Choosing to follow the ‘attack is the best line of defence’ approach, Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde has blasted the UCI, CONI and others for their efforts to ban him in relation to Operación Puerto, and has suggested he could take [...]
It’s been a long time coming but eight years after he wore his first Grand Tour leader’s jersey, Cadel Evans will return to the Giro d’Italia aiming for a top result in the race. The world road race champion has [...]
Jens Keukeleire has already brought four wins to his French Cofidis team this season. The Belgian is only 21 years old and will surely be wooed by other teams soon. Cofidis is trying to prevent this by being proactive and [...]
Alex Rasmussen of the Saxo Bank team beat Milram's Gerald Ciolek in the bunch sprint of the opening stage in the Four Days of Dunkerque. Kevin Ista was third in the 148.3-kilometer stage, which started in Dunkerque and ended in [...]
Irishman Nicolas Roche has been diagnosed with a tear in his left hamstring that his AG2r team has said will temporarily sideline the talented young rider. Roche just completed the Tour of Romandie where he rode well, finishing third on [...]
Milan San Remo victor and triple world champion Oscar Freire has been struggling with respiratory issues since the Amstel Gold Race and will make a final decision today about his participation in this year’s Giro d’Italia. On paper at least, [...]
May is often the month for intensive Tour de France mountain research: it's a perfect spot in the racing calendar, but still a dicey time in terms of weather. Belgian Jurgen Van Den Broeck is set to head to the [...]
There were high hopes heading into the Spring Classics for Omega Pharma's young sprinter, Greg van Avermaet. Van Avermaet had shown great promise over the preceding years, and perhaps wrongly, he was doled out a sentence as a hopeful for [...]
Double stage winner in last year’s Giro d’Italia, Michele Scarponi, will lead the Androni Giocattoli team in this year’s race, which begins in Amsterdam this Saturday. The 30 year old won stages six and eighteen in last year’s event, several [...]
The Liquigas team of Franco Pellizotti, who yesterday was named as one of three riders under investigation by the UCI in relation to possible doping, has floated the possibility of taking legal action over the matter. The team issued a [...]
Following a strong performance at the Tour de Romandie, Vladimir Karpets will form a late and final addition to the Team Katusha roster for the upcoming Giro d'Italia, which will begin on Saturday in Amsterdam. Following his 5th place overall [...]
Danes Michael Mørkøv and Alex Rasmussen have decided to set aside their ambitions on the track to focus on the road. Last month Saxo Bank boss Bjarne Riis said that both riders would need to soon make a choice their [...]
AG2r rider Tadej Valjavec has proclaimed his innocence following the announcement of abnormal values in his Biological Passport that led to a provisional suspension by the International Cycling Union yesterday. Valjavec, 33, doesn't hold up much hope for his cycling [...]
The woes of the Liquigas-Doimo team continued today with the loss of star sprinter Daniele Bennati. The Tuscan from Arezzo, to the east of Florence, has not yet recovered from the muscle problem that he sustained while racing in Flanders [...]
Yesterday Italian Cycling Federation president and vice president of the International Cycling Union (UCI), Renato Di Rocco, was quoted in Italpress as saying Carlo Scognamiglio of the ISD-Neri team was one of the individuals flagged for irregularities in his Biological [...]
With the Giro d’Italia starting in the Netherlands capital Amsterdam, Rabobank, the one Dutch team in the race, have commissioned a special edition jersey to commemorate the fact. As well as the familiar orange, blue and white colours that the [...]
Traditionally, the honour of race dossard number 1 is awarded to the previous year’s winner, but with Rabobank’s Denis Menchov electing to sit out this year’s Giro d’Italia this is not possible. The race organiser RCS Sport has decided to [...]
Team Saxo Bank rider Chris Anker Sørensen is hoping to use the Giro d’Italia to ride into form, saying that he will go for a stage win if he gets the necessary condition during the race. The talented young Dane [...]
