Healthy 2009 Belgian champion looking to get back to racing as soon as possibleTom Boonen, who is clearly the winningest racer in the history of the Tour of Qatar, will eschew taking part in a race that has more or [...]
German rider will be part of Andre Greipel’s support team on the Belgian squadThe Omega Pharma-Lotto team has announced its final signing for 2011, bringing the total of new acquisitions to a staggering 14 riders. HTC Columbia rider Marcel Sieberg [...]
Irishman knows what he needs to do to step up a level Fifteenth in the Tour de France and seventh in the Vuelta a España, Nicolas Roche knows that a key element to him improving his general classification chances is [...]
New Luxembourg team setting sights highThere have been several well known brothers in cycling, such as Louison and Jean Bobet, Miguel and Prudencio Indurain, Stephen and Laurence Roche and, currently, Sylvain and Sebastien Chavanel plus Brice and Romain Feillu. Those [...]
Cyclocross star wants to race the Spring ClassicsThrough six races of the cyclocross season, 24 year old World Champion, Zdenek Stybar, is unbeaten and untouched. When the Czech powerhouse toes the line in tomorrow's second round of the World Cup [...]
Seven mountain top finishes, seven sprint finishes and three time trialsThe route for the 2011 Giro d'Italia (May 7 - 29, 2011) was announced in Torino today and with seven mountain top finishes, the climbers won't have much to complain [...]
Likes the rule change for 2011Mark Cavendish has won an amazing 15 stages in three Tours de France, but has yet to receive the ultimate sprinter's award, the green jersey. He came in second in both 2009 and 2010. With [...]
German and South African riders look set for successful 2011Cervélo Test Team rider Charlotte Becker will not be following Emma Pooley and many of her colleagues to the new Garmin-Cervélo setup, but rather will compete with rival squad HTC Highroad [...]
Østenkjær will work with riders and management to improve performances Riders and staff with the Saxo Bank Sungard team will have a boost next season thanks to a new agreement signed between the squad and Erik Østenkjær from Sports Psychology [...]
Belgian manager says Greipel can beat Mark CavendishWith the 2011 season still far off in the distant future, the highly anticipated battle of the words between the world's two most successful sprinters, Andre Greipel and Mark Cavendish has already begun. [...]
Total of 34 people taken into custody, more arrests possibleThe Spanish Guardia Civil has arrested 34 people in relation to a Clenbuterol trafficking ring that operated in Gran Canaria and Tenerife, charging them of crimes against public health and of [...]
Fresh start in 2011 for US professional Garmin's 27 year-old US pro Timmy Duggan has come a long way back from that day in the 2008 Tour of Georgia when he hit the tarmac at 100 km/h and was left [...]
Race will be the last one for Chechu Rubiera before retirementAlberto Contador is planning to ride the Criterium Ciudad de Oviedo in Spain on October 30, pending the permission by the UCI. The triple Tour de France winner is currently [...]
Reserves comment on Contador case, wants to see outcomeFrench champion Thomas Voeckler has said that he believes that the sport of cycling is in a better position than it has been in many years, stating that he thinks the majority [...]
German strongman to add experience, strength and laughs to new squadOne of cycling’s most colourful characters, Jens Voigt, has been confirmed as moving to the new Luxembourg cycling team for the 2011 season. The news, which has long been rumoured, [...]
Belgian working hard towards 2012Quick Step general manager Patrick Lefevere is feeling hopeful about his chances of securing a replacement sponsor for the 2012 season, believing that he will have something secured in time to ensure the team continues. “It [...]
Feels like the sport's number oneJoaquim Rodríguez (Katusha) has won the season-long World ranking competition from the International Cycling Union (UCI) and is quite happy about it. In an interview to Spanish sports paper AS, he talked about his year's [...]
Ever improving Classics specialist looking forward to leadership role on RabobankMatti Breschel's departure from Bjarne Riis's Saxo Bank team heading into the 2011 was eyebrow-raising news, even more so because the Danish one day star wasn't heading to the new [...]
