Recovery from injury and Classics preparation highest prioritiesStill recovering from injuries sustained in his crash during the Volta a Catalunya, Alejandro Valverde will miss Saturday’s GP Miguel Indurain. His Movistar team has confirmed that the Spaniard will sit out the [...]
Norwegian champion takes bumpy cobbled sprint and his first international pro victoryAfter fourth place on stage one, and second place on stage two, Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) has finally taken his first international victory in the professional ranks, in stage 3a [...]
The big names will be the favourites as usual but a new generation awaitsWith Sunday’s Ronde van Vlaanderen still to come, race organiser ASO is already preparing for the second of cycling’s cobbled Monuments, Paris-Roubaix, the following Sunday, April 8th. [...]
RusVelo’s Kovalev unsure about participation The Russian RusVelo team faces the possibility that it will lose the services of one of its riders, Ivan Kovalev, as the result of a hit and run accident in Australia. The 25 year old [...]
Ochowicz: ‘No action…unless official request to do so’Although the names of two of its riders cropped up again yesterday in relation to the Mantova doping investigation, the BMC Racing Team has said that it will not prevent either from competing [...]
Tom Boonen seeks to join the immortals with third victory in Vlaanderens MooisteWhile many of his teammates were riding the second stage of the Driedaagse De Panne-Koksijde today, Omega Pharma-Quick Step’s Classics captain Tom Boonen was leading a reconnaissance ride [...]
Top speed of 45 km/h makes bike currently illegal in the USTaking some pride in the fact that it’s currently too fast to be sold in the United States, Specialized today launched the Turbo, a new electric bike that will [...]
Former rider seeking to overturn suspended sentenceAppeals lodged by both Floyd Landis and the EdF company against the sentences handed down on November 10th against them will be heard in Versailles next November. French newspaper L’Equipe reports today that the [...]
European WorldTour debut for Canadian teamTwenty-four years after he finished second overall in the event, Steve Bauer will return to the Tour de Suisse with his SpiderTech C10 team, which is gunning for a good result. The Canadian Pro Continental [...]
GreenEdge competitor recovering from surgery to pin fractureOne week after GreenEdge rider Julian Dean crashed in the Volta a Catalunya and broke his leg, team doctor Peter Barnes has given an update on his condition plus an indication about when [...]
Rider had been fired after testing positive in Tour de France, then cleared by CASPreviously released by the team after testing positive during the 2011 Tour de France, former world championship runner-up Alexandr Kolobnev is returning to Katusha this season. [...]
Moves to try to bring cycling’s top event back to BritainThe head of Yorkshire’s tourist board has officially confirmed that the region has bid to host the 2016 Tour de France, going up against Scotland, Barcelona, Venice and Berlin in [...]
Norwegian champion leads both overall and points classifications but would have preferred a stage victoryAfter his fourth place on stage one, and second place on stage two, Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) finds himself in the leader’s jersey of the Driedaagse De [...]
Second place for Alexander Kristoff gives Norwegian champion the lead after Peter Sagan droppedGerman wunderkind sprinter Marcel Kittel (Project 1t4i) returned to winning ways, after his second place in the Handzame Classic two weeks before, with an emphatic victory in [...]
Brailsford recently stated he wanted Manxman to focus on one targetBritish cycling’s performance director and Sky Procycling chief Dave Brailsford suggested in recent days that Mark Cavendish may have to forget about the green jersey in the Tour de France, [...]
Eight foreign teams amongst field in tough 1.2-ranked raceA total of 29 teams have been confirmed for this year’s Tour of the Battenkill, with two Pro Continental squads and eight overseas teams amongst the long list of those set to [...]
Robert Gesink looking to improve on ninth in 2011; Michel Kreder preparing for Cauberg’s uphill sprintThe Netherlands’ biggest riders are preparing for the country’s biggest one day race, the Amstel Gold Race, which will take place in just over two [...]
Governing body ‘concerned’ that World Cup event might not take placeSeveral weeks after stating that it would try to support the endangered Vuelta al Pais Vasco and Clásica San Sebastián WorldTour races, the UCI has now indicated it will work [...]
