Joaquim Rodriguez

ARRATE, Spain— Joaquim Rodriguez made it back-to-back wins by claiming the fourth stage of the Tour of Basque Country on a downhill sprint on Thursday, while Sergio Henao of Colombia kept the leader’s jersey.Henao crossed in a small group right behin...

Katusha’s Joaquim Rodriguez showed his climbing strength on the torturous double uphill finish of Stage 10 of the Giro d’Italia, attacking in the final few hundred meters to take both the stage win and the leader’s pink jersey.

Joaquim Rodriguez of Katusha, fresh off two stage wins in the tour of the Basque Country, added another victory to the list with a win up the super-steep Mur de Huy in the 2012 Flèche-Wallonne cycling race.

Katusha’s Joaquin Rodriguez launched an attack in the final kilometer of the hilly Stage Six of the Tirreno-Adriatico cycling race.