Corsa Rosa organiser now faced with the task of rewriting the results of its 2011 race, but cannot change the memoriesRCS Sport, the organiser of the Giro d’Italia, has officially acknowledged the decision to suspend 2011 race winner Alberto Contador [...]
2012 route unveiled for pre-Tour testStarting with a 7.3 kilometre time trial in Lugano and covering 1400 kilometres plus 19,177 metres of climbing over nine days, the route of the 2012 Tour de Suisse was unveiled today by organisers IMG. [...]
Second stage this year for Belgian sprinter – and twenty in his career – who increases his overall leadTom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) took an incredible twentieth career stage victory in the Tour of Qatar, and his second in the [...]
Tour organisers say Riis’s team would have to seek a wildcard like other squadsIt’s still too soon to say if the UCI will remove Saxo Bank’s WorldTour licence but if that happens, Tour de France organisers won’t guarantee that the [...]
Last six day race of the season goes down to final night battleFinally emerging from the shadow of star compatriots Michael Morkov and Alex Rasmussen, 'home boy' Marc Hester won the 50th 'Kobenhavn 6 Dages Løb' late on Tuesday evening [...]
Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana called off The highly unusual weather conditions which hit Majorca this week have put paid to the running of the fourth and last race in the Challenge Mallorca series, the Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana. The 160.2 [...]
Multiple French champion named as a witness, back under scrutiny The career of multiple world and French champion Jeannie Longo is once again under a shadow after her husband and coach Patrice Ciprelli was arrested this morning at their home [...]
Team states rider wants to renew with Danish squadWhile Bjarne Riis today pledged his support to Alberto Contador during a press conference held in the rider’s hometown of Pinto, the Saxo Bank team has ended its contract with the Spaniard [...]
Another big decision for cycling in complicated week for the sportContinuing a few days where doping themes rather than race results have occupied many cycling headlines, the final verdict in the UCI’s appeal against Jan Ullrich will be announced in [...]
Riis pledges to stand by his rider and says there’s no indications of dopingInsisting once again on his innocence and saying that he was stunned by the sentence handed down to him yesterday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, [...]
NPR suggests federal agents felt they were close to indictmentsAfter both USADA and WADA made it clear in recent days that they were seeking access to the evidence gathered in the US Postal Service/Lance Armstrong investigation, the office of United [...]
Norwegian Sky rider escapes a select breakaway to win third Challenge Mallorce raceOn a double day for Team Sky, shortly after Mark Cavendish had taken the third stage of the Tour of Qatar, Lars Petter Nordhaug escaped alone to win [...]
World champion outsprints race leader but Tom Boonen reopens overall lead Mark Cavendish (Team Sky) has opened his 2012 account, taking his first victory for his new team, and his first in the rainbow jersey, in the third stage of [...]
Kiwi determined to have good season with Lotto Belisol and to make Tour debut Although the Tour of Qatar has interrupted things due to the fever which prevented Andre Greipel from starting the race, the Lotto Belisol team hit the [...]
Rasmussen and Van den Broeck react to yesterday’s sanctionAs the analysis and reaction continues after yesterday’s ruling against Alberto Contador by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, a Danish anti-doping official who has followed the case has said that he [...]
Belgian holds race lead by three-hundredths of a second after American team fastest in 11.3km Lusail testGarmin-Barracuda blasted around the 11.3km stage two team time trial course, out and back from the Lusail Cycling Circuit, in a time of 12’38”. [...]
Belgian legend reacts to CAS verdict in Alberto Contador caseEddy Merckx has spoken about his disappointment about the fact that the Court for Arbitration in Sport (CAS) has ruled that Alberto Contador should be suspended for two years. The Belgian [...]
CAS rules against Spaniard, says contaminated supplement caused Clenbuterol postiveTriple Tour de France winner Alberto Contador has today lost one of those titles, with the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne stripping him of his 2010 victory plus his [...]
