Joost Posthuma and Tom Stamsnijder are under contract for 2012 but have not been mentioned in new team’s plansWith the long-rumoured, yet sudden, announcement that the Leopard Trek and RadioShack teams are to merge in 2012, many of both teams’ [...]
Belgian heads new ranking system, Cobo and Froome making big gains in Vuelta Although he’s missed the Vuelta a España, Belgian rider Philippe Gilbert continues to lead the IG Markets Pro Cycling Index ahead of triple Tour de France winner [...]
Milan Sanremo winner dreaming of big worlds resultBuilding on what has been his biggest season to date, Milan-Sanremo champion Matt Goss looks set to have increased opportunities next season with a move to the new GreenEdge team. The Tasmanian has [...]
World TT champion planning towards defence of his titleWith six days left until the end of the Vuelta a España, Fabian Cancellara has said that he will leave the race in order to build towards the world time trial championships [...]
Climber returns after one year at Quick StepThe American team UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling has announced that Marc de Maar will rejoin the squad for the 2012 season, after the Curaçao national champion finishes his first season with Quick Step. After [...]
HTC Highroad rider picks up first individual UCI victory Having said in a video interview earlier this year that one of her big season goals was to grab her first big win, Swedish rider Emilia Fahlin achieved that target in [...]
Bruyneel to be involved, says all contracts will be respectedFollowing today’s earlier announcement that the American RadioShack team will merge with that of Leopard Trek, joining the likes of the Schleck brothers and Fabian Cancellara with Chris Horner, Janez Brajkovic [...]
Rohan Dennis moves into race lead as Michael Hepburn misses the moveMoreno Hofland (Netherlands) took the opening stage of the Tour de l’Avenir between Yutz and Lunéville as he outsprinted the rest of a seven-rider group that had escaped inside [...]
Vuelta leader leaps from eighth to first in two dramatic mountaintop finishesJuan José Cobo (Geox-TMC) spent the first two weeks of the Vuelta a España in the shadows. On the crucial mountaintop finishes to Sierra Nevada and La Covatilla he [...]
Former pro believes Spaniard is more than likely going to win L’Equipe analyst and former French pro Jean Francois Bernard has expressed doubts about the return to form of Juan Jose Cobo, who dominated yesterday’s stage to the Angliru and [...]
Horner, Klöden and Brajkovic amongst those moving to Luxembourg squadAppearing to contradict l’Equipe’s contention that the Leopard Trek team will cease to exist, the squad has announced this evening that a collaboration of sponsors will take place, but says that [...]
Multiple other teams showing interest in securing Froome’s signatureSpeaking on the second rest day of the Vuelta a España, Sky Procycling duo Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome have pledged to fight onwards in a bid to topple race leader Juan [...]
Vacansoleil-DCM rider second to top of AngliruWout Poels (Vacansoleil-DCM) had perhaps his best day as a professional, performing as the second-best climber on one of Spain’s toughest ascents, and the young Dutchman finished second on stage 15 of the Vuelta [...]
Fuglsang says he knows nothing of L’Equipe reportCycling’s governing body the UCI has said that it has received no official word about the situation with the Leopard Trek team, which l’Equipe reported today will stop at the end of the [...]
Bacterial infection keeping three-time Lombardia winner out of Québec and MontréalDamiano Cunego (Lampre-ISD) added his name to those that are to miss the two Canadian WorldTour races, the GP Québec and GP Montréal, which are set to take place this [...]
Swiss rider moves across from HTC HighroadOne year after he won the Tour of Britain and three days after taking the Ponferrada stage of the Vuelta a España, Michael Albasini and the GreenEdge team have confirmed the Swiss rider will [...]
Final pronouncement pending but rider’s career looks to be overControversial Italian rider Riccardo Riccò appears to be facing a probable life ban from the sport of cycling after investigators concluded that the rider did indeed undergo a banned blood transfusion [...]
Strong British domestique went close to several victoriesEleven years after he made his professional debut with the Mapei team, British rider Charly Wegelius has announced that he is to end his time as a pro rider. The 33 year old [...]
