Quick Step’s Zdenek Stybar talks about first season on the road

Will decide on his future next year and hopes to ride first Grand TourWorld cyclocross champion Zdenek Stybar switched to the road with Quick Step this year after another successful cyclocross season. The Czech rider took part in his first [...]

2011-08-06T00:00:00+00:00August 6th, 2011|

Boardman: Cavendish would be crazy not to take Renshaw and Eisel to new team

Manxman expected to announce new team soonFollowing the announcement that HTC-Highroad will disband at the end of the season, sprinter Mark Cavendish announced on his website that he has decided which team he will ride for next and will make [...]

2011-08-06T00:00:00+00:00August 6th, 2011|

Bob Stapleton Interview: Full details from HTC Highroad’s shock farewell announcement

Team owner explains how the sport’s most winning team unravelledAlthough there were some prior signs that things were not progressing as might have been hoped, the news on Thursday that the HTC Highroad team was stopping came as a big [...]

2011-08-05T00:00:00+00:00August 5th, 2011|

Tour of Denmark: Jakob Fuglsang escapes to take Queen stage

Simon Gerrans misses out on stage victory but nets the yellow jerseyJakob Fuglsang (Leopard Trek) took the first home win of this year’s Tour of Denmark, between Aarhus and Vejle, after escaping the peloton on the final lap of the [...]

2011-08-05T00:00:00+00:00August 5th, 2011|

Dan Martin seizes stage win and overall lead in Tour of Poland

This year's Tour de Pologne may be less suited to pure climbers than before but defending champion Daniel Martin made the most of today’s hardest leg to take the stage win and the yellow jersey. Martin attacked several times towards [...]

2011-08-05T00:00:00+00:00August 5th, 2011|

Vuelta a Burgos: Joaquim Rodriguez holds his lead as Movistar takes team time trial

Three Movistar riders now lurking behind him but ‘Purito’ holds onThe Movistar team won the stage three team time trial in the Vuelta a Burgos between Pradoluendo and Belorado. The Spanish team completed the 11.6km course in a time of [...]

2011-08-05T00:00:00+00:00August 5th, 2011|

“The Devil awaits” this weekend’s Tour of the Catskills

United States’ biggest Pro/Am stage race returns to steep Devil’s Kitchen climbThe fourth annual Tour of the Catskills is all set to start this weekend (August 5th-7th) as part of the Great American Cycling Series. With almost 800 entries, from [...]

2011-08-05T00:00:00+00:00August 5th, 2011|

Twenty-five teams announced for Giro di Lombardia

Seven wildcard invitations awarded for WorldTour finaleThe organiser of the Giro di Lombardia, RCS Sport, has announced the list of twenty-five teams that have been invited to the ‘Race of the falling leaves’, which will take place on Saturday, October [...]

2011-08-05T00:00:00+00:00August 5th, 2011|

GreenEdge confirms contracts for Jack Bobridge and Meyer brothers

New Australian team taking shapeConfirming strong rumours from earlier this year that the GreenEdge team was aiming to sign three of Garmin-Cervélo’s top young Australian riders, the new setup has announced that Jack Bobridge, Cameron Meyer and his brother Travis [...]

2011-08-05T00:00:00+00:00August 5th, 2011|

Cavendish thanks HTC Highroad, says he’s proud of what was achieved

Manxman comments after news that team will stopResponding to yesterday’s news that the HTC Highroad men’s team will fold at the end of the season, its top sprinter Mark Cavendish has said that he regrets that it will stop, and [...]

2011-08-05T00:00:00+00:00August 5th, 2011|

Ben Hermans ‘deeply disappointed’ to miss Vuelta a España, won’t be with RadioShack in 2012

Belgian rider frustrated at not being selected for any Grand Tour during time with teamBen Hermans (Team Radioshack) is not on his team’s long list for the Vuelta a España, and the Belgian says he is searching for a new [...]

2011-08-05T00:00:00+00:00August 5th, 2011|

Kasheckin confirmed as moving to Astana and targeting top five in Vuelta a España

Controversial rider returns to team four years after positive testFive years after taking third overall in the Vuelta a España, Andrey Kashechkin has confirmed that he will return to the race once again as part of the Astana team. The [...]

2011-08-04T00:00:00+00:00August 4th, 2011|

WADA disputes McAfee report that its system was hacked for a total of 14 months

Director general David Howman says ADAMS system has never been compromisedThe World Anti Doping Agency has played down a report by the McAfee security company which describes breaches of computer security, saying that it has no reason to believe that [...]

2011-08-04T00:00:00+00:00August 4th, 2011|
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