Youngsters finally get chance in German teamSebastian Lang and Marcus Burghardt had to withdraw from the German team headed to the World Championships in Australia later this month. Lang suffers from problems with his Achilles tendon, Burghardt has an infection. [...]
Young British Cervélo rider wins anotherLizzie Armitstead (Cervélo TestTeam) won the fourth stage of the Tour de l’Ardeche between Saint Sauveur de Montagut and Cruas. The 21-year-old outsprited an elite breakaway group to take her second victory in succession; Christel [...]
Galician team safe, waiting to secure signatures of Mosquera and director sportifThe Xacobeo-Galicia team's Vuelta a Espana just keeps getting better. The squad's superstar climber, Ezequiel Mosquera, currently sits in 5th overall, 89 seconds behind race leader Igor Anton, but [...]
Wild day through the hills of central France sees a break threaten Eijssen's overall leadFrenchman Romain Hardy, riding the Tour de l'Avenir with the France A team, scored the Stage 4 victory out of a three-up break that took a [...]
The transfer season is in full swing and a slew of riders are making changes heading into 2011It took awhile, but Christophe Le Mevel has finally officially signed with the Garmin-Cervelo team for 2011. La France Cycliste makes the two [...]
Cavendish back on the top step of the podium after perfect leadout by GossLike this year's Tour de France, it took Mark Cavendish a while to get going, but when he and his HTC-Columbia team got it right in today's [...]
Andy Schleck ends Saxo Bank stint with a serious of Italian one-day racesAndy Schleck will end his six-year stint at team Saxo Bank with a serious of Italian one-day races. He announced his decision following an ejection from the Vuelta [...]
Basque talent 45 seconds up on second place, already has two stage wins to his credit27 year old, Igor Anton, is enjoying the Vuelta of anyone's dreams. Anton was beside himself following his win in Andorra today in a comment to [...]
Ninth overall last year, but fatigued Irishman out of Spanish tour on stage 11Almost a year after he won a stage in the Vuelta a España en route to ninth overall, Cervélo Test Team rider Philip Deignan was forced to [...]
Mixed response to Bjarne Riis’s decision yesterday to send two riders homeAttention has already turned towards the rest of the race and Frank Schleck is determined to get on with his bid to reach the podium of the Vuelta a [...]
Omega Pharma Lotto seen as a major race favouriteOne of the big favourites for next month’s world road race championship has got the expected nod from the national team selectors. As a result, Philippe Gilbert will be the clear leader [...]
Irishman sits eighth overall in the general classificationEighth overall heading into the stage, Ireland’s Nicolas Roche will today learn if he has the climbing condition to fight for a place in the final top ten of the Vuelta a España. [...]
BMC Racing Team rider showing strong recovery from Tour of Utah crash US national road race champion George Hincapie will make his return to top-level competition on Friday when he lines out in the first of two Canadian ProTour events. [...]
Australian denies claims he and Schleck were drinking all nightLongtime Saxo Bank rider Stuart O’Grady has expressed disappointment with the decision taken by Bjarne Riis to send himself and Andy Schleck home from the Vuleta a España. The 37 year [...]
Australians and Britons continue to dominate useful pre-Worlds stage raceRuth Corset (Australia) won the short Tour de l’Ardeche stage 2 morning time trial in Vals-les-Bains. The Australian road champion completed the 3.5km course in 5’32”, to finish 8 seconds ahead [...]
"I thought that this one would not escape me."Unsurprisingly, Xacobeo-Galicia's leader, Ezequiel Mosquera, has admitted to disappointment following yet another win stolen from his grasp at the last moment at his beloved Vuelta a Espana. The Galician has finished 5th, [...]
American Andrew Talansky less than half a minute behind in 3rd21 year old Belgian talent, Yannick Eijssen, attacked on the descent of the penultimate climb of Stage 3's mountainous 157 kilometer trip from Saint-Pour to the Col du Beal to [...]
Belgian found to have taken recombinant EPO in August 16th out of competition testJust when you think it couldn't get any worse for the Milram team, it does. The team is still frantically searching for a replacement sponsor for 2011, [...]
