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2021 Trofeo Laigueglia
The 2021 Trofeo Laigueglia was a one-day road cycling race that took place on 2 March 2021 in and around Laigueglia, Liguria, on the northwestern coast of Italy. It was the 58th edition of the Trofeo Laigueglia and was rated as a 1.Pro event as part of the 2021 UCI Europe Tour and the 2021 UCI ProSeries. The race covered and finished off with four laps of a finishing circuit that was long and featured two short and sharp climbs, the Colla Micheri and the Capo Mele. Teams Ten UCI WorldTeams, nine UCI ProTeans, and six UCI Continental teams made up the twenty-five teams that participated in the race. Every team entered seven riders each, except for and , which each entered six riders. However, the remainder of the team withdrew after an unnamed rider tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of the race. With Gianni Moscon of also being a non-starter after sustaining injuries from a crash in Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne three days prior, there were 166 riders who started the race, of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 UCI Europe Tour
The 2021 UCI Europe Tour was the 17th season of the UCI Europe Tour. The season began on 24 January 2021 with the Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana 1969 – Gran Premio Valencia and ended on 24 October 2021 with the Ronde van Drenthe. Throughout the season, points were awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determined how many points are awarded to the top finishers; the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points were awarded. The UCI ratings from highest to lowest are as follows: * Multi-day events: 2.Pro, 2.1 and 2.2 * One-day events: 1.Pro, 1.1 and 1.2 Events January February March April May June July August September October Notes References External links * {{2021 in road cycling UCI Europe Tour UCI Europe Tour UCI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UCI Professional Continental
The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale The ''Union Cycliste Internationale'' (UCI; ; en, International Cycling Union) is the world governing body for sports cycling and oversees international competitive cycling events. The UCI is based in Aigle, Switzerland. The UCI issues rac ... (UCI) to expand cycling around the world. The five circuits (representing the continents of Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania) are ranked below the UCI World Tour and, as of 2020, the UCI ProSeries. UCI Africa Tour Winners There is a rolling ranking for individuals and countries (the total of the top 8 ranked riders of the nation), for which points can be won in all UCI road events, regardless of where the races take place. Prior to 2019 there was also a team ranking, and in all three categories points were earned in continental races of category HC or below (1.1 and 2.1 o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Rota
Lorenzo Rota (born 23 May 1995) is an Italian racing cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career He rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships, and was named in the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia. Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux (2021–present) In August 2020, it was announced that Rota would be joining the team on an initial one-year contract for the 2021 season. In his first season at World Tour level, Rota took seven top-ten finishes in one-day races, with a best finish of fourth place at the Clásica de San Sebastián and the Giro della Toscana. In October 2021, it was announced that Rota had extended his contract with the team for a further two years. Major results ;2013 : 5th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships ;2015 : 2nd Trofeo Alcide Degasperi : 3rd Trofeo Internazionale Bastianelli : 3rd Gran Premio di Poggiana : 6th Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo : 7th Overall Okolo Slovenska : 8th GP Laguna : 9th Coppa dei Laghi-Trofeo Almar ;20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biniam Girmay
Biniam Girmay Hailu (born 2 April 2000) is a professional Eritrean road cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . At the 2022 Giro d'Italia, he became the first Black African cyclist to win a Grand Tour stage after winning stage 10 in a reduced bunch sprint. Career After discovering cycling through his cousin Meron Teshome, Girmay joined the World Cycling Centre in 2018 for his second junior year. That year, he became a triple junior cycling champion of Africa, winning the road race, time trial and team time trial. He also won the first stage of Aubel–Thimister–Stavelot, beating out favorite Remco Evenepoel. In 2019, with the Eritrea national team, he won the third stage in a sprint of the La Tropicale Amissa Bongo, his first professional victory. This made Girmay the first cyclist born in the 2000s to win a professional race. His success continued, winning stage 5 of the Tour of Rwanda in a sprint against experienced riders, including Joseph Areruya and Daniel Tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Vendrame
Andrea Vendrame (born 20 July 1994 in Conegliano) is an Italian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the Giro d'Italia. Major results ;2014 : 10th Gran Premio della Liberazione : 10th Trofeo Città di San Vendemiano ;2015 : 1st Giro del Belvedere : 5th Gran Premio della Liberazione : 5th Giro del Medio Brenta : 10th GP Capodarco ;2016 : 2nd Ruota d'Oro : 2nd Piccolo Giro di Lombardia : 3rd Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships : 4th Coppa Sabatini : 5th Giro del Belvedere : 8th Gran Premio di Poggiana ;2017 : 1st Mountains classification, Four Days of Dunkirk : 4th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne : 5th Gran Premio di Lugano : 6th Overall Tour de Bretagne ::1st Stage 7 : 7th Classic Loire-Atlantique ;2018 : 3rd Paris–Camembert : 4th La Roue Tourangelle : 6th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe : 9th Gran Premio di Lugano ;2019 : 1st Tro-Bro Léon : 2nd Tour du Finistère : 3rd GP Industria & Artigianato di Larcia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Knox (cyclist)
James Alexander Knox (born 4 November 1995) is a British road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career In 2017, Knox came second in the under-23 version of Liège–Bastogne–Liège. In September of that year announced that Knox would turn professional with the team for the 2018 season. In May 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Giro d'Italia. In August 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Vuelta a España. He was in the general classification Top 10 with two stages to go, however he lost 11 minutes on the penultimate stage after crashing the day before, eventually finishing in 11th place. Major results ;2012 : 8th Overall Junior Tour of Wales ::1st Stage 4 ;2013 : 3rd Overall Junior Tour of Wales ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stages 1 & 4 ;2014 : 9th Piccolo Giro dell'Emilia ;2015 : 8th Trofeo PIVA : 9th Clássica Loulé ;2016 : 4th Overall Ronde de l'Isard : 6th Overall Course de la Paix U23 ;2017 : 2nd Liège–Bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikel Landa
Mikel Landa Meana (born 13 December 1989) is a Spanish professional road cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . His career breakthrough came at the 2015 Giro d'Italia where he won two stages and finished third overall. Career Early career Landa was born in Murgia (Álava), in the Basque Country in northern Spain. Like many Basque cyclists he began his career at the development team, in 2009, before graduating to the professional team in 2011. After three years with the squad, Landa left the team at the end of the 2013 season – due to its disestablishment – to join . In 2018, as president of the Euskadi Cycling Foundation, a new UCI Continental squad was established, with expectations of returning to the top races. Astana (2014–2015) Landa won a stage of the 2014 Giro del Trentino before riding the Giro d'Italia as one of Fabio Aru's mountain domestiques. He helped Aru to finish third overall. 2015 season In 2015, Landa attacked from a breakaway on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio Ciccone
Giulio Ciccone (born 20 December 1994) is an Italian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Bardiani–CSF (2016–18) Ciccone was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia, where he won stage 10. At the 2018 Giro d'Italia, Ciccone finished second in the mountains classification, behind overall race winner Chris Froome. Also in 2018, Ciccone won the Giro dell'Appennino and finished second in the inaugural Adriatica Ionica Race. Trek–Segafredo (2019–present) After three years with , Ciccone joined on an initial two-year contract from the 2019 season. At the Giro d'Italia, Ciccone led the mountains classification for all but one stage, winning the jersey with more than twice as many points than the runner-up Fausto Masnada. He finished 16th overall, with a victory on stage sixteen, a finish at Ponte di Legno. After this, Ciccone was named in the startlist for the Tour de France. During the sixth stage to La Planche des Belles Filles, he was pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clément Champoussin
Clément Champoussin (born 29 May 1998) is a French cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Vuelta a España. On stage 20 of the 2021 Vuelta he won the final mountain stage finding himself among the GC contenders of Roglič, Haig and Mas. He finished the race 16th overall. Major results ;2018 : 2nd Ruota d'Oro : 3rd Piccolo Giro di Lombardia : 5th Overall Tour de l'Avenir : 7th Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites : 9th Overall Ronde de l'Isard ;2019 : 1st Overall Giro del Friuli-Venezia Giulia ::1st Points classification ::1st Stages 1 ( TTT) & 4 : 2nd Piccolo Giro di Lombardia : 3rd Overall Ronde de l'Isard : 3rd Overall Grand Prix Priessnitz spa : 4th Overall Tour de l'Avenir : 6th Overall Orlen Nations Grand Prix ::1st Stage 1 ( TTT) : 9th Overall Giro di Sicilia : 9th Gran Piemonte ;2020 : 8th Overall Tour de Luxembourg ;2021 (1 pro win) : 1st Stage 20 Vuelta a España : 2nd Faun-Ardèche Classic : 4th Trof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
The 2021 Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne was the 73rd edition of the Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne cycling classic. It was held on 28 February 2021 as a category 1.Pro race on the 2021 UCI Europe Tour and the 2021 UCI ProSeries. The race was long, starting and finishing in Kuurne, and featured several cobbled sections and climbs. The race formed the latter half of the opening weekend of the Belgian road cycling season with UCI WorldTour race Omloop Het Nieuwsblad held the previous day. Teams Seventeen of the nineteen UCI WorldTeams were joined by eight UCI ProTeams to make up the twenty-five teams that participated in the race. All but one team entered seven riders for a total of 174 riders, many of whom also contested the previous day's Omloop Het Nieuwsblad; was the exception with six riders, as Charlie Quarterman sustained injuries from a crash during that race. 114 riders finished. UCI WorldTeams * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * UCI ProTeams * * * * * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Moscon
Gianni Moscon (born 20 April 1994) is an Italian professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in the road race. Early life and career Moscon grew up in the apple farms north of Trento in Trentino in the north of Italy. This led to him being given the nickname "Il Trattore", which translates to "The Tractor". Professional career Team Sky (2016–2021) In September 2015, it was announced that he had signed a professional contract with for the 2016 season. This followed a recommendation from Fausto Pinarello, of the company who manufacture the team's bicycles, who had seen Moscon winning amateur races and spoke about him to Sky sport director Dario Cioni. Moscon recorded his first professional victory at the Arctic Race of Norway when he won the queen stage. He later went on to win the general classification, as well as the youth classification. He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España. In July 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickly spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 are variable but often include fever, cough, headache, fatigue, breathing difficulties, loss of smell, and loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms ( dyspnea, hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms ( respiratory failure, shock, or multiorgan dysfunction). Older people are at a higher risk of developing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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