Evans, Hushovd, Gilbert and Van Garderen together in American ProTeamSoaking up the sun and mild January conditions in Denia, the BMC Racing Team is currently clocking up vital pre-season mileage at its Spanish training camp in advance of what it [...]
Strong Tour Down Under performances determine early leadersPerforming well on home soil, Australian riders and the nation have taken an early lead in the UCI WorldTour rankings after the Santos Tour Down Under. Race winner Simon Gerrans unsurprisingly tops the [...]
Riders pick up team GC title in WorldTour race Radioshack-Nissan was introduced to much fanfare earlier this month, with the Schleck brothers and Fabian Cancellara front and center. But before the team’s big stars even take to the road, some [...]
Italian faces hearing on February 3rd Following yesterday’s story that Riccardo Riccò has been given a licence by the Croatian cycling federation for the 2012 season, thus potentially bypassing disciplinary action by the Italian Olympic committee CONI and the Italian [...]
Near miss for Haedo, bunch splits in tough weather conditions Italian sprinter Francesco Chicchi has clocked up the first win of the 2012 season for the new-look Omega Pharma Quick Step team, winning into Villa Mercedes on day one of [...]
Czech's fans want to see more than just black, yellow and red at Belgium’s home raceTo show themselves in the crowd, and to stand out from the multitudes of Belgians on the barriers at this coming weekend’s World cyclocross championships [...]
Belgian star can’t wait to get racing almost five months after his Vuelta crashTom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) is pinning a race number on for the first time since crashing out of the Vuelta a España this week. The first [...]
“The winning mood and the ‘grinta’ is there.”Thanks to their superstar sprinter Andre Greipel and some quick harmony with a revamped lead-out, Lotto-Belisol is off to a flying start at the conclusion of the season’s first big race. Greipel won [...]
Better than it first seemed for Dutch and French riders, but World championship looks doubtful for bothFor Sophie de Boer (Telenet-Fidea) and Caroline Mani (France) the World Cup cyclocross race in Hoogerheide, Netherlands, lasted just a few seconds as a [...]
Images from the final day of racing in AustraliaThe splash of early-season colour and sunlight that was the Santos Tour Down Under came to an end today in Adelaide, giving photographers one last chance to capture the riders through the [...]
Racing out the finale today on the streets of Adelaide, the riders of the Santos Tour Down Under brought the 2012 edition of the race to a close with a fast, aggressive 90 kilometres of competition. As expected, several big [...]
Could rider be trying to evade CONI disciplinary action?With less than two weeks to go before he is due to appear before the national anti-doping tribunal called by Italian Olympic Committee CONI, it appears that Riccardo Riccò may be attempting [...]
Sunweb-Revor team bosses Dutch race as Pauwels takes emphatic overall victoryKevin Pauwels profited from the numerical superiority of his Sunweb-Revor team in the closing stages of the World Cup race in Hoogerheide, Netherlands. The 27-year-old, dressed in the World Cup [...]
World champion lays down the law again a week before her title defence; World Cup overall for van den BrandMarianne Vos (Rabobank) made it look all too easy again, as she took her fifteenth straight victory of the season at [...]
Greipel beats Renshaw to take final stageSafely marking chief rival Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) on the final stage, Simon Gerrans today ran out as overall victor in the Santos Tour Down Under and completely a superb start for his GreenEdge team. [...]
Calpe training camp for American ProTeamFollowing its most successful season to date in 2011, the Garmin-Barracuda team is putting in some good training kilometres in advance of the 2012 season. Although some of the squad are already in action in [...]
“I will fight for it and come back”Forced to drop down to Continental level as a result of the Geox TMC debacle, Marcel Wyss has pledged to fight back and to return to where he feels he belongs in cycling. [...]
Australian working with Garmin-Barracuda lead-out in Tour Down UnderThough he carries ambitious goals into the 2012 season, Heinrich Haussler (Garmin-Barracuda) will once again forego the Tour de France in favour of an approach that will allow him to peak during [...]
