Patrik Sinkewitz was offered a settlement by a civil court in a law suit against him for willful deceit and his monetary fine would be reduced from 100,000 euro to 80,000 euro, if Sinkewitz accepts. He has until March 9 [...]
Cadel Evans has surprised with his strong early-season form, performing at a high level in the Santos Tour Down Under. The world champion doesn’t plan on hitting full form until May, yet nevertheless impressed with stage placings of third and [...]
Tour de France champion Alberto Contador eventually decided to see out his contract and stay with Astana for 2010. Despite this, with a new manager, new bike sponsor and a raft of new riders it seems like a new team. [...]
With his dominant ride at the Santos Tour Down Under, it's no surprise that André Greipel shot to the top of the UCI World Rankings for its first release in 2010. The German rider returned to Australia this year after [...]
Team Saxo Bank owner Bjarne Riis is convinced that 2009 runner-up Andy Schleck can go on to win the Tour de France. The Dane has spent many long hours with directeur sportif Kim Andersen analysing recordings of last year’s Tour, [...]
The Court of Arbitration in Sport on Monday rejected German cyclist Stefan Schumacher's appeal against a two-year ban for a positive doping control at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Schumacher was among the six athletes that tested positive for [...]
Italian team Lampre-Farnese Vini has finally been granted ProTour registration by the International Cycling Union (UCI) but only until the end of March. The team already holds a ProTour licence, which can be awarded on a multi-year basis, but the [...]
Lance Armstrong has made a change to his early season racing schedule, according to marca.com, who cite the RadioShack team as a source. He is now to ride the Criterium International on Corsica on March 27th and 28th. This precludes [...]
The BMC Racing team of Cadel Evans, Alessandro Ballan and George Hincapie has the intention of applying for a ProTour licence for next season, giving another indication that the project will continue to grow. Chief directeur sportif John Lelangue said [...]
The final World Cup race of the 2009/10 season was the last rendezvous before the coming weekend’s World Championships in Tabor, Czech Republic. Three, or possibly four, names identify themselves as the outstanding favourites for the men’s race; names that have [...]
Italian Alberto Loddo (Androni-Giocattoli) won the seventh and final stage of the Tour de San Luis today in a sprint finish over compatriot Danilo Napolitano (Katusha) and Spaniard Francisco Pacheco (Xacobeo-Galicia), who finished second and third respectively. As expected, there [...]
One year after Niels Albert won the Cyclocross World Championships in Hoogerheide he returned to the Dutch site to win the final round of the World Cup, his fourth victory in the competition. After an exciting hour-long battle, he left Fidea [...]
Like Lance Armstrong recently, Johan Bruyneel also thinks that Alberto Contador is the Tour de France number one favorite, if he rides like last year. In an interview with Spanish sports paper Marca, Bruyneel talked about his relationship with Contador and [...]
Continental professional team Ceramica Flaminia held its official launch in San Polo - Parma (Italy), last Friday, and are ready to get the 2010 season off to a good start. The 17-man roster is managed by Roberto Marrone. In attendance [...]
German team Milram was happy with its season start in Australia, putting two riders in the top ten in the overall classification and winning the KOM jersey. Australian Luke Roberts, the new hire of the team, ended the week Down [...]
Lampre received a deadline of March 31 to bring its finances in order or the team will no longer be part of the international racing circuit. Pat McQuaid, the president of the International Cycling Union (UCI), was quite adamant that [...]
HTC-Columbia sprinter André Greipel sealed up his second overall victory in the Santos Tour Down Under today, with Team Sky reversing the order of last Sunday's warm-up event on today's criterium course, with Chris Sutton winning the stage and teammate [...]
Spaniard Luis Angel Mate (Androni-Giocattoli) won the 150 kilometer sixth stage of Tour de San Luis from Quine to Merlo. Jose Serpa (Colavita-Sutter Home /Androni-Giocattoli) finished in second place with Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Doimo) rounding out the podium in third, which [...]
