Liquigas-Doimo’s classics captain Frederik Willems is now a doubt for Sunday’s Ronde van Vlaanderen after suffering from pain in his knee. Starting the Three Days of De Panne with dossard number 1 as last year’s winner, the only Belgian on [...]
Today Tour of Flanders favorite Tom Boonen (Quick Step) took the time to do a reconnaissance ride of this year's route prior to the event this Sunday. He was joined by teammates Kevin De Weert, Maarten Wynants, Carlos Barredo and [...]
Team Sky's Edvald Boasson Hagen will be forced to miss the start in this weekend's Tour of Flanders. The team said the Norwegian is still suffering from Achilles tendinitis, something that has caused him problems following the year's first major [...]
Bbox Bouygues Telecom continued their winning ways in stage two of the Three Days of De Panne today, when Frenchman Sébastien Turgot took the sprint in Sint-Idesbald easily over his three breakaway companions in a shortened stage marked by foul [...]
Rabobank’s Nick Nuyens has recovered sufficiently from the injuries he sustained in Gent-Wevelgem, and will lead the Dutch team in this Sunday’s Ronde van Vlaanderen. Nuyens has had an unlucky classics season so far, suffering multiple punctures in the Omloop [...]
Last year Filippo Pozzato was clearly one of the strongest riders in the Ronde van Vlaanderen, or Tour of Flanders, but some negative tactics saw him mark Tom Boonen very closely and allow the latter’s team-mate Stijn Devolder to race [...]
This year’s Amgen Tour of California has continued to draw some of the biggest names in cycling with the announcement that ten-time Tour de France stage winner Mark Cavendish and multiple world time trial champion Michael Rogers will lead the [...]
The HTC-Columbia women's team is ready to go for their third consecutive Tour of Flanders victory this coming Sunday in Belgium. Judith Arndt and Ina-Yoko Teutenberg took home the honors in 2008 and 2009 respectively, and after a strong start [...]
Bradley Wiggins, who was the clear surprise in last year’s Tour de France in fourth place overall, has given the thumbs up to yesterday’s news that Team Sky is one of the six wildcard teams for the prestigious French event. [...]
OmegaPharma-Lotto’s three-time Ronde van Vlaanderen runner-up Leif Hoste approaches this Sunday’s race after some less than ideal preparation. The 32-year-old Belgian has been suffering from stomach flu and performing less than spectacularly at the Three Days of De Panne. He [...]
Stéphane Heulot was quite annoyed to hear about his team, Saur-Sojasun, not being invited to the 2010 Tour de France (July 3-25) by the Amaury Sports Organisation. Heulot lamented that the invitation process was unclear and regretted the chance to [...]
Bbox Bouygues Telecom's Steve Chainel continued the 2010 renaissance of French cycling by winning the first stage of the Three Days of De Panne from a breakaway of seven. Chainel took the sprint in front of Italians Luca Paolini and [...]
Cervélo TestTeam has announced today that Heinrich Haussler will be unable to ride in the classics this spring due to problems with his knee. The 26 year old had an impressive string of results last year at this time, including [...]
Despite recent reports suggesting that he had been suspended by his team pending the result of his latest CAS appeal, Alejandro Valverde has said that he will be back in action this Saturday in the Grand Prix Miguel Indurain. The [...]
Tour de France organiser, ASO, has announced the teams to be invited to this July’s race. Sixteen teams had already received invitations, as agreed with the International Cycling Union (UCI) in September 2008, and now a further six teams have [...]
On Wednesday, the Spanish Xacobeo Galicia team will have a collective training session. The ride will start at 10:00 in Ponteareas and more than 200km will be covered. The event is not just about team bonding, but will also serve [...]
During stage six of the Vuelta a Catalunya, Chris Anker Sørensen's opportunity to contest the Giro d' Italia overall for his Saxo Bank team literally came crashing to a halt. Sørensen said on his blog that he found himself sitting [...]
As reported yesterday on VeloNation, Spanish rider Manuel ‘Triki’ Beltran faces a financial penalty after losing an appeal to the Aribitration Committee of the FCI (Federazione Ciclistica Italiana, or Italian Cycling Federation). His former team Liquigas sought to fine him [...]
