Team Sky Principal Dave Brailsford brings more than ten years of experience to the helm of Great Britain’s highly successful national team. At the team’s presentation in London this week he spoke with the press about his firm belief that [...]
France's national anti-doping agency, the AFLD, announced the death of Jacques de Ceaurriz today. De Ceaurriz' greatest achievement was helping to pioneer a test to detect the performance-boosting hormone EPO (erythyropoietin) in 2000. The detection of the substance was a [...]
Columbia-HTC's Andre Greipel, the overall winner of the 2008 Tour Down Under, will be aiming for a repeat performance in 2010. After winning the Tour Down Under outright one year, then crashing badly in the same event in 2009, the [...]
Following weeks 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 last year and finished a very solid eleventh in the world rankings, [...]
Thus far, all the predictions have been that this year’s world championships are made for the bunch gallopers in the peloton. However one of those, Robbie McEwen, has checked out the course and he believes that the race will be [...]
Most teams have already laid out their schedules for the first half of the season but the Italian Lampre team has still no indication if it will ride the major events in 2010. The Italian team was refused a ProTour [...]
Undoubtedly motivated by the thoughts of taking a record fourth world championship victory, Oscar Freire has backtracked on previous indications that he will retire at the end of the current season. “More or less I’ve made a decision,” he told [...]
The Amaury Sports Organisation (ASO) is set to take over the Dauphiné Libéré, the last independent French race. ASO is mostly known for organizing the Tour de France, but has taken over several other races in the past years. The [...]
Heinrich Haussler supports the German LKT Brandenburg team and for this the team now honored him. The jersey in 2010 will feature a 'racing kangaroo.' The Australian-German Haussler still trains with riders from the German Continental outfit when he is [...]
Baden Cooke, who will be riding with the Saxo Bank team in 2010, is focusing on the Spring Classics. He is using a different build-up to the season than in years past and hopes that in combination with the professional [...]
Baden Cooke won the final stage of the Jayco Bay Classic, outsprinting Greg Henderson in the fast criterium. Cooke's Skilled/Lowe Farms teammate Chris Sutton took out the overall, which he had taken over in controversial circumstances yesterday. Cooke won the [...]
World champion Cadel Evans, former Tour de France yellow jersey Phil Anderson, three-time Tour de France green jersey Robbie McEwen and “The Voice of Cycling” Phil Liggett were among those who got on their bikes in the Amy Gillett Foundation's [...]
Triple World Champion Óscar Friere is set to retire at the end of the 2010 season when his current contract with the Rabobank team ends. In what will be his final season as a professional, Freire has also decided to [...]
The third stage of the Jayco Bay Classic ended in controversy as the breakaway managed to lap the field, causing race officials to withdraw the entire peloton according to ozcycling.com. Only 12 riders managed to finish the race and 19-year-old [...]
Riccardo Riccò wants to put his past behind him when he returns from suspension on March 18th this year. The 26-year-old tested positive for Cera, a third generation EPO, in the 2008 Tour de France and was banned for 2 [...]
Former world under 23 champion Dmitro Grabovskyy may be just 24 years of age, but the Ukrainian has admitted to La Gazzetta dello Sport that he has been battling with drink problems. The winner in Madrid in 2005 looked set [...]
Talented 22 year old British rider Ben Swift has been confirmed as the final addition to the new Team Sky setup, and describes his transfer from Team Katusha as ‘like coming home.’ He was part of the 26-man line-up presented [...]
Philippe Gilbert has given his full backing to the whereabouts system which makes out of competition testing possible, saying that supporting it is a matter of ‘organisation and professionalism’. The Belgian, who has spoken out against doping in the past, [...]
