Swiss rider Michael Albasini of the Columbia team won the fifth stage of the Tour of Switzerland, a 202 km ride from Staefa in Switzerland to Serfaus in Austria.Slovenian Tadej Valjavec of the AG2R team retained the race lead, even [...]
Italian's Pietro Caucchioli (Lampre) and Francesco De Bonis (Diquigiovanni) have been suspended by their respective teams. Lampre and Diquigiovanni took action after an announcement earlier in the day by the UCI that they will begin disciplinary procedures on five cyclists [...]
Lance Armstrong will continue his preparations for the Tour de France by racing in the Nevada City Classic on Sunday, the seven-time Tour de France champion said on Twitter.Armstrong returned to the United States after finishing 12th in the Giro [...]
One-time Olympic gold medallist Tyler Hamilton has accepted an eight-year doping ban, marking the end of a career tarnished by drugs.The US Anti-Doping Agency meted out the penalty on Tuesday, two months after Hamilton admitted taking a product to battle [...]
Vladimir Gusev has won the case against his former team Astana in the Court of Arbitration in Sport (CAS) this week. The court ordered the Kazakh team to pay the cyclist's salary, damages, as well as the costs of the [...]
Up-and-coming Danish cyclist Matti Breschel triumphed in the fourth stage of the Tour of Switzerland, a 195km ride from Biasca to here on Tuesday. In a small bunch sprint for the finish, Breschel, of the Saxo Bank team, held off [...]
After a hearing in Switzerland the UCI has put Team Astana back on the hot seat again, demanding the remaining 6 million euros of sponsorship money for 2009.De Telegraaf reported that if the UCI does not secure the funding by [...]
Japan will be represented in the Tour de France by Yukiya Arashiro, whose participation in the great stage race was confirmed by his team's sporting director Dominique Arnould on Monday.Arashiro, who was recruited in the close-season, is among six of [...]
In his first race since the Giro d'Italia, Britain's Mark Cavendish (Columbia-High Road) picked up where he left off by winning the sprint finish in today's 195.4km third stage of the Tour de Suisse. In his wake Cavendish left a [...]
French cycling team Cofidis unveiled a nine-man Tour de France team Monday which manager Eric Boyer has shaped principally for success in the mountains.Frenchman David Moncoutie, who won the hilly penultimate stage of the Dauphine Libere on Saturday, will be [...]
Spain's Alejandro Valverde and his Caisse d'Epargne team are the new leaders of the UCI World Rankings after success at the Dauphine Libere stage race in France. Valverde beat Australia's Cadel Evans (Silence) by 16 seconds and compatriot Alberto Contador [...]
A doping investigation initially targeting two University doctors has now snared four more, albeit on lesser charges, according to German public prosecutor Wolfgang Maier on Monday.Maier on Monday confirmed a report, to appear Tuesday in the Badischer Zeitung newspaper, which [...]
Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne) has won his second consecutive Dauphiné Libere today, after the eighth and final stage was won out of a breakaway by Rabobank's Stef Clement getting the best of Tim Duggan (Garmin-Slipstream) at the line. Australian Cadel [...]
Former two-time Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon, who is battling cancer, said on Sunday he has no fear of dying."You either fight or you die," the 1983 and 1984 Tour champion told the Journal du Dimanche newspaper."I have no [...]
Austria's Bernhard Eisel (Columbia-High Road) won the 149.8km second stage of the Tour de Suisse on Sunday in Davos beating German Gerald Ciolek (Milram) and three-time world champion Oscar Freire (Rabobank) in a technical sprint for the line. Saxo Bank's [...]
Spaniard Alejandro Valverde stayed in control of the overall in today's stage seven of the Dauphine Libere today, while Frenchman David Moncoutie (Cofidis) put in an impressive ride coming in to win the stage alone. Forty seconds later Robert Gesink (Rabobank) crossed the [...]
Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) has shown he is back to winning form again after taking honors on the first day of his home Tour. With the Tour de Suisse being an important build up race for Tour de [...]
The organizers for the Vuelta a España have announced the 21 teams that will take part in the last Grand Tour of the season. The list of those that will take the start on August 29th includes 16 ProTour teams [...]
