Back injury forces American veteran to miss out on what could be his final Grand Boucle The Luxembourg-registered RadioShack-Nissan team has announced its fourteen-man pre-selection for this year’s Tour de France. Heading the list is four-time World time trial champion [...]
John Degenkolb too young for race debut with Olympics and Worlds in his sightsArgos-Shimano has announced its long-list of fourteen riders, from which the nine man team for the Tour de France will be selected. The Dutch team is the [...]
Railway crossing barriers give breakaway an extra two minutes but it is caught in the final kilometrePeter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) continued his devastating run of form with victory in the third stage of the Tour de Suisse, between Martigny and Aarberg, [...]
End of the road beckons, but not before a record-breaking Tour participationEighteen days from what will be his 39th birthday, American veteran George Hincapie has announced that he will compete in just two more races before retiring from professional cycling. [...]
2010 race winner believes he’s perfectly poised to strike in days aheadWhile his brother Andy is some way off top form and has a lot of work to do to get into shape, Fränk Schleck showed that he is in [...]
2011 Maillot Jaune had pulled out of Dauphiné on final stageFears that French favourite Thomas Voeckler’s Tour de France chances might be compromised by injury have been downplayed by his Europcar team, with the directeur sportif Andy Flickinger stating that [...]
Critérium du Dauphiné points reshuffle top UCI tableFollowing its dominant showing in the Critérium du Dauphiné, the Sky Procycling team and its riders are the big movers in the newly-updated UCI WorldTour rankings. Race winner Bradley Wiggins has jumped from [...]
Briton drops weight in a bid to boost climbingKnowing that his chances of winning the Olympic road race will largely come down to how he can handle the nine ascents of Box Hill, Mark Cavendish has revealed that he has [...]
Gesink, Kruijswijk, Mollema all concede time on Swiss mountaintopRabobank is racing with all three of its potential leaders in the Tour de Suisse, but the trio has stumbled out of the starting gate, two stages in to the race. But [...]
FDJ-BigMat, Cofidis, AG2R La Mondiale assess performances with the Tour on the horizonWith the Critérium du Dauphiné completed and with Bradley Wiggins (Sky Procycling) crowned the back-to-back champion, the participating French teams are looking at their performance over the week [...]
Portuguese rider reels in lone attack from Fränk Schleck in the finishing straightRui Costa (Movistar) won the second stage of the Tour de Suisse, between Verbania, Italy, and the Swiss ski station of Verbier, after catching and passing a lone [...]
World time trial champion takes Basque stage race despite a crash in the closing kilometresAnnemiek van Vleuten (Rabobank) attacked to win the final stage of the 2012 Emakumeen Euskal Bira, between Orduña and Iurreta, but the wet descent to the [...]
British champion calmly presides over a day of attacks across the medium Alps Dani Moreno (Katusha) sprinted to victory at the uphill finish of the seventh and last stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné, between Morzine and Châtel, after a [...]
Australian says it’s too soon to be in strong formAlthough Cadel Evans has come up against a very strong Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky in this Critérium du Dauphiné, the Australian appears satisfied with his own showing in the race, [...]
Saxo Bank Classics star forced to adjust previously approved saddle by a “crooked jig”Nick Nuyens (Saxo Bank) is making steady progress in his return from the fractured hip he sustained in the Paris-Nice prologue. After getting through most of the [...]
Team Type 1-Sanofi looking to make noise in next big showcaseWith just two riders normally capable of placing in the top ten of the general classification of a stage race, and both currently racing the Critérium du Dauphiné, Lotto-Belisol will [...]
Basque veteran embraces role as ‘domestique extraordinaire’Egoi Martinez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) showed that his condition heading into the Tour de France is where it needs to be, as the Basque rider took part in his second breakaway of the Critérium du Dauphiné. [...]
Season of woe continues for Luxembourg star with the Tour de France just weeks awayAndy Schleck (RadioShack-Nissan) pulled out of the Critérium du Dauphiné after just 64km of today’s mountain stage between Saint-Alban-Leysse and Morzine, suffering from the injuries he [...]
