Young Basque talent aiming to continue improving with new team24 year old Beñat Intxausti left Euskaltel-Euskadi at the end of a promising fourth year at the professional level for the even more promising environs of Eusebio Unzue's Movistar team. Intxausti [...]
25 year old Belgian admits that the racing required in the cobbled classics isn't for himNew BMC signing, Greg Van Avermaet, has, for better or worse, always been considered a sprinter and cobbled classics hope. In a recent conversation with [...]
2010 Oceania champion stays in Italy after folding of Team Valdarno Bridie O’Donnell heads the list of new signings to arrive at the Top Girls-Fassa Bortolo-Ghezzi Team for 2011. The 2010 Oceania champion, and former Australian time trial champion, spent [...]
Three additions to Australian Pro Continental team The as-yet unnamed team run by Pegasus Sports has confirmed that it has signed three more promising riders, with the additions all coming from the southern hemisphere.The trio are the Australians Rohan Dennis [...]
Team aiming for early Olympic qualification points at Melbourne and Cali events The Great Britain team has announced the riders who will be competing in the next two track World Cup Classics, in Melbourne, Australia on December 2-4 and Cali, [...]
Admitted violation after being snagged with non-specified evidenceMasters rider Neal Schubel has been handed a two year ban by the US Anti Doping Agency, which administered the punishment after deeming that he bought and used EPO. The 45 year old [...]
No place for Michael Rasmussen on 2011 teamTour de France champion Alberto Contador has been confirmed as taking part in Saxo Bank – SunGard’s upcoming training camp, having been given the green light by both the UCI and team owner [...]
Admits believing that a deal was ‘really close’Danish climber Michael Rasmussen has said that he is very disappointed with the news that he will not be part of the Saxo Bank set-up in 2011, having tried to gain a place [...]
Spanish pro believes an error has been made Two days after his Geox-TMC team was refused a ProTeam licence, 2008 Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre has said that he is mystified by the decision, and believes that the UCI [...]
“I can hardly bend my leg,” admits World cyclocross championThe knee problems that have been plaguing World cyclocross champion Zdenek Stybar (Telenet-Fidea) for the past two weeks appear to be getting no better. The Czech rider admitted via the team’s [...]
Second masters rider sanctioned today, is disqualified from all results since June 2007Following today’s earlier announcement by USADA that US Master’s rider Neal Schubel has been handed a two year ban for buying and using EPO, a second competitor has [...]
Former Bouygues Telecom Director Sportif returns to the sport with Dutch teamThe Skil-Shimano team has added Christian Guiberteau to its technical staff roster as a director sportif. The 42-year-old Frenchman was previously a Director Sportif at Bbox Bouygues Telecom (and [...]
Four-time World Champion making some big changes going into next seasonFour-time World Time Trial champion, Fabian Cancellara, has had a busy off-season complete with flying lessons. The rider, who has earlier this fall, confessed a desire to focus his attentions [...]
Double national hillclimb champion plans to structure things differently in 2011Dan Fleeman of the British Continental squad Raleigh first came to prominence in 2004 with a win in the British Under 23 road race championships; that performance came little more [...]
OmegaPharma-Lotto rider gets Wallonia’s biggest award once morePhilippe Gilbert (OmegaPharma-Lotto) has won the Kristallen Fiets (Crystal Bike) award for the third consecutive year. The Walloon rider took the prize this year in recognition of another dominant year in the hilly [...]
Danish rider should be ready in time to mount his spring classics campaignJust a week after learning that he required surgery on the knee problem that has been troubling him since Paris-Roubaix in April, Matti Breschel has undergone a successful [...]
Cautions against assuming everyone under scrutiny is guilty The 2009 world road race champion Cadel Evans has said that he believes that people should wait before judging those involved in the US federal investigation currently underway in relation to the [...]
Czech rider might opt to leave Telenet-Fidea World cyclo-cross champion Zdenek Stybar recently said that he wanted to target road races such as the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix, and is now in negotiations with the team that has the [...]
