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Young Gun Rider Interview: The Volta a Portugal doesn’t get much recognition outside its home country, but ask anyone who has ridden the Portuguese tour and they will tell you how hard it is and how difficult it is to get a result. Scott McGill not only won two stages, he also brought home the final win in the points classification. Ed Hood caught up with Scott on his return to the US, before he won the Bucks County Classic last weekend.Volta a Portugal stage 6 winThe Volta a Portugal is a race which beyond the national borders doesnt cause much of a stir to cycling pundits and fans. But in Portugal, its huge.Yes, the Volta a Portugal is bigI…

Vuelta Stage Report: Stage 11 was always going to be for the sprinters, but there are not many of them left in the 2022 Vuelta a Espaa. It was BikeExchange-Jayco’s Kaden Groves who was fastest. Nothing changed on the GC, but Remco Evenepoel lost World champion Julian Alaphilippe in a bad crash and ended the stage in an ambulance. The final kilometre of stage 11A perfect lead-out for Kaden GrovesKaden Groves won the bunch sprint of the eleventh stage on Wednesday, ahead of Danny van Poppel and Tim Merlier. After a 191.2 kilometre stage marked by headwinds on the Spanish coast, the Australian from BikeExchange-Jayco was the fastest in Cabo de Gata. Remco Evenepoel’s overall lead was never in danger.The…

Rider Interview: Ed Hood is always keeping an eye open for the new young riders that are on the way up in the sport, but now teams contact Ed with their ‘Young Guns’. The latest is Dillon Corkery from Ireland who is presently riding for the famous CC tupes team in eastern France. Ed had a word.I used to do a lot of them but its been a while since I actually did one; Im referring to interviews with young men who head across the English Channel and in this case, also the Irish Sea, in order to find fame and fortune on the continent. But when CC Etupes Christophe Andre gets in touch from la Belle France to tell…

Rider Interview: An American winning a professional ‘6 Days’ is quite something, but a US team to win the ‘6 Days’ of Moscow is stunning. Ryan Oelkers and Marty Nothstein did just that in 2002. Ed Hood spoke to Ryan about his historic win and his track career.The 2021/22 six day program may be heavily truncated thanks to the pandemic but we thought you might like this piece of race to nowhere, nostalgia from two decades ago. . .Cleveland, Ohio, 1949 and when Charles Bergna and Cecil Yates hoisted their bouquets over their heads little did they know that it would be more than 50 years before another US pairing would do the same thing. It was Bergnas third win…