The doping controls during this year's Tour de France will be implemented without the help of the French anti-doping agency (AFLD), said International Cycling Union (UCI) President Pat McQuaid Saturday. The two agencies had a falling out which erupted last [...]
Bbox Bouygues-Telecom rider Yohann Gene won the field sprint to claim the fifth stage of the of La Tropicale Amissa Bongo (Gabon) ahead of teammate Giovanni Bernaudeu.The day's 147.5km stage featured a break of three riders from the Africa including [...]
Sven Nys dominated the Kasteelcross in Zonnebeke and won ahead of Dieter Vanthourenhout and Bart Wellens. Some of his toughest rivals skipped the race, including Niels Albert, who is still suffering from his rib injury that he received after he [...]
For a rider who initially wasn’t even sure if he would compete in the Santos Tour Down Under, Cadel Evans has proved to be one of the key figures in the race. He's also delighted the home fans in the [...]
Tour de France KOM runner-up Egoi Martinez is focussed on once again shining in a Grand Tour this year, and he and his Euskaltel-Euskadi team have carefully structured his racing programme to ensure he hits peak form at the right [...]
Along with the rest of the Garmin Transition riders, David Millar is currently at the team training camp in eastern Spain. He has outlined his first races, but isn’t saying much about either how his current form is or what [...]
Kurt Hovelijnck of Quick Step is back in the arms of the peloton, following a terrible crash during a training ride last year. He was at the Quick Step presentation yesterday, all smiles. Team Manager Patrick Lefevere was quite astonished. "A [...]
Luis León Sánchez won today's Tour Down Under penultimate stage, a gruelling battle over Willunga Hill, ahead of Luke Roberts and Alejandro Valverde. André Greipel was in a group with Lance Armstrong, nine seconds adrift. But Greipel held on to [...]
The Belgian Quick Step team has said that Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will be part of its squad in 2011, enabling it to expand its goals and chase success in cycling’s biggest race. Speaking at the team presentation [...]
Santiago Botero has decided to end his cycling career after fourteen years in the professional peloton. The Colombian raced in Europe for the famous Kelme, Telekom and Phonak team until 2006, when his name was linked to the Spanish Operación [...]
Former world road race champion Tom Boonen is set to put greater emphasis on this year’s Classics campaign rather than the Tour de France, saying that netting a sixth big Classic success would elevate him into the pantheon of great [...]
The Saxo Bank team headed into the Tour Down Under fully focussed on chasing a stage win or high overall placing with new signing Baden Cooke. With one day remaining, neither goal has been achieved, yet directeur sportif Bradley McGee [...]
HTC-Columbia leader Mark Cavendish has been forced to delay his season start in 2010 due to an ongoing dental problem. Initially the sprint king intended to take part in the inaugural Tour of Oman from February 14 to 19, as well [...]
After an off-season full of mind numbing transfer speculation, the International Cycling Union (UCI) has decided it is time to tighten up the regulations with respect to rider transfers between teams. The two most significant transfers this past winter were [...]
Wouter Weylandt will finally have the backing of the team in sprints - as long as Tom Boonen isn't around. Weylandt is fast, as he had proven by winning stage 17 of the 2008 Vuelta a España. But so far [...]
UCI President Pat McQuaid has poured cold water on talk that the Tour Down Under could move to Melbourne or its state Victoria, saying that the race should remain in South Australia. Recent rumours suggested that a bid could be [...]
The Caisse d’Epargne team joins a list of ProTour squads looking for a new sponsor, following official confirmation that the main backer, a French bank, will not renew the contract which is due to end this season. According to Pérol [...]
Reinforcing his overall lead with yet another superb sprint, André Greipel outpaced Robbie McEwen (Katusha), Graeme Brown (Rabobank), Gert Steegmans (Team RadioShack) and the rest of the main bunch on the fourth stage of the Tour Down Under. The HTC [...]
