Niels Albert had a horrible crash during the warm-up for the 2008 Superprestige cross in Asper-Gavere, Belgium. He was out for six weeks but still came back to become world champion. On Sunday, Albert will be back without any thoughts [...]
Team Katusha is set to begin their work for next season at a training camp in Asgabat, Turkmenistan from the 22nd to the 28th of November. Team boss Andrei Tchmil along with sport directors Dmitri Konychev and Gennady Mikhailov will [...]
Juan Antonio Flecha is riding for Team Sky next season, with a similar racing schedule to the one he had at Rabobank. But this time he hopes to win a big one. "I hoped I'd already have a Classics win [...]
Cycling legend Eddy Merckx is the latest to comment on Alberto Contador's team situation, telling www.wielermagazine.com at Gerrit Plieger's Cycle Show he heard from a reliable source that the Spaniard has already signed with the Kazakh team for two years. Rumors [...]
Dutch former sprinter Jeroen Blijlevens will return to the elite peloton in 2010, becoming the new manager of Marianne Vos’ team, currently known as DSB Bank-Nederland Bloeit. He will succeed the outgoing Arthur van Dongen, who is leaving the team [...]
Carlos Sastre hopes that his team, the Cervélo TestTeam, will get an invite to the mountainous 2010 Tour de France. Sastre wanted to make a decision after carefully studying all three routes, but apparently with enough details leaked from the [...]
Cristian Moreni has paid the one year salary fine for using doping substances. The Italian was caught using EPO in the 2007 Tour de France and his Cofidis team was excluded from the race. Moreni took the initiative. "In cycling [...]
ProTour squad Team Milram has announced a good programme of early-season races and will use these to help its riders get in shape for a much-needed strong season in 2010. It will get things underway in the Tour Down Under [...]
He was fourth and tenth overall in the race, a stage winner and a multiple yellow jersey wearer; it's little surprise that the Tour de France is a special memory for former top pro Steve Bauer. The Canadian would like [...]
Given the impression he made on the season, it’s easy to forget that for much of the early part of the year, Fabian Cancellara was struggling to find his form. The big Swiss competitor won the opening time trial of [...]
Italian continental formation Amore & Vita has signed promising Belgian climber Kristof Vollon for next season. Amore & Vita’s manager, Cristian Fanini, has made it a habit of picking up relatively unknown talents each year and giving them a chance [...]
Yet another rumour began circulating today around the future of Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, this time over the bike he might ride in 2010. Reports on Italian website tuttobiciweb.it claimed that Specialized bicycles – currently providing bikes to [...]
Despite turning 40 in June this year, Spanish veteran Iñigo Cuesta of the Cervélo TestTeam shows no signs of wanting to retire just yet. “I don’t think of the years, but in training and taking care of myself,” he said [...]
World champion Niels Albert has threatened to leave cyclo-cross after yesterday’s Jaarmarkt Cross in Niel, Belgium. The emotional Belgian had been jeered by rival’s supporters after it had appeared that he intentionally cut off Belgian champion and eventual race winner [...]
Mickaël Bourgain, one third of France’s World team sprint championship winning team, is to undergo surgery on an injured shoulder, according to French sports daily l’Equipe. The sprinter, who was also the bronze medallist in the sprint at the Olympic [...]
Spanish national coach José Luis de Santos doesn’t seem to hold out much hope for his riders to win the next World Championship, saying that the course is “one of the least complicated,” he has seen. “Those who consider Cavendish [...]
The gruelling climb of Genting Highlands will once again be the big decider in the 2010 Tour de Langkawi, the route of which was announced today in Kuala Lumpur. The Malaysian event is now in its fifteenth edition and will [...]
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has handed Italian cyclist Matteo Priamo a four-year ban for supplying Cera to his former CSF teammate Emmanuelle Sella, an official source has said. The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) took the case to [...]
