Liquigas-Cannondale also confident in the condition of Kristjan Koren in the Basque ClásicaIvan Basso will lead the Liquigas-Cannondale team in tomorrow’s Clásica San Sebastian hoping to build on the form he has built up in finishing eighth in the Tour [...]
Tour of Poland begins second half of 24 year old’s seasonThe young guns who made a splash for the Belgian team Omega Pharma- Lotto in the spring have re-emerged for the final part of the season. After getting his first [...]
Belgian team hints at merger with smaller, unnamed outfit to make up shortfall for loss of LottoAlthough it has already been announced in the media that Omega Pharma intended to carry on with its WorldTour team, despite its co-sponsor Lotto [...]
Savio says Venezuelan climber will remain with Androni Giocattoli in 2012Androni Giocattoli team manager Gianni Savio has categorically denied rumours that his rider Jose Rujano might compete in the Vuelta a España as part of a rival team, saying that [...]
Squad aiming to step up after three years taking secondAfter three consecutive years as runners-up, six HTC Highroad riders will today aim to finally win the Vargarda World Cup team time trial in Sweden. Judith Arndt, Charlotte Becker, Emilia Fahlin, [...]
Finally a victory for the American team after three consecutive second placesThe HTC-Highroad team of Judith Arndt, Charlotte Becker, Amber Neben, Ina Teutenberg, Ellen Van Dijk and Emilia Fahlin has finally won the World Cup team time trial in Vårgårda, [...]
Briton suffering from bronchitisJonathan Bellis (SaxoBank-SunGard) has come down sick just before he was scheduled to start the Tour of Poland and, consequently, the ‘other’ rider from the Isle of Man will be forced to take some time off. Bellis [...]
Superb lineup for inaugural event Shawn Hunter, co-chairman of the inaugural USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado, has confirmed that Tour de France champion Cadel Evans (BMC Racing Team) will be participating in the race. The Pro Challenge, which will [...]
Belgian champion continues his domination of exhibition racesPhilippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) continued his dominance of the Belgian post-Tour races with victory in the Natourctiterium van Herentals. The Belgian champion has been in demand in the traditional exhibition criteriums, having won [...]
Belgian to lead BMC Racing Team in Spanish classic after showing fine formGreg Van Avermaet will be the protected leader on Saturday when the BMC Racing Team aims to continue their successful run of late at the San Sebastián classic. [...]
Rabobank fielding two previous winners for the raceOscar Freire will make his comeback this weekend at the San Sebastián Classic after under-going maxillary sinus surgery in June. The Spaniard had to quit the Tour de Suisse as the sinus problem [...]
Belgian feels that he’s back on track after Tour de France crashNow fully recovered from the concussion, bruising and cuts he suffered during the Tour de France, Tom Boonen will return to competition this Sunday when he lines out in [...]
Hopes that Australian WorldTour applicant won’t be adversely affected Just days before Monday’s start date for signing and naming new riders, the GreenEdge team was shaken by the news that chief executive Mike McKay has resigned over differences with team [...]
Rider hoping to ride Vuelta a Espana Three months after the UCI requested the Spanish federation RFEC to open disciplinary proceedings against Ezequiel Mosquera, the Spanish Anti Doping Agency (AEA, Agencia Española Antidopaje) has given its support to the rider.According [...]
Team contradicts some aspects of RTL reportAcknowledging that its rider Valentin Iglinskiy had been stopped for speeding and found to be over the legal alcohol limit, the Astana team has today categorically rejected suggestions that he had spent time with [...]
Haimar Zubeldia and Markel Irizar the only men from nine-man Tour de France roster to be racing in Europe this weekWith four of its nine-man team crashing out of the race, there will only be one RadioShack rider from its [...]
Says he’s done too much work to miss next year’s TourDismissing suggestions that he might end up missing next year’s Tour de France in order to fully target the London Olympics events, Bradley Wiggins has said that the Grand Tour [...]
Europcar’s new French star riding the new wave of French confidencePierre Rolland (Europcar) was arguably the biggest revelation of the 2011 tour de France. Not only was the 24-year-old Frenchman an almost constant support to his team captain Thomas Voeckler [...]
