Former Tour de France King of the Mountains Michael Rasmussen is facing a serious setback to his return to pro cycling after being diagnosed with mononucleosis. The illness is associated with debilitating fatigue and explains the slump inform that Rasmussen [...]
Tour de France favorite Alberto Contador finished up today's first stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y León safely in the peloton, but admits it wasn't as calm as he would have liked. “It has been a very nervous stage [...]
Garmin Slipstream’s Johan Van Summeren had a bad crash in Paris-Roubaix and saw his aims of a high finish slip away in the split-second it took him to hit the ground. He is still feeling the after-effects of that and [...]
Italian Davide Malacarne (Quick Step) has had a major setback to his 2010 season today after crashing in today's Brabantse Pijl. He was making his way through the caravan of cars after a wheel change 30 kilometers into the race, [...]
Now that the cobbled Classics have passed, HTC-Columbia will change out their lineup for spring for the Amstel Gold Race this Sunday. Austrian Bernhard Eisel was their man for the past several weeks, but the team will now look to [...]
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 [...]
Defending champion Sergei Ivanov is feeling upbeat about his chances of taking a repeat win in the Amstel Gold Race on Sunday, saying that his things have gone exactly to plan in the build-up to the event. “I think I [...]
Perhaps the greatest compliment in the sport of cycling is to be compared to Eddy Merckx and when it is Merckx himself making the comparisons, the plaudit is even more deserved. The Belgian was clearly impressed with the dominance shown [...]
Three-time Grand Tour winner, Denis Menchov, will resume his 2010 campaign with this week's five-day stage race, the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon. Menchov has been absent from racing for three weeks now after withdrawing from the Vuelta a Catalunya [...]
Cofidis rider Sébastien Minard won the French semi-Classic Paris-Camembert today, the third race in the Coupe de France series. The Frenchman took his win out of a breakaway over compatriot Maxime Médérel (BigMat-Auber 93). The duo made their decisive move [...]
There isn't a team in the world like it: Euskaltel-Euskadi. The team serves as an unofficial Basque national team, receives funding from the Basque government, and employs almost entirely native Basques, with star Samuel Sanchez as the notable exception. The [...]
Robert Gesink will lead the Dutch Rabobank team to its home classic, the Amstel Gold, on Sunday. The 23-year-old will be hoping to improve on his third place of last year, building on the good form he showed in last [...]
Giovanni Visconti (ISD-Neri) won the 166km stage 3 of the Tour of Turkey between Bodrum and Marmaris. The former Italian champion was the fastest of an audacious breakaway group of five riders that escaped on the final climb with 10km [...]
Servais Knaven, who announced his retirement earlier this week, has confirmed that he will be staying with the Milram team as a sports director. His last race will be the Etten-Leur on August 15th, which takes place near his home [...]
