Swiss cyclist Michael Albasini is out of the Olympic Games after injuring himself in fall while he was out training on Tuesday. I was decided that Albasini will be returning home to Switzerland after an examination in the Olympic Village clinic [...]
Track cycling star Guo Shuang doesn't get much rest. But with Olympic gold on her and China's mind, the punishing hours spent on the track and in the weight room could finally be worth it. Guo is a specialist in [...]
Australian cyclist Michael Rogers is looking forward to putting his skills back on the international stage after what has proved to be a trying year for the Columbia Team pro. Rogers crashed out of the Tour de France last year [...]
As the sport of cycling continues to crack down on doping in the sport, Team CSF Group Navigare rider Emanuele Sella looks to be the latest bounty in the UCI's strategy to target suspect riders. Sella was in the news [...]
Reuters reported today that some members of the U.S. cycling team arrive wearing anti-pollution masks. "I don't believe there was any statement trying to be made", said Andrea Smith, spokeswoman for USA cycling told the news agency.A US Olympic team [...]
The thought of putting his impressive endurance skills to the test on the world's biggest stage is just another day's work for Bradley Wiggins. Britain's reigning individual pursuit champion, who at the Olympics will also bid for gold in the [...]
Racing in hot, humid conditions which could be made worse by pollution levels is not the only thing worrying Spain's big favourite for the Olympic cycling road race this Saturday. Alejandro Valverde comes into the 248.5km race - said to [...]
US rider Chris Horner's team announced Tuesday that he has pulled out of the Tour of Spain later this month after breaking his collarbone. The 36-year-old Astana rider was injured while competing at the Tour of Elk Grove that takes [...]
Top cyclist Vladimir Gusev has been omitted from the Russian Olympic squad by his country's federation following his recent sacking from the professional road team Astana. Kazakhstan-backed Astana sacked Gusev last week after their internal doping controls, run by Dr [...]
Italian cyclist Alessandro Petacchi, suspended until the end of August for doping, will make his return to competition in the Tour of Brtiain from September 7-14, according to reports here on Tuesday. The 34-year-old has been listed among the riders [...]
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Thomas Dekker of Rabobank won the 29th edition of the Draai van de Kaai. The Dutchman rode away from a group containing Italian Danilo di Luca, and Austrian Bernhard Kohl this years Tour de France King of the Mountains winner. [...]
Tour de France runner-up Cadel Evans has won his battle against injury and will take his place at the Olympics, Australian Olympic officials said Monday. The 31-year-old Australian star slipped on a wet floor last week in the aftermath of [...]
A ten-year work in progress will be expected to come to fruition in glorious fashion next week when Great Britain's team of track cycling stars prepare to burn up the boards of the Laoshan velodrome. A total of 54 medals [...]
Portuguese cyclist Sergio Paulinho, a silver medallist at the 2004 Athens Games, on Monday pulled out of the road race at the Beijing Olympics because of health problems. "Sergio won't be leaving for Beijing because of his health," Portuguese cycling [...]
Team Rabobank is going to appeal the decision made against them in July by the Dutch courts. In the decision the Dutch cycling team was ordered to pay Rasmussen damages of 700,000 euros. Rabobank disagrees with the court decision claiming [...]
"We have the responsibility once again to to give a medal to Italy." Strong words from an AP interview with reigning Olympic and World Champion Paolo Bettini. While he's not content with his performance yesterday at Clásica San Sebastian, he's [...]
According to professor Ronald M. Evans, PhD, of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in La Jolla, California, it may be possible to make a pill that reproduces the endurance-boosting effects of exercise, as [...]
