Edwige Pitel, who was not selected for France in their Olympic Games cycling team, said she would be contesting the decision to omit her from August's Beijing event.The French women's team in the road race, announced on Monday, was Christel [...]
Spain's Alejandro Valverde, one of the favourites for next month's Tour de France, has the distinction of a former champion helping him in his leader's role at Caisse d'Epargne, compatriot Oscar Pereiro. Pereiro came second behind Floyd Landis in 2006, [...]
Rock Racing Press Release dated 6/30/2008: Rock Racing Announces Creation of Catastrophic Injury Fund First-Of-Its-Kind Fund To Benefit Professional Cyclists Culver City, Calif. -- Rock Racing today announced the creation of the “Professional Cycling Catastrophic Injury Fund,” a charitable entity [...]
Rather than attempt a war of words with the Amaury Sports Organization, organizers of the Tour de France, team Astana chooses to keep the dialog going with their legs.In just three days team Astana has racked up six national championship [...]
Frenchman Hubert Dupont and Christophe Riblon have taken the final two berths in the AG2R team to contest the Tour de France in July. The team will be headed by Cyril Dessel, who finished seventh in the 2006 tour. AG2R [...]
With names like 'Kamakazi' and 'Real McHoy' competing in the Olympic cycling events, there's no doubt the two-wheeled battle for gold in Beijing will come with colour and entertainment. But once in the saddle, the pleasantries will be put to [...]
Russia's Yuri Trofimov, who won a stage of the Dauphine Libere earlier this month, has been named in the Bouygues Telecom team to contest the Tour de France which starts on Saturday. He comes in for Anthony Geslin in what [...]
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Monday dismissed US cyclist Floyd Landis' appeal to overturn a positive doping test that resulted in the stripping of his 2006 Tour de France title. The CAS upheld an earlier decision by [...]
The Lampre team, which will support 2004 Tour of Italy champion and team leader Damiano Cunego in the Tour de France next month, was announced on Monday.Cunego can count on compatriots Marco Marzano and Paolo Tiralongo in the mountains and [...]
French cycling legend Jeannie Longo on Monday clinched a place to compete in her seventh Olympics at the age of 49.The five-time world champion staked her claim with an outstanding win in both the road race and time-trial at the [...]
Australian rider Cadel Evans of the Silence team has been handed the top bib of number one, traditionally reserved for the winner of previous year's Tour de France or his team, organisers said Monday.Evans, runner-up in the 2007 Tour de [...]
Newly-crowned French cycling champion Nicolas Vogondy will ride for Agritubel at next weekend's Tour de France, alongside last-minute inclusions Freddy Bichot and David Le Lay. "It is a homogenous team with guys who can help Christophe (Moreau) in the mountains, [...]
French outfit Francaise des Jeux on Sunday announced that Philippe Gilbert and Sandy Casar would lead its team, which includes three Tour novices, at this weekend's Tour de France. "The choice was not easy because three-quarters of the guys were [...]
KNOKKE-HEIST, Belgium, June 29, 2008 Belgian Jurgen Roelandts, of the Silence team, was on Sunday crowned Belgium road race champion here, beating Sven Vanthourenhout and Nico Eeckhout in a sprint finish. Grev Van Avermaet took fourth in front of reigning [...]
Filippo Simeoni of the Flaminia-Bossini team has won the Italian road race title in Bergamo. Most famous for his off-the-bike court battle with Lance Armstrong, the 36 year old rider made the decisive break with just four kilometres left in the 254km race and sealed [...]
Alejandro Valverde showed today that he is still on form approaching this years Tour de France by winning Spain's road national championship title. He recently won this years edition of the Dauphiné Libéré, often thought of as a proving ground for would be Tour [...]
Lars Boom, of the Rabobank team, was on Sunday crowned Dutch road race champion after finishing two seconds ahead of teammate Koos Moerenhout and Steven de Jongh here. Boom, 22, of the Netherlands, is the reigning world cyclo-cross champion.Marianne Vos, [...]
Fabian Wegmann of team Gerolsteiner successfully defended his German national road race title coming in just two seconds ahead of team Milram's veteran Erik Zabel. Evergreen Zabel has been the German national champion twice in his career, 1998 and 2003, and now Wegmann [...]