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Here is what is making the headlines this week …
Monday, April 7, 2025
- Longo Borghini out of the hospital after Flanders concussion
- Degenkolb out of Roubaix with multiple fractures
- Stinner Frameworks expands to offer domestic OEM frame production
- Winner's Circle: Schachmann takes Itzulia TT by a razor-thin margin
Longo Borghini out of the hospital after Flanders concussion
A bad crash ended Elisa Longo Borghini's attempt to defend her title at the Tour of Flanders on Sunday and left her with a concussion. On Monday, her UAE Team ADQ provided an update on her condition, saying that the 33-year-old Italian "has been discharged from the hospital."
"She's stable and will take a few days of rest before gradually returning to training," the team wrote on social media.
That timeline would seem to make a return in time for the Ardennes Classics questionable at best; Longo Borghini would have about two weeks to recover before the Amstel Gold Race, with La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège the following week.
Degenkolb out of Roubaix with multiple fractures
In other Flanders crash news, John Degenkolb (Picnic-PostNL) broke his collarbone, an elbow, and a wrist in his crash at the Tour of Flanders. The former Paris-Roubaix winner will thus miss Paris-Roubaix on Sunday.
"He will undergo surgery on his wrist, before a period of recovery," team doctor Camiel Aldershof said in a team statement. "Timelines can often change but we expect him to be out of competition for two months."
Stinner Frameworks expands to offer domestic OEM frame production
California-based bike builder Stinner Frameworks has announced the launch of Stinner Manufacturing, aimed at supplying OEM bike production to other brands. Based at its existing facility in Santa Barbara, the company said it can currently make 3,000 complete bikes annually, with room to scale production.
The move comes as supply chain disruption and shifting tariff structures are expected to affect the global bike industry. Stinner has built custom and stock bikes in the US for over a decade and said it has utilized automation and lean manufacturing techniques to close the cost gap with overseas production.
Several brands are already working with Stinner, including Zink Bikes, Sklar Bikes, Rouge Fitness, and Old Man Mountain Racks. [Stinner]
Winner's Circle: Schachmann takes Itzulia TT by a razor-thin margin
Maximilian Schachmann (Soudal-QuickStep) won a hotly contested opening time trial of the Itzulia Basque Country on Monday, narrowly besting João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) in Vitoria-Gasteiz.
The 31-year-old German covered the 16.5 km against the clock in 18:37, and Almeida was just 0.54 seconds off his mark, with Lipowitz 0.76 seconds slower. The other big news from the time trial was that Maxim Van Gils (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) took a wrong turn at one point, following a diversion intended for cars, and thus lost several seconds shortly before the finish.
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