The fallout from Rock Racing reverting to amateur status has begun. Thirty-five year old Jose Enrique Gutierrez has decided to retire. Earlier this week the UCI rejected Rock Racing's application for a Continental license. In the case of Gutierrez, it [...]
Tobias Erler has had a very impressive Tour de Langkawi, leading the race ever since he finished second on stage two last Monday. He currently holds a six-second lead over David Pell (Drapac Porsche Cycling) and eight over Jay Thomson [...]
Luke Roberts used his finishing speed to propel himself past Sergey Lagutin and Josep Jufré in a sprint finish of the Queen stage in the Vuelta a Murcia. Denis Menchov and Andreas Klöden came in fourth and fifth. Jufré took [...]
Speaking after making history as the first Malaysian to win a stage of the Tour de Langkawi, Anaur Manan has identified a European pro contract and riding the Tour de France as his goals for the next phase of his [...]
South African Robbie Hunter has pulled out of the Tour of Murcia on Friday after delivering wins to his Garmin-Transitions team in the first two stages of the event. Now Hunter will be witnessing a delivery of his own, as [...]
Ivan Basso and Franco Pellizotti are preparing the Giro d'Italia in earnest. The Liquigas-Doimo pair, together with Robert Kiserlovski, rode the last 90 kilometers of what will be stage 15 in the 2010 Giro d'Italia, on May 23rd. Basso, Pellizotti [...]
If yesterday’s stage win by Taiji Nishitani supported the belief that Asian cycling has stepped up a level in this Tour de Langkawi, today’s superb victory by Anaur Manan copperfastens that notion, proving beyond all doubt that the riders are [...]
Team Sky's Kurt Asle Arvesen is ready to get back to racing in the Tirreno-Adriatico next week after breaking his collarbone last month at the Tour of Qatar. Arvesen was rolling along with the peloton while still in the neutralized [...]
The RadioShack team will head to France this weekend to take on Paris-Nice with American Levi Leipheimer to lead their overall charge. Leipheimer hasn't taken part in the event since 2007, instead staying at home to race in the Tour [...]
Last week VeloNation reported that AG2r rider Rinaldo Nocentini was involved in a crash during the GP Insubria and broke his tibia and fibula. After successful surgery that lasted three and a half hours, the Italian is hoping that he [...]
The early years of the Tour de Langkawi very much saw the Asian riders play second fiddle to the teams and competitors from Europe, Australia and the US. A lack of experience, a smaller pool of talent, and a deficit [...]
Paris-Nice starts this Sunday and teams are releasing the names of the riders who will be lining up in what many consider the first important European stage race of the year. Paris-Nice is an eight-day stage race which starts in [...]
Drapac Porsche rider Peter McDonald has been steadily amassing King of the Mountains points in the Tour de Langkawi, taking the jersey on the opening stage and adding to his total on the stages since then. The 31 year old [...]
Robert Hunter sprinted to a second successive stage victory in the Vuelta a Murcia between Calasparra and Caravaca de la Cruz. Once again Graeme Brown (Rabobank) and Vicente Reynes were second and third behind the South African.The early kilometres were [...]
The Rabobank team will be sending an all Dutch team to France next week to contest the 2010 edition of Paris-Nice. With an average age of 25 years old, the team will be young, but will still be in with [...]
Fashion designer Micheal Ball's Rock Racing team has been refused a Continental license from the UCI and will now be forced to ride in the amateur ranks. Earlier this year Rock Racing's appeal for Pro Continental team status was rejected, [...]
Japanese road race champion Taiji Nishitani underlined the ever-increasing standard of Asian cycling when he galloped to victory on stage four of the Tour de Langkawi today. The 29 year old proved quickest on the downhill finish into Parit Sulong, [...]
Thomas Dekker was banned for two years by the Monaco cycling federation yesterday after testing positive for Dynepo, a variant of EPO, but is unhappy to have received to maximum possible sentence, according to de Telegraaf. "Why do I get [...]
