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26/05/2019

Giro d’Italia. Dario Cataldo takes heroic victory on stage 15

The Astana rider Dario Cataldo took a heroic victory today on the streets of Como at stage 15 of the Giro d’Italia. After a few days of illness, today Cataldo was able to move himself in a breakaway together with the Italian rider Mattia Cattaneo. Spending all day long in the leading group, at the finish line in Como Dario outsprinted his breakaway companion, taking the most important win in his professional career.

Giro d'Italia

25/05/2019

Giro d’Italia. Stage 14. Miguel Angel Lopez is 6th in Courmayeur

After yesterday’s bad luck, today the Astana leader Miguel Angel Lopez has spent a much better day, finishing 6th in Courmayeur after 5 categorized climbs and a distance of 131 km.

Giro d'Italia

24/05/2019

Giro d’Italia. Stage 13. Bad luck for Miguel Angel Lopez on first summit finish

Because of a mechanical problem at the final part of the last climb to Lago Serrù in Ceresole Reale (with 12 km to go), Astana’s Miguel Angel Lopez was forced to stop to change the bike, losing around 40-50 seconds. Supported by Ion Izagirre, he tried his best to come back in the GC contenders group, with 3 km to go he was almost there, but, finally, he lost around of 1 minute 20 seconds to the riders like Primož Roglič and Vincenzo Nibali.

Giro d'Italia

23/05/2019

Giro d’Italia. Stage 12. Astana on attack in first mountain stage

After a half of the race has been done already, the Giro d’Italia, finally, reached the real mountains. And, immediately, it was the Kazakh team Astana, who attacked to put all rivals under the pressure.

Giro d'Italia

22/05/2019

Giro d’Italia. Stage 11. Last sprint before mountains

A very long stage 11 (221 km), started from Carpi, ended with another bunch sprint on the streets of Novi Ligure. This time it was the Australian Caleb Ewan, who outsprinted Arnaud Demare and Pascal Ackermann.