Australian motivated to bounce back after being edged out in worldsEdged out by Mark Cavendish in the world road race championships in September, new GreenEdge sprint leader Matt Goss is spurred on by the thoughts of turning the tables in [...]
Solid lineup for January raceA month and a half before the start of the Tour de San Luis in Argentina, details of the full lineup have become clear. A total of five top ranked UCI ProTeams will take part in [...]
French hope is proud of his Tour de France finish but realises that the number of favourites abandoning helped his chancesJérôme Coppel (Saur-Sojasun) remains one of the big hopes for the future of French cycling and, after his fourteenth place [...]
Kevin Pauwels surprisingly off the pace; Katie Compton makes victory look even easier in women’s raceSven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) cruised to a third victory in the Fidea Scheldecross, on the banks of the river Schelde, just across from the city of [...]
Irishman on racing with ‘Rambo,’ Sean Kelly as a mentor and moreIt’s unusual for a professional to spend five seasons with one team – and very rare for a 24 year old rider to be with the same squad for [...]
Belgian targeting big season with BMC Racing TeamWorld number one Philippe Gilbert will begin his first season with the BMC Racing Team at the Tour of Qatar on February 5th, the Belgian thus choosing a different start to his year [...]
Belgian states it’s possible to ride strongly in both Giro and Tour Following recent debate about whether or not Andy Schleck should ride the Giro d’Italia, RadioShack-Nissan team manager Johan Bruyneel has floated the possibility that the Luxembourg rider could [...]
Rabobank veteran competing with Renshaw and rising starsGrischa Niermann (Rabobank), the Rabobank domestique who has been on the squad since 1999, acknowledged that he will be in for a fight if he wants to maintain his almost-yearly position on the [...]
24-year-old Brit speaks about past and future with Team SkyThis season brought some personal success for Ian Stannard (Team Sky), but the British rider felt he learned a lot in his second season with the team, and is looking forward [...]
Kit very similar to that worn this yearThe wintertime can be a time when reworked kit designs are unveiled but FDJ has decided to run with a near-identical version of what its riders were wearing this season. The team revealed [...]
Existing regulations will be enforced for UCI eventsThe UCI has clarified the situation with regards to the official name of the Luxembourg ProTeam of Andy and Frank Schleck, Fabian Cancellara and Chris Horner, saying that it will enforce the usual [...]
Denver time trial finale for second edition of Colorado stage raceThe USA Pro Cycling Challenge has announced the host cities for the 2012 edition of the race. After the success of the first edition of the race, which is also [...]
Stars to miss Scheldecross and Druivenveldrit; races likely to come down to Nys/Pauwels duel once moreThe coming weekend’s Scheldecross and Vlaamse Druivenveldrit will be without some of the sport’s biggest stars, as Zdenek Stybar (Quick Step) and Bart Wellens (Telenet-Fidea) [...]
Ambitious project with eventual goal of WorldTour statusClick here for part II of this interview Aiming in the short term to race successfully as Asia’s first Pro Continental setup, then longer-term to become a UCI ProTeam, the Champion System squad [...]
Doesn’t agree with those who advocate aiming for Giro victory insteadSean Kelly has differed from a number of top former professionals who recently advocated that Andy Schleck should focus on the Giro d’Italia rather than the Tour de France in [...]
Charges relate to horse racing, but Frenchman long accused of doping cyclistsBernard Sainz, the doping doctor known as Dr Mabuse, has been sentenced to three months in prison and a fine of 7,500 euro by the Tribunal correctionnel d'Alençon. The [...]
German will be part of RadioShack Nissan squadSidelined from racing since breaking his finger in the Tour of Britain, crowd favourite Jens Voigt will make his competitive return in the Santos Tour Down Under next month. The affable German has [...]
Spanish climber rescued from Geox-TMC collapse despite sitting out most of 2011 with mononucleosisRafael Valls has signed for Vacansoleil-DCM on a one-year deal, the Dutch WorldTour team has announced. The 24-year-old Spanish climber has become the latest rider to be [...]
