Team RadioShack's Lance Armstrong announced another impromptu Twitter ride on Saturday with more than 5,000 cyclists turning out for the event. The seven-time Tour de France winner has organized similar events in Dublin, Glasgow and Los Angeles, and was floored [...]
Igor Astarloa is retiring after ten years as a professional, unable to find a new team for the 2010 season. The 2003 World Champion fell afoul with the International Cycling Union's (UCI) blood passport program in May of 2009. He [...]
Depending on when he finishes his professional cycling career, Lance Armstrong has said that he will compete in the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii in either 2011 or 2012. "I will be in Kona (the Ironman start and finish [...]
The jerseys for the 2010 Giro were presented in Firenze and the former maglia ciclamino to show the leader in the points classification will now be red. The leader's jersey (pink), the young rider's jersey (white) and the mountain's jersey [...]
Aurélien Duval's contract with the French Française des Jeux team was prematurely ended after his B-sample confirmed the positive reading of norfenfluramine, Wielerflits reports. Duval was tested on October 1, during the Circuit Franco Belge. The French federation (FFC) will [...]
David Kopp has signed with German Continental team Kuota-Indeland, according to Cyclismag. The German was suspended for doping until the beginning of this year and is now eligible to race again. Kopp started his career with Team Telekom, where he [...]
Cadel Evans was the last member of the BMC team to arrive in Adelaide for the start of the Tour Down Under, which officially kicks off on Sunday with the Cancer Council Helpline Classic (not counting towards the overall). The [...]
Saxo Bank directeur sportif Brad McGee has said that his team is motivated to perform well in the Tour Down Under, which begins next week. Jens Voigt, Stuart O'Grady, Juan José Haedo, Kasper Klostergård, Baden Cooke, Frank Hoj and Anders [...]
Organizers of the Munich Six Day race say the event for 2010 has been cancelled due to lack of crowds. The cancellation of the 46-year-old event is a huge blow to German Six Day racing. During the event last year [...]
German cyclist Matthias Kessler is currently in a medically induced coma in a hospital in the Spanish island of Mallorca after sustaining a head injury during a fall while training. The hospital told the AFP that his life is not [...]
The presentation for the Skil-Shimano cycling team took place today in Rotterdam, where the Tour de France will start in precisely 169 days. Along with the presentation, the riders also explored the course of the prologue that will kick off [...]
British sprinter Mark Cavendish has said that he is walking away from track racing, thus banking all hopes of a medal in the London 2012 Olympics on the road race. “I had my chance in Beijing 2008 and I have [...]
Double Tour de France stage winner Frank Schleck is just over a month away from his first race of the season, the Vuelta a Andalucia Ruta Ciclista Del Sol, and is building form along with his Saxo Bank team-mates at [...]
Up and coming Saxo Bank rider Jakob Fuglsang is currently on training camp with his team-mates in Fuerteventura but has had to take a short break from training to get over a knee problem. “I have had pain in the [...]
Bram Tankink of Rabobank was not too happy with his past season, which was hampered by crashes and injuries, but has trained well over the winter and looks forward to the next season. He has mixed feelings about 2009. "Injuries [...]
The famous Peugeot bicycles are back in Europe, after having been pulled from the market in 2002. The re-introduction happens with a partnership between Peugeot and Cycleurope.Toni Grimaldi, President and CEO of Cycleurope, made the announcement last week. "We are [...]
The Tour of Oman, which takes place from February 14 to 19, has some interesting riders on the start list. Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia), Tom Boonen (Quick Step) and Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) will use the race to kick off their 2010 campaign. [...]
Niels Albert will be riding in the cyclocross World Cup race on Sunday in Roubaix, France. An injection into the skin near his broken rib has relieved some of the pain. Albert was initially reluctant to such treatment. "He reacted [...]
