King of Italy aims for Tour de FranceItalian Ivan Basso is preparing Tour de France, his next objective after winning the Giro d'Italia last month. Basso is training at altitude this week at San Pellegrino following a reconnaissance trip to [...]
Will be banned through 2011The International Cycling Union has rejected reports earlier this week by Spanish publication Meta2Mil that said Alejandro Valverde had refused to negotiate with the UCI to have his doping ban reduced. The publication said that if [...]
Leali reacts following GiroBio decisionBruno Leali's Lucchini-Unidelta team, as reported earlier on VeloNation, was banned from starting the GiroBio yesterday in Novi Ligure, Italy. Police raids Friday night revealed banned drugs and medicines without prescriptions. Team Manager Leali said today [...]
Tuscan looks ahead to the Tour de France after 8 days in yellow last yearRinaldo Nocentini successfully made his return to racing at the Tour de Suisse yesterday in Lugano. The Italian of team AG2R La Mondiale fought back from [...]
Three French riders receive time penalties as wellPortuguese rider, Manuel Cardoso of Footon-Servetto, got his season off to a sensational start in January with a sprint victory over Alejandro Valverde and Cadel Evans in Stage 3 of the Tour Down [...]
A pharmacy of illegal products found at the race and at the team's headquartersThe amateur version of the Giro d'Italia, known as the Girobio, or Baby Giro, is in full swing in Italy right now. The race, which has ushered [...]
Two stage wins show that form is coming along nicelyAlberto Contador took an excellent win atop the Alpe d'Huez on Saturday over a tenacious Jani Brajkovic, but couldn't quite wrest free of the grip of the tiny Slovenian. The two [...]
Caisse d'Epargne rider looking to hone form in SwitzerlandCaisse d'Epargne's Luis Leon Sanchez started his last preparation before the Tour de France with a modest 67th place finish in today's first stage time trial of the Tour de Suisse in [...]
Says he will focus on a few stages along with final time trialHTC-Columbia's Tony Martin, last year's second place finisher behind Andy Schleck in the best young rider classification at the Tour de France, heads into today's opening time trial [...]
HTC-Columbia's Judith Arndt leads overall with one day to goSaturday's eventful double day at the Iurreta-Emakumeen Bira stage race in the Basque Country included a morning 5.9 km difficult uphill time trial, followed by an afternoon stage of 70 km [...]
Brajkovic unfazed by Contador's attacksAstana captain Alberto Contador made it two in a row for his Kazakh team in stage six of the Critérium du Dauphiné today, by adding his name to the list of distinguished winners atop the legendary [...]
8th career stage win for Cancellara at Tour de SuisseWorld Time Trial Champion, Fabian Cancellara, put in a sizzling second half in the 7.6 km opening day time trial in Lugano to turn an eight second deficit into a 1.12 [...]
Title defense and Tour start in doubtOmega Pharma-Lotto's French time trial champion Jean-Christophe Peraud has been taken to the hospital in Lyon following his crash during Monday's road stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné. Peraud continued in the race through [...]
Financial problems cited as a possible causeAccording to the normally reliable French website, Cyclismag, Austrian Pro Continental outfit, Vorarlberg-Corratec, has been temporarily suspended by the UCI due to financial problems.Earlier this week, the team disappeared from the UCI's list of [...]
Basque climber has three weeks to prepareFive days after RadioShack's Haimar Zubeldia broke the radius in his arm, his prognosis is taking a distinct turn for the better. After an initial trip to the hospital in Voiron, France yielded little [...]
New kit will keep riders cool during JulyLast year's Tour de France saw Cervélo TestTeam change their look replacing their black kit with white. For the 2010 edition the TestTeam will again be sporting a new jersey for the Grande [...]
Spaniard gets his first victory as a professionalSpaniard Daniel Navarro showed the Astana team had more than one arrow in its quiver in stage five of the Critérium du Dauphiné today when he attacked early on the hors category climb [...]
Dutchman struggling to hit top formDutch rider Johnny Hoogerland had high hopes of an excellent 2010 season but things haven’t quite gone to plan for the 27 year old. He’s been solid rather than spectacular, and will now miss the [...]
