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Team Sky special edition jersey revealed for 2018 Tour de France

  Sky Ocean Rescue Tour De France kit revealed Team Sky and Castelli join the Sky Ocean Rescue journey by unveiling a striking new kit design for the upcoming Tour de France. The new kit will act as a catalyst to drive awareness for Team Sky leading the way in inspiring people to make simple, everyday changes to stop our oceans drowning in plastic.   The kit, will be showcased at the Tour de France (July 7th–29th), where Team Sky riders will wear a bespoke version jersey at the Team presentation, that has been exclusively developed from plastic material that has been redeemed from our Oceans. The special-edition kit, which features an orca on the back of the jersey, aims to drive awareness and understanding of Sky Ocean Rescue (SOR) to the cycling community and beyond, as well as ensuring Team Sky stands out in the peloton.     With 8 million tons of plastic entering the ocean every year, Sky has committed itself to eliminating single-use plastic from its business. And is using its considerable visibility to draw attention to this growing environmental disaster. By simply eliminating packaging in the supply to Team Sky’s Tour de France team we will ...

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Giro d’Italia, Stage 21 in Pictures

Chris Froome coasted home to the finish line in central Rome on Sunday lined across the road with his teammates as they celebrated his and Team Sky’s first ever Giro d’Italia victory. The Briton became only the third man to hold all three Grand Tour titles at the same time and the seventh man in history to complete a full house of Grand Tour victories, a Giro win to sit alongside his 2017 Vuelta a España and Tour de France successes. We have gathered some of the best shots by CyclingImages and GettyImages to soak up the atmosphere. Enjoy !!

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2018 Giro d’Italia, Stage 14 Preview

The 14th stage of the Giro d’Italia is arguably the toughest this year. The route takes in four categorized climbs with double-digit gradients before the steep monster finale up Monte Zoncolan. The route climbs up Monte di Ragogna, with gradients consistently over 10 percent for the first 2.5 kilometers and ramps topping out at 16 percent. The steepest stretches on the Avaglio get close to 15 percent. Passo Duron starts out at 18 percent; the climb is short, at 4.4 kilometers, but steep. The route drops down into Sutrio and takes in the Sella Valcalda, the easiest climb of the day, before the horrifying closing climb up the Zoncolan begins.   Monte Zoncolan is regarded as the hardest climb in Europe: a steep, winding climb with a nearly 12 percent average gradient and pitches that hit 22 percent over 10.1 kilometers. The climb features 4 grueling kilometers with an average gradient of 15.4 percent. There are three short tunnels along the route in the last kilometer, leading to the final 500 meters with an average 11 percent gradient and pitches reaching 16 percent by the hairpin located 250 meters before the finish. Do you want to know more about Monte ...

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Zoncolan Recon With Ryder Hesjedal + Everything you need to know about this epic climb

TAKING ON THE FEARED ZONCOLAN WITH RYDER HESJEDAL   Join me as I climb one of the toughest ascents in pro cycling with 2012 Giro d’Italia winner Ryder Hesjedal. I had planned to tackle this epic climb one day myself, but after running into Ryder at the Castelli HQ, after he got back from the Giro d’Italia start in Israel, we decided to ride this monster climb together – it would be the second time for Ryder and the first time for me.   Epic is the only word to describe the ride up Monte Zoncolan. “The climb is so hard that every rider is locked in a personal fight against gravity rather than their rivals,” says Ryder. It takes such an effort to accelerate that the wise idea is to measure your effort rather than make a show on the steep pitches. It’s a relentless ramp where even the best climbers ascend at 7 or 8 kilometers an hour. It’s for sure the toughest climb I’ve ever ridden, and it has raised my admiration for the pros who race up the Zoncolan, Mortirolo and Colle delle Finestre.  When climbing into the village of Liariis, where the road flattens out, ...

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The Giro leaders’ jerseys: A touch of color in the peloton.

All the riders who line up at the start of the Giro d’Italia dream of it, but they’re not the only ones. Every bike racer, from an early age, imagines wearing that color when fantasizing about his moment of glory on two wheels. It’s the pink jersey, the symbol of supremacy, worn for three weeks by the rider who at that moment leads the general classification. In the more than hundred-year history of the Giro, the most sought-after jersey made its appearance for the first time in 1931, when the patron of the race, Armando Cougnet, chose it to make the most deserving rider stand out in the peloton and, at the same time, to pay homage to the color of the pages of the Gazzetta dello Sport, the best-selling newspaper in Italy, which created the Giro back in 1909. The first to pull on the pink jersey, at the finish in Mantua, was Learco Guerra, on May 10, 1931. The “Human Locomotive,” as the Lombard champion was called, did not manage to keep it until Milan, though, and the first to win pink for the final victory was the Piedmontese rider Francesco Camusso, winner of the edition 87 years ...

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