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Thibau Nys has been having an astounding 2024 season. He only began racing at the Tour de Romandie but took a stunning mountaintop win from the breakaway on stage 2. He has since won two stages and the GC at the Tour de Hongrie; but is quick to shrug off comparisons to Wout van Aert and Mathieu van...

Ronan OConnor, the 20-year-old Irishman riding for Continental team Global 6 United, has been on the attack at the International Tour of Hellas and also climbed very solidly today on what was a big day of action in the five-stage race. OConnor made the winning breakaway on yesterdays stage 2 some 170km from Katerini []The post Ronan OConnor on the attack, climbing strongly, in Greece appeared first on Sticky Bottle.

Saturday's 31km flat individual time trial from Castiglione delle Stiviere to Desenzano del Garda could open up the GC

Time-trialing is a key aspect of cycling and for Grand Tours, it is more important than ever as most victory contenders are also contenders to win the time-trials themselves. Having a bad TT capacity severely limits chances of winning one, and so despite having great capacity, UAE Team Emirates cont...

Sam Bennett (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) celebrated today after thinking he had just won his third stage at Four Days of Dunkirk only to miss out on the victory by the narrowest of margins. At the end of the 166.8km stage into Pont--Marcq, four breakaway men were just dangling off the front, with two of []The post Sam Bennett celebrates but just misses threepeat win in France | Video appeared first on Sticky Bottle.

In the mountains and time-trials, it is quite unlikely that anyone at the Giro d'Italia will be able to put time into Tadej Pogacar. This applies even to Geraint Thomas who is a specialist on both types of racing; and so INEOS Grenadiers made an attempt to create chaos this Friday at the Giro by try...

Irelands multiple word champions and Paralympic champions, Katie George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal, have team up today in Italy to take silver in the womans B TT at the UCI Paracycling World Cup in Italy. The prolific duo, who are part of an Irish paracycling team on the final approach to the Paralympics in Paris []The post Dunlevy and McCrystal team up for silver at UCI Para World Cup appeared first on Sticky Bottle.

A man in his 70s was killed while cycling on Dame Street in the early hours of this morning while the car driver involved in the collision was also injured.The Garda Press Office said: Garda and emergency services attended the scene of a fatal road traffic collision on Dame Street, Dublin 2 this morning, Saturday 18th May 2024 at approximately 5.25am.The collision involved a car and a cyclist. The cyclist, a male aged in his 70s, was seriously injured during the collision. He was taken to St. James Hospital where he has since passed away, the spokesperson said.Garda said that the driver of the car is currently receiving medical treatment for non-life threatening injuries.A technical examination of the scene by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators was conducted this morning.Garda in Pearse Street are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this collision to contact them.Any road users or pedestrians who were in the vicinity of Dame Street this morning between 5.00am and 5.45am, and who may also have camera footage (including dash cam), is asked to make this available to investigating Garda, a spokesperson said.The press office added that anyone with information which may assist Garda in their investigation is asked to contact Pearse Street Garda Station on 01 666 9000, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111, or any Garda station.