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 [...]
Norway's Edvald Boasson Hagen of the Columbia team won the Eneco Tour on Tuesday after dominating the final stage, a 13km individual time-trial.The 22-year-old finished ahead of France's Sylvain Chavanel in the overall standings after the Frenchman clocked the fourth [...]
The Belgian Quick-Step team has announced their line-up for the Vuelta a España, which includes Australian Allan Davis and Belgian Wouter Weylandt. Davis was the "tenth man" for Quick-Step's Tour de France team this past July, but was forced to [...]
Some 280 cyclists from around the world pedalled out of East Timor's presidential palace Monday on the first leg of the inaugural Tour de Timor.The five-day race is a highlight of festivities surrounding the 10th anniversary of East Timor's vote [...]
Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen consolidated his lead of the Eneco Tour stage race by beating some of the more specialist fast men in a sprint for the finish of Monday's sixth stage. Boasson Hagen, who rides for Team Columbia, grabbed [...]
Disgraced cyclist Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan has been named in Astana's squad for the Tour of Spain, which begins this Saturday. Vinokourov, who recently returned from a two-year doping ban handed out for blood doping at the 2007 Tour de [...]
Team Columbia believe powerful German sprinter Andre Greipel can help continue their impressive 2009 season once the Tour of Spain clicks into gear this Saturday. Mark Cavendish's stunning haul of six stage wins from this year's Tour de France took [...]
Pat McQuaid, the president of the International Cycling Union (UCI), indicated that there were no positive doping controls at this year's Tour de France, and he expects that to be the wave of the future for the world's biggest bike [...]
It's official, Lampre-NGC has signed sprinter Alessandro Petacchi for two years. Petacchi was under contract with the LPR-Brakes team until 2010, but management has allowed the Italian to terminate his commitment and make the move When Petacchi's LPR-Brakes team was [...]
Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Doimo) broke his left collarbone in the fifth stage of the Eneco Tour today, ending his chances for overall victory in the Vuelta later this month, and likely his spot on the Italian team for the world championships [...]
Silence-Lotto director sportif Marc Sergeant and the team's financial manager Geert Coeman met with Cadel Evans earlier this week in Italy to discuss his situation with the team. After having a disappointing Tour de France, where rumors about his position [...]
American Tyler Farrar of the Garmin-Slipstream team retained the overall lead of the Eneco Tour by winning the race's fourth stage after a sprint battle with Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen and Italian Francesco Gavazzi. It is Farrar's third win of [...]
Tour de France sprint king Mark Cavendish won stage two of the Tour of Ireland on Saturday.Columbia rider Cavendish, winner of six stages in this year's Tour de France, coasted to victory in a sprint finish into Killarney for the [...]
British rider Russell Downing of the Candi TV team won the 196 kilometer first stage of the Tour of Ireland from Powerscourt to Waterford. Second in last year's edition, Downing powered away from the escape group schooling Saxo Bank's duo [...]
On a mission to win his eight Tour de France, American Lance Armstrong looks ready to bring on board a team to rival the 2009 Astana lineup. In particular, the Norwegian press has reported that the Texan has been in [...]
Quick-Step sprinter Tom Boonen enjoyed his first victory since winning the Belgian national championships on home roads in the 158.3 kilometer third stage of the Eneco Tour from Niel to Hasselt. Boonen blasted out of the last curve in perfect position, [...]
Andreas Klöden (Astana) was thought to have broken his wrist yesterday in a crash during stage two of the Eneco Tour. After further examination in Switzerland it was revealed that the 34-year-old's injury is not as severe as initially thought. [...]
Alessandro Petacchi and Lampre-NGC team manager Beppe Saronni met earlier this week to discuss a possible move to his ProTour team. Petacchi wants to end his contract with second-division team LPR Brakes one year early citing the exclusion in ProTour [...]
