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 [...]
During a press conference Tuesday in Olten, Switzerland, former BMC Racing rider Thomas Frei confessed that he had been actively doping for the past two years. With his admission, the Swiss rider waived his right to have his B-Sample tested. [...]
Mark Cavendish’s long-time coaching advisor Rod Ellingworth has seen the Manxman struggle to perform in 2010, clocking up just one win this season compared to eight by the same point in 2009, but he believes the tide is turning and [...]
BMC Racing team owner Andy Rihs has said he wants his team to be a part of the ProTour in 2011. If the team can secure entry, it would mean that it would no longer depend on wildcard entries to [...]
Four-time world champions Alex Rasmussen and Michael Mørkøv have been mixing road and track seasons for quite a while, and generated a lot of publicity for their Saxo Bank team during the off season when they won several six-day races. [...]
Five days after it was revealed that Thomas Frei had returned a positive A sample for EPO, his BMC Racing team has announced that he has confessed to using the banned drug and been fired from the squad. In a [...]
Even after finishing a relatively pedestrian 44th in Sunday's Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Katusha's Joaquim Rodriguez can look back at the first phase of his 2010 season with great satisfaction. The rider from Catalunya assembled a splendid spring highlighted by three victories: the [...]
Euskaltel's Sammy Sanchez was a curious non-starter in last week's Ardennes Classics, but his absence was an apparent sign of his devotion to July's Grand Boucle. The Olympic road race champion, who has excelled in one day events as well [...]
Sylvain Chavanel’s crash in the closing stages of yesterday’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège was worse than first thought, with the Quick Step rider having sustained a fractured skull. The French rider, who has been regarded as his country's best hope for victory in [...]
Team Astana's Alexandre Vinokourov has responded to negative reactions after his victory in Liege-Bastogne-Liege yesterday in an open letter to the cycling community. The Kazakh returned from a two-year doping suspension last year, and is hopeful about moving on from [...]
Now fully recovered from a damaged shoulder and broken hand suffered in the Tour of Qatar in February, Gerald Ciolek will finally get back to racing tomorrow when he lines out in the Tour de Romandie. The Swiss race will [...]
The Tour de Romandie, Switzerland’s second stage race, starts tomorrow marking the end of the classics season and the approach of the first of the year’s Grand Tours. The race’s position in the calendar allows the Ardennes specialists to capitalise [...]
Following a recent number of anti-doping non-negatives, another provisional suspension has been announced following the news that Andalucia-CajaSur rider Manuel Vazquez Hueso has provisionally tested positive for EPO. “The decision to provisionally suspend this rider was made in response to [...]
The Swiss Court of Human Rights rejected the appeal of Spaniard Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne) to reverse the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) decision to uphold his ban on racing in Italy. The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) instituted Valverde's [...]
Although the classics are now over, Tour de France champion Alberto Contador (Astana) has stayed in the north of Europe. The overwhelming favourite for this coming July’s race is there to learn how to ride the notorious pavé du Nord, [...]
South African sprinter Daryl Impey and his RadioShack team have decided to postpone his return to racing while he continues to rebuild his form. He crashed during the Tour of Catalunya on March 24th, hitting the deck on a descent, [...]
Triple crown winner Alberto Contador will again race the Giro d'Italia in 2011. According to TuttoBici, race director Angelo Zomegnan announced during a Giro d'Italia presentation on RAISport today that the 2008 race winner would again return to the event [...]
Team Astana’s Alexandre Vinokourov took his second win in Liège-Bastogne-Liège today, marking his biggest win since returning from a doping suspension last year, while erasing all doubts as to whether he could still perform at the top level of the [...]
