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 [...]
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 [...]
Omega Pharma-Lotto was presented in Belgium earlier this week. Its season was off to a bad start when Cadel Evans decided to unexpectedly leave the team and join the BMC squad. But the Belgian team has several other key riders they [...]
Fränk Schleck thinks he can win the Tour de France this year. He isn't the only one, as brother Andy also believes his older brother is capable of winning the three-week Grand Tour in France. To make things more complicated, [...]
Italian champion Filippo Pozzato was one of the strongest riders in last year’s first spring Classics, performing well in both the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix, but not managing to win. The 28 year old Katusha rider was second in [...]
Footon-Servetto-Fuji has started off their season with strong performances at the Tour Down Under and the Tour de San Luis in Argentina, taking stage victories in both. With the Mallorca Challenge this Sunday they are hoping to continue their winning ways. [...]
Today USA Cycling announced the fourth edition of the USA Cycling Professional Tour, which is highlighted by an expanded calendar and two first-time UCI events. Last year Garmin-Transitions’ rider Dave Zabriskie captured the individual title, with HTC-Columbia edging out Zabriskie's [...]
Dutch ex-racers Leontien van Moorsel, Michael Boogerd and Joop Zoetemelk are recording a Tour de France song next week. The trio is helping to get the Tour off to a good start in their native Netherlands. The prologue will take [...]
Today the International Cycling Union's (UCI) License Commission released the list of teams that have been given "wild card" status for 2010. Only UCI Professional Continental teams can earn "wild card" status, which gives the team the right to be [...]
Cervélo TestTeam sprinter Kirsten Wild won the final stage of the Tour of Qatar today in a sprint finish on the Doha Corniche. The stage win, along with her time bonuses throughout the race, were enough for her to successfully defended her overall title from last [...]
The third day of the Etoile de Bessèges saw Vacansoileil's Borut Bozic's sprint dominance come to an end, with Frenchman Samuel Dumoulin besting the Slovenian in the 148.3 kilometer stage from Pont-Saint-Esprit to Bagnols-sur-Cèze. Dutchman Tom Veelers (Skil-Shimano) rounded out [...]
Cervélo TestTeam rider Lizzie Armitstead had an unlucky start to her first season with her new team, crashing out of stage one of the Ladies Tour of Qatar. Despite being unable to finish the stage though, the young Briton was [...]
Last month Portuguese rider Manuel Cardoso burst into the limelight when he won the third stage of the Santos Tour Down Under, out-sprinting Vuelta a España winner Alejandro Valverde and world champion Cadel Evans into Stirling. The powerful display marks [...]
Cervélo TestTeam sprinter Kirsten Wild won the final stage of the Tour of Qatar today in a sprint finish on the Doha Corniche. The stage win, along with her time bonuses throughout the race, were enough for her to successfully defended her overall title from last [...]
The third day of the Etoile de Bessèges saw Vacansoileil's Borut Bozic's sprint dominance come to an end, with Frenchman Samuel Dumoulin besting the Slovenian in the 148.3 kilometer stage from Pont-Saint-Esprit to Bagnols-sur-Cèze. Dutchman Tom Veelers (Skil-Shimano) rounded out [...]
Cervélo TestTeam rider Lizzie Armitstead had an unlucky start to her first season with her new team, crashing out of stage one of the Ladies Tour of Qatar. Despite being unable to finish the stage though, the young Briton was [...]
Last month Portuguese rider Manuel Cardoso burst into the limelight when he won the third stage of the Santos Tour Down Under, out-sprinting Vuelta a España winner Alejandro Valverde and world champion Cadel Evans into Stirling. The powerful display marks [...]
