Cycling News

SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 2023 Simon Yates put the finishing touch on a winning effort by Team Jayco AlUla at the Tour Down Under, taking the final stage and finishing second overall at the first WorldTour race of the 2023 season. Michael Matthews added to the team's success by winning the points classification. Yates showed spectacular early-season form at the five-day stage race in Australia, coming close to the win on Stage 3 and then breaking through for the victory on the final stage. The Brit powered up the final climb to Mount Lofty on his Propel Advanced SL Disc team bike with...

Monday, January 16, 2023 Team Jayco AlUla athlete Alex Manly took the win on the second stage of Santos Tour Down Under on her local roads in Adelaide. The win put Manly into the general classification lead by a thin margin with just one stage left in the race. The 90km of Santos Tour Down Under stage two were packed with 1631m of elevation gain. From the start, riders were launching attacks. Manly picked up two seconds on the intermediate sprint, but no rider could get away from the bunch. On the final climb, 6.1km up Mount Lofty, a small...

Tuesday, January 10, 2023 Liv welcomes three new riders for 2023 to Liv Factory Racing and Liv Racing Collective programs. Liv Factory Racing, Liv’s UCI World Cup Cross-Country (XCO) team, welcomes Jenn Jackson (Canada) and Ronja Blöchlinger (Switzerland). Jackson is a former Elite Canadian National XCO Champion (2021). She also participates in Enduro in her spare time and won the unofficial Canadian Enduro National Championship in 2022. Blöchlinger joins as an XCO athlete in the U23 category. In 2022, Ronja won the U23 Swiss XCO National Championships, UEC Elite XCC European Championships, and was a member of the Team Relay MTB World Champions team....

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2023 With a strong mix of exciting new talent and returning champions, the team has sharpened its focus on the new and expanded MTB World Cup calendar. The 2023 Giant Factory Off-Road Team includes 10 athletes competing in XC, downhill and enduro events, which this year have evolved from the Enduro World Series to official UCI World Cup status. The new roster boasts national champions, Olympic hopefuls and top contenders for the most prestigious mountain bike races around the world. “This is a really exciting year ahead for the team on so many levels,” said Giant Factory Off-Road Team...

Tuesday, January 3, 2023 As of January 1st, 2023, GreenEDGE Cycling (formerly Team BikeExchange-Jayco) will be named ‘Team Jayco AlUla’ as the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) steps up from official partner to second naming rights partner of the Australian registered UCI WorldTour team. The new signed agreement will run from January 1st, 2023, through to December 31st, 2025. As GreenEDGE Cycling embarks on its 12th season in the WorldTour peloton, this new major agreement is an important step for the future of the team and its vision, as it continues to develop and strengthen both its men’s and women’s teams...