Pierrick Fédrigo (Bbox Bouygues Telecom) won the Critérium International overall title by placing 13th in the final time trial. David Millar won the 7.7km race against the clock, ahead of Alberto Contador and Michael Rogers. Fédrigo had a 17-second margin [...]
Russel Downing took the sprint in the short, 75km stage two of the Critérium International. Overall leader Pierrick Fédrigo finished third to take two more bonus seconds. He now leads Tiago Machado by 17 seconds and Samuel Sánchez by 23 [...]
In the finale of the E3 Prijs Harelbeke on Saturday, Fabian Cancellara, Tom Boonen, and Juan Antonio Flecha stole the show. Behind, Filippo Pozzato sprinted to 4th place out of the chasing group of six. It was a sterling four-some [...]
Juan José Haedo won the final stage of the Volta a Catalunya when he took the bunch sprint ahead of Robert Förster and Nicolas Roche. Joaquím Rodríguez defended his overall lead, ahead of Xavier Tondo and Rein Taaramae. Saxo Bank's [...]
RadioShack's manager Johan Bruyneel was impressed with new recruit Tiago Machado's performance at this weekend's Critérium International, but doesn't see him as being a part of the Tour de France team this year. The promising young Portuguese rider leapt away [...]
Cadel Evans finished sixth overall in the three-day, two-stage Critérium International on Corsica this weekend. The Australian had mixed feelings about it, calling his race "neither good nor bad." He is now shifting his focus towards the Giro d'Italia in [...]
RadioShack's team captain Lance Armstrong wasn't impressed with Tour de France favorite Alberto Contador's performance in this weekend's Critérium International, and said that if the Spaniard's aim was to provoke him, it failed. "If it was a provocation [against me], [...]
Will Routley (Jelly Belly pb Kenda) took victory in stage one of the Redlands Classic on a challenging 27.2 kilometer circuit through the streets of Beaumont. The Canadian made his move to join Luis Amaran (Jamis-Colavita) and Ben Jacques-Mayne (Bissell) [...]
Austrian Bernhard Eisel said he's ready to lead the HTC-Columbia charge in Belgium this Sunday at Gent-Wevelgem. Last year he didn't finish the race, but he rode to a strong second place finish in Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne behind Quick Step's Tom Boonen, [...]
Frenchman Pierrick Fedrigo (BBox Bouygues Telecom) won the 177 kilometer first stage of this year’s Critérium International with a well timed attack in the closing kilometers, while RadioShack’s Tiego Machado flew the flag for the American team finishing in second [...]
HTC-Columbia's Ina-Yoko Teutenberg raced aggressively in the criterium at the Redlands Classic on Saturday, distancing herself from the main field by 1'12" with the help of her seven breakaway companions. Theresa Cliff-Ryan (Colavita/Baci pb Cooking Light) sprinted to the race [...]
Saxo Bank's Fabian Cancellara took a convincing win in the E3-Prijs today, with a powerful move from more than a kilometer out to finish off breakaway companions Tom Boonen (Quick Step) and Juan Antonio Flecha (Team Sky). The Swiss champion's [...]
In recent days the Spanish media has been speculating as to why Spaniard Alejandro Valverde was left off the start list of the Volta a Catalunya this week. The thought was that perhaps his Caisse d'Epargne team had been notified [...]
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong had a bad day at the office in today's first stage of the Critérium International. The anticipated match-up between the American and his former teammate Alberto Contador took an unexpected turn when Armstrong [...]
Critérium International pre-race favorite Alberto Contador (Astana) cited seasonal allergies as his main adversary on the island of Corsica today. The pollen in the air is said to have prevented the Spaniard from having the legs follow the attacks on [...]
Samuel Dumoulin continued the French Cofidis team's hot streak in Barcelona today, by winning the hilly sixth stage of the Volta a Catalunya. The Frenchman's teammate Rein Taaramäe finished just behind the sprinter, with overall leader Joaquin Rodriguez (Katusha) placing [...]
Past Tour de France winner Stephen Roche is known for being outspoken about matters relating the sport, and has given a frank assessment of the first meeting of Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong since the 2009 Tour de France. The [...]
ISD-Neri's Bartosz Huzarski took the victory today in the 170 kilometer fifth and final stage of the Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali from Fiorano Modenese to Sassuolo. The Polish rider came in with a 45 second lead over Stefano [...]
