Swiss Olympic time-trial champion Fabian Cancellara won the Tour of Switzerland on Sunday after winning the ninth and final stage of the race here, a 38.5 kilometres time-trial. The 28-year-old beat Germany's Tony Martin - winner of Saturday's penultimate stage [...]
Team Columbia-High Road has been on fire all season long, and today Italian Marco Pinotti added to the team's win tally of 42 defending his Italian time trial champion title bringing the team's win total to 43. This is the [...]
Belgian cycling star Tom Boonen has escaped the threat of criminal charges from a first positive test for cocaine, in May 2008, despite a second positive test in April, local media claimed Saturday. However the former world champion and winner [...]
Columbia-High Road managed to win another stage in the Tour de Suisse today, this time with German Tony Martin. And if winning six of the eight stages isn't impressive enough, they have managed to accomplish this feat with five riders [...]
Astana on Friday named six of the nine riders who will battle for overall and stage glory in next month's Tour de France, where Alberto Contador of Spain will start as the yellow jersey favourite.Contador, the 2007 champion, will be [...]
Luxembourg's Kim Kirchen won the seventh stage of the Tour of Switzerland, a 204 kilometre ride from Bad Zurzach to here on Friday.Last year's winner, Czech rider Roman Kreuziger was second over the line and Germany's Linus Gerdemann third.Overall race [...]
Belgian Tom Boonen and his Quick Step team are to contest his ban from the Tour de France by the race organisers ASO (Amaury Sport Organisation) they announced on Friday. The 28-year-old three-time Paris-Roubaix winner had been barred by ASO [...]
Dutch cycling great Steven Rooks became the latest former cyclist to confess to taking EPO in a book released this week.The 48-year-old - second in the 1988 Tour de France when he won the classic Alpe d'Huez stage - admits [...]
Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde has appealed against a doping ban imposed by Italian authorities last month, world sport's top court said on Friday. The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) last month banned Valverde from racing in Italy for two years due [...]
Cyclists in next month's Tour de France are to be banned from wearing radio-link headphones as an experimental safety measure, event organisers said on Friday. The measure, affecting just two stages in the 2009 event - Limoges-Issoudun (July 14) and [...]
British cycling star Mark Cavendish won his second stage in the Tour of Switzerland here on Thursday, the 178 kilometre sixth stage from Oberriet. The 24-year-old Isle of Man born cyclist - winner of four stages in last year's [...]
Belgian cycling star Tom Boonen has been banned from competing in the Tour de France following his positive drug test for cocaine, organisers ASO (Amaury Sport Organisation) announced on Thursday. The 28-year-old Quick Step rider tested positive for cocaine in [...]
Belgian star Tom Boonen seemingly did not ingest cocaine, the substance for which he tested positive six weeks ago for the second time in a year, Belgian media Thursday quoted a panel of independent experts as saying.The panel based their [...]
Team Rabobank has announced the nine riders that will make up their Tour de France squad. There is no surprise in the fact that Giro d'Italia winner Denis Menchov will lead the team's overall aspirations. The Russian will aim for [...]
The financial problems between the management and sponsors of Team Astana have finally come to an end. It was reported by AFP that the Kazakh team is guaranteed to hold it's ProTour license through the end of 2009 following an [...]
Spaniard Ricardo Serrano was suspended by his Fuji Servetto team after the International Cycling Union (UCI), announced Wednesday that it will open a disciplinary investigation based on suspicious fluctuations in the cyclist's biological passport. "According to information received, the irregularities [...]
Cycling's world ruling body announced on Wednesday that five cyclists would face doping charges uniquely on the basis of irregularities found in blood samples from their biological passports. Former world road race champion Igor Astarloa of Spain is among the [...]
Carlos Sastre's preparations to defend his Tour de France are going into high gear this week as the Spaniard travels to Frace to familiarize himself with some of the key mountain stages. His quiet early season had put the Cervelo [...]
