Luxembourg rider officially replaces Alberto Contador as race winnerAlmost two years after the end of the race, Andy Schleck has today been formally confirmed as the winner of the 2010 Tour de France. The result was decided on February 6th [...]
Team goes close to victories on two stagesAlthough it didn’t take a stage win, unlike the other three wildcard teams, the NetApp squad has expressed satisfaction with its display in its first Grand Tour, feeling that it more than met [...]
Star-studded field for non-UCI race includes Tom Boonen and Philippe GilbertMatteo Trentin (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) took his first ever professional victory, as he outsprinted teammate Guillaume Van Keirsbulck at the finish of the Gullegem Koerse. The two riders escaped from [...]
“Nice break” means no disruption to Olympic preparation; Giro Donne defence confirmed as next raceMarianne Vos (Rabobank) will not require surgery on her fractured collarbone, the Dutch champion’s team has announced. The 25-year-old sustained the injury during Friday’s Holland Hills [...]
Italian back to full strength one year after breaking femurA year after leaving the race in an ambulance and with a question mark over the future direction of his career, Marco Pinotti has turned things right around. He is gunning [...]
German champion moves up to second overall as the peloton is decimated on the climbs of Boise countyAfter being forced to settle for second on the sprinters stage in Nampa two days before, Ina Teutenberg (Specialized-lululemon) won the mountain stage [...]
World champion shows determination in finishing GiroUltimately losing out by just one point to overall classification runner-up Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha), Mark Cavendish battled until the very end of the Giro d’Italia by trying to pick up points in the final [...]
Omega Pharma-Quick Step pulls some positives from its first Grand TourAfter a Classics season that could not have possibly gone better, Omega Pharma-Quick Step entered the Giro d’Italia with few lofty expectations. But the Belgian team was pleased with what [...]
Homecoming Vacansoleil-DCM rider speaks of his emergence as a Grand Tour contenderAfter overcoming a 27 second deficit to defending champion Michele Scarponi in yesterday’s final time trial, Vacansoleil-DCM’s Thomas De Gendt became the first Belgian to stand on a Grand [...]
Claudia Häusler wins fourth stage as Specialized-lululemon dominates the overall classificationEvie Stevens (Specialized-lululemon) secured overall victory in the inaugural Exergy Tour, after a successful attack with 20km of the final Boise stage to go. The US time trial champion jumped [...]
Holds off chase group containing Van Garderen, Danielson on hot South Carolina afternoonTimmy Duggan (Liquigas-Cannondale) used a well-timed solo move to take the win by himself in the USA professional road race championship. Duggan won the race of attrition on [...]
Hesjedal, de Gendt make big improvements in UCI standingsAlthough he had the disappointment of being pipped for the overall title in the final time trial, Joaquim Rodriguez has the considerable consolation of jumping to the first in the UCI’s WorldTour [...]
Team classification a consolation with Scarponi unable to podiumAs one of the teams primarily responsible for placing an Italian in the top three, Lampre-ISD failed in the Giro d’Italia in that respect, as no Italian appeared on the podium in [...]
Dane planning to “hold a big party” if Hesjedal can overtake Rodriguez in Milan time trialSince putting in big work in the team time trial that would eventually set up two team-mates – Ramunas Navardauskus and Ryder Hesjedal – for [...]
Ardennes Classics style stage ends Belgian tour but previous day’s time trial was enough for victoryTony Martin (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) secured overall victory in the Tour of Belgium, after the toughest stage of the race between Clavier and Engis. The [...]
Marco Pinotti takes Milano time trial but Canadian overcomes Joaquim Rodríguez to take final Maglia RosaRyder Hesjedal (Garmin-Barracuda) became the first ever Canadian winner of the Giro d’Italia, as he overcame his 31 second deficit to Maglia Rosa incumbent Joaquim [...]
Australian takes his first stage race in two years as Team Sky controls the final dayA sprint finish at the end of the fifth and final stage of the Bayern-Rundfahrt, between Feuchtwangen and Bamberg, meant that race leader Michael Rogers [...]
Unheralded squad gets a stage win, Nieve cracks the top tenAs a team almost strictly composed of riders specializing in mountainous terrain, Euskaltel-Euskadi often catches a lot of grief when they do not perform well in their element. But in [...]
