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Groenewegen, almost on home soil

Before even the first pedal strokes, the third edition of the Saudi Tour started with a bang on the eve of the first stage. Fire dancers, over 600 drones in the sky, 16 teams gathered on five different stages, a mapping show on the magnificent Elephant Rock: the opening ceremony was bigger, greater and ever more spectacular than ever. Never had a team presentation been so impressive,...

Saudi Tour: info with one day to go

Hard at work among the beauties of AlUla since Saturday, the 16 teams entered for the third edition of the Saudi Tour (January 30-February 3) are ready and the Colombian Santiago Buitrago, second last year, is the hot favorite for the general classification in spite of the threat of the Portuguese Ruben Guerreiro.
Stage 1 ending in Khaybar, an exceptional UNESCO World Heritage...

The new El Dorado

Before winning the first two editions of the Saudi Tour, Phil Bauhaus (2020) and Maxim Van Gils (2022) did not yet have an overall stage race victory to their credit. AlUla Saudi Arabia is a new El Dorado for cycling, where dreams of greatness take shape.  

The other sensation of the 2022 edition, the Colombian Santiago Buitrago, kept a feeling of unfinished business....

IN GEOLOGICAL WONDERLAND

For the second year running, the Saudi Tour, of which this is the third edition after a successful launch in 2020, is concentrated in the region of AlUla, an increasingly popular tourist destination in Saudi Arabia strongly linked to cycling. In 2022, the peloton rode through Hegra – the first place in Saudi Arabia designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site (in 2008)...