While his Astana teammates were racing in the Volta ao Argarve, 2006 Tour de France winner Oscar Pereiro has been training in Portugal with the focus of helping Alberto Contador win Paris-Nice. "I can not wait to join the team [...]
The Mayor of Baisieux and Paris-Roubaix organizers have come to an agreement that will see the Carrefour de l'Arbre continue to be part of the race this April. Following last year's event Mayor Francis Delrue, passed a bylaw prohibiting the [...]
Rudy Pevenage, the team director of Rock Racing during the 2009 season, has left the squad. "Like Lorenzo Lapage since late 2009 I am no longer part of that team," said Pevenage in the Belgian newspaper De Morgan. "Besides, Lapage [...]
2008 Tour de France champion Carlos Sastre will seek to add a Giro win to his list of career results and, for the moment, continues to hold off on committing to the Tour de France. The 34 year old Cervélo [...]
Philippe Gilbert will miss Wednesday's reconnaissance ride for the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad with his Omega Pharma-Lotto team. The Belgian resides in Monaco and was unable to fly out today, due to a strike in French air traffic. Additionally, German airline [...]
World road race championship bronze medallist Joaquim Rodriguez has decided to target Paris-Nice rather than Tirreno Adriatico this year, following the news that the savage Montelupone climb will be dropped from the course. Rodriguez proved strongest on the wall-like ascent [...]
The Scheldeprijs in Schoten, near Antwerp, Belgium, is gaining popularity thanks to the shuffling of the Spring Classics calendar. Twelve ProTour team will take the start in the 2010 edition - twice as many as in the past. The Scheldeprijs [...]
Francesco Gavazzi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) sprinted to victory in the first stage of the Giro di Sardegna, ahead of Oscar Gatto and Giovanni Visconti (both ISD-Neri). Gavazzi took over the leader's jersey. Gatto launched the sprint for Visconti, but it didn't [...]
In a bid to improve his aerodynamic profile and his pedalling efficiency, thus boosting performance, Oscar Pereiro will undergo a biomechanical assessment tomorrow in Vigo. The 2006 Tour de France winner will be examined by Specialized technicians and his position [...]
The start and finish of the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, to be held this Saturday, will be at the same location this year, on the Sint Pietersplein in Gent, Belgium. This will change the ending of the 203km race from a [...]
The Bahati Foundation will make its official debut on March 12 in downtown Los Angeles. The event, starting at 7pm, will be held at Club Nokia, and will support an entertaining media presentation that highlights each of the three pillars [...]
Oscar Freire won for the second time in two days when he raced to victory in stage three of the Vuelta a Andalucía today. The Spaniard beat Lampre's Grega Bole and Sky's Simon Gerrans to the line. Mark Cavendish, who [...]
Double Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso has reiterated that he wants to set up a top-level cycling team led by Alberto Contador, and suggests it could be in place by next season if all goes well. "It's a project [...]
With four more days before the opening weekend for the Spring Classics season, Quick Step did a reconnaissance ride of parts of the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad route. Tom Boonen and Sylvain Chavanel were absent, as they will join the team [...]
Rabobank's Laurens ten Dam's has been diagnosed with a fractured pelvis following a crash in the final meters in yesterday's stage of the Ruta del Sol. Rabobank's team manager Frans Maassen cited strong winds blowing the crowd control barrier into [...]
Alessandro Petacchi will return to action in tomorrow’s Giro di Sardegna (Tour of Sardinia) after being sidelined from Saturday’s Trofeo Laigueglia with gastroenteritis. The Italian super-sprinter, nicknamed Ale-Jet, made a winning start to the 2010 season with two stage victories [...]
For many years human growth hormone (hGH) has been used in sport without any fear of detection, but those days have now come to an end. UK Anti-Doping today announced the first ever sanction for the substance, with Wakefield Trinity [...]
Rabobank's Laurens ten Dam went down hard in the finale of today's stage in the Ruta del Sol, putting a bit of a damper of teammate Oscar Freire's stage win. The climber went down with 300 meters left in the [...]
