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.
Stage One of the 2012 Circuit Cycliste Sarthe—Pays de la Loire, 192.8 km from Saint Gilles Croix de Vie to Riaille, ended in a bunch sprint after the last surviving escapee, Katusha’s Mikhail Ignatyev, was caught in the final few hundred meters.