Belgian cyclocross champion Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet-Colnago) was fuming after yesterday’s World Cup race in Kalmthout, Belgium despite his victory, according to sportdome.nl. The blizzard conditions may have suited Nys better than most of his rivals, but it also led to [...]
Disregarding the fact that the Tour de France is over seven months away and much can happen between now and then, the Euskaltel Euskadi and Saxo Bank teams have taken the unusual step of announcing which riders are in contention [...]
2003 world champion Igor Astarloa has said that he is almost certain to retire from professional cycling. “The most likely thing is that I won’t continue next year,” the 33 year old said, according to Biciciclismo. “It’s 90% sure that [...]
Following days of speculation, both Allan Davis and his brother Scott will compete as part of the Astana team in 2010. Allan, who won the Tour Down Under earlier this year and finished a very solid eleventh in the world [...]
Cyclo-cross world champion Niels Albert has revealed that he is considering changing to road racing after the 2012 world championships. “If I could choose to win either the Tour of Lombardy or the cyclo-cross world championship, then I would choose [...]
After ending his season with an amazing streak of victories in the Coppa Sabatini, Paris-Tours, Giro del Piemonte, and the Giro di Lombardia, Philippe Gilbert (Silence-Lotto) has received another prestigious award – Sportsman of the Year - to go alongside [...]
A group of 15 Cervélo TestTeam riders began their preparation for the 2010 season last week on the Canary Island of Tenerife. The Spanish Island allowed the riders to take advantage of the warm weather and challenging terrain to put [...]
Bruno Risi and Franco Marvulli won the Zurich Six Days in their native Switzerland, one lap ahead of Germans Leif Lampater and Christian Grasmann. Swiss riders Alexander Aeschbach/Tristan Marguet closed out the podium spots. It was Risi's 60th Six Days [...]
The Milram team with all its 24 riders is currently doing a tough program on Mallorca. Sessions are up to six hours long, with different groups building, depending on season planning. One faction will have to get going sooner than [...]
Ezequiel Mosquera was honored in his home region in Teo, Galicia, this weekend, where a sports pavilion was named after him. With three top five places in the last the Vueltas a España, he was recognized for his athletic achievements [...]
Saxo Bank's manager Bjarne Riis has chosen Dane Chris Anker Sørensen to lead his team for the Giro d'Italia when it starts on May 8 in Amsterdam. Riis has had an incredible track record of cultivating stage race performers with [...]
Track rider Bruno Risi calls it quits after 18 years as a professional and the crowd gave him en emotional good-bye yesterday in the next to last night of the Zurich Six Days. Risi's career started in 1991 and if [...]
Saxo Bank boss Bjarne Riis said his team will be racing less in the 2010, telling Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten that he expects the team to have less victories for the upcoming season. Riis' team was hit hard coming into the 2009 [...]
Sven Nys won an exciting finale today against his eternal rivals Zdenek Stybar and Niels Albert. In heavy snow fall, a slip by Nys in the last lap reduced his three-second gap to zero, but he continued to lead. With [...]
2008 Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre achieved his best results of the season in the Giro d’Italia, netting two stages, and the Spaniard has revealed that he intends to compete there again. “After analyzing the routes of the three [...]
Nery Felipe Velásquez, the winner of the Vuelta a Guatemala in October, tested positive for Boldenone, an anabolic steroid. The sample was analyzed by a lab in Canada and was the only one of the ten samples taken that showed [...]
Philippe Gilbert will get married on August 7 next year, sandwiched between the Clasica a San Sebastian and the Hamburg Cyclassics. There will be no time for an immediate honeymoon in the middle of the racing season for the Gilberts. [...]
Bruno Risi and Franco Marvulli have increased their lead after four nights in the Zurich Six-Day race. The Swiss duo won both Madison races and have now a one-lap lead over Germans Leif Lampater and Christian Grasmann. But the race [...]
