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SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2022 Matteo Sobrero put the finishing touches on the Giro d’Italia for Team BikeExchange-Jayco, winning Sunday’s final stage time trial in Verona to give the team its third stage win in the 105th edition of the Giro. The victory on home soil was the Italian’s first grand tour stage win. Sobrero, riding his Giant Trinity Advanced Pro TT machine with a CADEX WheelSystem, blitzed the 17.4km course in Verona with a time of 22:24. Wearing his Italian national time trial champion’s kit and a custom-painted Giant Rivet TT helmet, the 25-year-old showed his strength against the clock, flying up the Torricella Massimiliana...

Thursday, May 26, 2022 For 2022, the Liv re-engineered the Langma to be lighter, stiffer, and more aerodynamic – all with integrated disc brakes. BikeRadar took note, naming the Langma Advanced Disc 1+ the best women’s bike of the year. After testing 47 of the best road, gravel, and mountain bikes of 2022, BikeRadar unveiled their Bike of the Year awards in early May. Taking the grand prize in the women’s road bike category was the Langma Advanced Disc 1+, praised for being, “a do-it-all race bike for a great price.” The Langma Advanced Disc is just one of the several Langma models...

Thursday, May 26, 2022 Kicking off the six-day German tour on Tuesday with a powerful win by Alex Manly, Team BikeExchange-Jayco has continued to rack up the victories and leads the general classification going into the second half of the stage race. With 330 kilometers and three stages in the bag at LOTTO Thüringen Ladies Tour, Team BikeExchange-Jayco’s Alex Manly controls the race with a 22-second lead over her nearest competition in the general classification. After catching a solo breakaway meters from the finish line during stage one, Manly out-sprinted the reduced bunch to take her first UCI road race victory Tuesday....

Monday, May 23, 2022 Liv Racing Xstra concluded their Spanish racing campaign Sunday with the four-day stage race Vuelta a Burgos Feminas. The team was also present at the Veenendaal-Veenendaal Classic, a one-day race in the Netherlands on Friday. Between the two races, Liv Racing Xstra scored two podium finishes – Tereza Neumanova rode to second on the first stage of Vuelta a Burgos and Rachele Barbieri sprinted to third in Veenendaal-Veenendaal. Kicking off the weekend’s racing on Thursday with stage one of the Vuelta a Burgos Feminas, Liv Racing Xstra was down one rider due to illness. Still, the team rode...

SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2022 Giant-sponsored triathlete Gustav Iden erased the disappointment of having to miss the Ironman World Championships in St. George, Utah, by traveling back to Europe and winning “The Championship,” a prestigious middle-distance event held at the x-bionic sphere sports resort in Samorin, Slovakia. Iden had planned on contesting the Ironman event on May 7, but after an untimely illness forced him to withdraw, the Norwegian switched gears and focused on The Championship, a middle-distance race with a €100,000 purse. As a two-time Ironman 70.3 World Champion, the 26-year-old is well-versed in middle-distance races, and as a late...