Team Omega Pharma-QuickStep's time trial world champion Tony Martin (Germany) earlier today powered to victory in the final stage of the 2013 Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco (Tour of the Basque Country) - a 24 kilometer individual time trial. Movistar's Nairo Quintana surprisingly took the overall race victory.

World Champion Tony Martin time trials to victory in final stage of 2013 Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco (2013 Tour of Basque Country) for Omega Pharma-QuickStep; Nairo Quintana Rojas takes overall race victory for Team Movistar.

Earlier this afternoon Team Omega Pharma-Quick Step's overall race leader Gianni Meersman succeeded at sprinting to stage victory for the second day in a row in this year's Volta Ciclista a Catalunya.

Gianni Meersman powers to repeat stage victory for Team Omega Pharma-QuickStep in Volta Ciclista a Catalunya 2013 and increases overall race lead.

Team Omega Pharma-Quick-Step's Gianni Meersman proved to be the strongest rider of a group of star riders which escaped from the main peloton group on the descent of Alt de Collsacreau within a distance of 25 kilometers from the finish line.

Team Omega Pharma-Quick Step's Gianni Meersman sprints to stage 1 victory in Volta Ciclista a Catalunya 2013 and takes overall race lead ahead of Astana's Valerio Agnoli and Alejandro Valverde of Team Movistar.

This year's edition of the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race concluded earlier today with a 9.2 kilometer individual time trial in the streets of the town of San Benedetto del Tronto on the Italian east coast next to the Adriatic sea.

World Champion Tony Martin (Germany) climbs to time trial victory in final stage of Tirreno-Adriatico 2013; Vincenzo Nibali takes overall Tirreno-Adriatico victory ahead of Christopher Froome and Alberto Contador.

Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) has won the third Paris-Nice stage of his career and the second that ended in Nice. Uncharacteristically, he took the stage in a bunch sprint.

Sylvain Chavanel sprints to stage 6 victory in 2013 Paris-Nice; Team Sky ProCycling's Richie Porte keeps overall Paris-Nice lead before tomorrow's final stage - a mountain time trial.