According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, World Champion Allesandro Ballan, will make the switch from Lampre-NGC to the Pro-continental formation BMC Racing in 2010. After six seasons with Giuseppe Saronni, the 29 year old rider looks set to head to [...]
Damiano Cunego has extended his contract with Lampre-NGC until the end of 2010. The former Giro di Itlaia winner will be joined next year by under 23 world time trial champion Adriana Malori, double junior world champion Diego Ulissi, Alfredo [...]
The counter-analysis for the Spaniard Mikel Astarloza’s B sample confirms the positive test earlier this year.He failed a World Anti Doping Agency doping control on June 26, 25 days prior to his win in the 16th stage of the Tour [...]
Greg Henderson surprised all others, including his teammate André Greipel, to win the stage into Venlo. Borut Bozic (Vacansoleil) already was celebrated as the winner by his teammates, but Henderson blasted by in the final metres to clearly take the [...]
George Hincapie (Columbia-HTC) won his third national title in Sunday’s US Pro Road Race championships held in his hometown Greenville, South Carolina.Having won the same title in 1998 and 2006, the 36 year old showed he still had the power [...]
In 2009 25-year-old Heinrich Haussler was on the brink of notching up a season for the history books. As a part of the first year Cervélo TestTeam, the German-Australian rider managed to place second in two of cycling’s Monuments – [...]
After a career that spanned 15 years, Dutchman Steven de Jongh announced his retirement from professional cycling at the end of this year’s Tour de France. Most recently, de Jongh served as a valuable part of the Belgian Quick-Step team [...]
Johan Vansummeren is heading from the Belgian Silence-Lotto team to Garmin-Slipstream team for 2010. There was speculation as to whether the American team could afford to keep Bradley Wiggins and hire the versatile Belgian rider. Vansummeren, who at 6 foot [...]
Australian mountain bike champion Chris Jongewaard was cited on Thursday for misconduct by the sport's national governing body after being convicted over a hit-and-run driving accident.The incident left his training partner, Matthew Rex, being placed in an induced coma with [...]
Just seven weeks ago the pro cycling world watched in horror as German Jens Voigt of team Saxo Bank smashed face first into the pavement on a high speed mountain descent of the Tour de France.His motionless body laying on [...]
The Belgian contingent of Lance Armstrong's RadioShack team is hard at work trying to round up fellow countrymen to build up their classics squad. Earlier this week it was reported that Geert Steegmans and Sebastien Rosseler will be heading to [...]
Lance Armstrong's new RadioShack team is set to make its debut at the 2010 Tour Down Under, says the seven-time Tour de France winner on Twitter. Austrailia's only ProTour race is run around the roads of Adelaide and will take [...]
Belgium's top cyclist, Tom Boonen, will be able to avoid criminal charges relating to his use of cocaine by paying a 1000 euro fine, the public prosecutor in Turnhout said Wednesday. The court said if Boonen, who has now been [...]
After a horrific crash knocked him out of this year’s edition of the Tour de France, Saxo Bank's big engine Jens Voigt is back in good spirits and good health. The affable German has been offered a one year extension [...]
According to the Belgian media, it looks like Sebastien Rosseler and Gert Steegmans will join Lance Armstrong's new team Radio Shack in 2010. Het Nieuwsblad reported that, Rosseler, 28, will move from the Belgian Quick-Step team to sign a two-year [...]
Italian cyclist Danilo Di Luca on Wednesday claimed he was the victim of a conspiracy after twice testing positive for banned blood booster EPO (erythropoietin) during May's Tour of Italy. Di Luca finished second in the event he previously won [...]
According to Sporza, Astana team boss Johan Bruyneel has been admitted to a hospital in Marbella, Spain because of an acute fever. The Belgian, who celebrated his 45th birthday on Monday, will have to remain in the hospital for four [...]
Cervélo TestTeam has released their final roster for the start of the Vuelta a España. With a strong and balanced team that includes three home favorites, Cervélo TestTeam is primed to tackle the challenges of the 21-stage Grand Tour. The [...]
