Emotionally and physically exhausted after this year’s Tour de France, Carlos Sastre finally returned to competition over the weekend when he rode two criteriums. The first of those was the Criterium Ciudad de Oviedo, which he enjoyed despite rusty form. [...]
An agreement made last year between cycling’s top squads and Tour organisers ASO will see sixteen ProTour teams guaranteed entry to the 2010 race. Other squads will have to rely on wildcard entries; l’Equipe, which is a stable-mate of ASO, [...]
The Manchester Velodrome is set to host a multitude of international track events this winter, starting this Friday with the first round of the 2009/10 Track World Cup. Action begins at 12:00 with women’s sprint and men’s Keirin qualifying as [...]
Michael Rasmussen has found a new team. According to an interview with Politiken the Dane is close to signing a contract with a team based in Europe. “I will not say anything about which team until everything is signed. But [...]
Sweetspot, the organisers of the Tour of Britain announced today that this year’s race attracted a total of four million. One million of those saw the action at the side of the British roads, while the other three million saw [...]
Tour de France runner up Andy Schleck will once again avoid the Giro d’Italia as he builds up for next year’s Tour, deciding to add the Tour of Flanders to his usual Classics campaign. His reason for doing so is [...]
Former Barloworld riders Diego Caccia and Paolo Longo Borghini have been signed by the ISD team for 2010. Team manager Angelo Citracca is expecting the pair to ride in support of the team leaders."We needed to strengthen the team with [...]
Two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador has won the Velo d'Or for the third consecutive year. French publication Velo Magazine has been handing out the award since 1992. The prize for the year's best French rider went to track [...]
This year's Giro d'Italia winner Denis Menchov said he would like to ride the race again in 2010. But at the route presentation in Milan yesterday, the Russian wouldn't commit to defending the Maglia Rosa saying, "I see the Giro [...]
Sven Nys won the Koppenbergcross for the seventh time today in Oudenaarde, and with his victory also taking the second round of the GvA-Trophy. The Belgian champion sealed the win with an attack on the final ascent of the famous [...]
Yesterday the route of the Giro d'Italia was unveiled in Milan, spurring the question on which teams would receive wildcard entries. In a interview with Tuttobiciweb, former world champion Alessandro Ballan claims that he will be racing in the Italian [...]
Chris Anker Sörensen has won the famous Japan Cup in Utsonomiya. The Saxo Bank rider was the strongest after 151 kilometers, finishing solo 24 seconds ahead of Spaniard Dani Moreno (Caisse d'Epargne) and Italian Ivan Santaromita (Liquigas). The race was [...]
German duo Robert Bartko and Roger Kluge have rewritten history by being the first German couple to win the Amsterdam Six Day. For Bartko, 33, it was already his 13th victory having being crowned winner in Amsterdam two years ago [...]
The 93rd edition of the Tour of Italy in 2010 will start in the Netherlands on May 8 before embarking on a 3,416.5km journey around the Italian peninsula and ending in Verona on May 30. That was the course unveiled [...]
Following 26 second and third places in 2009 but just six wins, the Euskaltel Euskadi team knows that it has to target more victories in 2010. "You can not blame the riders' attitude and aggression in bicycle races, but we [...]
He may have had a season to forget, thanks to the physical and mental after-effects of his fall in the 2008 Tour de France, but 2006 Tour winner Oscar Pereiro is in demand as he heads into what could be [...]
Approximately 2000 people attended the funeral this morning of Belgian rider Frank Vandenbroucke, who died of a pulmonary embolism earlier this month in Senegal. The mass for the 34 year old rider was held in his home town of Ploegsteert [...]
Describing the thoughts of racing with Caisse d’Epargne in 2010 as a ‘superb opportunity’, Alberto Contador has increased speculation that he will be riding for a new team next season. However the double Tour de France winner has told the [...]
