Talented Irish climber Dan Martin will get his season underway today in the Tour of the Mediterranean, riding his first race since finishing eighth in the Giro di Lombardia last Autumn. The 23 year old is not on the official start [...]
Organizers of Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne have announced the teams that will be taking part in this year's event. The semi-classic is traditionally run the day after Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, and closes the opening weekend of the Belgian racing calendar. This year will [...]
Yauheni Hutarovich (La Française des Jeux) led home a group of sixteen riders to take a victory in stage 1 of the Tour of the Mediterranean, as he did last year. The Belarusian champion beat Frenchman William Bonnet (Bbox Bouyges [...]
Portuguese rider Rui Costa (Caisse d'Epargne) won the Trofeo Deià, the fourth round of the Challenge Mallorca, today. The 23-year-old, who won the Four Days of Dunkerque last year, beat Mallorcan local Joan Horrach (Team Katusha) in a two-up sprint [...]
Tucson Mayor Bob Walkup officially proclaimed the city of Tucson the “Winter Training Capital” in a ceremony Monday night. The event was held in conjunction with the “Evening With the Pros” reception hosted by UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by [...]
Gerald Ciolek and the Milram team have been dealt another blow today as it has been announced that the German sprinter has sustained a separated right shoulder and a broken scaphoid bone in his wrist, in addition to his broken [...]
Italian rider Francesco Chicchi blasted to victory on today’s fourth stage of the Tour of Qatar, unleashing a strong sprint on the Al Khor Corniche and pulling clear of the rest of the bunch. The Liquigas competitor was sitting fourth [...]
Tom Boonen has recently talked down his chances in bunch sprints, saying that he planned to focus instead on time trials, but his Quick Step manager Patrick Lefevere still believes in the Belgian champion’s fast-twitch fibres. Boonen took his first [...]
Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has confirmed to race organizers RCS Sport that he plans to participate in the season's opening Classic, Milan-Sanremo. Armstrong has taken part in the Italian race six times, and decided that the nearly [...]
Today RCS Sport has announced the teams selected to participate in Montepaschi Strade Bianche Toscana, Tirreno-Adriatico and Milan-Sanremo. Included on the list for Milan-Sanremo is the RadioShack team of seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, who is expected to [...]
Stage 1: Nevada City to Sacramento The 2010 Amgen Tour of California will begin with the first-ever visit to the picturesque town of Nevada City, Calif., which will also be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Nevada City Classic, in [...]
The Rabobank Team has decided to publish the various anti-doping controls members of the team underwent during the 2009 season. In total, the thirty rider roster was tested 484 times with both blood and urine samples taken. The team is [...]
According to Colombian newspaper El Diario del Sur, Maurico Soler has been unable to leave his home country of Colombia due to administrative problems. Subsequently, the new Caisse d'Epargne recruit was unable to make the trip to Spain last week [...]
Linus Gerdemann of Milram won the third race of the Mallorca Challenge, the Trofeo Inca, ahead of breakaway companions Rafael Valls (Footon-Servetto) and Manuel Vázquez (Andalucía-Cajasur). The Milram team was omnipresent throughout the stage, almost as if trying to console [...]
Gerald Ciolek's season is off to a bad start. The German broke his collarbone in a crash in the third stage of the Tour of Qatar. On a windy stage in a furious final sprint, the German came down, along [...]
Tom Boonen is back to his desert winning ways, taking the third stage of the Tour of Qatar in dominating fashion. With a huge gear, the Belgian propelled himself past Heinrich Haussler and Baden Cooke. A crash on the finishing [...]
Outsprinting Andre Griepel, the fastest rider in the Tour Down Under and the 2009 Vuelta a España, has handed Oscar Freire a boost in confidence and shows he is back after a difficult season last year. The Spaniard took yesterday's [...]
Nothing is as yet guaranteed, but Bjarne Riis’ ambition to continue onwards with a professional cycling team has moved a small step forward due to talks with a potential new backer. “We are speaking with a Danish company,” said the [...]
