American Tyler Farrar of the Garmin-Slipstream team continued his string of successes today by winning the 178.1 kilometer second stage of the Eneco Tour from Ardooie to Brussels. Farrar got the better of Belarusan Yauheni Hutarovich (Française Des Jeux ) [...]
Evergreen sprinter Alessandro Petacchi (LPR Brakes), one of the few riders that has beaten British phenom Mark Cavendish this season, is looking to hook up with a ProTour team for 2010. The Italian told La Gazzetta dello Sport the reason [...]
After a promising start to the year, Quick-Step boss Patrick Lefevere is frustrated with the development of his young Belgian Wouter Weylandt. Lefevere told Nieuwsblad.be that "he had expected more" from the promising young rider when questioned about his absence [...]
American Tyler Farrar of the Garmin-Slipstream team won the 185km first stage of the Eneco Tour on Wednesday taking the overall race lead from yesterday's prologue winner Sylvain Chavanel. "I'm in the best form of my life. The team was [...]
Sylvain Chavanel, who rides for the Belgian Quick-Step team, won the opening prologue of the Eneco Tour covering the 4.4 kilometer route through Rotterdam in 4 minutes and 55 seconds. Second place went to the winner of Sunday's Vattenfall Cyclassics, [...]
Lance Armstrong has been a loyal Twitter user since his return to the professional ranks earlier this season. From the birth of his youngest son, Max, to the 140 character or less duel with 2009 Tour de France champion Alberto [...]
Italian Emanuele Sella will be making his return to professional cycling with the CarmioOro A-Style team after serving a one year ban for doping. Sella tested positive for CERA, the third generation EPO, in an out of competition control on [...]
Irish cycling was dealt a heavy blow today with the news that Paul Healion, set to take the start in the Tour of Ireland, was killed in a car accident last night.The 31-year-old Dubliner was having his best season to [...]
Belgian sprinter Geert Steegmans has been making his rounds to find a new home after dissolving his contract with the Russian Katusha team. The most recent inquiry has been with the German Milram team, where management feels Steegmans would compliment [...]
Australian sprinter Robbie McEwen has been forced to pull out of his competitive comeback race, the Eneco Tour, after feeling pain in his knee, his Katusha team announced Monday.McEwen suffered several injuries, including a fractured tibia, in a crash on [...]
Tyler Farrar (25) of the Garmin-Slipstream team notched his biggest victory to date in the Vattenfall Cyclassics today, making him the first American to claim victory in the ProTour ranked one-day event. Farrar bested Saxo Bank's Matti Breschel and home [...]
East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta has thrown down the gauntlet to foreign cyclists ahead of the inaugural Tour de Timor and warned the race will be one of the toughest in the world. The tour from August 24 to 28 [...]
Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has been warned he may have to fight if he is to be granted his wish of leaving top cycling team Astana. The two-time yellow jersey winner is reported to be poring over offers [...]
Disgraced Tour de France cyclist Bernhard Kohl said Friday that scientists working in laboratories accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) were bribed by his former manager, the alleged head of a doping network. Austrian Stefan Matschiner, who managed the [...]
Quick-Step boss Patrick Lefevre might have his sights set on bringing a Tour de France win to his Belgian team by signing 2009 champion Alberto Contador. Contador and his manager Fran, who is also Contador's brother, sat down with Lefevre [...]
The team transfer rumor mill has been churning for weeks, and along with speculation about other star members of the Team Columbia-HTC juggarnaught, we have confirmation that Edvald Boasson Hagen will leave the team. According to his manager Birger Hungerholdt [...]
The speculation about where Sergio Paulinho will end up in 2010 is now over. The talented Portuguese rider has agreed to a two-year contract with Lance Armstrong's new RadioShack team. Tactically, this is a key move for team manager Johan [...]
Joaquim Rodriguez is leaving the predominantly Spanish Caisse d`Epargne team at the end of the season to ride for the Russian Katusha squad in 2010. At Katusha, the Spaniard will lead the team's charge in the Ardennes classics, and at [...]
