Troubled Italian denies new doping charges, but has no desire to continue as a professionalRiccardo Riccò announced that he is quitting professional cycling, after having just recovered from what looked like a blood transfusion gone wrong. The 27-year-old Italian was [...]
Spaniard had higher expectations himselfLuis León Sánchez lost 1'40 to stage winner Tony Martin in the stage six time trial of Paris-Nice. The Spaniard was one place and two seconds behind his teammate Bauke Mollema, with whom the Rabobank management [...]
Decision comes after evaluation of one-year test periodUSA Cycling (USAC), the body governing cycling races in the United States, decided to lift the radio ban for National Racing Calendar (NRC) races. The ban was imposed last year, following international efforts [...]
Garmin-Cervelo cobbled specialist's Classics season disappearsMartijn Maaskant's Spring Classics campaign ended before it even got off the ground, well, that's at least where it ended. The 27 year old crashed hard in the midst of a strong, active day at [...]
Young Liquigas rider gaining form and fortitude ahead of Spring Classics24 year old Liquigas talent, Daniel Oss, is steadily refining his form ahead of his much sought after first highlights of the season: the Cobbled Classics. The young Trento native [...]
The Race to the Sun rains down on Belgian teamThe 2011 edition of Paris-Nice has shown difficult times to the Belgian Quick Step team, with several riders preparing for the upcoming Classics having to abandon the week-long race. Kevin De [...]
Astana rider has massive scare in final kilometers on wet roadsRémy Di Gregorio (Astana) finished off a well-timed move with 13km to go in stage seven of Paris-Nice. The 215 kilometers between Brignoles Biot - Sophia Antipolis were held in [...]
Wants to have compromise with only security info relayed to the ridersASO Director Christian Prudhomme has weighed in on the radio fight between the International Cycling Union and many of the racers and team managers. Prudhomme wants to have at [...]
Cunego second, Evans third in tough stageIn the fourth stage of Tirreno-Adriatico, Michele Scarponi took the day's glory, besting by one second Lampre teammate Damiano Cunego and BMC's Cadel Evans. Ivan Basso (Liquigas) was fourth, Danilo Di Luca (Katusha) fifth [...]
British champion invites paying guests to weekend in West WalesGeraint Thomas (Team Sky) is to host a training camp, open to the paying public, at the Bluestone National Park Resort in Pembrokeshire, West Wales. The three-day camp, between September 30th [...]
Kreder sixth overall in Uruguayan raceAfter three days of vying for a stage win in the Rutas de America, things paid off for the Chipotle Development team when Jacob Rathe won a four man sprint at the end of the [...]
Italian champion still hoping for solid overall result and dreaming of Sanremo gloryItalian Champion Giovanni Visconti's has started his 2011 season in superb fashion. Visconti already has a win at the GP Regio Insubrica to his credit, along with a [...]
Argentinian beats most of the world's best, while Dane prepares for important GC daysAfter taking third in the bunch kick on Thursday in Tirreno-Adriatico's hectic sprint in Indicatore, Saxo Bank-Sungard's Argentinian fastman, Juan Jose Haedo, got it just right and [...]
2005 World Champion took an encouraging 21st place finish in today's bunch sprintFollowing his recent bout with the flu that nearly kept him out of Tirreno-Adriatico, Tom Boonen is slowly recovering his forces. Unsurprisingly, Boonen admitted that the first road [...]
Wiggins second in TT, Klöden unable to cope with pace of fellow GermanAlready victorious in the time trial and the overall classification of the Volta ao Algarve, Tony Martin’s successful season continued today with a stomping time trial win in [...]
Green light for Danish squadThe Christina Watches - Onfone team of Michael Rasmussen has officially received approval of a Continental licence from the UCI, and will begin racing next week.The Danish team had been chasing a licence for the past [...]
Italian suffered extensive bruising in fall Team Katusha and Luca Paolini will today decide if the Italian is able to continue in Tirreno-Adriatico, basing that assessment on how he is feeling after a bad crash yesterday.The 34 year old hit [...]
No broken bones for the German sprinterGood news for Andre Greipel following his unfortunate crash warming up for the opening team time trial at Tirreno-Adriatico on Wednesday: he'll be back on his bike on Saturday. Following the training crash that [...]
