As Milram team leader for the Grand Tours and a former Maillot Jaune of the Tour de France, German rider Linus Gerdemann wants a big year in 2010. He didn’t perform to his usual level in 2009 and is working [...]
Belgium’s Jurgen Van den Broeck has renegotiated and extended his contract by one year with Marc Sergeant’s Silence-Lotto team. The strong climber turned heads with a fifteenth place in the overall of this year’s Tour de France. His performance netted [...]
A disastrous first lap could have cost US champion Katie Compton (Planet Bike) dearly in Saturday’s cyclocross World Cup race in Koksijde, Belgium. Her strength and determination came into play though, and she managed to salvage a fighting third place [...]
On Monday evening in Den Bosch Robert Gesink (Rabobank) was voted Dutch cyclist of the year. This makes the second consecutive year that the rider has won the Gerrit Schulte Trophy, named after the famous Dutch cyclist. The other nominees [...]
Blessed as it is with three potential Grand Tour contenders, Liquigas-Doimo has apparently already decided which ones it will be riding for in 2010. According to Italian sports newspaper la Gazzetta dello Sport, the acid green team will be riding [...]
For many years, Oscar Freire had an ability to take major victories despite struggling with injuries. A lack of racing didn’t appear to affect his form, and the Spaniard was able to capitalise on the periods when his body did [...]
Top British sprinter Mark Cavendish has once again pledged his allegiance to Team Columbia HTC, saying that he never had a formal offer from Team Sky and felt that he was with the best team for him at this point [...]
Former Dutch national team director, Egon van Kessel, is considering a proposal he received from Iraq’s cycling federation to head their national team. The Dutchman met with federation in Teheran to negotiate a deal and iron out some final details.“Financially [...]
The latest plot twist in a season of rider transfer soap operas means that British rider Ben Swift will not be moving to Team Sky but staying at his current Katusha team, according to a strongly worded press release. Swift [...]
Belgian Champion Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet-Colnago) took a historical 50th career Superprestige victory today’s in Gieten. Northern Holland’s muddy fields created a difficult race that saw a strong Kevin Pauwels (Telenet-Fidea) claim second after passing a fading Niels Albert (BKCP-powerplus) who [...]
Bart Wellens (Fidea) made a successful return yesterday in Koksijde, Belgium during the fourth World Cup after cytomegalovirus forced him out of competition for several months. “This leaves me with a satisfied feeling,” he told Sporza. The former World Champion [...]
Caisse d'Epargne leader Alejandro Valverde told Biciciclismo today that he is 100% focused on the Tour de France for the 2010 season. This year the Spaniard sealed up his first win in a Grand Tour, beating World Champion Cadel Evans [...]
Andy Schleck has made up his mind that he won't be riding the Ronde van Vlaanderen in the near future. He initially put the race on his wish list, but ultimately decided it is too risky, due to the inherent [...]
The Danish duo of Alex Rasmussen and Michael Mørkøv are the surprise winners of the Gent Six Day race. The Danish duo beat the favored Iljo Keisse/Roger Kluge in an exciting final sprint, taking the overall by a mere three [...]
Alessandro Spezialetti is moving from LPR Brakes-Farnese Vini to the Lampre Farnese Vini team for 2010. The 34-year-old is a very valuable and loyal team helper and will bring great strength to the Italian team. His general manager , Giuseppe [...]
Olympic champion and Vuelta a España runner-up Samuel Sanchez plus the rest of his Euskaltel-Euskadi team-mates will work out their likely 2010 racing programme at a four day training camp, which begins on Monday. According to As.com, the get-together will [...]
As her road race rivals know well, the sight of a finish line prompts a turn of speed in Marianne Vos that is very, very hard to deal with. Dutch compatriot Daphy Van de Brand got to see this firsthand [...]
Czeck Zdenek Štybar (Telenet-Fidea) continued his string of success today in the season's fourth World Cup event in Koksijde, Belgium, beating Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet-Colnago) in a sprint with Klaas Vantornout (Sunweb Pro Job) rounding out the podium just behind. The [...]
