Italian sprinter Daniele Bennati is likely to miss the Tour de France, choosing instead to ride the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España in 2010 in order to have the best chance possible of becoming world champion. Along with Alessandro [...]
Bound until now by his contract with Astana, Haimar Zubeldia was officially confirmed yesterday as moving to RadioShack. He will join eleven other Astana riders there, racing alongside leaders Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer and Andreas Klöden, as well as Janez [...]
The International Cycling Union (UCI) has demanded that Tour de France champion Alberto Contador's Astana team deposit their entire 15 million euro budget for the 2010 season before it will renew the team's ProTour license. Nikolai Proskurin of the Kazakh [...]
The Kuipke velodrome in Gent, Belgium began its Six Day race by paying tribute to the late Dimitri De Fauw. The Belgian tragically took his own life earlier this month after suffering years of depression following a horrific accident in [...]
Newly crowned road World Champion Cadel Evans has just released a limited edition T-Shirt that reads: "DON`T STAND ON MY DOG." The statement, of course, refers to an incident the Australian had when doing an interview after losing the yellow [...]
Spanish newspaper El Pais has reported that 11 people have been arrested by the Guardia Civil in connection with a new doping network. The arrests included former Kelme team doctor Walter Viru, who owns a pharmacy in Montserrat (Valencia). Viru [...]
Columbia-HTC director Brian Holm predicts a strong 2010 for the team, but expresses his frustration with the sentiment in the bunch towards his riders. Perhaps due to the fact that the team has clocked up over 150 wins in two [...]
The ongoing soap opera surrounding the 2010 plans of Bradley Wiggins continued today with the confirmation from Thomas Lövkvist that Team Sky are in negotiations with the Briton. Lövkvist, who is moving to Sky from Columbia HTC, will today meet [...]
RadioShack manager Johan Bruyneel has announced that the team has finalized its roster for the 2010 season. Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, will count on a diverse group of 26 riders that hail from 16 different countries. “It [...]
Two-time Tour of Flanders winner Stijn Devolder is changing up his schedule for 2010 to see if he can keep the results coming during the Spring Classics. For the past couple of years the Quick Step rider has included the Tour [...]
Bradley Wiggins will be making a return to the boards in the Revolution event on December 5th at the Manchester Velodrome. The organizers are expecting capacity crowds as Britain’s best endurance rider revisits his track roots after his revelation to finish [...]
Niko Eeckhout has extended his contract with the AN Post-Sean Kelly Team for two years. The former Belgian champion turns 39 in December, making him one of the oldest riders in the peloton. Starting next year the team will be [...]
Italian cyclist Gabriele Bosisio pleaded innocent to doping charges at a hearing with the Italian Olympic Committee's Anti-doping prosecutor on Monday.The 29-year-old tested positive for the banned blood-booster EPO during a targeted out-of-competition test in September. The test was instigated [...]
Cycling Australia has been pushing hard to get back up to speed against arch-rivals Britain. Its riders showed they mean business with a dominant performance at their home World Cup in Melbourne, where Australia won eight out of the seventeen [...]
Italian cycist Gianni Da Ros has been sanctioned with an unprecedented 20-year doping ban from the National Anti-Doping Tribunal for his part in trafficking doping substances. Da Ros, 23, was arrested in March during a team run out at the [...]
Irish national champion Nicolas Roche has been awarded the Eurosport Trophy for best young rider of 2009. The Irishman from the Ag2r-Mondiale team was finally rewarded for his aggressive racing that saw him spend countless kilometers off the front. The [...]
Garmin-Slipstream manager Jonathan Vaughters told BBC Sport that star rider Bradley Wiggins has expressed the desire to ride for the British Team Sky. "He has let it be known to me that he'd like to be with Sky," Garmin manager [...]
Anthony Orsani, the Italian junior time trial champion, died in a road accident today near Firenze. He was out on a training ride when he collided with a car traveling the other direction. The car was finishing a passing maneuver, [...]
