The normally easy-going, mild-mannered Rolf Aldag had some harsh words for his HTC-Columbia team following their dismal showing at Saturday's Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschbronn-Frankfurt race. His response was justified considering that one of the world's top teams managed to [...]
The Lampre-Farnese Vini team has been announced for the Giro d’Italia, which starts in Amsterdam this weekend. Included in the roster are two former winners of the Corsa Rosa in Gilberto Simoni and Damiano Cunego, and one of the most [...]
In a blow to Italian cycling, Liquigas rider Franco Pellizotti has been axed from the Giro d'Italia roster due to suspicious parameters under the Biological Passport system, according to La Gazzetta Dello Sport. He was one of the big favourites [...]
Last year Denis Menchov was making final preparation for what would be a winning ride in the Giro d’Italia; twelve months on, he’s just finished third overall in the Tour de Romandie and feels happy with his condition. He’s going [...]
Team Saxo Bank owner Bjarne Riis would often be expected to be at the start of major races such as this coming weekend’s Giro d’Italia, but the Dane will give the opening stages a miss. He’s got good reason to [...]
Thanks to his victory in yesterday’s Tour de Romandie, the Caisse d’Epargne leader Alejandro Valverde has moved to the top slot in the UCI’s world rankings. Valverde takes over from the Belgian Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto), who previously assumed the [...]
The International Cycling Union (UCI) has named Italian Franco Pellizotti (Liquigas-Doimo), Spaniard Jesús Rosendo Prado (Andalucía-Cajasur) and Slovenian Tadej Valjavec (Ag2r-La Mondiale) as three of the riders that have had irregularities show up on their Biological Passport. According to the [...]
The Belgian Quick Step team sends a squad to the Giro D’Italia this weekend without an overall contendor. The riders selected will instead be seeking stage victories throughout the three-week race. The one obvious protected rider will be young Belgian [...]
The Caisse d’Epargne team has announced its team for the Giro d’Italia, which starts in Amsterdam this coming Saturday. The Spanish team has named two captains in Italian Marzio Bruseghin and Spaniard David Arroyo. Bruseghin finished a slightly disappointing 9th [...]
The 25-year-old Thomas Frei was caught for EPO doping last week. The then BMC Rider was immediately fired from the team following his admission. He recently gave an open interview to the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung, in which he talked [...]
With last weekend’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the cycling season moved into its next phase, when the main emphasis will be on stage races such as the Grand Tours. Many of the one day specialists will take a short break and set about [...]
Italian Champion Filippo Pozzato looks forward to the Giro d'Italia after his spring campaign did not go as planned. The Katusha rider was knocked out by a fever, which forced him to skip the Tour of Flanders and compromised his [...]
The American HTC-Columbia team will be looking to Marco Pinotti for the general classification and sprinter André Greipel for the 2010 Giro d'Italia. The race kicks off next Saturday May 8th in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Pinotti won the opening prologue [...]
Dane Michael Rasmussen dreams of winning the Tour de France, the race his team forced him to abandon in 2007 while wearing the yellow jersey. "If Lance Armstrong can return, and maybe win the Tour de France this summer, then [...]
Almost a month after suspending former world champion Alessandro Ballan and Mauro Santambrogio from racing due to their links with an Italian anti-doping investigation, the BMC Racing Team has cleared the latter for a return to competition. The squad announced [...]
An aggressive Alejandro Valverde won the final stage of the Tour de Romandie to make up his one-second deficit in the overall against Michael Rogers. Valverde beat Igor Antón, Simon Spilak and Denis Menchov in a four-up sprint to take [...]
Nick Nuyens had a spring to forget and he was happy to start a vacation after the Grand Prix Frankfurt, having suffered a lot of bad luck in the races that he really was targeting for some better results. He [...]
Belgium's national couch, Carlo Bomans, travelled to Offida, Italy, to preview the Junior World Championships course Friday. His goal is simple, help recent Paris-Roubaix winner Jasper Stuyven defend his rainbow jersey August 8. Bomans drove the 16-kilometre circuit and filmed [...]
