World road race champion Cadel Evans said Thursday he was considering racing against Lance Armstrong in Australia's Tour Down Under in January. The Australian two-time Tour de France runner-up said he was considering changing his strategy for 2010 and riding [...]
Johnny Hoogerland, 26, has renegotiated his contract with the Vacansoleil team extending it through 2011. Team manager Daan Luijkx reached an agreement with Hoogerland on Wednesday. The Dutchman lit up the roads in the Tour of Spain and the Fall [...]
It’s still uncertain as to whether the Astana team will retain its ProTour licence and, with it, the services of Tour de France champion Alberto Contador. A ruling from the UCI is expected in the near future; in the meantime, [...]
Australia’s push to return to the top of track cycling took a boost yesterday when Cycling Australia announced the launch of a five-rider professional track team, to be based in the Adelaide Superdrome. Titled Team Jayco and sponsored by the [...]
Almost a year ago Team Saxo Bank’s owner Bjarne Riis learned that the secondary sponsor he had lined up, IT Factory, had collapsed. The company was a victim of fraud by its CEO Stein Bagger, who was sentenced to seven [...]
Based on an article in the Spanish magazine Interviu, El Pais reports that another doping network may have been uncovered in Spain that may involve some big name cyclists. Moisés Dueñas and Maribel Moreno, both caught doping in 2008, have [...]
He has raced very little this season due to a dispute with his former team Katusha, but Gert Steegmans can lay claim to reaching the highest speeds of in the European peloton. The Belgian sprinter clocked up a staggering 134 [...]
British Olympic champions Bradley Wiggins and Rebecca Romero are amongst a growing group of riders who have serious concerns about the UCI and IOC plans to overhaul track cycling. The UCI announced in recent weeks that it was studying its [...]
Alberto Contador has been very quiet since winning the Tour de France in July, but the Spaniard was in action on Saturday in the Gran Premio Cancun races in Mexico. The Astana rider beat his compatriots Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne) [...]
Norwegian champion Kurt-Asle Arvesen will race next season for the new British cycling Team Sky. The 34-year-old, who has been with the Danish team headed by Bjarne Riis since 2004, will be rejoining with Sky's director Scott Sunderland who worked for Riis as [...]
Team Astana’s Alexandre Vinokourov won the 28th Chrono des Herbiers – Chrono des Nations in France. Vinokourov finished in Les Herbiers 1:07 ahead of French time trial champion Jean-Christophe Péraud (Creusot Cyclisme). Yuriy Krivtsov (Ag2R) finished third and Belgian TT [...]
Sprinter Allan Davis told the Australian paper the NewsMail that he's considering moving to another team in 2010. The sprinter was left off the Tour de France roster after team captain Tom Boonen won a legal battle with race organizer [...]
Britain’s Mark Cavendish (Columbia-HTC) won the award for International Flandrien of the year. Het Nieuwsblad chose the speedy Manxman to follow up Switzerland’s Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) as best international professional cyclist of the year.Cavendish, 24, was unstoppable in the [...]
During yesterday’s Tour of Lombardy Johnny Hoogerland capped off a brilliant end of season with a strong fifth. The perennial attacker pushed the pace up the Ghisallo with his jersey wide open with “pers te VDB” written on his shirt, [...]
Despite earlier reports, Pierrick Fédrigo has announced that he will stay with BBox - Bouygues Télécom according to France’s L'Equipe. The Frenchman had stated earlier that he wanted to leave the team highlighting the loss of their ProTour license. But [...]
After an exceptional autumn that included victories in the Coppa Sabatini, Paris-Tours, Giro del Piemonte, and yesterday’s Giro di Lombardia, Philippe Gilbert (Silence-Lotto) received the prestigious award – Flandrien of 2009. Gilbert was voted the best Belgian professional of the [...]
Saturday the Belgian press reported that Nico Mattan planned to hold an auction for one of Frank Vandenbroucke's bikes to help pay for the cost of his repatriation.Vandenbroucke's manager Paul De Geyter has clarified matters saying that, in fact, the [...]
Gerben Löwik (Vacansoleil) will be riding for Omega Pharma-Lotto next season, the team of recent Tour of Lombardy winner Phillipe Gilbert and World Champion Cadel Evans. The Dutchman was offered an extension on his current contract with the Dutch pro-continental [...]
