Italian climber’s health is improving, career prospects are notItalian rider Riccardo Riccò appears to be out of the woods as far as his health is concerned, although he has been advised to continue resting as he recovers from heart and [...]
The cases may endanger the UCI's blood passport programThe International Sports Court of Arbitration (CAS) will start its hearings in the cases of the International Cycling Union (UCI) next week. The first case heard is that of Francis de Bonis [...]
Spaniard was honored for his second Tour de France win in 1992Miguel Indurain, five-time winner of the Tour de France, has visited the museum of evolutionary humanity in Burgos, Spain. Indurain's purpose of the visit was to check out the [...]
Boasson Hagen closest threat heading into time trialDutch climbing sensation Robert Gesink scooped both the stage and the leader’s jersey on today’s 157 kilometre leg of the Tour of Oman, being clearly strongest on the uphill finish of Jabal al [...]
Suggests Team Sky rider is, mentally, not a natural team leaderTeam Sky principal Dave Brailsford has conceded that the squad’s top Grand Tour contender Bradley Wiggins was under too much pressure in 2010, and that his performances were most likely [...]
Rabobank’s Danish star relishes his return to racing after knee injuryMatti Breschel (Rabobank) has finally started his first race for his new team: he is currently at the Volta ao Algarve and, while he has not featured in the race [...]
British champion speaks about the coming year on the road and the trackGeraint Thomas (Team Sky) has made a steady start to 2011. His personal results in January’s Santos Tour Down Under were fairly unspectacular, but he spent the week [...]
Spaniard aiming to perform well on summit finish to MalhaoDefending champion Alberto Contador will have the first real test of his condition on tomorrow’s summit finish of the Volta ao Algarve. The 28 year old Saxo Bank-SunGard rider returned to [...]
British sprinter feeling pressure, but Brailsford expects things to click for London 2012Faced with the pressure of targeting three events and also dealing with the position of racing on home soil, Victoria Pendleton has admitted that she is not as [...]
Had quit cycling after Pegasus Sports team fell apartHaving retired last month, disillusioned after the collapse of the Pegasus Sports team, former Australian champion Darren Lapthorne has secured a contract and is returning to racing. Lapthorne is going back to [...]
Dutch rider aiming for a good season Scottish Continental team, Endura Racing has stepped up a level from season 2010. The part time riders have gone but the strong men, riders like Frenchman Alex Blain, Kiwi Jack Bauer and Englishman [...]
Ale-Jet’s season finally starts after bronchitis problemsThe Lampre-ISD team will be led by the double-header of Damiano Cunego and Alessandro Petacchi at this Saturday’s Trofeo Laigueglia. The race, around the Ligurian coast between Genova and Sanremo, will mark the beginning [...]
Young American shows power in riding for team It may be his first pro race, and it may be coming after a period of injury which has affected his preparation, but it seems that the young BMC Racing Team rider [...]
Frenchman fractures right hand at the Tour MéditerranéenGarmin-Cervélo's French rider Christophe Le Mevel will push ahead with his season despite fracturing his hand. He plans to start in the Tour du Haut Var stage race on Saturday, lining out as [...]
Three-time Tour de France winner battles doping investigation to race againSpaniard Alberto Contador is racing again, seven months after he won a third Tour de France and a day after he was cleared of doping by his national federation. Yesterday, [...]
Could team be punished for rider’s doping case?Following the hospitalisation of Riccardo Riccò over what appears to have been a botched blood transfusion, the UCI appears set to discuss the Dutch squad’s ProTeam licence and to deliberate if it should [...]
4,500 positions available to be filled Cycling fans who want to get closer to the Amgen Tour of California have the chance to be part of the event, following a call by the race organisers for volunteers to contact them [...]
German sprint prodigy beats a number of big names to make an early mark on the sportJohn Degenkolb (HTC-Highroad) has taken his first ever professional victory in the second stage of the Volta ao Algarve between Lagoa and Lagos in [...]
