Tour de France favourite heads to his first races since the Giro d’ItaliaAlberto Contador (Saxo Bank-SunGard) will take the start of both the time trial and road race of the Spanish championships this week. The races will be his first [...]
Young British sprinter can’t wait to take on the World’s bestIncluded in Team Sky’s nine-man Tour de France line-up, announced this morning, is young British sprinter Ben Swift. Although he rode the 2009 Giro d’Italia for previous team Katusha, and [...]
Belgian wants national champion’s jersey, then good TourAs the days count down to the Belgian championships on Sunday, past winner Tom Boonen has described taking the tricolour jersey again as one of his top targets. The Quick Step rider won [...]
Frenchwoman still racing strongly at 52Showing she can still race extremely quickly at 52 years of age, Jeannie Longo today took the French time trial champs, marking her 58th national title in all. Longo proved best on a 19 kilometre [...]
Gilbert, Van den Broeck and Greipel to lead Belgian squadThe Belgian Omega Pharma Lotto team has announced its lineup for the 2011 Tour de France and, as expected, Philippe Gilbert, Jurgen Van den Broeck and André Greipel will be the [...]
Race debut for Ben Swift as the team goes green againThe Sky Procycling Team has announced its nine-man roster for the upcoming Tour de France, which starts on July 2nd on the Passage du Gois on the country’s Vendée Coast. [...]
Norwegian disappointed to miss out on Team Sky’s team selectionAs a veteran of five Tours de France, including a stage victory in the 2008 edition, Kurt Asle Arvesen might expect to be on most team’s roster for the race. In [...]
Number will not be removed from national road race in tribute to Wouter Weylandt although fate means it will not be at the startWednesday’s race in Halle-Ingooigem, Belgium, went ahead without a 108 dossard, according to Sporza. The number was [...]
First professional victoryfor Dutch rider on typical Belgian courseRoy Curvers took a solo win at the Belgium Halle-Ingooigem race, crossing the line after 201 kilometers five seconds ahead of Pieter Jacobs (Topsport Vlaanderen) and seven seconds clear of a sextet. [...]
Manxman once again targets green jerseyCritics doubted Mark Cavendish’s form last year leading up to Tour de France. Before the race started, the HTC-Highroad sprinter had only four victories to his name, a far cry from the fifteen he had [...]
Rabobank rider scores ahead of Vacansoleil trio Rabobank rider Stef Clement won the Dutch National time trial Championships in Veendam over the distance of 46.4 kilometers. Clement rode home in 56'56 and was over half a minute clear to a [...]
Reversing decision to retire, Dutchman speaks about getting his hunger back for cyclingThe comeback has officially begun. Almost a year after his last race, nine and a half months after announcing that he was giving up the bike, Kai Reus [...]
Considerable overlap with Giro d’Italia squadThe riders who will back Alberto Contador’s bid to win his fourth Tour de France have today been announced by the Saxo Bank SunGard team, with many expected names present. His compatriots Jesus Hernandez, Dani [...]
“I have no ambitions for the General Classification”Despite a strong showing in the Tour de Suisse, Bauke Mollema has made it clear that he will be riding the Tour de France in support of Robert Gesink. The Dutchman finished the [...]
Narrows list of riders down to eleven, national championships will be deciderAlthough many of the teams starting the Tour de France on July 2nd have finalised their selections, or will do so in the next couple of days, the Spanish [...]
Friends and family gather to set up memorialThree hundred cyclists rode in support of a memorial set up for Wouter Weylandt, Frederiek Nolf and Dimitri De Fauw in Belgium today, reports hln.be. The route went from the Sint-Pietersplein in Gent [...]
Glandular fever affected the Australian’s ability to train for the raceSky Procycling’s Michael Rogers will miss this years Tour de France due to glandular fever that has hampered his preparation for the race. The Australian signed for the British team [...]
States videos may not be not necessary to bring chargesA former federal investigator has commented on the recent encounter between Lance Armstrong and Tyler Hamilton, saying that if it is shown that if the Tour de France winner did threaten [...]
