Brilliant racing brings event to a closePim Ligthart and Michael Mørkøv have won the Amsterdam Six after a dramatic battle in the final minutes of last night’s concluding race. The Omega Pharma-Quick Step duo Iljo Keisse and Niki Terpstra finished [...]
Vuelta champ speaks out on Armstrong sagaAlberto Contador (Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank) has spoken out about the Lance Armstrong doping revelations saying the sport needs to look to the future and not the past. The Spaniard who returned from a doping [...]
“This is not a life”Despite his sons’ podium finish in the 2011 Tour de France, Andy Schleck’s win in the 2010 edition and the other successes they have clocked during their careers, the events of 2012 have prompted Johny Schleck [...]
Success for Liquigas on its final day in the pelotonFour years after he returned to the sport with the Liquigas team and took third in the Japan Cup, Ivan Basso gave that sponsor a present with victory in the same [...]
Austrian describes it as unlucky as this is his fourth team in four yearsStefan Denifl is joining his fourth team in as many years in 2013. The Vacansoleil-DCM rider, who previously rode with the Cervélo TestTeam and Leopard Trek, has [...]
Australian returns to racing and shows he’s still got ample speedHe officially retired several months ago but Robbie McEwen pinned on a race number again on Saturday and showed that he’s still got a considerable amount of oomph when it [...]
Anti-doping scientist warns that more needs to be donePreviously part of the UCI’s biological passport expert panel, Michael Ashenden has criticised the governing body for what he said is a loss of momentum of late. The Australian anti-doping researcher credits [...]
Additions to team increase points total in advance of UCI teams decisionThe Ag2r La Mondiale team has ensured it is in a better position to secure a WorldTour licence for 2013 after signing two solid riders for the 2013 season. [...]
World Champ says evidence against Armstrong should have come out soonerWorld Champion Philippe Gilbert (BMC Racing Team) has told Euronews that he considers it a shame the doping allegations and evidence during the Lance Armstrong era was not made public [...]
Farewell victory at end of three seasons with team, Pole heads elsewhere for 2013One day before the Japan Cup road race, Saxo Bank Tinkoff Bank rider Jaroslaw Marycz soloed to a fine win in the warm-up criterium. The Polish rider [...]
Rider had withdrawn before end of race, states he was not told in time that his name was randomly selectedThirteen years after he spoke out against doping in the 1999 Tour de France, earning the ire of Lance Armstrong and [...]
Texan: "I've been better, but I've also been worse."Lance Armstrong made his first public speech on Friday night since evidence of his doping past was sent to the UCI and made public by the US Anti-Doping Agency. The Texan appeared [...]
American rider lays out targets and assesses current seasonHe’s stepped up a level in his second pro season and now an older, more experienced and more confident Taylor Phinney is ready for what he hopes will be a very big [...]
Seventeen years of sponsorship come to an abrupt endIn what is a major shock for the world of cycling, one of the sport’s longest-running sponsors Rabobank has abruptly announced that it will quit its backing of both its men’s and [...]
Financial obligations to be met despite sponsor’s withdrawal from cyclingAssuaging fears that Rabobank’s announced withdrawal as sponsor for its cycling teams would lead to widespread unemployment amongst riders and staff concerned, the bank has said that it will honour its [...]
Oakley acknowledges strength of evidence against Armstrong but won’t act yetIn what is yet another example of cycling entities pulling back from the under-fire Texan, USA Cycling has announced that it has renamed the Lance Armstrong Junior Race Series as [...]
“Sponsors who believe in the future should not look back on yesterday"Reacting to today’s news that the Rabobank company is withdrawing its title sponsorship from the eponymous cycling team due to the Lance Armstrong/US Postal Service case, two backers of [...]
Taiwanese bike company may be about to step up commitment to save Dutch teamGiant Bicycles is considering taking over as the name-sponsor of the Rabobank team after the shock decision of the Dutch bank to pull out at the end [...]
