Informed Tuesday that it would not be given a ProTour licence, the Cofidis team will use the decision as an incentive to ride to a higher level in 2010. “We have a good group, it is on the sporting field [...]
The B-sample requested by Dutch cyclist Thomas Dekker has confirmed his positive drug test for the banned blood-booster EPO, the ANP news agency reported on Wednesday.Dekker has accepted the findings and is awaiting his sanction, ANP reported.The 24-year-old Silence Lotto [...]
Second in Varese twelve months ago, Damiano Cunego has accepted that it will be another three years before he can entertain ambitions of becoming world road race champion. “The next two years, the circuit if the Championships will be more [...]
He’s just signed a deal to compete with the Cervélo Test Team in 2010, but Theo Bos is returning to the boards. However the former track world champion is not having a chance of heart; he won’t be going back [...]
Swiss rider Patrick Calcagni has decided to retire from professional cycling at the end of the 2009 season. The 32-year-old from Lugano turned professional in 2000 with Vini-Caldirola, before moving to the newly formed Liquigas in 2005; he has been [...]
Tour de France stage winner Pierrick Fedrigo has signalled that he is not happy to continue in the BBox Bouygues Telecom team after it was yesterday refused a renewal of its ProTour licence. The Frenchman isn’t satisfied that the Tour [...]
One could argue that the curse of the rainbow jersey struck the USA’s Amber Neben during 2009; only not while she was actually wearing it. As the World time trial champion, the Nürnberger Versicherung rider just wore the bands against [...]
World road race championship bronze medallist Joaquim Rodriguez wants to make the most of his strong form and will chase victory in one of five prestigious one-day events. Between October 8th and 25th his Caisse d’Epargne team will ride Paris-Bourges, [...]
Second place in the Tour de France will be Andy Schleck’s last result of note for the 2009 season, with the Saxo Bank rider deciding to call it quits for now. The 24 year old had a lacklustre Vuelta performance, [...]
Bradley Wiggins will fulfill his contract with Garmin Slipstream, which runs out in 2010. There were strong rumors the Briton would move to Team Sky next season. Wiggins finished fourth in this year's Tour de France, a result that even [...]
Two more riders have been added to the roster of the Cervélo TestTeam. Great Britain’s Lizzie Armitstead and the Netherlands’ Iris Slappendel, both join the number one women’s team on two year contracts.20-year-old Armitstead has spent 2009 with the Lotto-Belisol [...]
Newly crowned world champion, Cadel Evans, will be missing next year’s Tour de France if it’s up to Herman Frison, team manager at Silence-Lotto. After a poor performance in this past edition of the Tour, Evans refocused his season on [...]
Dutch team Vacansoleil has secured a wildcard for the Giro di Lombardia on October 17. The outstanding Vuelta a España played a major part in securing the spot in the season-ending Italian classic. The team's manager, Hilaire van der Schueren, [...]
Seeking to sign and develop a rider who placed fourth in the 2005 world road championships in Madrid, the Radioshack team is reportedly interested in sealing a deal with Marcus Ljungqvist. According to Feltet.dk, the American squad is making the [...]
Caisse d'Epargne's Oscar Pereiro is ready to move on to a new team for 2010. The 32-year-old admitted he had contacts with Xacobeo Galicia, from northwestern Spain. But there were no serious negotiations yet, the 2006 Tour de France winner [...]
Thor Hushovd has laid out three big goals for 2010, with the defence of his Tour de France green jersey being joined by two other major targets. The Cervélo Test Team rider performed well in this year’s Paris-Roubaix, netting third [...]
Today in a press release the International Cycling Union's License Commission has awarded a UCI ProTour license to two teams and two events, but in a surprise move, they have denied entry for two French teams, Cofidis and Bbox Bouygues [...]
Mark Cavendish ended his season without trying for another victory, in Paris-Tours (October 11). The Briton did not start stage four of the Tour of Missouri, due to a lung infection and has not raced since then. Columbia-HTC's directeur sportif, [...]
