Spaniard talks about indecision which preceded decisive moveThe attack looked assertive, premediated and was completely effective, but Alberto Contador has admitted he was wracked by uncertainty prior to launching the single most decisive move in this year’s Vuelta a España. [...]
Rider being monitored by Garmin-Sharp teamTyler Farrar’s plan to use the Tour of Britain as part of his final build-up for the world road race championships was dashed by his withdrawal from the race after his heavy crash yesterday. However [...]
Dutch sprinter awarded gold jersey after Luke Rowe adjudged to have lost a second in sprintBoy van Poppel (UnitedHealthcare) was a somewhat surprise occupier of the race lead in the Tour of Britain at the end of stage two. The [...]
Australian beats Mark Cavendish in untidy sprint after long wet Peak District stage Leigh Howard (Orica-GreenEdge) took the second stage of the 2012 Tour of Britain, between Nottingham and Knowsley Safari Park, as he won an untidy sprint to the [...]
Former Cervélo Test Team rider joins up again with Campana and ZemkeThree years after he won the final time trial in the Giro d’Italia while with the Cervélo Test Team, Ignatas Konovalovas has signed an agreement to race with the [...]
No let-up yet for Australian hardman after ‘stupid hard’ featHe succeeded in his goal yesterday of becoming the only rider this year to finish all three Grand Tours, has amassed over 15,000 kilometres and has completed almost 100 days of [...]
Hesjedal does his best, Veilleux hoping for bigger selections, Barry marks retirementEver since Ryder Hesjedal’s big victory in the Giro d’Italia, Canada has been especially tuned in to the Garmin-Sharp rider’s exploits, as well as Canadian cycling in general. With [...]
Having tried, and failed repeatedly to take the red jersey from Joaquim Rodriguez and then finally succeeding with an unexpected, unorthodox attack far from the finish on Wednesday’s stage to Fuente Dé, Alberto Contador has said his stubbornness is a [...]
Outduels Moser and Kolobnev in late breakLars Petter Nordhaug (Sky Procycling) nabbed the biggest victory of his career in the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal on Sunday, coming back on Moreno Moser (Liquigas-Cannondale) and Alexander Kolobnev (Katusha) in the closing [...]
Olympic champion outsprints Evie Stevens to take fourth straight Ladies Toer In what she surely hopes is a forecast for the World championships, Marianne Vos (Rabobank) took the final stage, and overall race victory, in the sixth and final stage [...]
German sprinter the class of the field once more after mostly ceremonial stageJohn Degenkolb (Argos-Shimano) took his fifth victory of the 2012 Vuelta a España, in the largely ceremonial final stage between Cercedilla and the Paseo de la Castellana boulevard, [...]
World champion ends up with torn rainbow rather than gold jerseySwiftly moving to Plan B after world road race champion Mark Cavendish went down inside the final two kilometres, Luke Rowe (Team Sky) powered home to take stage one of [...]
Huge crowds expected for first day of actionAs he did earlier this year on key stages of the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France, British pro Daniel Lloyd has ridden the opening stage of the Tour of Britain and [...]
World champion hopes for an amicable separation and that British team doesn’t demand a release feeAfter weeks of speculation and gossip from everybody but the man himself, Mark Cavendish has finally confirmed that he does want to leave Team Sky [...]
German sprinter shows versatility in defence of teammate Charlotte Becker’s overall leadIna Teutenberg (Specialized-lululemon) showed her versatility in the fifth stage of the Brain Wash Holland Ladies Toer, in Bergeijk, in the southern Netherlands, as she outsprinted the rest of [...]
Denis Menchov takes breakaway stage; race leader bends under pressure but doesn’t break Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank) bent, but did not break, under pressure from both Joaquim Rodríguez (Katusha) and Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) on the steep climb to the [...]
Belgian champion outsprints Mark Renshaw and Oscar Freire after a long day of breakaways The Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) domination of the 2012 Classics continued in Paris-Brussels as the Belgian champion added the race between the two European capitals [...]
Biggest climb of the race to decide three-way Spanish battle for the raceWith 19 stages down, all eyes in the Vuelta a España are now firmly trained on today’s finish on the top of the Bols del Mundo. The 2247 [...]
