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 [...]
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 [...]
After seven years in the sport, South African company Barloworld has announced they will be ending its sponsorship of the cycling team at the end of 2009. This means that team boss Claudio Corti will have to find a replacement [...]
Oscar Pereiro will be skipping the Vuelta this year (August 29-September 20) citing lack of recovery since dropping out of the Tour de France in the eigth stage last month. His home tour was set to be the Spaniard's second [...]
Belgian Geer Steegmans is back to racing his bike for the first time since his, then Katusha team, put him on the inactive list for refusing to sign an anti-doping addendum to his contract. The addendum would require the rider [...]
After pulling out of the Tour de France due to lack of fitness, Quick-Step star Tom Boonen will put off his return to the peloton a little longer after announcing he won’t take part in the Tour de l’Ain. The [...]
Gert Steegmans is looking forward to signing with a new team after his falling out with the Katusha management this season. At this time he has no official word on a new team, but a private sponsorship from BBB, a [...]
Team Saxo Bank boss Bjarne Riis has married his long time girlfriend Anne Dorthe Tanderup in a private ceremony at the couple’s home in Denmark. They have three children, two of which are from Riis’ first marriage. The couple met [...]
Belgian Gert Steegmans has ended his contract with the Russian Katusha team effective immediately. His agent told the Dutch press that he has no comment on the action that has been a long time coming. In late June his Russian [...]
According to the Dutch press, classics specialist Juan Antonio Flecha is looking for a change of pace from his current Rabobank team. The Spaniard has been a solid rider in the Spring Classics, notching three top ten finishes in Paris-Roubaix [...]
Kazakh Alexandre Vinokourov has made his return to the professional ranks in the the Criterium de Castillon-la-Bataille in France. He was banned for two-years after testing positive for blood doping in a case that rattled the Tour de France to [...]
Tour de France runner-up Andy Schleck will be able to take part in the Vuelta despite a heavy fall in this past weekend’s Clásica San Sebastian. Aside from a couple of days to recover from his hand and back injuries, [...]
Kazakh cyclist Alexandre Vinokourov will return to racing Tuesday after serving a two-year doping ban which followed a positive test on the 2007 Tour de France. Vinokourov will get back in the saddle for Tuesday's criterium race at Castillon-la-Bataille in [...]
Reigning world champion Alessandro Ballan looked like he was set to shine in 2009 with early season with podium placings at the Giro di Sardegna, but a virus interrupted his build-up to the Spring Classics and seems to have derailed [...]
Tour de France runner-up Andy Schleck might have to miss a start in the Vuelta after a crash in Saturday's Clasica San Sebastian.The crash injured the Luxembourger's knee and back, with his back being the worst hit.It is too early [...]
Since his retirement in 2008, former professional cyclist Paolo Bettini limited his involvement in cycling to commentary on Italian television station RAI. But the 35-year-old says he wants to get back into the sport in a more active roll as [...]
In response to the declarations made Giuseppe Petito, the Manager of the Italian team Ceramiche Flaminia, the International Cycling Union will not prevent the Dane from being signed to a team. According to the UCI, UCI ProTour manager Alain Rumpf [...]
The Spanish press is reporting that after the positive doping control of Euskaltel-Euskadi's Mikel Astarloza, the future of the team is in serious doubt. Fifteen years after the team was founded by Miguel Madariaga, the team, which is funded in [...]
