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 [...]
Following recent confirmation of what were record-breaking audience figures for the Tour of Flanders, Belgian TV has reported that the viewership for Paris-Roubaix was even higher. A total of 1,147,525 people tuned in to watch Fabian Cancellara foil Tom Boonen’s [...]
The ProTour could be looking to head to Kazakhstan in 2011. Vice-President of the Kazakh Cycling Federation, Nikolai Proskurin, is pushing for a possible spot on the ProTour calendar for the central Asian nation next season via two one-day races. [...]
The Italian Professional Cyclists Association (ACCPI) has criticized the American BMC Racing team for suspending former Lampre riders Alessandro Ballan and Mauro Santambrogio in the wake of the "via col doping" investigation, which is currently underway in Padua, Italy. Current [...]
Following yesterday’s storming display by Fabian Cancellara in Paris-Roubaix, Team Saxo Bank owner Bjarne Riis believes that the Swiss rider can do the unthinkable and take his third straight Classic next weekend. The Dane won the Amstel Gold race with [...]
While the race win would have been a more prestigious result, the Cervélo Test Team of Thor Hushovd and Roger Hammond can be satisfied with the second and fourth places achieved in yesterday’s Paris-Roubaix Classic. Thor Hushovd outpsrinted Juan Antonio [...]
Saxo Bank has a cadre of budding Danish hopefuls in its ranks, from Matti Breschel to Jakob Fuglsang to last year's Japan Cup winner, Chris Anker Sørensen: Saxo Bank is the home of Danish talent. This May's Giro d'Italia was [...]
Fresh off equaling the record for Paris-Roubaix finishes, Milram's Servais Knaven has decided to announce his retirement from the sport. The 39-year-old said that his last race will be the Etten-Leur on August 15th, at home in The Netherlands. Knaven [...]
André Greipel (HTC-Columbia) won stage 2 of the Tour of Turkey in a bunch sprint after 181km between Kusudasi and Turgutreis. The German, already wearing the leaders jersey after winning yesterday’s stage 1 time trial, beat Angelo Furlan (Lampre-Farnese Vini) [...]
The course of the 2010 edition of the Eneco Tour has been announced; presenting a course, which organisers hope, will offer something for everyone. "The course of this year provides an exciting race,” said race director Rob Discart, “but it [...]
While Team Miram wasn't able to make a difference on the podium in yesterday's Paris-Roubax, the German team was still able to help write history in the "Queen of the Classics" with veteran Servais Knaven. The Dutchman started in Compiegne [...]
Luis Leon Sanchez of Caisse d’Epargne still leads the UCI’s “World Ranking” classification but now faces pressure from Quick Step’s Tom Boonen and several others. The ranking is based on the results of races in the ProTour series and the [...]
Yesterday's Paris-Roubaix wasn't all good news for Fabian Cancellara and his Saxo Bank team. While the Swiss rode away with the race nearly 50 kilometers from the finish, teammate Matti Breschel was forced to pack it in 30 kilometers after [...]
The team undoubtedly started the race dreaming of success but, in the end, the third place attained by Juan Antonio Flecha was Team Sky’s best result in Paris-Roubaix. Given Fabian Cancellara’s dominance and some soft pedalling by Hushovd when his [...]
Chris Horner celebrated his very first stage race victory in Europe, when he clinched the overall title in the Volta al País Vasco yesterday. Horner won the final time trial to stay ahead in GC by seven seconds over Spaniard [...]
Fabian Wegmann recovered quicker than expected from his collarbone fracture that he sustained in March. The Milram rider now plans to ride the Amstel Gold race on April 18. Wegmann will take a final decision after talking to the medical [...]
