The RadioShack team has denied reports that their captain, Lance Armstrong, will take part in the Tour de Suisse as part of his build-up for the Tour de France. This news keeps the possibility open that the American and Tour [...]
Team RadioShack sprinter Gert Steegmans will make his return to professional racing in next week’s Vuelta a Castilla y León in Spain, but expects that it will take him a while to get back to a reasonable level of form. [...]
Bahati Foundation cyclist Jorge Alvarado was struck and killed yesterday by a speeding car while training on Greenspot Road near Santa Ana Canyon Road in San Bernardino County. According to the sheriff's officials, the Honda Accord was racing two other [...]
Damiano Cunego abandoned today's fifth stage of the Tour of the Basque Country after less than 25 kilometers. Cunego suffered from intestinal problems during the night and had not recovered enough to get through the stage. Cunego was quite tired [...]
Anthony Ravard gave the French something to cheer about as the AG2R La Mondiale rider won the bunch sprint of the final stage in the Circuit de la Sarthe. He beat Luis León Sánchez (Caisse d'Epargne) and Julien Simon (Saur [...]
Joaquím Rodríguez attacked 21km from the line to take a well deserved win in the fifth stage of the Volta al País Vasco. He saved 14 seconds ahead of Samuel Sánchez, Alejandro Valverde and Chris Horner. Valverde managed to keep [...]
The Court of Arbitration in Sport (CAS) will hear Italian Davide Rebellin's appeal in his doping case on June 17th in Lausanne, Switzerland. Last November the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that Rebellin would have to return his Beijing Olympic [...]
While stressing that it is not making any assessment of guilt, the BMC Racing Team has decided to suspend former world champion Alessandro Ballan and Mauro Santambrogio from competition while an Italian anti-doping investigation is ongoing. The two have been [...]
Responding to reports mentioning him in connection with the ongoing anti-doping investigations in the town of Mariana Mantovana, Damiano Cunego has officially denied any involvement and said that he has not received any notification from prosecutors that he is one [...]
Like his brother Andy, Tour contender Frank Schleck is having a somewhat convoluted journey as he prepares for the Ardennes Classics and his big target in July. The 29 year old has been forced to pull out of the Vuelta [...]
HTC-Columbia have announced that Gent-Wevelgem winner Bernhard Eisel will be the sole leader for the team at this weekend's Paris-Roubaix. The American team is sending an experienced squad to support the Austrian in cycling's toughest one day Classic. "Everybody bar [...]
Tour of California organizers, AEG, have announced that they have expanded their partnership with the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), the organizers of the world's biggest bike race, the Tour de France. The two companies are working together to provide unprecedented [...]
Saxo Bank's Fränk Schleck has apologized to the Française des Jeux team after blaming one of their riders for causing his crash during yesterday's stage three of the Vuelta al Pais Vasco. The Luxemburger lashed out at the team yesterday [...]
Ina Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) won her third successive Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo, the first support race for this weekend’s Ronde van Drenthe World Cup. The German champion won the sprint from a breakaway group of eleven riders that escaped in the [...]
Samuel Sanchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) won the tough queen stage of the Vuelta al Pais Vasco between Murgia and Eibar Arrate. He beat Alessandro Valverde (Caisse d’Epargne) and Robert Gesink (Rabobank) into second and third after the first category climb of the [...]
Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) won stage 4 of the Circuit de la Sarthe from Angers to Pré-en-Pail as the fastest of a large group of breakaway riders. He beat Julien Simon (Saur-Sojasun) and Xaier Florencio (Cervélo TestTeam) into second and third. [...]
The Rabobank team has announced its eight-man squad for Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix, naming an all-Dutch line up. The team has named two 24-year-olds as captains for the race in former World cyclocross champion Lars Boom and Sebastian Langeveld. Both were strong [...]
Team RadioShack's captain Lance Armstrong says he will head to Switzerland to contest the Tour de Suisse for his Tour de France build-up for 2010, rather than take part in the Dauphiné Libéré in France. Armstrong has used the Dauphiné [...]
