Australian sprinter speaks to VeloNationRecently crowned Commonwealth Games sprint champion, Shane Perkins of Australia showed strong form of late, beating French sprint giants, world champion Gregory Bauge and world 200 metres record holder, Kevin Sireau to the title of 'Master [...]
Belgian Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Keisse, 27 year old allowed to race pending another hearing in AprilThe news broke earlier today, but Iljo Keisse's recent tweet sums it up: "Yessssss! Finally!! 11 days till Gent Six, that's [...]
Sven Nys and Niels Albert steadily improving, ready to take on an ailing World Champion, Zdenek StybarThis weekend's third round of the Superprestige series is shaping up to see a three-way battle for supremacy by the usual suspects. Up to [...]
Italian rider wants to make up for disappointing 2010 season While some of his fellow professionals are still on a break after racing until late in the season, Italian Classics specialist Damiano Cunego has been training away, building form before [...]
Vinokourov to lead team, Kreuziger and Kiserlovski amongst additionsThe 27 riders who will compete for the Astana team in 2011 will begin their first training camp on the 29th of this month at Montecatini Terme, Italy, getting together to plan [...]
Belgian strongman recovering from back injuryBelgian hardman Niko Eeckhout is continued to make good progress from a back injury suffered earlier this season, and is committed to at least one more year in the professional ranks. The former national champion, [...]
Regional ministry insists that its products are clear of contamination As the Alberto Contador case continues onwards, the Basque Regional Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has categorically denied that meat products from the region could have led to his [...]
Howman and Ljungqvist say that the maximum sentence is simply not being usedThe World Anti Doping Agency has indicated that it wants more four year sentences to be handed out to serious doping offenders, saying that not enough is being [...]
Cervelo TestTeam stagiaire nets two titles in two days along with celebrating his 22nd birthdayEritrean talent and Cervelo TestTeam stagiaire, Daniel Teklehaymanot took victory in the African Time Trial Championships today in commanding fashion, 51 seconds clear of second place [...]
There will be a little shake up in the middle of March in Belgium next seasonThe Belgian semi-Classic, the Nokere Koerse, will get a little shake up heading into the 2011 season. The start of the race will move from [...]
Ambitious Australian team taking on young talent as well as experienced professionals One of Australia’s up and coming young riders is the latest signing for the Australian Pegasus Racing team. Michael Freiberg recently returned from the Commonwealth Games with a [...]
Spanish get-together for team and staffThe first training camp of the 2011 Team RadioShack squad will begin early next month in Calpe, Alicante, and will run for eighteen days. Starting on December sixth, Lance Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel will be [...]
Eighteen year old was riding sprint ‘for experience’ at European championshipsOne of the major surprises of the recent European Track Championships was the sudden exit in the match sprint 1/16 finals of reigning triple Olympic champion and fastest qualifier, Sir [...]
Danish climber wants to return with Team Saxo BankBjarne Riis may be closer and closer to signing fellow Dane Michael Rasmussen to the Saxo Bank team, with the former Tour de France King of the Mountains apparently no longer being [...]
Dutch team moves ever closer to first division statusThe quest for a ProTeam license for the Netherlands's other top team, Vacansoleil, took a turn for the positive today, as the team announced a sponsorship deal with Palmans, a company that [...]
Former German professional will work with men and women on US ProTeamBoosting the strength of its management team, HTC-Highroad has announced that the former Cervélo Test Team director Jens Zemke will help oversee its riders in 2011. The 44 year [...]
Mother claims positive caused by cough syrupThe saga of clenbuterol in sport in 2010 continues to mystify and amaze. The latest positive is thankfully not cycling related, but is worth noting if only to demonstrate just how far and wide [...]
Late Italian's jersey was on loan to the EICMA show in MilanThe night of November 6th was a sad night for one of the symbols of the memory of the late Marco Pantani. A yellow jersey from Pantani's 1998 Tour [...]
