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 [...]
In an interview with BBC Sport, Great Britain's cycling coach Shane Sutton says he is expecting four leading Brit's to join Team Sky.Team Sky, sponsored by media organization BSkyB, is set to launch for 2010 and intends to create a [...]
Next Tuesday June 30th the judge will decide whether the Amaury Sports Organization (ASO) can keep Belgian Tom Boonen out of this year's Tour de France. Boonen was caught with cocaine in his system during an out of competition doping [...]
Astana has revealed the remaining riders for their Tour de France roster in July. Notably off the list is Benjamin Noval, the roommate and close friend of the Spaniard Alberto Contador. Team manager Johan Bruyneel said, "We need to keep [...]
Norwegian Thor Hushovd has extended his contract with the Cervélo Pro Cycling TestTeam until December 2011. Amongst his palmares Hushovd has six Tour de France stage wins and has won the Tour's green jersey competition once. So far this season the big sprinter has had four victories [...]
Italian team Liquigas could very well be the dark horse in this year's Tour de France. Winning the overall is a stretch, but between Italian's Vincenzo Nibali and Franco Pellizotti, and Czech Roman Kreuziger, the team packs a good enough [...]
A total of nine MILRAM riders, including six German riders, were presented by the ProTour team Tuesday at the Dortmund Westfalenhalle for the cycling highlight of the year. The line-up is focused on helping its two captains, Linus Gerdemann and [...]
Cervélo TestTeam has announced the final nine riders that will take the start line in the 2009 Tour de France. As a first year team, they have a unique situation where they are also responsible for defending Carlos Sastre's 2008 [...]
Cervélo TestTeam's pre-selected Tour de France riders met Monday to prepare for the Team Time Trial that takes place during this year's Tour de France. With several strong time trial riders on the team, the objective of the exercise was [...]
Spaniard Pedro Horrillo has been released from the hospital after being treated for his spectacular crash in the Giro d'Italia. After leaving hospital on Wednesday he is uncertain about the possibility of fully recovering from his injuries and returning to [...]
Belgium's former world road race champion Tom Boonen is to appear here at a court on Thursday, in a bid to reverse the ban on him competing in the Tour de France by the race organisers, the rider's lawyer said [...]
In a press release from the cycling's governing body, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), they said following a request from the UCI ProTour Council (CUPT) on June 17th, the Licenses Commission announced that the procedure opened against Astana to withdraw its [...]
The French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) has been hard at work with scientists again, and claims that it will have a test for a previously undetectable banned substance in the near future. "A method and a product that doping cyclists believe [...]
According to his agent, Olivier Onderbeke, Kenny Dehaes has signed a one year contract with Belgian team Silence-Lotto. The mid-season move came about when his former team Katusha added a mandatory stipulation to their contract requiring the cyclists to pay [...]
Controversial Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde will not take part in this year's Tour de France, his Caisse d'Epargne team announced on Tuesday. His absence removes a potentially embarrassing stand-off as the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) last month banned Valverde from [...]
The Saxo Bank team run by former Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis will centre its hopes for victory on next month's race on Schleck brothers Andy and Frank, and powerful Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara. And Riis believes Saxo Bank, [...]
American cyclist Lance Armstrong Sunday won the Nevada City Classic, a modest one-day race set in the hills of northern California, to continue his build-up to the Tour de France. More than 15,000 fans turned out for the race, run [...]
Gert Steegmans has decided not to sign the addendum to his contract with team Katusha. The additional terms for the contract were to penalize any rider caught doping by making them pay five times their salary in damages to the [...]
