Saur Sojasun's Jonathan Hivert took victory in the traditional French season opener today, the 139.5 kilometer GP Cycliste la Marseillaise. Hivert beat Johnny Hoogerland of the Dutch Vacansoleil team and compatriot Samuel Dumoulin from Cofidis, who finished second and third [...]
Anti-doping expert Werner Franke celebrates his 70th birthday today. Some athletes may hope the German will retire soon, but this seems a remote possibility as long as Franke is as healthy as he is - he still works daily, including [...]
Cheered on by his home fans, Zdenek Stybar confirmed his pre-race favorite status at the Cyclocross World Championships in Tabor, Czech Republic. After a long solo effort, he had almost half a minute over silver medalist Klaas Vantornout. In an [...]
Team HTC-Columbia's stage race hope Tony Martin will begin his season this year in the Mallorca Challenge on February 7th, but according to the German he doesn't expect to dig deep since he's still recovering from injury. "I probably overdid [...]
Dutchwoman Marianne Vos won her third World Championships title in cyclocross, when she beat Hanka Kupfernagel and Daphny van den Brand in Sunday's elite women's race. Vos rode away from the others in lap two of the five-lap race and [...]
Alessandro Petacchi won his first bunch sprint of the season when he took the second stage of the Giro Reggio Calabria on Sunday. Petacchi took the honors ahead of Spaniard Francisco Ventoso and Italian Mattia Gavazzi. Matteo Montaguti, who won [...]
The Astana team had its official presentation today. Most of the focus was on team leader Alberto Contador, who is the team's man to win the biggest race in 2010, the Tour de France. Alexander Vinokourov is also getting some [...]
Cyclocross may be a little but smaller than road racing, but nothing is left to chance when it comes to the World Championships, which take place on Sunday, January 31, 2010, in Tabor, Czech Republic. The top rivals faced an [...]
Pawel Szczepaniak won the U23 cyclo cross race at the World Championships in Tabor, Czech Republic, ahead of his brother Kacper. The biggest surprise of the day was pre-race favorite Tom Meeusen of Belgium, who ended the day without a [...]
The junior race in the Cyclo-cross World Champsionships in Tabor, Czech Republic, was won by home rider Tomas Paprstka. He beat Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe in a tight two-up sprint. Nine seconds later Dutch rider Emiel Dolfsma secured bronze.Places six and [...]
The Tour of Qatar is just around the corner with sixteen teams prepared to take the start. Last year's winner Tom Boonen (Quick Step) will be there to defend his title, using the race as part of his preparation to [...]
Tom Meeusen had dominated the U23 cyclocross racing in the winter and anything but a victory by the Belgian would have to be considered a surprise. And a surprise it was, as Meeusen ended in fourth place, behind the Szczepaniak [...]
American Tom Zirbel has reported on his blog that his B-sample analysis to verify a positive doping control for DHEA, an exogenous anabolic steroid, has come back positive. The controls were carried out after his second place finish at the [...]
Robert Bartko and Roger Kluge lead the Berlin Six Days after the second night with 36 points over Dutch duo Danny Stam and Peter Schep. Germans Robert Bengsch and Marcel Kalz are third, 41 points behind. The Danish 'couple' Axel [...]
Matthias Kessler's condition is improving following his bad crash when out training in Mallorca. Kessler fell while out on a training ride with Andreas Klöden. His father, Karlheinz Kessler, reported that Kessler's overall condition is starting to show signs of [...]
After news of a positive doping control for the third generation form of EPO, CERA, double Italian cyclo-cross champion Vania Rossi has claimed that she is innocent. The control was taken at the National Cyclo-cross Championships on January 20th, where [...]
With just two days before the Cyclocross World Championships, Belgian champion Sven Nys has made his predictions for the race, according to Het Nieuwsblad. At a press conference in a café in the Czech town of Sobeslav, Nys expressed hopes [...]
Universal Sports will be broadcasting the Cyclo-cross World Championships from Tabor, Czech Republic online January 31. The broadcast will be featuring the elite men’s and women’s races at 12 noon (ET), while the rest of the races will be offered on [...]
