Power sprinter Niko Eeckhout (An Post-Sean Kelly) took the final stage of the Etoile de Bessèges stage race, ahead of Valentin Iglinskiy and Hans Dekkers. A tenth place in the 145-kilometer stage was enough for Samuel Dumoulin to take the [...]
Cervélo TestTeam were penalized by the race jury following their second place finish today during the Team Time Trial (8.2 km) at the first stage of the men's Tour of Qatar in West Bay Lagoon. The team was judged to [...]
Sven Nys is still going strong as the cyclocross season nears its end and with a late attack he surprised the five-man lead group to win the Superprestige in Zonhoven, Belgium. Niels Albert managed only fifth place. World Champion Zdenek [...]
Italy's Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) sprinted to a record sixth victory in-a-row at the GP Etruschi yesterday, but it was not without incident. In the closing kilometres, he insulted and grabbed Italian rival Giovanni Visconti (ISD-Neri). "I have always had [...]
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 [...]
Today is an important day for Edvald Boasson Hagen, who gets his 2010 season underway and also makes his official debut with his new Team Sky squad. The Tour of Qatar begins with a short 8.2 kilometre team time trial, [...]
Sprinter Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) took his third victory of the season with a sprint in the GP Costa degli Etrusci in Doneratico, Italy. He beat Alberto Loddo (Androni Giocattoli-Serramanti PVC Diquigiovanni) and Fabio Sabatini (Liquigas-Doimo) into second and third, [...]
Eddy Merckx has reacted angrily to reports in the media that he suffered from intestinal cancer a few years ago, according to Het Nieuwsblad. The Belgian media, and several news agencies, reported a conversation that apparently took place between Merckx [...]
Luis León Sánchez is looking forward to the Mallorca Challenge, where the Caisse d'Epargne rider wants to continue to build his form that saw him finish second in the Tour Down Under. Surprisingly, the 2009 Paris-Nice winner will not defend [...]
Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) showed that he is not yet ready to hand over to the next generation of riders by outsprinting newly crowned World champion Zdenek Stybar (Telenet-Fidea) in the Krawatencross in Lille, Belgium. Nys and Stybar took the lead [...]
Arnaud Molmy (Roubaix-Lille Metropole) has won the fourth stage of the Etoile de Bessèges in Alès, but only after the disqualification of Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis), according to wielermagazine.com. Matthieu Lagadnous (la Française des Jeux) was second and Pieter Ghyllebert (An [...]
Belgian legend Eddy Merckx has confirmed that he suffered from intestinal cancer some years ago, but acknowledged that he has had no problems since, according to AFP. The five-time Tour de France winner lost a great deal of weight in the [...]
Garmin-Transitions manager Jonathan Vaughters was disappointed, to say the least, to lose Tour de France fourth place Bradley Wiggins to the new British Team Sky over the winter. Losing Wiggins could have spelled the end of the team, says Vaughters [...]
HTC-Columbia sprinter Chloe Hosking’s Tour of Qatar finished 150 metres early yesterday as she touched a wheel in the sprint and crashed heavily. She was taken from the scene by ambulance as a precaution but the team confirmed that she [...]
Kurt Hovelijnck of Quick Step has recovered from his bad crash in the spring of last year and will be racing for the first time in 11 months at the Mallorca Challenge, which starts on Sunday. The Belgian is quite [...]
HTC-Columbia sprinter Chloe Hosking’s Tour of Qatar finished 150 metres early yesterday as she touched a wheel in the sprint and crashed heavily. She was taken from the scene by ambulance as a precaution but the team confirmed that she [...]
