Trebon, Page round out podium; Compton nets eighth straight women’s titleJeremy Powers (Rapha Focus) powered away from Ryan Trebon (LTS-Felt) and the rest of a five-man group with two laps to race, and stayed away to take his first national [...]
Kannibaal back to his old self in the mud as some champions lose their thronesSven Nys takes back the jersey that belongs to him After his domination of his own GP on New Year’s Day, it was no surprise that [...]
Runner-up slot pleases Lampre ISD team Matthew Lloyd today showed clear signs that he is well on his way back to top form after a very difficult 2011 when he raced home second in the 2012 Australian road race championships. [...]
National championships decided all over Europe with most going to the biggest namesMarianne Vos cruises to Netherlands title number two It was all too easy for Marianne Vos (Rabobank) once again, as the World champion cruised to what is surprisingly [...]
First victory for men’s GreenEdge team Delivering on the victory he said he was hoping for in a long pre-race interview, Simon Gerrans blasted home in a three-man sprint to take the Australian road race championship in Buninyong earlier today. [...]
Former World and Belgian champion transferred to Antwerp Hospital and now reportedly out of dangerBart Wellens (Telenet-Fidea) has been taken to the intensive care unit of the University Hospital of Antwerp after suffering from problems with his heart, Het Nieuwsblad [...]
Punchy GreenEdge rider ready to step up from 2011 bronze medal positionThird in last year’s Australian championships behind Jack Bobridge and Matt Goss, today’s running of the 2012 elite road race is a strong opportunity for Simon Gerrans to claim [...]
Belgian transfer beginning 2012 in Australia, Giro d’Italia in the cards tooUp-and-coming Belgian rider Jan Bakelants (RadioShack-Nissan) is getting an early start to his first season with Johan Bruyneel’s revamped squad, as the Omega Pharma-Lotto transfer is set to ride [...]
Ambitious flouro-yellow Professional Continental squad building on strong 2011The Farnese Vini-Selle Italia was presented to the World today, at the Francesco Paolo Tosti Theatre in Ortona, on the Italian Abruzzo coast. The unmistakeable flouro-yellow outfit was one of the most [...]
Favourite Sven Nys unimpressed as easier lap “to my disadvantage”The course for the Belgian national cyclocross has been shortened due to excessive mud, according to Het Laatste Nieuws. The Hooglede-Gits circuit was to be identical to that used in the [...]
Ag2R rider pleased with overall growth of ‘cross in FranceJohn Gadret (Ag2R-La Mondiale) has recently stated that he will be all in for the Giro d’Italia this season, but for now, the Frenchman has a more current goal to chase [...]
Retired Tour winners to preside over announcement of route for 67th edition of Spanish raceMiguel Indurain and Carlos Sastre will be the guests of honour at the presentation of the route of this year’s Vuelta a España on Wednesday January [...]
White, red and blue colours still important to Omega Pharma-Quick Step rider despite wearing the rainbow jersey for two yearsIt’s hard to see it under the rainbow stripes of his World champion’s jersey, but Omega Pharma-Quick Step’s Zdenek Stybar is [...]
Beats Sheppard and Watson to take first nationals jerseyJayco AIS rider Rohan Dennis grabbed the Australian champion’s jersey in the under 23 road race in Buninyong today, beating Jayco Victoria Institute of Sport rider Eric Sheppard to the line at [...]
Noonan picks up Under 23 victoryOn the back of a strong performance which saw them take two stages plus the overall classification in this week’s Jayco Bay Cycling Classic plus the elite and under 23 women’s criterium jerseys, the GreenEdge [...]
Elder Schleck brother speaks about new super-team at its presentationFränk Schleck (RadioShack-Nissan) was front and centre at yesterday’s team presentation in Luxembourg, being presented to the large crowd in a line of team leaders that included brother Andy, Fabian Cancellara, [...]
German team sprint riders also take gold after Baugé’s disqualificationFollowing this morning’s news that world sprint and team sprint champion Gregory Baugé has been disqualified due to three whereabouts violations, the UCI has officially confirmed that those who took silver [...]
UCI strikes off Frenchman’s results after three whereabouts violationsGreat Britain’s Jason Kenny and the German team sprint squad appear to have earned themselves world titles overnight with the news that the UCI has stripped French sprinter Grégory Baugé of the [...]
