“I never thought it was the race winning move”The Orica GreenEdge team is hoping to complete a rare hat trick of Australian national titles in the same category, with Sunday’s road race now being the big target for the team. [...]
Movistar rider expects a different race without last year’s captain Alejandro ValverdeJavi Moreno made his debut for the Movistar team at the Santos Tour Down Under in 2012, and is heading south to appear at the race again this month. [...]
Suspicious Tour de Suisse 2001 tests led to ‘inappropriate’ meetingUSADA chief Travis Tygart has said that Martial Saugy, the head of the Lausanne laboratory which detected a suspicious sample from Lance Armstrong in 2001, has conceded that he gave the [...]
Vuelta a España stage winner likes the look of Tour de France time trialSwedish time trialist Fredrik Kessiakoff had a breakthrough season in 2012, winning time trial stages in the Tour de Suisse and the Vuelta a España. The 32 [...]
Longtime critic of rider faults Oprah Winfrey for not tackling Texan over doping in the pastBetsy Andreu has expressed scepticism about next week’s Lance Armstrong interview by Oprah Winfrey, saying that she doesn’t believe that the talk show host will [...]
UCI satisfied with Russian team’s application after request for further informationThe International Cycling Union (UCI) has confirmed the registration of RusVelo as a Professional Continental team for 2013. The Russian squad was created in 2012 at the second division level, [...]
“We want to at least equal the highest peaks [of 2012],” says Dutch team boss Daan LuijkxThe Vacansoleil-DCM team was presented today at the EYE, a film museum and theatre in the Netherlands capital, Amsterdam, with the key words of [...]
Danish climber to lead Team Saxo Tinkoff in upcoming WorldTour raceThe Danish climber Chris Anker Sørensen will spend much of the season riding for team leader Alberto Contador, but he has a chance at his own success this month when [...]
Late charge tactic secures titleAfter six nights of racing the final 18 laps decided the winner of the 31st Rotterdam Six, with a late surge securing the overall result for two riders who had lurked close to the top all [...]
Race against the clock begins championship programmeShrugging off a crash he suffered the day previously, Luke Durbridge cruised to a second consecutive Australian national time trial title in Lake Wendouree earlier today. Riding strongly over 37 kilometres, the Orica GreenEdge [...]
New race planned for 2014, Giro organisers very likely to be involved Following on from last Friday’s inauguration of the new Dubai Cycling Course plus initial details of the Tour of Dubai planned for 2014, Giro d’Italia organisers RCS Sport [...]
“It was a clear conflict of interest for USADA. We had no hesitation in rejecting that offer.”Already confirmed as donating large sums of money in the past to the UCI, something which has led to criticism and allegations of bribery, [...]
Bardiani-CSF Inox and Vini Fantini-Selle Italia return, while Team Colombia makes its Corsa Rosa debutRCS Sport’s announcement of the three teams to have been awarded the final wildcard invitations to May’s Giro d’Italia produced few surprises. Unlike in 2012, when [...]
Anglo-German ProConti team “delighted” with invitations to Tirreno-Adriatico and il LombardiaNetApp-Endura was not one of the three teams to receive wildcard invitations to this year’s Giro d’Italia, as announced by RCS Sport today, despite what the team referred to as [...]
Katusha “judged as” ProConti team and misses Giro; consolation offered with other racesRCS Sport has confirmed the identities of the teams to be allocated wildcard invitations to this year’s Giro d’Italia, and its other WorldTour races, with Katusha missing out [...]
Trio join WorldTour teams and Androni Venezuela in Grand Tour The official announcement is yet to be made by Giro d’Italia organisers RCS Sport but the Italian registered Vini Fantini, Bardiani CSF and Team Colombia have been given the three [...]
Rivals waiting to pounce as action reaches crescendo Rotterdam can prepare for a fantastic finale of the Six-Days in the Ahoy Arena. With four pairs in the same lap and very small differences in points, the final night promises to [...]
African team making history in RCS Sport eventsThe MTN-Qhubeka team is set to be the first African-registered squad to ride the Milan Sanremo and Tirreno-Adriatico races, with the Pro Continental setup receiving the considerable boost of an invite to two [...]
