Belgian hardman Niko Eeckhout of the An Post-Sean Kelly Team recieved some bad news from his doctors which will delay his return to competition. The 39 year old rode both the Brabantse Pijl and the GP Denain with a broken [...]
Triple Tour of Lombardy victor Damiano Cunego is aiming to take his second-ever spring Classic and used Thursday as an opportunity to check out part of the route of this Sunday’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège. The course has been modified, with the Col [...]
Philippe Gilbert's status as one of the main favourites for Sunday’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège has been further underlined by the endorsement of two past winners of the event. Italian Classic specialist Michele Bartoli and Eddy Merckx, widely recognised as the greatest rider [...]
Having taken eighteenth place in Flèche Wallonne despite feeling the effects of allergies, Irish professional Daniel Martin is psyched to ride strongly in this Sunday’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège. The 23 year old Garmin Transitions rider told VeloNation that he was looking forward [...]
The American HTC-Columbia team will be hanging its hopes in Liège-Bastogne-Liège on Tony Martin this Sunday. The German has had a rough start to the season after having trouble with his knee, but the team is confident he will be [...]
BMC Racing's Karsten Kroon is looking to the Tour of California for his return to racing following a crash in Wednesday's Flèche Wallonne. With 70 kilometers left to race, the Dutchman was involved in a pile-up and came away with [...]
Alexandre Vinokourov (Astana) successfully defended his overall lead in the Giro de Trentino today, winning the event by just hundredths of a second over Italian Riccardo Riccó of the Ceramica Flaminia team. Domenico Pozzovivo (Colnago-CSF Inox) won the final stage [...]
For almost four years now, Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde has been linked to Operación Puerto. The breaking up of a doping ring based in Madrid with links to Italy dominated the headlines from May 2006 onwards, and over time more [...]
Already in hot water with Quick Step boss Patrick Lefevere, two-time Tour of Flanders winner Stijn Devolder will be looking for a good performance in Sunday's Liège-Bastogne-Liège to help relive some pressure. The Belgian failed to win his third successive [...]
One of the biggest criticisms of Lance Armstrong (RadioShack) over the years has been his solitary focus on one event, the Tour de France. Not many people can argue with his success in La Grande Boucle, with seven victories in [...]
Team Milram captain Linus Gerdemann will return to racing this Sunday in the most important of the Ardennes Classics, Liège-Bastogne-Liège. The German has now recovered from a bout with bronchitis two weeks after having to abandon the Vuelta al Pais [...]
Alberto Contador has stressed that his primary aim of riding the Classics is to gain experience for future years and to broaden his versatility as a rider. The Spaniard nevertheless went close to the win yesterday, finishing third in Flèche [...]
Juraj Sagan, the elder brother of Liquigas-Doimo prodigy Peter Sagan, is rumored to be moving over to the Italian team this year. According to Cyclismag, Juraj, who rode for the Continental Dukla Trencin-Merida team until this season, could be making [...]
Caisse d’Epargne captain Alejandro Valverde’s stellar season took a downward turn in yesterday’s Flèche Wallonne with a disappointing eighth place. The World number one finished in a small cluster of riders 11 seconds behind winner Cadel Evans (BMC Racing). Winner [...]
Spaniard Alberto Contador put on an aggressive show at the Flèche Wallonne yesterday in Belgium. The two-time Tour de France winner sent his Astana team to work and finished the job himself with an attack on the feared Mur de [...]
The International Cycling Union (UCI) has provisionally suspended RadioShack rider Fuyu Li following a report from the WADA accredited laboratory in Ghent indicating an Adverse Analytical Finding of Clenbuterol. The doping control was done during an in-competition test at the [...]
Thomas Löfkvist led up the Mur de Huy for Team Sky at the Flèche Wallonne yesterday in Belgium, but behind him was one of the team's lesser-known riders: Lars Petter Nordhaug. Nordhaug came to the Ardennes Classics after helping team-mate [...]
Following his win in Sunday’s Amstel Gold Race, Philippe Gilbert was touted by many as a possible winner of all three Ardennes Classics. While Gilbert underlined that the finish up the Mur de Huy was too steep to suit him, [...]
