Team Sky has announced three new signings today on the Sky Sports News Channel. Canadian Michael Barry (Columbia-HTC), Belgian Serge Pauwels (Cervélo TestTeam), and Australian Chris Sutton (Garmin-Slipstream) have all come on board the new British squad. Team Principal Dave Brailsford [...]
The organization behind the Tour Down Under has released next year’s route. The Australian tour is set to kick off the Pro-Tour calendar starting on January 19th in Clare and finishing six days later in Adelaide City. The traditional criterium [...]
Despite not knowing exactly which team he will be riding for in 2010, Tour de France champion Alberto Contador is already planning which races he rides in the build up to his title defence. Already having confirmed that he will [...]
Russia’s Team Katusha has finalized its roster for 2010 with 29 riders, one shy of the UCI team limit. The strongest additions include the Luxembourger Kim Kirchen from Team Columbia-HTC and the Spaniard Joaquin Rodriguez from Caisse d'Epargne. Both riders [...]
The Spanish media has reported that Cervélo TestTeam's Carlos Sastre has decided to skip this year's Tour de France. The Spaniard finally won the race in 2008 with Bjarne Riis' CSC Team, but has decided his best chances for success [...]
Erik Zabel is now a member of the ProTour council, the group that has been set up by the International Cycling Federation (UCI) to manage the ProTour. There are 13 members on the council, discussing basic questions around the ProTour. The council's [...]
Jakob Fuglsang has commented on his decision to sign for Team Saxo Bank until 2012, saying that he could have earned more elsewhere but felt staying where he was is the best move for his career. “I have been happy [...]
Reigning World Champion Cadel Evans is looking forward to next year's Tour de France, especially with the elimination of the team time trial that saw the Australian lose valuable time to the race favorites. But according to an interview with [...]
The newly named Footon-Servetto ProTour team has announced its first signings for the 2010 season. The team has confirmed David Vitoria (Rock Racing), Michele Merlo and Marco Corti (Barloworld), David Gutiérrez Palacios (Camargo elite2), Rafael Valls (Burgos Monumental) and Miguel Ángel [...]
Antonio Cruz has signed a contract with Michael Ball's Rock Racing team. The 37-year-old American started his professional career with the American Saturn team back in 2001. He went on to ride for the U.S. Postal Service team, eventually ending [...]
Johan Bruyneel, who guided Lance Armstrong to seven Tour de France wins, said that the Texan was close to quitting after breaking his collarbone earlier this season. Bruyneel, however, was able to convince Armstrong to return to racing, using one [...]
Nery Felipe Velásquez stormed back to the top of the leader board in the Vuelta a Guatemala, with a solo win in the seventh stage. In the short 45km stage into Quetzaltenango, in the southwestern part of the country, Velásquez [...]
Spanish police intercepted several text messages that seem to confirm cycling doctor Jesús Losa was involved in doping practices. Losa's house was recently searched, but he was warned and potentially able to remove evidence. One SMS was supposedly sent by [...]
Two Italians who competed in world-famous jerseys this season have said that they want to target strong rides in next year’s Giro d’Italia. 2008 world champion Alessandro Ballan wants to head to the race with his BMC Racing team next [...]
Team Type 1 will field a versatile roster sprinkled with international flavor and experience when it begins its third season as a men’s professional team in 2010. In 2009, Team Type 1 won 55 races, finished fourth in the National [...]
Bart Wellens will celebrate his cyclocross comeback on December 12 at the cross race in Essen, Belgium. Wellens suffered from the cytomegalo virus and is slowly recovering.He is ramping up his training schedule. "I do sessions of 1.5 to three [...]
Following his recent return from a two year suspension, VeloNation reported that Danish rider Michael Rasmussen has apparently found a team for 2010 and plans to ride a Grand Tour next season. "I feel as confident as you can be [...]
The GB cycling team has said that Olympic cyclist Jonny Bellis' condition has continued to improve and is now able to communicate."Jonny is doing really well since the last update and is communicating by writing messages on a white board. [...]
