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French rider Loana Lecomte (Canyon CLLCTV) overcame a crash and puncture to win the final UCI MTB World Cup XCO race of 2023 in Mont Sainte Anne, Canada, 15sec ahead of Jenny Rissveds. Puck Pieterse (Alpecin-Deceuninck) finished third, 1:03 back, cinching the World Cup series title ahead of Lecomte.

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World champion Tom Pidcock (Ineos) took the final UCI MTB XCO World Cup race of 2023 in Mont Sainte Anne, Canada, winning 26sec ahead of Mathias Fluckiger (Thömus maxon), who overcame two flat tires. Swiss star Nino Schurter (Scott-SRAM) clinched the World Cup series title, the ninth of his career.

Austrian Valentina Höll and Canadian Jackson Goldstone took victories at the final UCI MTB Downhill World Cup event of 2023, held in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada. Höll, the World Cup series winner, beat German Nina Hoffmann by over 13sec while Goldstone beat men's series champ Loïc Bruni by 5.758sec.

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Slovenian Matej Mohorič (Bahrain Victorious) soloed to victory at the UCI Gravel World Championship in Veneto, Italy, 42sec ahead of Belgian Florian Vermeersch (Lotto–Dstny) and 3:39 ahead of British rider Connor Swift (Ineos). Alejandro Valverde and Keegan Swenson finished fourth and fifth.

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Polish rider Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) won the UCI Gravel World Championship, going solo for almost 50km to win her first gravel race by 33sec ahead of Italian Silvia Persico (UAE ADQ) and Dutch pro Demi Vollering (SD Worx). It is the first rainbow jersey of Niewiadoma's career.

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Cycling @cycling.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

American Riley Sheehan, a 23yr old stagiaire with Israel-Premier Tech, took a surprise victory at Paris-Tours, out-sprinting his three breakaway companions. British rider Lewis Askey (Groupama-FDJ) and Norwegian Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X) rounded out the podium.

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Slovenian star Tadej Pogacar (UAE) soloed to victory at Lombardia, 51sec ahead of Andrea Bagioli (Soudal-Quick Step) and Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma). It was Pogacar's third consecutive win at Lombardia, and he becomes only the third rider to win Ronde van Vlaanderen and Lombardia in the same season.

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Cycling @cycling.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Belgian media outlet Sporza reports that the rumored merger between Jumbo-Visma and Soudal-Quick Step will not happen; team owners Patrick Lefevere and Zdenek Bakala will continue together until 2025. Also: "It is not yet clear what this means for Remco Evenepoel." sporza.be/nl/2023/10/0...

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Toch geen fusie? Huwelijk Soudal-Quick Step en Jumbo-Visma lijkt van de baan: Bakala en Lefevere gaa...

Er lijkt een einde gekomen aan de fusiesoap tussen Jumbo-Visma en Soudal-Quick Step. Vanuit Nederland komt overgewaaid dat de fusie niet doorgaat. Patrick Lefevere en geldschieter Zdenek Bakala zouden...

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Cycling @cycling.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

BORA-hansgrohe confirms that Slovenian Primoz Roglic — four-time Grand Tour winner and 2021 Olympic time-trial champion — will join the team in 2024. It will be Roglic's first change in teams at WorldTour level since he turned professional with LottoNL-Jumbo in 2016.

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Cycling @cycling.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

For the second time in three days, a Soudal Quick-Step rider has won an Italian semi-classic: This time it was Andrea Bagioli winning Gran Piemonte on home soil from a four-man sprint ahead of Marc Hirschi (Team ), with Alex Aranburu (Movistar) in third ahead of Guillaume Martin (Cofidis).

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Cycling @cycling.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Among the stars of men's cycling competing at this weekend's UCI Gravel World Championship in Treviso, Italy: Wout Van Aert, Alejandro Valverde, Matej Mohorič, Jan Bakelants, Sacha Modolo, Laurens Ten Dam, Nathan Haas, Nicholas Roche, Petr Vakoc, and 2022 Gravel World Champion Gianni Vermeersch.

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Cycling @cycling.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Among the stars of women's cycling competing at this weekend's UCI Gravel World Championship in Treviso, Italy: European gravel champion Lorena Wiebes, 2022 world gravel champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, UCI Women's WorldTour leader Demi Vollering, and Tour de France podium finisher Kasia Niewiadoma

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Cycling @cycling.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

It's official: Mark Cavendish, 38, will delay his retirement for one more season, remaining with the Astana Qazaqstan managed by Alexandr Vinokurov. Cavendish will be supported by two new signings for Astana — his former lead-out man, Michael Mørkøv, as well as former trainer, Vasilis Anastopoulos.

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In his winner's interview, Belgian Ilan Van Wilder spoke against rumored merger of Soudal-Quick Step with Jumbo-Visma: "This victory is for my teammates and our staff, to show we don't agree with all this shit. We want to continue Soudal-Quick Step. We are strong enough. I hope it will be like this"

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German national champion Liane Lippert (Movistar) soloed to victory at Tre Valli Varesine, 13sec ahead of Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-Suez) and 23sec ahead of Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek).

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In what may prove to be the final major victory for the Soudal-Quick Step program, Belgian Ilan Van Wilder soloed to victory at Tre Valli Varesine, 16sec ahead of Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) and 18sec ahead of Aleksandr Vlasov (BORA-hansgrohe).

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Cycling @cycling.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

WielerFlits reports that Slovenian Primoz Roglic will sign with BORA-hansgrohe for 2024-25, with a focus on trying to win the Tour de France. Jumbo-Visma is reportedly asking for payment of 3M euros to terminate Roglic's contract, while Roglic is asking for an annual salary of 5.5M euros.

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Former world champion Jordan Sarrou (BMC) out-sprinted another former world champion, Nino Schurter (Scott-SRAM), to take the men's XCO World Cup win in Snowshoe, West Virginia. Schurter leads the series with one event remaining in Mont Sainte Anne, Canada, this coming weekend.

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Cycling @cycling.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

At the UCI MTB World Cup at Snowshoe, West Virginia, Austrian Laura Stigger (Specialized) took her first XCO World Cup victory, 23sec ahead of France's Loana Lecomte (Canyon CLLCTV). Italian Martina Berta (Santa Cruz RockShox) finished third. Stigger was junior world champion in XCO and road racing.

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Cycling @cycling.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Two days after teammate Primoz Roglic won Giro dell'Emilia in San Luca, Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) won the 186km Coppa Bernocchi in Legnano, out-sprinting Vincenzo Albanese (EOLO-Kometa) and Andrea Bagioli (Soudal-Quick Step). It was Van Aert's fifth victory of the season.

Cycling @cycling.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-Suez) soloed to victory at Giro dell'Emilia, 5sec ahead of teammate Marta Cavalli. Juliette Labous (dsm-firmenich) rounded out the podium, 16sec behind Ludwig.

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Cycling @cycling.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Just hours after confirming that he will leave Jumbo-Visma at season's end, Primoz Roglic sprinted ahead of a handful of pre-race favorites to take a third career win at Giro dell'Emilia, 1sec ahead of Tadej Pogacar (UAE) and Simon Yates (Jayco-Alula).

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Cycling @cycling.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Jumbo-Visma, winners of all three Grand Tours in 2023, is making headlines with news that the team will merge with Soudal-Quick Step — prompting Primoz Roglic to seek a new team with either Lidl-Trek, Ineos Grenadiers, or Movistar — as well as news of addition of Amazon to the team's sponsor list

Cycling @cycling.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

France's Christophe Laporte took the European road championship just ahead of hard-charging Jumbo-Visma teammate Wout van Aert (Belgium), with anther Jumbo-Visma rider, Olav Kooij (Netherlands) completing the podium.

Cycling @cycling.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

At the Paris 2024 MTB Test Event, French riders Victor Koretzky and Loana Lecomte each took victories. Koretzky out-sprinted Anton Cooper (NZL), while Nino Schurter (SUI) came in third. Lecomte soloed to the win ahead of Laura Stigger (AUT), with Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (FRA) in third.

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Cycling @cycling.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

It was an SD Worx sweep at the European road championship as 23yr old Dutch rider Mischa Bredewold soloed for 10km to win 4sec ahead of trade-teammates Lorena Wiebes (Netherlands) and Lotte Kopecky (Belgium). "I can't believe it," Bredewold said. "It feels unreal that I took the European title."