Cervélo TestTeam will be riding in a new kit this summer starting with the upcoming Tour de France 2009 and the Giro d'Italia for Women. The revised jersey and shorts, made by Castelli, are the same as the original black [...]
The Tribunal de Grande Istance in Nanterre, France has declared that the Tribunal does not have jurisdiction to decide whether or not Tom Boonen can ride in the Tour de France.What this means is that Boonen and his Quick-Step team [...]
German cyclist Patrick Sinkewitz, who now rides for the PSK Whirpool team after serving his sentence for doping, has accused his former team Quick-Step of organized doping.In an interview for the German public television show "Frontal 21" aired on ZDF, [...]
Along with their tour roster, Team Columbia announced a new co-sponsor - HTC Communication - to begin at the Grand Depart in Monaco on July 4. HTC Communication is a Taiwanese company that produces mobile phones. "We're looking forward to [...]
The French team BBox-Bouygues Telecom has announced their squad for the 2009 Tour de France. The team will be led by Frenchman Thomas Vöckler, who will looking breakaways to try to pick up stage wins. Vöckler has had a good [...]
The French AG2r La Mondiale team will go into the 2009 Tour de France with Russian Vladimir Efimkin and Frenchman Cyril Dessel as their leaders for the race. Efimkin, 27, won the 9th Stage in last year's edition, and Dessel [...]
If he keeps this up, the Manhattan Beach Grand Prix is going to have to be renamed the “Rahsaan Bahati Grand Prix.” Rock Racing’s star sprinter won the 48th edition of the Chevron Manhattan Beach Grand Prix Sunday for the [...]
The Belgian Quick-Step team has named eight riders for the 2009 Tour de France, while their ninth rider will be determined by a French judge tomorrow. Frenchmen Sylvain Chavanel and Jerome Pineau have both had a an excellent early season, [...]
The Austrian Anti-Doping Agency announced Monday that cyclist Christian Pfannberger's B-sample has come back positive for EPO, confirming the initial test. Pfannberger is no stranger to positive doping tests, having served a two-year ban from 2004-2006 for testosterone use. Since [...]
The Danish Saxo bank team picked up several national championship jerseys over the weekend.In their home race twelve riders lined up in the town of Sønderborg to defend Nicki Sørensen's win from last year. The 196 kilometer course around southern [...]
On the 234.6km course in Aywaille, Belgium Quick-Step's Tom Boonen took his first Belgian road championship title. The big sprinter bested Philippe Gilbert (Silence-Lotto) and Kristof Goddaert (Top Sport Vlaanderen-Mercator) out of a 15-man group.The Quick-Step team worked well together [...]
Maxime Bouet signed with the AG2r La Mondiale team for 2 years. The 22-year-old Frenchman moved to his current team Agritubel in 2008 after riding strong as an amateur. Already with five professional wins to his name, the young rider [...]
Tour de France favorite Alberto Contador won the Spanish national time trial championship today, a 47.8km course between Torrelavega and Cuevas de Altamira.He clocked a time of 1hr 04min 40sec beating Luis Leon Sanchez by 37 seconds and Ruben Plaza [...]
Team Quick-Step's Kevin Van Impe won't be taking the start line in this weekend's Belgian National Championship.The winner of the Dwars door Vlaanderen 2009 is recovering from an injury to the vastus medialis muscle of his left leg, which saw [...]
The Spanish holiday resort “Playitas” which is operated by the travel services company “Apollo” will be a new co-sponsor for Team Saxo Bank with a signed agreement that runs until the end of 2010.The sponsorship means, among other things, that [...]
Belgian team Silence-Lotto will again look to Australian Cadel Evans for the overall win when the Tour de France starts on July 4 in Monaco. Evans will have a strong team to support his bid to win the overall after [...]
Team Type 1 rolled onto the Annapolis, Md., City Dock early Friday morning as champions of the eight-person team division of the Race Across America (RAAM). The athletes on Team Type 1 – all of whom have Type 1 diabetes [...]
Former world cycling champion Zinauda Stagurskaya was killed when she was hit by a car while training near the eastern Belarus city of Vitebsk on Thursday.Police say she was riding behind the car of her trainer, who was able to [...]
