Tour de France champion Alberto Contador is clearly in strong form, having taken his third stage race victory of the season yesterday when he triumphed in the Vuelta a Castilla y León. The Astana rider is next scheduled to compete [...]
American racing took a turn for the serious this weekend with three major races spread across the continental United States: from New York, to Alabama, to California. Tour of the Battenkill Sunday's, UCI 1.2 ranked Tour of the Battenkill was [...]
In an intriguing interview with Spanish website, Ciclismo a fondo, Andre Greipel takes an opportunity to voice his thoughts on his painful situation within the HTC-Columbia team. In terms of success, he could not ask for much more in the [...]
Today's Amstel Gold race, won by Belgian Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto), kicked off the Ardennes Classics week that includes La Flèche Wallonne on Wednesday and Liège-Bastogne-Liège next Sunday. With his aggressive performance in the Dutch race, Gilbert has now put [...]
Philippe Gilbert gave his Omega Pharma-Lotto team its first win of the season when he proved to be the strongest on the Cauberg in the Amstel Gold Race. Gilbert launched the decisive attack less than 400m from the line and [...]
The Italian Liquigas-Doimo team will be heading to the Giro del Trentino next week to put the finishing touches on their preparation for their home Grand Tour, the Giro d'Itaila. Ivan Basso and Franco Pellizotti will lead the team for [...]
Sergio Ribeiro (Barbot-Siper) won the fifth and final stage in the Vuelta a Castilla y León in a bunch sprint. Alberto Contador defended his overall lead and took his third stage race of the season, after Paris-Nice and the Volta [...]
Overall, most would agree that Belgium has had a lackluster at best Spring Campaign...up until this past week. There have been bright spots (Keukeleire, Boonen, and others), solid placings (Boonen and Gilbert), and promising prospects giving glimpses to their potential [...]
Timmy Duggan has had a rough start to the year. Today, Jonathan Vaughters described Duggan's luck so far in 2010 as a glass of lemonade with a few too many lemons, following a crash at today's Amstel Gold Race, which [...]
Jeremy Roy (Francaise des Jeux) took top honors at Sunday's Tro-Bro Léon in Brittany. The race, nicknamed the Paris-Roubaix Breton and the Petit Paris-Roubaix, is one of the hardest races of the year on the French racing calendar and takes [...]
Despite not obtaining a top result in the Amstel Gold Race, the German Milram team was quite happy with the day in the sunny Netherlands. Fabian Wegmann had a good comeback, returning from his collarbone injury quicker than initially predicted. [...]
Today's Amstel Gold Race was the scene of a series of alcohol tests carried out by Maastricht police for the team managers, presumably those staff that would be driving cars in the race caravan. Sportweek.nl reported that none of the [...]
André Greipel won the final stage of the Tour of Turkey, with another perfect sprint ahead of Angelo Furlan and Kenny van Hummel. Giovanni Visconti clinched the overall title, ahead of HTC-Columbia's Tejay Van Garderen. The HTC team had an [...]
Team Sky's 26-year-old Belgian talent, Serge Pauwels, has had a nightmare start to his 2010 campaign. His list of maladies reads like any bike racer's worst nightmare: "I did very well over the winter, but then the problems started. I [...]
27-year-old, Igor Anton, has been on a steady march forward as a general classification contender for his Basque team, Euskaltel-Euskadi. After four years of progression, it appears that Anton is on the verge of making his firm entrance into the [...]
This Sunday's Amstel Gold Race has had it's first break regarding the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull glacier in southern Iceland, when government officials decided to allow helicopters needed for the Television broadcast to fly. Flights around northern Europe have been [...]
Kirsten Wild of the Cervélo TestTeam won the Ronde van Gelderland ahead of Australians Rochelle Gilmore and Kristy Broun. Wild was no match for any of the other women in the bunch sprint. It was the first race of the [...]
Alberto Contador blasted to a dominating time trial win in the penultimate stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y León. He was the only rider under 21 minutes on the challenging 15km course. Janez Brajkovic was second, over half a [...]
