One year after finishing second to Sergei Ivanov, Karsten Kroon is returning to the Amstel Gold race with a new team and ambitions to finally stand on the top step of the podium. The 34 year old has twice finished [...]
RadioShack's Lance Armstrong is likely to continue racing his bike beyond the 2010 season, according to Belgian paper La Derniere Heure. The seven-time Tour de France winner was expected to retire from professional cycling after this year, but a contact [...]
Four days after he dominated Paris-Roubaix and took his second consecutive Classic victory, Fabian Cancellara has deciding against competing in this Sunday’s Amstel Gold Race. The big Swiss rider was tipped for the win by his Saxo Bank boss Bjarne [...]
Despite several reports originating from the Belgian media that he would miss the race, Gert Steegmans decided to compete after all in the Vuelta a Castilla y León. The Team RadioShack sprinter finished 81st on the opening stage to Burgos. [...]
Brit Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) believes that the training he has done will allow him easily to beat his rivals this July and take Tour de France's green jersey for the first time. "I know if I do the work then [...]
Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d’Epargne) is a rider whose characteristics are well suited to the classics of the Ardennes, the Amstel Gold Race, la Flèche Wallonne and Liege-Bastogne-Liege. The controversial Spanish rider approaches the races after two stage wins and finishing [...]
André Greipel (HTC-Columbia) won his third stage of this year’s Tour of Turkey between Denizli and Fethiye. The big German outsprinted Mattia Gavazzi (Colnago-CSF Inox) and Kenny Van Hummel (Skil-Shimano) into second and third after 221km. The longest stage of [...]
The hugely promising Norwegian talent Edvald Boasson Hagen had hoped to chase Classic victories this season but will now have to sit out this Sunday’s Amstel Gold Race, as well as next week’s Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. The Team Sky [...]
Theo Bos (Cervélo TestTeam) won the 209.9km second stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y León between Burgos and Carrion de los Condes. For the second day in succession the former track sprint, kilo and Keirin World champion outsprinted Graeme [...]
Saxo Bank's veteran Fränk Schleck was given the best possible birthday present he could have today by his wife Martine Schmid, when she gave birth to the couple's baby girl. Baby Schleck surprised her parents and demanded to be delivered [...]
Rabobank’s Oscar Freire wants team leadership for the Amstel Gold Race, despite the fact that his team-mate Robert Gesink placed third overall in the event last year. The Spaniard won Milan San Remo and, having won world championships on hilly [...]
Giovanni Visconti has forgotten about being overlooked for the Giro d'Italia, his problems this spring and has returned to win two stages of the Tour of Turkey. He leads the race with four stages left, looking ahead to a second [...]
Italian Francesco Moser passed the last two nights in the hospital in Trento, Italy, after being hit in the face with a tree branch and suffering a fractured cheekbone. The former cycling great was chopping wood at his farmhouse in [...]
Theo Bos used his sprinting expertise to take the opening stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y León, between Belorado and Burgos over 157,7 kilometers. Bos of the Cervélo TestTeam beat Graeme Brown (Rabobank) and Pablo Urtasun (Euskaltel-Euskadi) and took [...]
Sébastien Rosseler (RadioShack) beat his two breakaway companions Thomas de Gendt and Jurgen Van de Walle (Quick Step) for a prestigious win in the Brabantse Pijl in Belgium. The efforts by Rabobank to bring it back together for a bunch [...]
Team Katusha's Kim Kirchen was forced to sit out today's Brabantse Pijl due to a saddle sore that has been giving him problems since the E3 Prijs. Now the infection has also put his participation in this weekend's Amstel Gold [...]
Giovanni Visconti emerged victorious out of a seven-man breakaway in the fourth stage of the Tour of Turkey. Visconti answered the challenge of Tejay Van Garderen (HTC-Columbia) and David Moncoutié (Cofidis) on the uphill finish, then passed late escapee Giampaolo [...]
The Liquigas-Doimo team is going with young talents Roman Kreuziger and Vincenzo Nibali for the Ardennes trio of the Amstel Gold Race, Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. The team is giving veteran Franco Pellizotti a chance to test his form after [...]
