Vini Zabú at the 2020 Giro d'Italia (Photo by Stuart Franklin/Getty Images)The whole of the Vini-Zabù team have been suspended from racing after the squad had two doping positives in the last 12 months.
After a steady march over the last five years British climber Hugh Carthy reached his first Grand Tour podium at the Vuelta a España. Vern Pitt finds out how the 26-year-old got there, conquered the fearsome Alto de l’Angliru and why thin bar tape is a must.ULRICHEN, SWITZERLAND - JUNE 23: Hugh Carthy of United Kingdom and Team EF Education First / Landscape / Snow / during the 83rd Tour of Switzerland, Stage 9 a 101,5km stage from Ulrichen to Ulrichen / TDS / @tds / #tourdesuisse / on June 23, 2019 in Goms, Switzerland. (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images)Hugh Carthy is giving a sermon on pastry. “Sometimes people try and compensate for the filling of a pie by...
Matteo De Bonis amongst the Vini-Zabú line-up for the 100th Brussels Cycling Classic 2020 (Getty Images)Vini Zabu has pulled out of the 2021 Giro d’Italia after their rider tested positive for EPO earlier this year.
Dan Martin during the 2020 Tour de France (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images)Dan Martin will make his return to the Giro d’Italia this year, after he crashed out of the Grand Tour in 2014.