What a day it was yesterday for the Belgian and Irish cycling pros!! Remco Evenepoel's (Quickstep) domination in the Vuelta, his countryman Jordi Meeus (BORA-Hansgrohe) wins stage 5 in the Tour of Britain, Matthew Teggart (Wiv-Sungod) again in the break, and strengthens his lead in the sprint GC, he has won now, as the rest of the stages are cancelled due to the death of Queen Elisabeth 2! Megan Armitage 4th in stage and GC in the "Tour Cycliste Feminin International L'Ardeche" in France!! (Thur 8th Sept)

Megan Armitage does brilliantly in the South of France…her teammate Loes Adegeest (NL) leads the race!!

Stage 3 result 103km
1st. ADEGEEST Loes (NED) IBC 2h33’35”
2nd BAUERNFEIND Ricarda (GER) CSG @ s/t
3rd LANGLEY Emma (USA) USA @ s/t
4th ARMITAGE Megan (IRL) IBC @ 03”
5th ZANARDI Silvia (ITA) BPK @ 31”
General Classification after stage 3
1st. ADEGEEST Loes (NED) IBC 8h33’29”
2nd. BAUERNFEIND Ricarda (GER) CSG @ 03”
3rd. LANGLEY Emma (USA) USA @ s/t
4th. ARMITAGE Megan (IRL) IBC @16”
5th. BOILARD Simone (CAN) AUB @ 29”

**The photo was taken from Megan’s social media page**

The remainder of the BJBell Tour of Britain is cancelled due to the passing of the Queen yesterday

**WELL DONE MATT, RORY, AND TEAM…YOU HAVE GIVEN US SOME JOY WATCHING THE RACE!! Full results on https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-of-britain/2022/stage-5**

**BEING IN THE SHOPWINDOW WITH MASSIVE TV COVERAGE AND INTERVIEWS…and still will have to watch the World Champs on TV as no team gets sent !!! The mind boggles CI**

**Jordi Meeus (Borah) winning Stage 5 (Final stage) in Freddy Maertens style!!**

Final GC (top 5 +Irish)
1st. Gonzalo SERRANO RODRIGUEZ [ESP] Movistar Team 20:53:01
2nd. Thomas PIDCOCK [GBR] INEOS Grenadiers +00:00:03
3rd. Omar FRAILE MATARRANZ [ESP] INEOS Grenadiers +00:00:07
4th. Benjamin PERRY [CAN] Wiv SunGod +00:00:07
5th. Dylan TEUNS [BEL] Israel – Premier Tech +00:00:10
81st. Matthew Teggart(IRL) Wiv SunGod + 00:34:58
88th. Rory TOWNSEND [IRL] Wiv SunGod +00:38:24
Sport Break Sprint Jersey (Top 5)
1st. Matthew TEGGART [IRL] Wiv SunGod 24 pts
2nd. Benjamin PERRY [CAN] Wiv SunGod 8pts
3rd. Mathijs PAASSCHENS [NED] Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB 8pts
4th. Travis STEDMAN [RSA] Team Qhubeka 6pts
5th. Gonzalo SERRANO RODRIGUEZ [ESP] Movistar Team 5ts
Skoda King of the Mountain Jersey (top 5)
1st. Mathijs PAASSCHENS [NED] Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB 29 pts
2nd. Jacob SCOTT [GBR] Wiv SunGod 28 pts.
3rd. Thomas PIDCOCK [GBR] INEOS Grenadiers 25pts
4th. Matthew TEGGART [IRL] Wiv SunGod 22pts
5th. Stephen BASSETT [USA] Human Powered Health 21pts

The 2022 Vuelta (Tour of Spain-World Tour) is in the grabs of Remco Evenepoel, if he can keep Enric mas at bay, he would be the first Belgian to win a Grand Tour since 1978!! Johan Demuynck was the last one in the Giro Italy, it’s now 44 years since the man from Sleidinge in East Flanders won the 1978 Giro d’Italia ahead of ‘Gibi’ Baronchelli, Francesco Moser, Wladimiro Panizza, and Giuseppe Saronni – four of the biggest names in Italian cycling of that era.

**Remco winning stage 18 in such grand way, with taking the bull by the horns..what a “KOEREUR”**

GC after stage 18
1st. Remco Evenepoel QST 69:59:12
2nd. Enric Mas MOV +2:07
3rd. Juan Ayuso UAD +5:14
4th. Miguel Ángel López AST +5:56
5th. Carlos Rodríguez IGD +6:49
6th. João Almeida UAD +7:14
7th. Thymen Arensman DSM +8:09
8th. Ben O’Connor ACT +9:34
9th. Rigoberto Urán EFE +9:56
10th. Jai Hindley BOH +12:03
128th. Ryan Mullen BOH +4:29:21