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 [...]
Yesterday’s upheaval at the Tour of Qatar saw many riders and teams drop out of contention when the peloton blew apart, including overnight race leader Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Sky). Fierce racing in crosswinds brought about an important selection and, [...]
As Italy prepares to say goodbye to national coach Franco Ballerini, who tragically died in a rally car accident yesterday, tributes were paid by Renato Di Rocco, the chairman of the Italian Cycling Federation (FCI). He also hinted at a [...]
Italian directeur sportif Giuseppe Martinelli, who guided Marco Pantani to his victories in the 1998 Giro d’Italia and Tour de France, has spoken glowingly of Astana team leader Alberto Contador, with whom he will work in 2010. Martinelli praises the [...]
Late last year AEG released details of the upcoming Tour of California through well executed and planned Twitter posts from Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer and George Hincapie. All three also confirmed their participation in the 2010 edition of the event. [...]
Micheal Ball's Rock Racing team submitted paperwork for a Continental license to the UCI . The UCI is to review the application and decide by Wednesday if the team will be granted a license. Earlier this year Rock Racing's application [...]
RCS Sport has postponed the presentation of the 2010 Tirreno-Adriatico that was set to take place this Thursday, a move done in support of the late Franco Ballerini's family. Ballerini died tragically yesterday when the Renault Clio rally car he [...]
Garmin-Transitions rider Steve Cozza has added to the list of riders injured in this year’s Tour of Qatar, crashing in the middle stages of stage 2 and breaking his collarbone. The incident happened as the lead held by breakaway duo [...]
Rabobank's triple World Champion Oscar Freire sprinted to victory on the second stage of the Mallorca Challenge today. He beat HTC-Columbia's André Greipel and Footon-Servetto-Fuji's Manuel Cardoso to the line, with the pair finishing second and third respectively. With his win [...]
Two-time national under-23 champion Ian Bibby (Motorpoint-Marshalls Pasta) proved the strongest in an exciting senior men’s race, according to British Cycling. The championships were rescheduled after the original event in early January had to be cancelled due to heavy snow. [...]
Team Sky's Kurt Asle Arvesen has broken his collarbone at the Tour of Qatar today, following his team's stage victory in yesterday's team time trial. Arvesen was rolling along with the peloton while still in the neutralized zone when he [...]
One year after the tragic death of Belgian Frederick Nolf, his former Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator team took an emotional victory with Geert Steurs in today's stage two of the Tour of Qatar, with breakaway companion Wouter Mol (Vacansoleil) finishing in second [...]
Five years after he finished second overall in the Tour de Langkawi, then went on to take a stage, the King of the Mountains award and third in the general classification of the Giro d’Italia, Jose Rujano is hearing back [...]
German rider Jan Ullrich has had many of his more recent performances discredited due to his links with Operacion Puerto, but efforts to strip him of the gold and silver medals he achieved in the 2000 Olympics appear to be [...]
Andy Schleck was scheduled to start his season today at the Challenge Mallorca. Instead, the Luxemburger is on his way home and nursing a knee injury, which he hopes he caught early enough as not to cause further problems down [...]
Robbie McEwen won the opening race for the Mallorca Challenge, the Trofeo Palma, ahead of Koldo Fernández and Oscar Freire. André Schulz was fourth, ahead of Manuel Cardoso, winner of a stage in the Tour Down Under. The race was fast with [...]
Team Sky continued its good debut season with a win in the opening team time trial of the Tour of Qatar. The British squad beat the Cervélo Testteam by eight seconds over the 8.2-kilometer course. Garmin was third, also eight [...]
