Boasson Hagen second into Reims, Thomas retains white jerseySo far, so good. Five days into Team Sky’s first Tour de France, the British squad is performing strongly in the race and has achieved a number of noteworthy results. Edvald Boasson [...]
Hondo's late attack/early sprint was planned on the busIt's hard not to look back at the Tour de France's first bunch sprint with all of the at least passably healthy favorites involved and not think about the work done by [...]
Rabobank rider prevails on the Classics style courseRabobank's Nick Nuyens took victory in today's 150.3 kilometer fifth stage of the Tour of Austria ahead of Giovanni Visconti (Tecnofilm-Betonexpressz 2000). The pair finished 4 seconds ahead of Katusha's Egor Silin, with [...]
Manxman gets over his careers biggest hurdle thus farMark Cavendish's Tour de France and season in general, has been a difficult experience for 2009's fastest man. He took his first stage win at this year's Tour de France Thursday afternoon [...]
American rider escapes over historic climb to put herself in overall contentionEvelyn Stevens (HTC-Columbia) won the seventh stage of the Giro d’Italia Femminile between Como and Albese con Cassano, after escaping alone on the climb to the Madonna del Ghisallo. [...]
Belgian rumoured to be heading to Switzerland to bolster classics squadBelgian rider Greg Van Avermaet is bound for BMC Racing, according to the Gazet Van Antwerpen. The 25-year-old has signed a two-year contract with the American team, the newspaper claims, [...]
Young French talent heads to a Dutch teamFrenchman Thomas Damuseau will be joining the Dutch Skil-Shimano squad as a stagiaire starting next month. The gifted climber who hails from Grenoble is considered to be one of the most promising up-and-comers [...]
Manx Missile fires at last to leave sprint rivals in his wake and silence his criticsMark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) won the fifth stage of the Tour de France between Épernay and Montargis, as the HTC-Columbia team got its sprint to come [...]
Tour champion delivers belated thank you gift to former teammate and directorTour de France champion Alberto Contador (Astana) paid a visit to the RadioShack team bus before the start of stage 5 in Épernay this morning. The Spaniard was reportedly [...]
City says that it would do it againThe eternal question as to whether it pays for cities to pony up the big cash necessary to bring a Grand Tour to its streets will continue forever, but for one city, Amsterdam, [...]
38-year-old sprinter 18 points behind Hushovd38-year-old former Green Jersey winner, Robbie McEwen, already has four fourth place finishes at the 2010 Tour de France. Following his most recent fourth place finish this afternoon in Reims, the winner of the Trofeo [...]
Former most combative rider is the Tour's next casualtyEuskaltel-Euskadi rider Amets Txurruka was been forced to abandon the Tour de France following stage four after he was involved in a crash that resulted in a broken right collarbone. The Basque [...]
Dutchwoman confirms pink jersey by outsprinting breakaway rivals after long rolling stageMarianne Vos (Netherlands) won the sixth stage of the Giro d’Italia Femminile between Gallarate and Arcisate, just outside Varese, the venue for the 2008 World championships. Vos beat Judith [...]
Riders get caught with three kilometers to goIn the fourth stage of the Tour de France, the typical break of the day formed after less than two kilometers into the 153.5km stage. Iban Mayoz was one of the riders in [...]
Will now be forced to serve the rest of his two-year suspensionQuick Step rider Iljo Keisse's status has been changed to inactive with immediate effect following news that the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has overturned a decision that [...]
Italian extends lead in the overall classification to almost two minutesRiccardo Riccò stormed away on the queen stage up to the Großglockner climb in the Tour of Austria in a convincing defense of his leader's jersey. The Italian put 41 [...]
Ale-Jet flies once more and is re-crowned king of the sprinters in Champagne capitalAlessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) won the fourth stage of the Tour de France between Cambrai and Reims, the capital of the Champagne region. He outsprinted the rest [...]
Cervélo Test Team rider a possible home winner in 2010 world championshipAfter deliberating for several years, Cervélo Test Team rider Heinrich Haussler has finally opted to give up his German passport, and should now be eligible to compete in the [...]
