More bad luck for the reigning World Champion as Lampre-NGC confirm that Alessandro Ballan will be absent from the team's Giro d'Italia line-up next month.Ballan has already missed out on the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix, two of the races [...]
After a rough start to the year, Saxo Bank's Olympic Time-Trial Champion Fabian Cancellara hopes to shake off his bad luck this year with a win in next weekend's Giro d'Italia prologue. The Swiss rider missed much of the early [...]
For 25 years Pro Cycling Tour President Dave Chauner has been bringing a big time bike race to Philidelphia. In fact, what is now a Philidelphia tradition has been in place since before Greg Lemond won the first of his [...]
With the recent revelations that Italian Davide Rebellin along with German Stefan Shumacher have tested positive for CERA at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Giro d'Italia organization has announced that they will be taking further steps to ensure that when [...]
LPR-Brakes Farnese Vini rider Lorenzo Bernucci has been hospitalized after a road accident that happened yesterday morning. The rider was training on the roads in the province of Pistoia, and when riding through the locality of Santoruvo of Quarrata he [...]
Team Barloworld's Daryl Impey, the rider who's controversial crash during the last stage of the Tour of Turkey launched the rider and Rabobank's Theo Bos into the headlines, is looking ahead to his future in the sport. Impey recently arrived [...]
The Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) on Wednesday confirmed that cyclist Davide Rebellin was under investigation for doping due to a positive test returned at last year's Olympics.The 37-year-old, who earlier this month won the prestigious Fleche Wallonne, tested for the [...]
Team Milram is going to the start of the Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop (May1/UCI Category 1.HC) with big ambitions. The traditional one-day race over 190.8 kilometers through the Frankfurt area presents a new name and a slightly changed course. These don't [...]
The OUCH Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis heads to Silver City, New Mexico Wednesday with a strong, deep stage-racing roster to contest the SRAM Tour of the Gila, April 29 – May 3. The squad is headlined by 2007 [...]
Team Type 1’s Darren Lill captured the La Vuelta de Bisbee Sunday in thrilling fashion, overcoming a 30-second deficit on the final stage. Following his third place in Friday night’s prologue, Lill won Saturday morning’s 82-mile (131 km) Sulphur Springs [...]
Kirsten Wild raced to her second victory of the weekend today winning the Grand Prix Stad Roeselare (Belgium). Second place went to Rochelle Gilmore (Lotto) with third place going to Liesbeth de Vocht (DSB). "Today we controlled the entire race," [...]
Ivan Basso has won his first race since returning from a two-year doping suspension on Saturday, winning the Tour of Trentino. The 31-year-old's compatriot Danilo Di Luca won the fourth and final stage, a 214.2 kilometres ride, with Basso finishing [...]
Robert Hunter has given Team Barloworld an important stage victory at the Giro del Trentino . The South African sprinter beat Italy's Stefano Garzelli and Danilo Di Luca at the end of a testing 160km third stage from Tesero to [...]
The French anti-doping agency (AFLD) said Friday that it would not take any disciplinary action against seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong.Last month Armstrong was visited by an AFLD official for an out of competition drug test. The test [...]
Team Quick-Step will be sending a strong contingent to this years Tour of Romandie. They will be looking to gain for for the first Grand Tour of the year, the Giro d'Italia."We will start with a very competitive team," says [...]
Team Lampre-NGC took advantage of the sunny weather to do reonnosicne of the Liege-Bastogne-Liege course.The team started from Stavelot at 10:30, and team leader Damiano Cunego along with his teammates covered more than 80 km of the route. They focused [...]
"We will start with a very competitive team," says the D.s. Luca Guercilena. "The Tour de Romandie represents the last great appointment before the Giro d’Italia. For some riders this race will be the last test to improve the condition [...]
Pampeago’s mountain top finish was full of fireworks as the second stage of the Giro del Trentino unfolded. A place where climbing great Marco Pantani would devastate his competition set the stage for three riders: Przemyslaw Niemec, the stage winner, [...]
