Aldo Sassi, Italian trainer for Cadel Evans and Ivan Basso, is fighting brain cancer and will receive radiation treatment today. Doctors recently diagnosed him with an advanced-level tumour after he was complaining of strong headaches during his work at the [...]
Florence moves closer to hosting the 2013 World Championships with the conclusion today of two days of inspections by the International Cycling Union (UCI). Two inspectors from the UCI accompanied the Florence organisers in a helicopter fly-over of the proposed [...]
In order to help race organisers to make their events kinder to the environment the international Cycling Union (UCI) has launched a new initiative that it calls “reCycling”. As part of the initiative the UCI has introduced its own eco-label [...]
Nicolas Roche has been riding strongly since the start of the season, going close to stage wins in Paris-Nice and the Volta ao Catalunya, but is still waiting to top a podium and spray the champagne. The 26 year old [...]
Team Sky have chosen their nine-man team for the Giro d'Italia next month, which will be the squad's debut performance in a Grand Tour. The team's overall hopes will be in the form on Briton Bradley Wiggins, who team principal [...]
Following a strong 17th place in Liège-Bastogne-Liège plus 25th in the Amstel Gold, Fabian Wegmann will continue his return from a broken collarbone in Saturday’s Eschborn-Frankfurt City loop, formerly known as the Rund um den Henninger-Turm. Twelve months ago Wegmann [...]
Lampre-Farnese riders Gilberto Simoni and Matteo Bono are travelling to the Trentino province in northern Italy this Thursday to reconnoitre the climb to the 2273 metre Plan de Corones. The already legendary unsurfaced climb will feature in a 12.9km uphill [...]
Italian Gabriele Bosisio has been given a two-year doping ban by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) after testing positive for the banned blood-booster EPO during a targeted out-of-competition test last September. The test was instigated by the International Cycling Union [...]
Former junior world champion and Beijing 2008 Olympian Mark French has won his defamation case against the Herald and Weekly Times, nearly six years after the Herald Sun newspaper published two articles labelling him a ‘disgraced drug cheat.’ The 25 [...]
The Spanish press have reported that documents seized in searches for Operación Grail, a doping scandal uncovered by the Guardia Civil last November, could link Caisse d'Epargne rider Alejandro Valverde to the use of banned doping practices. Doctor Walter Virú, [...]
Philippe Gilbert put together, in one go, the type of Spring Campaign that takes most riders years to assemble, and for many, is just not possible. Gilbert managed to race at the highest level from Milano-Sanremo all the way through [...]
Giovanni Petrucci, president on the Italian Olympic Committee, is trying to increase the pressure for a decision on extending Alejandro Valverde's (Caisse d'Epargne) two-year doping ban on Italian soil worldwide. This follows news yesterday in the Italian press of the [...]
Matti Breschel didn’t have the Classic season he would have liked due to a bad bike change in the Tour of Flanders and knee problems in Paris-Roubaix, but Bjarne Riis has put his faith in the Danish champion for the [...]
Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) won the first stage of the Tour de Romandie between Porrentruy and Fleurier in a bunch sprint. The 20-year-old Slovakian beat Francesco Gavazzi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) and Nicolas Roche (AG2R-La Mondiale) into second and third at the end [...]
The off-road battle between HTC-Columbia sprinters Mark Cavendish and André Greipel has taken another turn, with the latter announcing his intention to leave the team at the end of the season. Despite Greipel having taken eleven wins this season to [...]
The 2010 Tour of the Gila kicked off today, and it was 2009 defending champion Levi Leipheimer of the Mellow Johnnys team that took honors on the 151.5 kilometer first stage. Leipheimer was the fastest up the 2000 meter finishing [...]
Italian time trial champion Marco Pinotti (HTC-Columbia) took his first victory of the year today in the opening prologue of the Tour of Romandie. Pinotti scorched the 4.3 kilometer course in Porrentruy beating young Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) by a single [...]
Today defending Tour de France champion Alberto Contador finished two days of riding the cobblestones with Belgian former professional and Classics specialist Peter Van Petegem. The Spaniard has called on Van Petegem for help with navigating the pavé du Nord [...]
