Spaniards traveled to Netherlands for first team get-togetherSpaniards Luis León Sánchez and Carlos Barredo have signed for the Dutch Rabobank team and had their first day with their new teammates. The duo doubles the Spanish contingent, with Oscar Freire and [...]
27 year old Belgian describes his saga as "torture".Following the ruling by the Belgian Court of Appeals last week, which allows Gent's Iljo Keisse to return to racing, the only question remaining was - who would the popular hometown hero [...]
Continental Belgian team looks set to make waves in 2011The Belgian continental team, Donckers Koffie-Jelly Belly, formerly known as Qin, has made a huge leap forward in the quality of its outfit heading into the 2011 season. Recently, it was [...]
Riders motivated to perform well with high level Australian team in 2011Ben Day, Aaron Kemps, Jonathan Cantwell and Phil Zajicek have all enthused about the chance to compete with the Pegasus Racing Team in 2011. They plus Fly V Australia [...]
Spanish rider rejects level of scrutiny carried out by WADA, EU on meat samplesAlberto Contador and his legal team have contradicted the contents of this morning’s El Pais article, rejecting claims that WADA had eliminated food contamination as the source [...]
Italian rider training hard, says teams are interested in him Psyched to return at a very high level when his doping ban ends, Davide Rebellin has revealed that he will have clocked up 33,000 kilometres by the end of this [...]
British team growing in size, budget and ambitionVolta a Catalunya stage winner Paul Voss, FBD Insurance Rás victor and Cervélo Test Team stagiaire Alexander Wetterhall and past Under 23 Oceania TT champion Jack Anderson have all been confirmed as joining [...]
Newspaper says WADA carried out tests on meat in Irun, finding no tracesAlberto Contador’s defence that he tested positive for Clenbuterol during the Tour de France because he consumed tainted meat is under serious question, according to Spanish newspaper El [...]
Promising Belgian Grand Tour threat looks to Vuelta as experiment for 2012 and 2013 Worlds bidsOmega Pharma-Lotto's Grand Tour hope, Jurgen Van Den Broeck, looks set to take on two three week tours in 2011, the Tour de France and [...]
Latvian has good U23 palmarèsTriple Latvian National Champion Gatis Smukulis will join High Road Sports in 2011, bringing with him a decent U23 career, including victory at the 2008 Ronde van Vlaanderen. Smukulis will be part of the team that [...]
Telefónica is quite interested in Colombian businessThe manager of the Movistar team, Eusebio Unzúe, is eyeing the ProTour competitions with his Caisse d'Epargne successor, Movistar. In addition, a professional continental team based in Colombia races the Latin American calendar. Movistar [...]
Encouraging developments in Germany: Köln hoping to return to the Six Day circuit in 2012 as well.There has been very little good news to come out of Germany this year on the racing front. The demise of its final top [...]
Former Tour de France stage winner needs to step up after a quiet 2010Spanish rider Juanjo Cobo is hoping to get his career back on track in 2011 after a very quiet season and will, along with David Gutiérrez, compete [...]
British sprinter stressed in build-up to London OlympicsShe’s one of the most successful female cyclists currently competing, but Olympic champion Victoria Pendleton has spoken in vivid terms about her dislike of competition. “Jason Queally, whose gold in Sydney inspired me, [...]
AFLD pledges to hand over ‘everything’ to aid ongoing federal investigationAn unnamed official with the French AFLD anti-doping agency has said that US investigators are in France, and that the agency is prepared to hand over everything necessary in the [...]
Innovative Italian cycling company pairs with like-minded American teamFonzaso, Italy based clothing company, Castelli, has announced a three-year deal with Slipstream Sports as the official clothing sponsor of not only the Garmin-Cervelo men's team, but also its women's, U23, and [...]
Riders and staff only partly protected by UCI depositAlready beset by the ongoing doping cases concerning David Garcia and Vuelta a España runner-up Ezequiel Mosquera plus the news that the team will stop at the end of the year, the [...]
Former top pro winding down racing career at 49 years of ageFormer Tour of Spain stage winner and points jersey victor Malcolm Elliott has spoken about his upcoming role as manager of the British Motorpoint team, saying that he feels [...]
