Riders will face nine major climbs in the final 100 kilometersThe route of the final Monument of the 2011 spring classic season, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, has been released, and while it will remain mostly the same as last year's, a critical threesome [...]
Hopes fellow Frenchman will have Flanders form in French raceTour de France race director Christian Prudhomme expects to see a top performance from fellow Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel in Paris-Roubaix this Sunday. The Quick Step rider was in superb form in [...]
Stalemate amongst major contenders Belarusian rider Vasil Kiryienka attacked inside the final two kilometres of today’s second stage of the Vuelta al Pais Vasco, surging clear on the descent to the line and then soloing to victory. The Team Movistar [...]
Klöden and Horner well placed heading into today’s stageAndreas Klöden and Chris Horner got their Vuelta al Pais Vasco campaign off to a strong start yesterday when they finished third and fourth on the hilly stage to Zumarraga. They finished [...]
Race’s only Belgian winner has to settle for seventh in frantic finaleHer victory in the 2010 edition made Grace Verbeke (Topsport Vlaanderen 2012-Ridley) one of the big names to watch in this year’s Ronde van Vlaanderen. Early season form pointed [...]
Belgian legend comments on Sunday’s race; says it’s time for the route to changeBelgian legend Freddy Maertens predicted that a rider like Nick Nuyens would win Sunday’s Ronde van Vlaanderen. The double World champion who, despite going close on several [...]
Team yet to decide if American talent will make elite race debutAccording to the BMC Racing Team, there is a still a chance that Taylor Phinney could start this weekend’s Paris-Roubaix Classic. The 20 year old's first professional season has [...]
Important wildcard confirmed for American teamThe American Team Type 1 - sanofi-aventis has received a major boost with the news that it has been awarded wildcard entry to the Tour de Suisse. The race will be one of the biggest [...]
News from two separate eventsFollowing last month’s news that the Tour de San Luis and Vuelta a Chile winner Marco Arriagada had tested positive, two others from the latter event have also failed tests. Arriagada’s Chilean compatriot José Medina Andrade [...]
Garmin-Cervelo leader makes no excuses about Flanders, looking ahead to his favorite raceGarmin-Cervelo went in to Sunday's Tour of Flanders as the odds on favorites to be the team that could possibly dethrone the mighty Fabian Cancellara. However, for the [...]
Sky rider looking ahead to Sunday's showdown on the cobbles at Paris-RoubaixGeraint Thomas's steady rise to the top continued on Sunday with another excellent ride on the cobbles. The reigning British road champion finished 10th out of the dozen stars [...]
2011’s 'eternal second' opens his Leopard Trek account at lastAfter a succession of second and third places this season, Daniele Bennati (Leopard Trek) has finally taken his first victory in his new team’s colours. The Italian sprinter outpaced Samuel Dumoulin [...]
Howman said current system is expensive, wants debate to be held on revisionThe long-standing practice of having A and B samples for testing in doping controls could potentially be dropped in future, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s David Howman said today. [...]
German anti-doping journalist comments furtherGerman TV journalist Hajo Seppelt was one of the first to learn of Alberto Contador’s positive test, being informed about the case several weeks before the news was officially released. As he told VeloNation in part [...]
Hydration pack could have given Luxembourger 2 seconds a kilometre says Gazzetta dello SportThe International Cycling Union (UCI) is investigating the use of a hydration pack by Leopard Trek’s Fränk Schleck in the time trial of the Critérium International, according [...]
Close proximity of track worlds affects World Champion’s Ronde van VlaanderenGiorgia Bronzini (Colavita-Forno d’Asolo) didn’t have her best day in yesterday’s Ronde van Vlaanderen. The World Champion finished in 79th place, exactly 4 minutes behind race winner Annemiek van Vleuten, [...]
Italian time trial specialist feeling ambitious heading into six day raceMultiple Italian time trial champion Marco Pinotti starts today’s Vuelta al Pais Vasco determined to fight for the overall classification in the race. The respected HTC Highroad rider has previously [...]
Ronde Van Vlaanderen winner now targeting Amstel GoldSaxo Bank-SunGard’s Nick Nuyens had already won a number of semi-classics before yesterday’s Ronde van Vlaanderen, including the Omloop Het Volk (now Het Nieuwsblad) and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne; until yesterday though, he had not managed [...]
