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 [...]
As one of the strongest climbers in the peloton, Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde today will be one of those in contention to take over the leader’s jersey in the Vuelta al Pais Vasco. The Caisse d’Epargne rider already topped the [...]
Quick Step's Tom Boonen and Stijn Devolder will be equipped with new Merckx bikes for Paris-Roubaix this Sunday in an effort to give them every possible advantage in this year's "Hell of the North". The rest of the team is [...]
Despite making some initial progress with respect to his Achilles tendon injury, Team Sky’s Edvald Boasson Hagen will be forced to miss this Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix. Initially the team had hoped that their decision for him to skip last weekend’s Tour [...]
Yesterday La Gazzetta Dello Sport broke the news that a major anti-doping investigation is taking place in the town of Mariana Mantovana in Northern Italy. The paper has continued publishing information on the case this morning, saying that current and [...]
Organizers for the Tour of California, AEG Sports, have been forced to change the route of stage six due to problems with the road. The stage was originally scheduled to start in Pasadena and end atop Big Bear, but now [...]
Lampre-Farnese Vini sprinter Francesco Gavazzi brought some much needed good news to his team today by winning the 187 kilometer stage three of the Vuelta al Pais Vasco from Viana to Amurrio. Spaniard Oscar Freire (Rabobank) finished in a disappointing [...]
On the day that his team leader Lance Armstrong dropped out with stomach problems, young Portugese prodigy Tiago Machado (RadioShack) won the 6.8km stage 3 time trial of the Circuit de la Sarthe-Pays de la Loire in the Loire town [...]
Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) won the Scheldeprijs race in a bunch sprint in Schoten, on the outskirts of the Belgian city of Antwerp. He beat Robbie McEwen (Katusha) and Robert Förster (Milram) into second and third place to become the first [...]
In an indication of cycling’s ongoing popularity in Belgium, a record number of viewers tuned in to watch Fabian Cancellara and Tom Boonen go head to head in Sunday’s Tour of Flanders. The average audience for the live broadcast of [...]
Anthony Ravard (AG2R-La Mondiale) won the 97km stage 2, the first part of today’s Circuit de la Sarthe split stage, between Varades and Angers. Yesterday’s third place finisher proved to be the fastest in a sprint finish in the Loire-side [...]
RadioShack team leader Lance Armstrong has had a setback to his racing schedule, with stomach problems forcing him to pull out of the Circuit de la Sarthe in France. Today would have given the American a chance to once again [...]
Two sprints in two days should have been the ideal scenario for Rabobank's fast man Oscar Freire, but he came up short both times. On Monday he was disqualified for leaving his line and squeezing out Alejandro Valverde. On Tuesday, [...]
The organizers of the Amgen Tour of California have announced the 16 teams that will form the peloton for the week-long race. The event has been moved to May (16-23), which allows for a more selective route. Several passes that [...]
Alejandro Valverde won the sprint in the second stage of the Vuelta al País Vasco against Oscar Freire without controversy this time. The peloton managed to neutralize a last-minute three-man move with 200m to go. Freire was perfectly placed behind [...]
Cofidis rider Jens Keukeleire leads the UCI Europe Tour ranking. The 21-year-old Belgian had a dream start to his professional career, taking wins in the GP Le Samyn, a stage and the overall in the Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen and the [...]
