The crowds have gathered, the riders are ready and the launch is currently taking place in London. The new Team Sky is being unveiled today in Britain’s capital, and it aims to make a serious impression on pro cycling in [...]
It looks like Team Sky have indeed been able to secure the services of 22-year-old Ben Swift for the 2010 season. As with former Garmin-Transitions rider Bradley Wiggins, there has been plenty of speculation about whether the young British talent [...]
Team Type 1 new recruit Davide Frattini has had a run in with bad luck during a training ride on Saturday near Varese, Italy. The 31-year-old came away with a broken collarbone and a hematoma on his right hip. "Crashed on [...]
Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is set to ride the Amstel Gold Race in April, according to wielerflits.nl. In an interview with Dutch TV programme NOS Studio Sport – to be broadcast tomorrow evening at 20:30 CET on the [...]
On the final races before the Dutch National Championships in Heerlen next weekend, World champion Marianne Vos (Nederland Bloeit) and current Dutch champion Daphny Van Den Brand (ZZPR.nl) both took the opportunity to stake their claim as favourite. The pair [...]
Bianchi corporate and racing PR and media relations will now be managed by the Italian-based communication & marketing agency Vitesse for the next two years. The partnership began the first of the year and will run through 2011. The bicycle [...]
Rabobank’s Bart Aernouts won the Grote Prijs Richard Groenendaal in the Dutch town of Sint-Michielsgestel. The Belgian was the best of an otherwise almost entirely Dutch field, while the majority of his compatriots were racing in Tervuren. He managed to [...]
Team RadioShack's Levi Leipheimer has announced the key races he will be using for his build-up to the 2010 Tour de France via his Twitter account today. Leipheimer's tweets outline the use of week-long stage races to gain form for [...]
The Russian Katusha team has released a roster of 27 riders for the 2010 season. Notable absentees on the list, according to wielerflits.nl, are are Alexei Markov and Alexander Serov. Up until now there has been no news of the two Russians [...]
Zdenek Stybar dominated the cross race in Tervuren today. He rode most of the race solo, not taking into account the company by the many riders he lapped. Sven Nys came in second, Kevin Pauwels was third. Jonathan Page narrowly [...]
Greg Henderson won the sprint of a three-man break in the second stage of the Geelong Tour in Australia. Henderson beat Chris Sutton and Daniel Braunsteins, just ahead of the chasing peloton. The latter was brought home by Graeme Brown, [...]
Team Saxo Bank's Fränk Schleck married his fiancée Martine Schmid on New Year's Eve. According to Wort.lu, it was a small ceremony that was held in Mondorf in front of his family and close friends. The couple will be holding [...]
Murilo Fischer has signed with the Garmin-Transitions team for the 2010 season, according to Tuttobiciweb . Fischer was reported to have a 50:50 chance to sign with Pro Continental team Acqua e Sapone. The move to Garmin keeps Fischer in [...]
On New Year's Day Jonathan Page raced in Luxembourg and finished third, behind the Frenchmen Steve Chainel (Bbox Bouygues Telecom) and Nicolas Bazin (Differdange). It was Chainel's third victory in this traditional "Neijooschcross" in Péiteng on January 1. Page had [...]
Spaniard Joaquim Rodríguez is ready for the new season where he has made the move from Cassie d'Epargne to the Russian Katusha team. The Catalan rider has set his primary goal of the season to peak for the Ardennes Classics [...]
Columbia-HTC's Michael Rogers is ready for the 2010 season to begin after having a solid off-season of training. The Australian said that he has 'unfinished business' with the Australian National Road Race title, an event in which he took the [...]
The Belgian Quick Step team has announced a roster of 27 riders that hail from 8 different countries for 2010: Belgium, Italy, Spain, Holland, Germany, France, Byelorussia and Denmark. The new season will see the addition of 3 new faces [...]
Cycling Sport Promotions, the organisers of the Trofeo Alfredo Binda – Italy’s round of the women’s Road World Cup – has been commended by the Italian Ministry of Equal Opportunities. The race has been contested since 1974 but the 2010 [...]
