Walloon has a history of repeat wins: Paris-Tours, Giro di Lombardia, Giro del Piemonte.Defending Amstel Gold Race champion, Philippe Gilbert, heads into Sunday's Limburg romp as the big favorite after a strong spring highlighted by yet another win on Wednesday [...]
Nederland Bloeit captain shows the World who is this year’s superteamMarianne Vos (Nederland Bloeit) won the Ronde van Drenthe, the third round of the women’s World Cup, in the northeastern Netherlands city of Hoogeveen. The multi-talented former World champion ousprinted [...]
German hopes for own good result in Flèche WallonneFabian Wegmann is riding for the Leopard-Trek team, which has to be one of the strongest teams for the Ardennes Classics. There are several riders on the roster with options for winning. [...]
Dutch talent says his emotions are in check, hopes for Rabobank glory on SundayLess than half a year ago, Robert Gesink's father crashed on the descent of the Amstel Gold Race's famed Keutenberg climb. The father of Holland's biggest Tour [...]
Leopard Trek rider returns to Holland's biggest race for the first time since 2004 with no pressureWith the grand finale of the cobbled classics at Paris-Roubaix last weekend, Fabian Cancellara, turned the page on the first three Monuments and leaves [...]
Spaniard taking nothing for granted He hasn’t previously been on a similar level to Alberto Contador in time trials but today’s fine third place effort by Xavier Tondo, just three seconds slower than his compatriot, surprised many and puts him [...]
Bannan says GreenEdge won’t move on rider yetThe 2010 Giro d’Italia King of the Mountains Matthew Lloyd has vowed to bounce back from his dismissal from the Omega Pharma Lotto team, saying that he would return as strong as before.“I [...]
Skil Shimano rider takes both stages en route to overall victoryKenny van Hummel of the Skil Shimano team won the Ronde van Drenthe overall classification, after sprinting to two stage victories. Van Hummel beat Danilo Napolitano and Sacha Modolo after [...]
Vacansoleil rider sprints to season win number fourRomain Feillu (Vacansoleil) sprinted to victory in the Tour du Finistère, ahead of Armindo Fonseca (Bretagne Schuller) and Sandy Casar (Française des Jeux). On his birthday, the sprinter profited from the leading group [...]
Team will also aim to get clear early onLast year’s Tour of Britain winner and recent King of the Mountains in the Vuelta al Pais Vasco, Michael Albasini, has got HTC Highroad’s backing to lead the team in Sunday’s Amstel [...]
Ivan Basso, Vincenzo Nibali and Peter Sagan all heading to the hilly racesLiquigas-Cannondale will be bringing three of its biggest stars to the Ardennes Classics, which begin with the Amstel Gold Race on Sunday. Slovakian Peter Sagan will lead the [...]
States meetings were of a personal nature onlyDespite formally severing ties with Michelle Ferrari in 2004, an Italian law enforcement official said today that the American rider met the controversial Italian doctor repeatedly since then, including prior to his final [...]
Two punctures at decisive points dash Saxo Bank-SunGard leader’s hopesAlberto Contador (Saxo Bank-SunGard) was denied the chance to defend his title at the Vuelta a Castilla y León in its Queen stage today, as two strokes of bad luck at [...]
Amstel Gold Race reminds Kazakh of late friend Andreï KivilevAlexandre Vinokourov (Astana) is looking forward to the Ardennes Classics, which begin on Sunday with the Amstel Gold Race. The Kazakh won Liège-Bastogne-Liège last year but it is the Dutch race, [...]
Directeur Sportif convinced he can win if all goes to plan Björn Leukemans took second behind Philippe Gilbert in this weeks’ Brabantse Pijl, but Vacansoleil DCM directeur sportif Michael Cornelisse has said that he sees Wout Poels as being the [...]
Bauke Mollema takes overall lead as Contador denied by technical problemsFilippo Savini (Colnago-CSF Inox) won the third stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y León, the Queen stage between Benavente and Laguna de Peces, after attacking in the final kilometres [...]
Australian recovering from illness and feeling upbeat about progessRichie Porte has been riding well today for Alberto Contador heading towards the day’s summit finish in the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon. The Australian Saxo Bank SunGard rider is playing an [...]
Kolobnev, Karpets and Ignatiev amongst five namedAs a follow up to yesterday’s news that information relating to five Russian riders was taken from the Katusha team headquarters by Italian NAS police, more details have emerged of the identities of those [...]
