Rabobank cyclist Oscar Freire will make his return to the peloton next week in the Tour of the Basque Country. Freire has been out of competition since the Tour of California in February where he was invovled in a crash [...]
Team Katusha's Filippo Pozzato has scored a win for the second time in four days by taking the first stage of the Driedaagse De Panne ahead of breakaway companion Frederik Willems from Liquigas. Before winning the E3-Prijs this past Saturday [...]
Alessandro Petacchi can add another leader's jersey to his collection as his LPR Brakes-Farnese Vini team won the opening team time-trial in the Settimana Ciclista Lombarda.Petacchi has shown he is on good form with three wins to his name this [...]
Rudy Pevenage has been at the heart of the doping contraversy in cycling since the Operación Puerto scandal broke three years ago. Pevanage best known for his role as mentour for cycling great Jan Ulrich, has never said that his [...]
Team Saxo Bank's Olympic time trial champion Fabian Cancellara has decided he will take the start in this Sunday's Tour of Flanders. The twenty-eight year-old former Paris-Roubaix winner has been inactive for several weeks, his problems starting with sickness just [...]
Team Columbia-Highroad dominated the final time trial stage at the Criterium International two-day race in France, just missing out on overall victory.Tony Martin won the 8.3km time trial with a perfect ride. The talented German rider set a time of [...]
Finishing the weekend with his biggest win since taking the overall at the 2008 Tour of Utah, BMC's Jeff Louder unequivocally proclaimed the victory as being impossible without the team support he enjoyed throughout the weekend. The Sunset Road Race [...]
Française des Jeux rider Anthony Geslin overtook a fading Fabian Wegmann from Team Milram to cross the finish line first in the Brabantse Pijl Sunday, giving the Frenchman the biggest win of his career.With most of the big name riders [...]
Team Saxo Bank's German Jens Voigt has previously won the French stage race four times after a shorter time trial on the last stage. In 2008 Team Saxo Bank conquered the two first steps of the podium with Jens Voigt [...]
Team Katusha's Filippo Pozzato today won the E3-Prijs in a 3-up sprint against Quick-Step's Tom Boonen and Astana's Maxim Iglinsky ending a period of more than a year without a win for the Italian. "I feel sorry for Tom Boonen, [...]
British Cycling has confirmed today that it is to host the first round of the 2009/2010 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics at the Manchester Velodrome from 30 October to 1 November.The event will be the first major international event [...]
With a strong performance in the rain and wind, Quick-Step rider Kevin Van Impe manged the biggest win of his career today in the Dwars door Vlaanderen beating Niko Eeckhout in a sprint with teammate Tom Boonen coming in third."This [...]
After a long search, German Sprinter Danilo Hondo has signed a 1-year contract with the Czech team PSK Whirlpool. Last year he rode for PVC Serramenti, but they did not renew his contract for 2009.This means Hondo will be riding [...]
Team Barloworld has been extremely focused for the first half of the season, as is the case for all non-ProTour teams that must earn wildcard entries to ride in cycling's biggest races.The determination of the South African team had already [...]
The big teams will look to the Dwars Door Vlaanderen this week to continue their buildup for the cobbled classics in April. This past weekend in Milan-Sanremo pre-race favorite Tom Boonen's finish was mired in cramps and miscommunication as Columbia [...]
American cycling legend Lance Armstrong suffered a broken collarbone during an event in Spain on Monday, an injury that threatens to disrupt his bid to win a record eighth Tour de France title this summer. The 37-year-old fell along with [...]
With the cobbled classics classics on the horizon, not much has changed with respect the the UCIs World Rankings.Team Quick-Step has maintained it's lead with a series of strong showings in the Semi-Classic Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne and this weekend's Milan-Sanremo.Currently in the [...]
Columbia-Highroad’s Linda Villumsen used her climbing skills to outpower Lithuanian Modesta Vzesniauskaite in the hilly GP Costa Etrusca on Sunday - for her first victory of 2009.“I’m really pleased for Linda,” commented sports director Ronny Lauke, “she’s always sacrificing her [...]
