Expects the race to end in a sprintTeam Valdarno is banking on this weekend’s GP Ciudad de Valladolid ending in a sprint and so is building the team around fast finishing Italian champion Monia Baccaille. The 26-year-old from Marsciano, Perugia [...]
Giro winner Basso third after late attack failsTyler Farrar won the night of Hengelo in the Netherlands, beating Kenny van Hummel in the dark hours. The 90km race didn't start until shortly before nine pm local time. Giro d'Italia winner [...]
Oscarito the Cat to see out his career with orange teamTriple World champion Oscar Freire has signed a new contract extension with Rabobank, electing to see out his career with the Dutch team. The 34-year-old has been with the orange [...]
Hopes that her nightmare will soon endItalian Vania Rossi, the former girlfriend of Riccardo Riccò, could be back to racing in the near future. She tested positive for the third generation form of EPO, CERA, at a control taken following [...]
RadioShack boss says former teammate's doping claims are fueling Tour preparations.After crashing out of last month’s Tour of California, Lance Armstrong (RadioShack) travelled to Europe to prepare for the Tour de France. The seven-time Tour winner added the Tours of [...]
Goss, Teutenberg amongst team's challengersGiro d’Italia stage winner Matt Goss, fellow Australian Leigh Howard and American rider Craig Lewis will lead the men’s HTC Columbia team in this weekend’s Philadelphia International Championship on Sunday, aiming for a victorious showing in [...]
Key riders back as the Tour de France approachesBMC Racing's Karsten Kroon and Alessandro Ballan will make their return to racing this weekend at the GP Kanton Aargau-Gippingen in Switzerland. Both riders missed important appointments during the spring for entirely [...]
A return home for the two-time Ronde winner?Stijn Devolder showed he is back to his best shape when he won the Tour of Belgium last weekend, and now the RadioShack team has confirmed that it wants to sign the Belgian. [...]
Young talent set to ride in his biggest stage race yetHTC-Columbia's Tejay Van Garderen is heading to the Critérium du Dauphiné this weekend in what the team says will be a test to show how the young talent might perform [...]
Dutch rider looks to finish off strong spring in styleWith Ina Teutenberg leading part of the HTC-Columbia women’s team in the Liberty classic this weekend, the rest will be in Spain for the GP Ciudad de Valladolid, the next round [...]
Defending champion goes on the attack to claim first win of 2010Fränk Schleck (Saxo Bank) won the second stage of the Tour of Luxembourg after attacking on the stage’s 9.4km finishing circuits with Matteo Carrara (Vacansoleil). The defending race champion [...]
Wants contract with a ProTour teamSouth American climber José Rujano has left the ISD-Neri team and is heading back home to his former Gobernación del Zulia squad, according to the Entorno Inteligente. He met with team director Hernán Alemán yesterday [...]
Say that the media is too focussed on negative storiesLast Sunday David Arroyo finished off a superb Giro d’Italia campaign when he took second overall in the race, the highlight of his ten year pro career. The Caisse d’Epargne rider [...]
Former Italian champion shows why he's the European Tour leaderGiovanni Visconti (ISD-Neri) won the first stage of the Tour of Luxembourg, between the city of Luxembourg and Hesperange, in a bunch sprint. He easily outsprinted Yauheni Hutarovich (Française des Jeux) [...]
Denis Menchov and Robert Gesink to be joint leaders in Dutch teamThe Rabobank team has announced its line up for next month’s Tour de France, which starts in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. As the only Netherlands’ team invited to [...]
Rejects all insinuations and accusationsDenmark's Saxo Bank team issued a statement today denying its riders used motorised bikes. Its statement follows rumours that its star rider Fabian Cancellara used a motorised bike and today's news that the International Cycling Union [...]
Franco Ballerini and Frank Vandenbroucke memories will both be honoured this weekend in their home countries. Italian cycling will remember former national coach Ballerini Saturday at his home town of Cantagrillo with the Franco Ballerini Day criterium. After a service [...]
24 hotline to take callsCyclists and other athletes who suspect others of being involved in doping have been encouraged to come forward and provide information to the UK anti doping agency, UKAD. The initiative, which has been set up as [...]
