Le Tour de Langkawi 2010 Malaysia, 2.HC (March 1 – 7) 1: Kota Bharu – Kuala Berang (174.5km) 2: Kuala Terengganu – Chukai (182.9km) 3: Pekan, Pahang – Mersing, Johor (144km) 4: Mersing, Johor – Parit Sulong, Johor (163.5km) 5 [...]
After a couple of close calls landing him on the podium this season, Giovanni Visconti (ISD - Neri) finally got his first win of 2010 in today's Classica Sarda. Visconti beat Fabio Sabatini (Liquigas-Doimo) and Geoffroy Lequatre (RadioShack) into second [...]
Christophe Riblon outfoxed a group of 20 to take the Boucle du Sud-Ardèche, ahead of Pierrick Fédrigo and Cyril Gautier, both riding for Bbox Bouygues Telecom. The group formed in the final part of the race, marked by the climb [...]
Bobbie Traksel emerged the victor in Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne, a race dominated by a heavy storm that raged over central Europe on Sunday. Traksel won the sprint of a three-man lead group in a race that was shortened by 20km, due to [...]
Theo Bos took his biggest win on the road so far by outsprinting Mark Cavendish in the Clásica de Almería on Sunday. Graeme Brown finished third and Luis León Sánchez fourth in the bunch sprint. "It was a pretty hard [...]
Cervélo Test Team rider Heinrich Haussler emphasised before the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad that he wouldn’t be in a position to chase a big result due to a sore knee, but proved himself wrong yesterday when he finished as runner-up to [...]
Two weeks after winning the Tour of the Mediterranean in his first participation, Alejandro Valverde returned from a planned break in his racing this Sunday at the Clásica of Almeria. Valverde sealed up his win in the French race two [...]
Italian Roberto Ferrari (De Rosa-Stac Plastic) won a rain-soaked GP Lugano today from an escape group of seven. His win came after 142.8 kilometres, 35.7 less than the organisers had planned. The organisers decided to cut one of the race's [...]
Italian Damiano Cunego (Lampre-Farnese Vini) is fighting ahead towards Paris-Nice despite a crash in the Vuelta a Andalucía last week. "I have had to do it other times, at the 2008 Tour de France when I crashed and at the [...]
Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Doimo) marked the start of his season in the Italian enclave Campione d'Italia yesterday, only a few kilometres from his home in Cassano Magnago, at the GP Insubria. "Tutto OK," Basso wrote on his Twitter. "It was the [...]
Shelley Evans of the US National Team won her fourth stage of the Tour of New Zealand in the final Downtown Wellington criterium. Former Australian criterium champion Kirsty Broun (AIS Australian Women’s Cycling) was second and Joanne Kiesanowski (New Zealand [...]
Shelley Evans of the US National team won her third stage of the Tour of New Zealand in another bunch sprint on stage 5 between Palmerston North and Masterson. Once again the Peanut Butter & Co-Twenty12 rider was too fast [...]
Albert Loddo won the final stage of the Giro di Sardegna in a sprint ahead of Alessandro Petacchi, who recovered well from his crash yesterday. Roman Kreuziger took the overall after ending the day in the peloton. He won ahead [...]
AG2r rider Rinaldo Nocentini was involved in a crash during the GP Insubria today and broke his tibia and fibula. Nocentini is most famous for spending eight days in the coveted yellow jersey at the Tour de France last year. [...]
Samuel Dumoulin won the Giro dell Insubria. After 181 kilometers, he beat José Rojas (Caisse d`Epargne) and Nicolas Roche (AG2R). World Champion Cadel Evans (BMC) ended in fifth place, behind Leonardo Bertagnolli (Androno Giocattoli). Evans was quite pleased with his [...]
Emma Johansson won the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad for women, held on a similar, but shorter route than the men's race. The Swedish rider was the best sprinter in a group of four in Gent, Belgium, after 125.7 km. Liesbet De [...]
Belgium's official meteorology service RMI is forecasting some bad weather during Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne tomorrow prompting organizers to put in additional security measures for the race. The weather service has recorded some powerful wind gusts on Saturday evening and say they are [...]
According to a post on his own blog, Tom Zirbel announced his retirement from the sport of cycling. Zirbel tested positive for DHEA after the 2009 U.S. Time Trial Championships in Greenville, South Carolina in which he placed second to [...]
