Sir Chris Hoy won the men's sprint in a race where Great Britain monopolised the podium at the Track World Cup here on Saturday.Four-time Olympic champion Hoy, who claimed one of Britain's four victories on Friday's opening day by winning [...]
Sven Nys has become a member of the UCI cyclocross commission, replacing his compatriot Ervin Vervecken, who will retire at the end of the season. Nys will soon start his responsibilities. "Next week Saturday, at the World Cup in Nommay, [...]
Philip Deignan has extended his contract with Cervélo TestTeam through 2011. The Irishman took the biggest win of his career this year in the 18th stage of the Vuelta a España. Deignan beat Liquigas rider Roman Kreuziger on a day [...]
Alejandro Valverde has come out in support of fellow Spaniard Alberto Contador coming over to his Caisse d'Epargne team. After being tipped as a Grand Tour winner for years, Valverde finally won the Vuelta a España earlier this year. Valverde [...]
Marc Sergeant, manager for Silence-Lotto - soon to be called Omega Pharma-Lotto, is on the lookout for a new general classification rider now that Cadel Evans has left the team. "Last Monday Cadel traveled to Australia. Then his manager informed us [...]
Cadel Evans has announced that he is leaving the Silence-Lotto team. After five years with the Belgian outfit he will try to win the Tour de France, where he placed second twice, with a different outfit. The team's press release [...]
The British team had a lot to celebrate in the Track World Cup on home soil in Manchester. Chris Hoy won the Keirin, while Geraint Thomas confirmed his pursuit form by catching Dominique Cornu in the final. Chris Newton took [...]
Robert Gesink may only be 23 years of age but he already has a hill named after him. Today, the Robert Gesinkbult was revealed in Aalten, the Netherlands.Gesink, accompanied by girlfriend Daisy, uncovered the sign himself. The hill runs from [...]
Andreas Klöden, soon to join up with Lance Armstrong's new RadioShack team, has paid a 25,000 euro financial settlement to the Bonn prosecutor's office in Germany, putting an end to an ongoing doping investigation against him. Klöden, who was being [...]
Muscle overuse injury is common in cycling and triathlon. The nature of endurance sports requires repetition after repetition, nearly 17,000 cycles for a 3H workout. Additionally, weight training in the off-season, while effective at correcting imbalanced musculature, can also cause [...]
Michael Rasmussen has revealed that in 2010, he will be riding for Italian Pro Continental team CDC-Cavaliere. This will likely put an end to his ambitious plan to ride a Grand Tour. CDC-Cavaliere will evolve from the Italian Continental team [...]
The end of the cycling season hasn't stopped Quick Step team manager Patrick Lefevere from winning, although today his battle was won in the courtroom rather than on the cobblestones of the Spring Classics. Lefevere was awarded 500,000 euros in compensation [...]
Describing his recovery from the brain haemorrhage he suffered in 2004 as the most important part of his life, Alberto Contador has dedicated an award he has received to doctors working to treat such problems. Yesterday the double Tour de [...]
Italian investigators suspect six or seven riders who competed in the 2008 Giro d’Italia of having used the third generation form of EPO, CERA, in the race, and are awaiting further confirmation. According to the Gazzetta dello Sport, the Padua [...]
Earlier today VeloNation reported that Dane Michael Rasmussen was to sign for CDC-Cavaliere, and would thus be unlikely to race a Grand Tour next season. Rasmussen has come out this evening and said that he, as well as the the team [...]
Geraint Thomas today stunned the crowd at the opening round of the track World Cup in Manchester, beating compatriot Bradley Wiggins’ Olympic gold medal time for the individual pursuit. The 23 year old Welshman clocked up a mark of 4 [...]
The semi-classic Gent-Wevelgem will be 250km in length in 2010. The change was decided by the organizers after the spring shuffle, where Gent-Wevelgem was moved to the Sunday before the Ronde van Vlaanderen. The flat race was previously held on [...]
Stefan Schumacher is prepared to continue his legal battles to the highest courts. After the decision by the French Conseil d'Etat court to uphold his ban, the German is prepared to go all the way to the European Court of [...]
