New Zealander hoping to make it to the London OlympicsJesse Sergent has had a successful debut season in the professional cycling ranks. The New Zealander signed for Team RadioShack this year and didn’t take long to impress, taking out the [...]
Sprinter reflects on Tour de France glory and winning the green jerseyAfter winning the green jersey in this year’s Tour de France, Mark Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) spent a week racing the traditional post Tour criteriums in Holland and Belgium. From there [...]
Belgian brought to the team for team time trial championshipsSébastien Rosseler has signed a two-year deal with Garmin-Cervélo that will see the Belgian ride in Argyle colours through 2013. According to his personal website, Rosseler was lured to the team [...]
Slovakian twins become the latest riders to leave HTC-HighroadThe Quick Step team has announced the acquisition of three more riders for the next two seasons, in the shape of Belgian Stijn Vandenbergh, and Slovakian twins Martin and Peter Velits, all [...]
Skil-Shimano sprinter unbeatable on third successive day to hold race leadMarcel Kittel (Skil-Shimano) is proving unbeatable in the sprint in this year’s Tou of Poland, taking his third stage in a row, between Będzin and Katowice, by a similar clear [...]
German time trial specialist adds strength to Dutch Pro-Continental squad Dutch Professional Continental team Skil-Shimano has strengthened its 2012 line-up with the acquisition of Patrick Gretsch on a two-year contract. The 24-year-old German time trial specialist has spent the last [...]
Murcian approaching end of two year banSpanish rider Alejandro Valverde is eligible to return to racing in five months time, and reports that things are on schedule for him to be able to resume at a high level. He has [...]
French champion to stay with Belgian team through 2013Sylvain Chavanel has signed a two-year extension to his contract with Quick Step, meaning that the Frenchman will be with the Belgian team – which will merge with Omega Pharma next year [...]
Ten days in yellow and fourth overall count for nothing in rankings for Continental riderThomas Voeckler (Europcar) tops the International Cycling Union (UCI) European Tour ranking for a second successive month, despite not scoring any points in the intervening period. [...]
UCI President says full independent evaluation was carried outFollowing the earlier news that the Tour of Beijing has been granted full WorldTour status in its first year of existence, UCI President Pat McQuaid has insisted that the race had full [...]
Former US Postal Service rider allegedly took recording of interviewThe Dutch NUSport magazine has claimed that former US Postal and Discovery Channel rider Max van Heeswijk has admitted to using EPO during his career, saying that the 38 year old [...]
Knee injury rules out 2009 victorAs a result of the massive crash inside the final three kilometres of yesterday’s first stage of the Tour de Pologne, the 2009 race winner Alessandro Ballan has been forced to withdraw from what was [...]
Little surprise as UCI/ASO race begins at highest levelAs anticipated, the Tour of Beijing has officially been given UCI WorldTour status, making it the first such event in Asia and one of the few examples of a completely new race [...]
Claims O’Grady signing, but rider says no contract has been finalisedGreenEdge had a team bus and cars at the Tour de France this year, hovering close to the bubble of the official vehicles in order to show its presence, but [...]
Combined squad aims to become bigger force in world cyclingPooling the resources and talent of two WorldTour teams, the rumoured merger between the Omega Pharma/Belgian Cycling Company and Quick Step has become official and will commence in time for the [...]
German sprinter strengthens hold on race lead with second straight stage winMarcel Kittel (Skil-Shimano) repeated his stage one triumph with victory in the second stage of the Tour de Pologne, the Tour of Poland, between Czestochowa and Dabrowa Gornicza. The [...]
Season long classification looks to be between top two with two-thirds of the season doneCadel Evans (BMC Racing) still leads the International Cycling Union (UCI) WorldTour ranking as the season moves into its final phase. The Australian Tour winner is [...]
Kazakh team seeking to take on extra rider during trial periodTeam Astana is seeking permission from the UCI for it to increase the number of permitted stagiaire riders from three to four, thus enabling more young riders to compete on [...]
