Official confirmation that Luxembourg star will begin his season in Australian WorldTour event A report on Tuesday that Andy Schleck will make his Tour Down Under career debut in January has been officially confirmed today by the race organisers, who [...]
New faces join an established core at Giallo-fluo teamThe MCipollini-Giordana team has announced details of its almost-finished 2013 roster, and describes the line up as presenting “continuity and novelty.” The giallo-fluo team -currently called MCipollini-Giambenini - sponsored by the bike [...]
Tour de France runner up seeks to end speculation that he could have ridden for himself in JulyChris Froome (Team Sky) has once again sought to set the record straight on the events of this year’s Tour de France in [...]
Canadian and Korean move to bigger teamsNew team announcements continue to be made as the off season progresses, with a change of squads for riders in both the men’s and women’s pelotons being announced today. In finishing fourth in the [...]
Earlier financial problems overcome, but further guarantees must be metDespite earlier rumblings that the 2014 world road championships in Ponferrada could be moved to a different location due to economic difficulties, the UCI has now confirmed that the Spanish city [...]
Texan increasingly distanced from foundationAfter stepping down as LiveStrong chairman on October 17th, then losing his place on its board, Lance Armstrong faced another separation from the foundation he set up in 1997 when that structure officially dropped his name [...]
Addition of new backer could help in push for WorldTour placeWhile it continues its push for a WorldTour licence registration for 2013, the Lotto Belisol team has been strengthened financially with the news that the media and telecommunication provider Telenet [...]
Three-day session in Aigle to discuss doping, women’s cycling and the integration of para-athletesThe International Cycling Union (UCI) Athletes Commission held a three-day session of meetings at the governing body’s headquarters in Aigle, Switzerland, to draw up proposals to improve [...]
Diabetes team growing in status with WorldTour wildcards in second season at ProConti levelTeam Type 1-Sanofi is looking back at a successful 2012 season, which was only its second at Professional Continental level. The Atlanta, Georgia, based team features six [...]
Rider starts legal moves, team says he invalidated his contractThe Christina Watches Onfone team and Danish rider Michael Reihs look set for a legal clash over a dispute relating to the latter’s unpaid salary. According to Sporten TV2, the rider [...]
Probenecid confirmed as banned substance in questionHaving been incorrectly reported by many media as having tested positive for EPO, the Finnish rider Matti Helminen has been confirmed as failing a test for a completely different substance, and has appealed to [...]
American finds new team after SpiderTech C10 dissolution One month after the SpiderTech C10 team unravelled, American road race champion Timmy Duggan has secured a new place for the 2013 season, and will join the Saxo Bank Tinkoff Bank team [...]
Early start for world road race champion could pave way for Sanremo winOne day after 2010 Tour de France winner Andy Schleck was said to be competing in the 2013 Santos Tour Down Under, another major name in world cycling [...]
Brailsford says team is not ‘afraid to look beyond the arena of cycling’ for staffIn the wake of the resignation of Bobby Julich from Team Sky after an admission of using doping products during his career, the British team has [...]
“As far as the UCI claiming that it acted on evidence, that is a preposterous stance”Australian anti-doping expert Michael Ashenden has responded with scepticism to the planned UCI confidential hotline for riders, saying that while the principle would be a [...]
British rider vents her frustration with her own Worlds race, as well as the state of the women’s sportIn part two of our interview with Emma Pooley, the former World time trial champion continues to reflect on the end of [...]
German rider had aided Kittel and Degenkolb while at Argos-ShimanoHaving spent the past two years working for Marcel Kittel and then in 2012 also assisting John Degenkolb in his successful sprint results, German rider Roger Kluge has decided to seize [...]
2010 Tour winner changes programme to get career back on trackConscious that he only raced 28 days in 2012 and had his quietest season since turning professional, and also that he will be short of form as a result, Andy [...]
