The decision for Tom Boonen to ride both the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen and Gent-Wevelgem this weekend is a bad one, and is just to please the sponsors, says Quick Step director sportif Wilfried Peeters. The weekend double means changes to [...]
The much anticipated duel between Taylor Phinney and Jack Bobridge in the individual pursuit at this week's World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark wasn't meant to be, with the Australian missing the mark for the gold medal round this time around. [...]
Four years ago Swiss entrepreneur Andy Rihs ran the gamut of emotions as a team owner in the sport of cycling. At the end of July he was on top of the world after winning his first Tour de France [...]
Bjarne Riis’ ongoing search for a new backer for his cycling team, currently sponsored by Saxo Bank, may have a promising lead. According to the team director Trey Greenwood, it is in talks with a company which may be interested [...]
Anna Meares of Australia took the gold medal in the 500 meter time trial today at the World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, besting defending champion and reigning world record holder Simona Krupeckaite of Lithuania and Olga Panarina of Belarus, who [...]
World road race champion Cadel Evans is happy with the BMC Racing team’s invite to the Giro d’Italia, and will test his form in the mountain stages of the race. “I’m looking forward to the interesting stages, such as the [...]
Day one of the UCI track world championships in Copenhagen, Denmark saw Germany unseat France in the team sprint competition with the time of 43.433 seconds. France have been the team sprint champions since 2006, so the defeat is a [...]
Jose Serpa (Androni Giocattoli) won the second stage of the Settimina Coppi e Bartali between San Lazzaro di Savena and Faenza. The Colombian climber won the sprint from a group of six breakaway riders, with Fortunato Baliani (Miche) in second [...]
Saxo Bank's Danish national champion Matti Breschel won the opener to the Flemish week of cycling, Dwars door Vlaanderen, by nonchalantly riding away from the group of favorites with just over 20 kilometers left and sticking it until the end. [...]
Team Rabobank is lining up at this Sunday's Gent-Wevelgem with both of their sprinters: triple world champion Oscar Freire and Australian Graeme Brown. The Belgian race is known as the sprinter's classic due to its flat terrain, however the riders [...]
Race organiser ASO has announced the 25 teams invited to both Ardennes classics, la Flèche Wallonne and Liege-Bastogne-Liege. In addition to the eighteen ProTour teams, seven wild cards have been awarded to Professional Continental teams. French teams Cofidis and Bbox-Bouyges [...]
With just three wins thus far, it’s been a lean early-season for the Saxo Bank team. Yesterday JJ Haedo went close to increasing that tally when he finished a close second to Mark Cavendish (HTC Columbia) on stage two of [...]
Xavier Tondo (Cervélo TestTeam) won the third stage of the Volta a Catalunya between La Vall d'en Bas and La Seu d'Urgell. He beat Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) in a two-up sprint after the pair escaped on the final climb of [...]
Today was the first day of the UCI track world championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, where American Sarah Hammer rode to her first rainbow stripes of the competition by beating Britain's Wendy Houvenaghel in the 3000 meter individual pursuit. It has [...]
It is early days in the season, but thus far 2010 has seen what appears to be a clear step-up in results and confidence for Nicolas Roche. He was third, fourth, sixth and eighth on stages of Paris-Nice and finished [...]
Before heading off to the island of Corsica for the Critérium International, RadioShack's seven-time Tour de France winner, Lance Armstrong, stopped in Paris to present French President Nicolas Sarkozy with a new Trek Madone. Armstrong communicated via Twitter that he [...]
In previous years he’d be counting down the days to the start of the world track championships but this time, five-time world sprint champion Theo Bos is completely focussed on another major target. On Sunday the 26 year old will [...]
Liquigas-Doimo sprinter Francesco Chicchi took the opener today in the Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali in a sprint finish. The Italian continued his strong start to the season on the 81 kilometer circuit in Riccione taking honors as he [...]
