An exciting final in the fourth stage of the 40th Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda was won by Josè Rodolfo Serpa Perez, after the jury decided that Matteo Carrara needed to be relegated to third place. In the 153km stage, Michele Scarponi [...]
Even though Fabian Cancellara took a brilliant win in today's Tour of Flanders, there were still some choice words from the Saxo Bank camp following the race. Danish champion Matti Breschel and eventual winner Cancellara were both faced with brake [...]
Grace Verbeke took out a solo win in the women's Tour of Flanders, held on a shortened route over many of the same climbs as the men's race. Marianne Vos sprinted past a small group of riders to finish second, [...]
Yesterday Lorenzo Bernucci's team, Lampre-Farnese Vini, said the rider would be a non-starter for today's Ronde Van Vlaanderen due to illness. According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, there are more pressing matters that forced the Italian to head back to [...]
Alessandro Ballan (winner in 2007), George Hincapie, Marcus Burghardt and Karsten Kroon will lead the BMC team in today's Ronde van Vlaanderen. Not a bad line-up to have for the Belgian classic. Or are there too many leaders? No, says [...]
This Sunday’s Tour of Flanders will mark the second Classic of the 2010 season and, like Milan-Sanremo, the list of possible winners is long and distinguished. This year’s course offers up some changes from last year’s edition, namely the omission [...]
Stijn Devolder has won the Ronde van Vlaanderen in the last two years and will try to defend the title tomorrow. He would become only the fifth person to win it three times. His teammate Tom Boonen can achieve the [...]
Pro Continental team Vacansoleil has shown some interest in riding the Tour of California this May, according to Wielermagazine.com. The Dutch team recently got a double dose of bad news in the form of non-invitations to start in both the [...]
Skil-Shimano's Yann Huguet won the 37th edition of the Hel van het Mergelland ahead of Jos van Emden of the favored Rabobank team. The two had escaped with 30km to go from a 20-man group. Huguet praised his teammates. "I [...]
Joaquín Rodríguez continued his winning way and took the GP Miguel Indurain over 179km, after having won the Volta a Catalunya just last week. Rodríguez was the strongest in a tough final, outlasting Alejandro Valverde and Michel Kreder. Numerous attacks [...]
It took Riccardo Riccò less than three weeks from the end of his doping suspension mid-March to winning a race. The Italian took the third stage of the Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda. In a hectic finale, six riders slipped away from [...]
Italian Vania Rossi, the former girlfriend of Riccardo Riccò, has had a "non-positive" result returned from her request for the B-sample to be tested. Rossi tested positive for the third generation form of EPO, CERA, at a control that was [...]
The Bouygues Telecom pair Steve Chainel and Sébastien Turgot had an outstanding Driedaagse de Panne-Koksijde and both Frenchmen are now looking ahead to Flanders' nicest - the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Both are confident for a good result in the grueling [...]
Following a long, rocky period of unpaid wages, dropped riders and a rejected licence application by the UCI, the Rock Racing team faces further uncertainty after its primary sponsor Rock & Republic filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The fashion [...]
Today the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced that Tom Zirbel has accepted the suspension for his doping offense. He had a positive doping control for DHEA, an exogenous steroid, following his second place finish at the US Time Trial [...]
Cyril Gautier gave his Bouygues Telecom team the fifth victory in seven days, by winning the 1.1 Route Adélie de Vitré in France solo. Gautier arrived at the finish 38 seconds ahead of a group of four, taking his first [...]
David Millar may have won two stages in the Vuelta a España since returning from his doping ban in 2006, but he considers yesterday’s overall victory in the Three Days of De Panne as being his most important result in [...]
Yesterday VeloNation reported that Filippo Pozzato's (Katusha) participation for this weekend's Tour of Flanders was in doubt, but now the Italian national champion has confirmed the worst, he will not be present to contest Sunday's event. The decision was taken [...]
