Sam Bennett sprints to another stage win at UAE Tour
The 30-year-old is aiming for a hat-trick of victories in tomorrow’s seventh and final stage.
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The 30-year-old is aiming for a hat-trick of victories in tomorrow’s seventh and final stage.
Bennett trumps Dekker and Ewan in bunch sprint on Al-Marjan Island.
Almost two years after it started, the fitness-to-practice hearing has finally reached the summing up stage.
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A surge in cycling happened during the pandemic but new infrastructure was not evenly spread and may not be here to stay.
Dutch cyclist Fabio Jakobsen said he was grateful to be alive after the finish line crash.
Dan Martin finished fourth in the overall classification, Ireland’s best result since Sean Kelly won the race in 1988.
Defending champion Primoz Roglic extended his overall lead, while Sam Bennett finished 100th today.
The Slovenian’s third win in this year’s race earned him a 10 seconds bonus.
The final kilometre of the 157km stage from Castrillo del Val to Aguilar de Campoo saw the Deceuninck-Quickstep rider surge to apparent victory.
Geoghegan Hart joins Wiggins, Froome, Thomas and Yates on the list of British Grand Tour winners.
Roglic retains a five-second lead over Ireland’s Dan Martin.
Bennett, who won the green points jersey at the Tour de France, pipped Jasper Philipsen in a dramatic sprint.
‘This one’s for the wife,’ he said after moving to within five seconds of race leader Primoz Roglic.
Marc Soler took the stage victory.
Martin finished just a second behind stage winner Primoz Roglic and is seven seconds back in the general standings.
‘It will be great to push my limits and see what I’m capable of.’
Two riders from two other teams, including Dutchman Steven Kruijswijk, have also tested positive.
The Limerick teenager claimed Ireland’s first-ever Downhill world title in Salzburg today.
‘All the years trying to come up, trying to make it… It took me so long to get here,’ said Sam Bennett, now a winner of the Tour the France green jersey.
The Carrick-on-Suir native won the final stage in spectacular fashion, and has won outright Ireland’s first green jersey at the Tour since Sean Kelly in 1989.
Sagan made a bid for glory from 20km out but the Irishman was able to keep up during today’s 19th stage.
The Irish star stretched his advantage over Peter Sagan to 52 points.
The 23-year-old Colombian had remained in contention until Sunday’s stage on the Grand Colombier.
The 29-year-old cyclist also spoke about the impact the Tour de France’s taxing schedule was having.
Jumbo-Visma’s Primoz Roglic retained the overall lead while Sam Bennett strengthen his grip on the Green Jersey.
Bennett initially finished third but was promoted to second place after Green Jersey rival Peter Sagan was relegated for shoving another rider in the sprint finish.
No, you absolutely cannot.
There were teary eyes as the Irish rider got to grips with his historic achievement.
The Carrick-on-Suir rider becomes just the sixth Irish cyclist to win a stage at the Tour de France.
“We must all play our part in getting children back to school safely,” RSA chairperson Liz O’Donnell said.
The Irish rider finished a tough day empty handed.
Kazakhstan’s Alexey Lutsenko won the first Tour de France stage of his career, while Adam Yates remains in the yellow jersey.
The Deceuninck–Quick-Step rider had a third-place finish, with Wout van Aert claiming Stage 5.
Friends and colleagues have named the deceased as Thiago Cortes from Rio de Janeiro.
The Irishman and the Slovakian are locked on 83 points after Bennett racked up intermediate sprint points halfway through stage four.
Aussie Caleb Ewan rocketed to a sprint victory.
Cycling Ireland’s high performance coach chats to us about advice for amateur riders and how Brian O’Driscoll faired when pitted into a fitness test on the saddle.
This year’s Tour de France gets underway in Nice on Saturday and runs until 20 September.