Monthly Archives: August 2008

Spaniard David de la Fuente of the Scott team won the second stage of the Tour of Germany here on Sunday. The riders best result of the season up until now had been a second place in the fifth stage [...]

It turns out that the early speculation about Dirk Demol's future with Team Astana was correct. The Director for the Quick Step team will be moving over to work with Johan Bruyneel once again. The combination had already proven to [...]

David Zabriskie of the Garmin-Chipotle successfully defended his national time-trial title for the third year in succession and fourth as a professional. The feat is made even more remarkable when condsidering the fact that Zabriskie was laid up with a [...]

High-end bike manufacturer Cervélo has announced it will be creating a new model for equipment development in the form of their TestTeam initiative.  Johan Bruyneel and Lance Armstrong proved the advantage of providing feedback to manufacturers Trek, Giro, and HED by winning [...]

The first stage of the Tour of Ireland was held today under overcast skies. Home favorite and Irish National Champion Daniel Martin of Team Garmin-Chipotle began the day with his own personal battle with a touch of food poisoning. Thankfully [...]

Italian Danilo Di Luca will try to earn a spot on Italy's World Championship team when he takes the start at the Giro del Veneto on Sunday, according to news agency Ansa. Di Luca won the race back iin 2002 [...]

Anders Lund has extended his contract for another year with CSC-Saxo Bank. The young Danish rider has been with Bjarne Riis team since 2007. ”Anders still has great potential and we'd like to keep him around and help him evolve. [...]

Team Columbia has the largest contingent of riders nominated by the German Cycling Federation (BDR) for the World Championships in Varese, Italy. The Worlds are being held from the 23-28th of September. Behind Team Columbia's 7 riders, Team Gerolsteiner has [...]

Tom Boonen of team Quick Step won the 213 kilometer 4th stage of Benelux from Terneuzen (Nl) to Ardooie (Bel). Boonen beat Kevin Van Hummel (Skil-Shimano) and Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Columbia) in a stage that included the Kwaremont, Kluisberg [...]

Italy's Daniele Bennati, of the Liquigas team, sprinted to victory in the third stage of the Tour of Benelux on Saturday, taking the leader's jersey from Spain's Jose Ivan Gutierrez. Bennati crossed the line ahead of Belgians Tom Boonen and [...]

German rider Andre Greipel of Team Columbia won the wet second stage of the Eneco Tour. The German's sprint proved to be too much for CSC's JJ Haedo and  Gerolsteiner's Robert Förster. For the first 50km of the race the [...]

At the start today in Chamborêt 22 riders were still in contention for the overall victory. In the end, Sebastien Hinault from Credit Agricole who kept his yellow jersey and wrote his name into the Tour du Limousin history books. [...]

Austrailian rider Allan Davis will make his debut for team Quick Step on September 3rd, 2008 in the Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen – Aartselaar race. Davis was a vicitim of the Discovery Channel fallout when team management could not find [...]

Tom Boonen has won the first stage of the Eneco Tour in Holland.  The race covered 173.8 km and brought the riders from Beek to Roermond. Boonen's Quick Step train delivered him in the final sprint ahead of Italians Daniele Bennati  of Team Liquigas and [...]

Nicolas Roche, of Credit Agricole, has signed a two-year contract with ProTour outfit AG2R, team manager Vincent Levenu said Wednesday. Roche began his career as a professional with Cofidis before joining Credit Agricole in 2007. He is currenly leading the [...]

Jose Ivan Gutierrez, of the Caisse d'Epargne team, won the prologue of the Tour of Benelux here on Wednesday. The Spanish cyclist, last years winner, is on good form and set the standard with a time of 5:31.09 minutes over [...]