Alejandro Valverde won the 2010 Tour Mediterranean thanks to a second place in the final stage that traditionally ends on the Mont Faron climb outside Toulon. The stage was won by Francesco Masciarelli with a solo move. A late attack [...]
Paolo Bettini is first in line to replace former Italian sports director, Franco Ballerini, who died last week. The decision on Bettini, who won two World Championships and one Olympic gold under Ballerini, will likely come in two months. Ballerini, [...]
Brescia wants to host the final stage of the 2012 Giro d'Italia, according to Tuttosport, the same year of a possible start in the United States. The northern Italian city in Lombardia intends to request the final stage of Italy's [...]
Organizers of the Belgian season opener Omloop Het Nieuwsblad have announced the 25 teams that will be taking part in this year's event. This year will be the 65th edition of the the race, which will see 13 ProTour teams [...]
Bart Wellens took his first cross victory this season, just as everything is about to wrap up. Wellens won the GP De Eecloonaar solo, ahead of Dieter Vanthourenhout. The top favorites Sven Nys, Niels Albert and Zdenek Stybar finished third [...]
Gert Steegmans has not always had the luck in the last few years in his sport as a professional cyclist. Seeing the professionalism from his new teammate Lance Armstrong on the American RadioShack team, the Belgian realized he is the [...]
The fourth stage of the Tour of the Mediterranean has been plagued by weather problems, with Cofidis rider Julien El Farès crossing the provisional finish line in first place after 114 of the 160-kilometer race. Race officials were debating over [...]
The memory of the late Frank Vandenbroucke will be honored this coming June with a non-competitive cycling Tour titled the "VDB Forever Classic", according to Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad. Vandenbroucke died tragically from a pulmonary embolism last October while vacationing [...]
Niels Albert and Zdenek Stybar are equal on points heading into the last round of the Superprestige cross series on Sunday in Vorselaar. Whoever finishes ahead of the other is secured the overall title. However, the regulation is not clear [...]
Eddy Ratti from the De Rosa-Stac Plastic team has tested positive for recombinant EPO in a surprise doping control carried out by the International Cycling Union (UCI). The Italian was tested on January 21st near his home in Codogno, Italy. [...]
Stage 7: Los Angeles Individual Time TrialThe Amgen Tour of California descends on the City of Angels in Stage 7 with the 21-mile individual time trial. Los Angeles plays host to a course that is filled with several of the [...]
Team Sky's Bradley Wiggins is pleased with his performance during the six stage Tour of Qatar. With an eight second winning margin over Garmin-Transitions in the opening stage 1 team time trial, this was his first victory in 2010. Until [...]
The American BMC racing team had a good opening to the season, with Marcus Burghardt ending the week-long race in fifth place overall. A strong team effort protected Burghardt's high ranking. Up-and-coming John Murphy finished tenth in the bunch sprint. [...]
The Cervélo TestTeam was quite happy with its Tour of Qatar. After six stages, the team around sports director Jens Zemke won the teams classification and team member Heinrich Haussler took the points jersey. The only regret was the controversial [...]
Moisés Dueñas is looking to a comeback in pro cycling after a doping ban sidelined him for a year. Dueñas cooperated with the investigators, which helped him to receive a shortening of his initial two-year ban. Spanish paper El Adelanto [...]
In stage three of the Tour Méditerranéen, Yauheni Hutarovitch of Française des Jeux repeated his stage one victory in a sprint, besting Fabien Bacquet (BigMat-Auber 93) and Mathieu Drujon (Caisse d'Epargne). Leonardo Duque (Col/Cofidis, le Crédit en Ligne) and William [...]
Francesco Chicchi (Liquigas-Doimo) sprinted to his second win in the Tour of Qatar, beating Garmin's Tyler Farrar and Juan José Haedo (Saxo Bank). Tom Boonen was victim of a wave in the final 200m and only managed seventh place. Wouter [...]
Astana rider Alexandre Vinokourov has said that barring misfortune, team-mate Alberto Contador will once again beat Lance Armstrong and win this year’s Tour de France. What’s more, he asserts that providing the Spaniard remains motivated, that he can win the [...]
