Patrick Lefevere, team manager of Belgium’s Quick Step team, doesn't want to let go of the idea of two-time Tour de France Champion Alberto Contador joining his team. Classics specialist Tom Boonen has said he is excited about the possible [...]
Frank Vandenbroucke tried to reach several people on Monday morning, shortly before his death. One of those Vandenbroucke tried to reach was Simone Masciarelli, who helped the Belgian especially in the year 2007, after his attempted suicide. Masciarelli feels very [...]
CAS, the court of arbitration in Lausanne, Switzerland, will hear the case of Alejandro Valverde on November 16. Valverde is appealing his ban by CONI, the Italian National Olympic Committee. Valverde already filed his objection to CAS in June of [...]
Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) won today’s cyclocross race in Belgium’s Ardooie. The 23 year-old world champion left the Czech Zdenek Stybar and countryman Sven Vanthourenhout in his tracks.Albert made his move with three laps to go, distancing himself from his rivals [...]
Philippe Gilbert (Silence Lotto) continued his hot streak by winning today’s 184km Giro del Piemonte in Fossano, Italy. The Belgian has been unstoppable since placing sixth at the World Championships, taking three victories in a row, winning last Sunday’s Paris-Tours [...]
Liège-Bastogne-Liège may be missing one of its most well-known climbs, the côte de la Redoute. The organizers have decided the current approach, due to some road work, is too dangerous. The Stockeu will also be dropped. La Redoute, situated a [...]
Many of the big names from recent Tours were in attendance at yesterday’s presentation of the 2010 race route in Paris, with absentees such as world champion Cadel Evans and this year’s fourth-placed rider Bradley Wiggins only missing out due [...]
Yesterday’s Tour de France presentation was primarily about the route of the 2010 race, but the details of next year’s race were preceded by the organisers’ statements on the fight against doping. In a pointed reference to the spat between [...]
Chris Sutton continued his domination of the Jayco Herald Sun Tour today when he snagged his third consecutive stage victory and further extended his overall lead. The Garmin Slipstream rider was quickest of 30 riders who sprinted it out for [...]
No team time trial, just one long race against the clock, three mountain-top finishes, six high mountain stages, four medium mountain legs, 23 big climbs and a total distance of 3596 kilometres; that, in a nutshell, is the outline of [...]
The autopsy on former classics star Frank Vandenbroucke, who died Monday night in Senegal, was completed this morning at the Aristide Le Dantec hopsital in Dakar. Vandenbroucke’s body was brought to the hospital Monday night by two Belgian diplomats. Senegalese authorities [...]
The 2010 Tour de France suits the world’s best climbers, and at the top of that list is Spain’s Alberto Contador. The Spaniard will look to tear the race apart as the roads pitch upwards in his bid for a [...]
There can only be one winner of next year’s Tour, but the reactions from today’s route presentation in Paris have been almost completely positive. Some will like the route more than others, some will have preferred a different design, yet [...]
Three persons have been arrested for theft following the death of Frank Vandenbroucke in Senegal, including the woman who was with him the night of his passing. Local police made the arrest on Tuesday, one day after Vandenbroucke's death. "The [...]
Spain's reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador played down the threat of a drugs probe that was launched a day before the presentation of next year's race. Paris prosecutors on Tuesday revealed they had launched an investigation after the [...]
Seven-times champion Lance Armstrong admitted next year's Tour de France could offer victory opportunities to a bigger field of rivals after the organisers' unveiled the 2010 route on Wednesday. Beginning in Rotterdam on July 3 and ending in Paris July [...]
With no team time trial, just one individual race against the clock and 23 mountains classified as either HC, category 1 or category 2, defending Tour champion Alberto Contador has expressed his satisfaction with the 2010 Tour de France. The [...]
The 2010 Tour de France route has been announced by organizer ASO and it's a fitting one for the 100th anniversary of Pyrenees' inclusion. Starting in Rotterdam and ending in Paris on the Champs-Elysées, the race takes place from July [...]
