, a Monument and much more. Things soured in the last few seasons however, with team boss Patrick Lefevere publicly criticising his rider and even hitting out at Alaphilippes wife, Tour de France Femmes race director Marion Rousse.On the move, Alaphilippe said, Ive got a lot of experience and that can be important for the young people in the team. Its a great motivation to bring what I know and my way of being on and off the bike. It really motivates me to win races and develop at the highest level, both personally and with the team.This year has seen a more rejuvenated Alaphilippe. He won Stage 12 of the Giro dItalia in classic Alaphilippe fashon to complete the set of a victory in each Grand Tour.Hes not the only one on the move. Ethan Hayter takes his spot on Soudal-QuickStep from Ineos Grenadiers, See you next week. Related Posts Who won the most prize money at the Tour de France Femmes 2024? The best photos from the Tour de France Femmes 2024 Tour de France Femmes reflections: Winners, losers and future stars Pro cycling transfers 2024/2025: Alaphilippe and Hirschi sign for Tudor and Labous moves to FDJ The post Pro Log: Track sprinter Matthew Richardson switches from Australia to Great Britain, Julian Alaphilippe signs with Tudor Pro Cycling and Tour de France Femmes appeared first on Cyclist.

It's fair to say that Felix Gall had a somewhat lacklustre Tour de France earlier this summer, missing out on the top 10. If the first summit finish of the 2024 Vuelta a Espana is anything to go by however, the Austrian could be much more competitive in Spain."It was an incredibly hot day, and I ha...

CyclistWho won the most prize money at the Tour de France Femmes 2024?The 2024 Tour de France Femmes concluded atop the Alpe dHuez on Sunday. After a close battle, Kasia Niewiadoma of Canyon-SRAM took the overall victory after finishing the 2022 and 2023 races in third place. The Polish rider beat Demi Vollering of SD Worx-Protime and Fenix-Deceunincks Pauliene Rooijakkers to the top spot.The Tour de France Femmes has a total prize money pot of 250,000. This includes the 50,000 on offer for the general classification winner and 4,000 for a stage victory.Kasia Niewiadoma finished the race as the rider with the most prize money. She accrued around 56,000. Canyon-SRAM, Niewiadomas team, hauled a total of 58,980, becoming the top team at the 2024 Tour de France Femmes in terms of prize money.Unequal prize poolsA.S.O./Thomas MaheauxFirst of all, its important to highlight the financial discrepancies between the Tour de France Femmes and the mens Tour de France.The Tour de France Femmes prize pool currently sits at 250,000. This number is set to slightly increase in 2025 as the race grows in length. However, the current amount is approximately 10% of the total prize money available at the mens Tour de France, which has a total prize pool of 2.4million.The cheques for winning the Tour also reflect a similar disparity. The winner of the Tour de France Femmes receives 50,000 while the Tour de France champion enjoys a ten-fold increase of 500,000. This inflation increases down the overall standings and with stage victories, which warrant 4,000 instead of the mens 11,000 for a stage victory. Related Posts The best photos from the Tour de France Femmes 2024 Tour de France Femmes reflections: Winners, losers and future stars Who won the most prize money at the 2024 Tour de France? Vuelta a Espaa 2024: Route, start list, how to watch and all you need to know Kasia Niewiadoma, the highest earnerA.S.O./Thomas MaheuxIn a nailbiting finish at the Alpe dHuez, Kasia Niewiadoma claimed her first Grand Tour victory after fighting resiliently for the yellow jersey.By winning the maillot jaune, Niewiadoma pocketed 50,000. For each day she wore the jersey, she earned an extra 100. With this, we estimate that the Canyon-SRAM leader received a total prize money cheque of 56,700. This sum factors in her time in the yellow jersey (300), stage results (4,300) and her top five finishes in the points and QOM classifications (1000 and 800).This 56,700 allocation means that Niewiadoma is the rider with the most amount of prize money at the 2024 race. This total equates to roughly 48,000 or $62,000.Demi Vollering and Pauliena Rooijakkers follow suitA.S.O./Thomas MaheuxSD Worx-Protimes leader Demi Vollering had a turbulent Tour. She won two stages, wore the yellow jersey and finished in second place overall, but a crash on Stage 5 left us wondering what could have been for the 2023 champion.After a week of highs and lows, Vollering leaves the Tour de France Femmes with the second-highest pay cheque of 41,110 (excluding QOM or intermediate sprints). As part of this figure, Vollering received 11,110 from her stage finishes. This makes her the top prize money winner from stage finishes alone. She also received 2,000 courtesy of the super-combatif prize.With a courageous move on the final stage, Pauliena Rooijakkers secured her place on the final podium in third place. With this GC performance and a podium on Stage 8, Rooijakkers took home a sum of 12,980 in prize money.Fourth place in GC and a perennial figure in top 10, Frances vita Muzic is the fourth highest earner from the Tour with a prize money cheque of 9,970.Other big earnersA.S.O./Thomas MaheuxOn her Grand Tour debut, cycling phenomenon Puck Pieterse won the white jersey, took victory on Stage 4 and finished in 11th place overall. The Dutchwomen comes in as the fifth highest earner from the Tour with 9,380 in prize money. This includes the 3,000 from her white jersey win.In becoming the first French stage winner in the history of the Tour de France Femmes, Cdrine Kerbaol rode a phenomenal Grand Tour. The stage win, daily combative prize and GC top ten bring her total prize money haul to 8,540.Another stage winner, Justine Ghekiere, slots into the top ten earners from the Tour courtesy of her Stage 7 victory and polka-dot jersey win. In total, the AG Insurance-Soudal rider pooled 7,500 (excluding intermediate QoM prizes).The sprinters and stage huntersA.S.O./Charly LopezThe green jersey warrants a 3,000 cheque for the winner, with 100 given for each day spent in green. 120 is awarded to the rider who passes the intermediate sprint in first place.The winner of the maillot vert Marianne Vos gathered a prize pool of around 6,900. This comes from the 3,000 for winning the points classification as well as her high-stage placements throughout the race.The highest earner from the sprints, however, is not Vos. This is the early-race star Charlotte Kool of DSM-Firmenich-PostNL. Despite not finishing the race, Kool earned 8,750 from her two stage wins, five days spent in the green jersey and two stages in yellow. If Kool had finished the race, she would have received an extra 1,500 bonus for finishing in second place in the points classification.Canyon-SRAM lead the teams ahead of SD WorxA.S.O./Charly LopezWith the overall victory, Niewiadomas Canyon-SRAM squad lead the prize money rankings for teams. The team earned 58,980, most of which came from Niewiadomas yellow jersey win and stage rankings. In comparison, UAE Team Emirates, the winning team of the Tour de France, netted over 800,000. Canyon-SRAM, therefore, won 8% of what Pogaars team were awarded at the Tour.Like in the GC, SD Worx are close behind. The Dutch superteam finished the Tour de France with 52,600 in prize money. Together, SD Worx and Canyon-SRAM took around half of the total prize money.Fenix-Deceuninck follow the two leaders with 24,670. The squad were propped up by the successes of Rooijakkers in GC and Pieterses white jersey and stage win. Lidl-Trek won the team classification and finish with the fourth biggest prize money haul of 19,750.On the other end of the spectrum, five teams finished the Tour with less than 1,000 in prize money. These teams were Liv-AlUla-Jayco, Human Powered Health, Roland, Cofidis and Tashkent City. The latter received no prize money at all.Full Tour de France 2024 prize money team standingsA.S.O./Charly LopezCanyon-SRAM (58,980)Team SD Worx-ProTime (52,600)Fenix-Deceuninck (24,670)Lidl-Trek (19,750)FDJ-Suez (16,730)AG Insurance-Soudal (13,720)Team DSM-Firmenich-PostNL (11,390)Ceratizit-WNT (11,160)Movistar Team (8,060)Team Visma-Lease a Bike (8,000)Arka-B&B Hotels (4,940)Lotto-dstny (3,190)UnoX Mobility (2,990)EF-Oatly-Cannondale (2,820)UAE Team ADQ (2,690)St Michel-Mavic-Auber93 (2,210)Laboral Kutxa Fundacin Eusakdi (1,140)Liv-AlUla-Jayco (810)Human Powered Health (440)Roland (330)Cofidis Team (280)Tashkent City (0) Related Posts The best photos from the Tour de France Femmes 2024 Tour de France Femmes reflections: Winners, losers and future stars Who won the most prize money at the 2024 Tour de France? 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There is something about the Vuelta a Espana that really seems to bring out the best in Primoz Roglic and this was the case yet again on stage 4 of the 2024 edition of the Spanish Grand Tour as the Slovenian landed the first blow in the GC fight and moved into the Red Jersey."For the team it is a n...

Patrick Lefevere, the team boss at Soudal-QuickStep, has said while losing Julian Alaphilippe after 12 years was the end of an era for both but he had to consider the commercial realities after the French rider has had some poor seasons. Julian had two very weak years, 2022 and 2023, and I didnt []The post Lefevere on losing Alaphilippe | I didnt want to pay that money anymore appeared first on Sticky Bottle.