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 [...]
Champion System manager wants green light for other big eventsWhile the Champion System team will miss out on this year’s Amgen Tour of California due to the organisers opting to invite other squads, team manager Ed Beamon has said that [...]
Claims of improper dealings over police bicyclesAlready in the news due to reports last week that he raced with a potentially fatal heart condition, Eddy Merckx is making headlines again due to his reported implication in a legal matter. Belgian [...]
Slovakian champion takes sprint ahead of much-reduced peloton after an attritional day in the Flemish ArdennesPeter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) won the first stage of the Driedaagse De Panne-Koksijde between Middelkerke and Oudenaarde, in a tight sprint over former teammate Jacopo Guarnieri [...]
Belgian champion not firing on all cylindersAfter another very quiet showing in yesterday’s Gent Wevelgem, the 2011 UCI WorldTour winner Philippe Gilbert appears to have given up hope of performing in one of his big targets of the year, the [...]
Tom Boonen sits out tough, windy stage race again as he prepares for Sunday’s RondeOmega Pharma-Quick Step is sending an aggressive team to this week’s Driedaagse De Panne-Koksijde, with ambitions to take overall honours as well as stage victories. The [...]
Want to seize opportunities in upcoming races Although he had to be satisfied with ninth place in yesterday’s Gent Wevelgem Classic, Filippo Pozzato is upbeat about the performance and regards it as a success. Not so much for the result, [...]
Danish squad currently last in UCI rankingSix and a half weeks after the UCI’s licence commission met to discuss the Saxo Bank team in relation to its WorldTour licence, there is still no indication as to when a decision will [...]
Tour of Britain podium finisher continues to gain momentumConfidence ramped up as a result of its two stage wins and overall victory in the Settimana Coppi e Bartali, the NetApp team is continuing to build towards its first Grand Tour [...]
Continuing his resurgence in form in yesterday’s Gent-Wevelgem, Belgian rider Tom Boonen continues his rise up the UCI’s WorldTour rankings thanks to his latest victory. The Omega Pharma Quick Step competitor has gone from seventh to fourth and, if he [...]
British champion joins the list of riders to watch in Sunday’s Vlaanderens Mooiste; 23-year-old staking claim to leadership of GB Olympic teamLizzie Armitstead’s victory in Sunday’s first ever women’s edition of the great Semi-Classic Gent-Wevelgem was her second of the [...]
Radioshack-Nissan satisfied, looking for better fortune next weekendDespite a sizeable string of bad luck in the E3 Prijs Harelbeke on Friday and in Sunday’s Gent-Wevelgem, Radioshack-Nissan is happy with the results of the recent Flanders races, including Daniele Bennati’s sixth [...]
Italian gets in on the sprint and talks up his team’s chances in FlandersMarco Marcato (Vacansoleil-DCM) mixed it up with the sprinters on Sunday in Gent-Wevelgem, eventually coming across the line in seventh place, and the success has Italian excited [...]
Sagan second, Freire frustrated again, Cavendish caught behind splitAfter taking the E3 Prijs Harelbeke on Friday, Tom Boonen made it two in a row in two different ways on Sunday. The Omega Pharma-Quick Step rider took his second win in [...]
GreenEdge team continues strong display of form Two days after he scooped victory on stage five of the Volta a Catalunya, Frenchman Julien Simon sprinted to his second victory in the race. The Saur Sojasun rider was quickest at the [...]
BMC Racing Team leader in control in CorsicaTour de France champion Cadel Evans has shown strong climbing form on the final stage of the Criterium International, matching all his general classification challengers and sealing his race victory on the final [...]
Belgian hoping for breakthrough in first season with Vacansoleil DCMHis team has gotten off to a hot start in the 2012 season, and while Kris Boeckmans (Vacansoleil-DCM) has yet to take his first win in the colours of his new [...]
Gerrans remains on topHeading into today’s Gent Wevelgem, the UCI WorldTour ranking looks set to be reshuffled once more. Friday’s E3 Harelbeke saw two riders break into the top ten, with race winner Tom Boonen (Quick Step) jumping from 38th [...]
