Lease a Bike has not yet been able to shake off the injury curse in 2024. The Dutch team suffered three setbacks in two days ...

Olav Kooij has secured his first victory in a Grand Tour. The 22-year-old Dutchman was the fastest sprinter in the mass sprint of the ninth stage of the Giro d'Italia. A victory the young talent ...

After a long and slow day of racing at the Giro d’Italia, the finale of stage nine was fast and frenetic, as late attacks from the likes of Julian Alaphilippe and Jhonatan Narváez animated the ...

NAPLES, Italy — Dutch cyclist Olav Kooij won a bunch sprint for a stage victory on his grand tour debut while Tadej Pogacar maintained his considerable lead after the ninth stage of the Giro d ...

Olav Kooij (Visma-Lease a Bike) broke the heart of Jhonatan Narváez (Ineos Grenadiers) in the finale 150 metres of stage 9 at the Giro d’Italia, producing a stunning sprint to both catch the ...

Kooij, who rides for Visma-Lease a Bike, edged Jonathan Milan by half a wheel at the end of the 214-kilometer (133-mile) route from Avezzano to Napoli – the second longest day of this Giro. Juan ...

To describe Olav Kooij’s Giro d’Italia bunch sprint victory at Naples as ‘hard fought’ would surely be something of an understatement, with the Visma-Lease A Bike fastman taking a narrow ...

Dutch sprinter Olav Kooij won a mass sprint in Naples to take stage nine of the Giro d'Italia on Sunday after a languorous 214km run from the Apennines. With the Vesuvius volcano in the background ...

NAPLES, Italy (AP) — Dutch cyclist Olav Kooij won a bunch sprint for a stage victory on his grand tour debut while Tadej Pogacar maintained his considerable lead after the ninth stage of the ...