BMC Racing Team rider says Evans is leader for Tour but he won’t pull his brakesTejay van Garderen, who was the BMC Racing Team’s best-placed finisher in last year’s Tour in fifth overall, two places better than designated leader and [...]
Omega Pharma-Quick Step rider equals the record of Radomír Šimunek seniorZdeněk Štybar (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) won the Czech cyclocross championship in his home town of Stribro, to take the seventh national title of his career. The 27-year-old former two-time World [...]
World champion hoping for another winning Classics seasonPhilippe Gilbert had a large portion of the spotlight shining on him during Friday’s BMC Racing team presentation in Eke, a town in the municipality of Nazareth, Belgium. Gilbert fielded questions casually in [...]
American likely to sit out Tour, will ride Giro instead A year older, with a better build-up thus far under his belt: world championship silver medallist Taylor Phinney has said that there is good reason to believe that he can [...]
One more than 2012 in most mountainous route ever as the race visits the south againThe route of the 2013 Vuelta a España was presented in the teatro del Centro Cultural Novacaixagalicia de Vigo (García Barbón) in Vigo, Galicia, on [...]
Optum/Kelly Benefit rider would like to aim for results in Redlands and Tour of CaliforniaRunner up last year, Jesse Anthony has said that he is disappointed that the Tour of the Battenkill elite pro race will be replaced by a [...]
L’Equipe says decision has been made for top Italian race to visit Belfast and DublinThe organisers of RCS Sport have given a clear ‘no comment’ in relation to a L’Equipe story today confirming that the early stages of the 2014 [...]
Dutch team has youngest average age in the top flight; also presents UCI women’s teamArgos-Shimano presented both its men’s and women’s teams at its Spanish base in the Altea Hills, near Alicante, today, as it prepares to take its place [...]
Kannibaal recovered from bronchitis; aiming for a ninth driekleurSven Nys (Crelan-Euphony) has declared himself fit for Sunday’s Belgian cyclocross championships in Mol, near Antwerp, having recovered from the bronchitis that he had suffered from since just after Christmas. The Kannibaal [...]
Four fewer than 2012 as Olympic cycle ends; “Fictitious Ranking” to decide early race invitesThe International Cycling Union (UCI) has confirmed a list of 33 Women’s Teams that have been registered for the 2013 season; a reduction of four over [...]
Swiss lab director said he’d meet with athletes again in similar circumstancesLausanne lab director Martial Saugy has rejected the claim by US Anti Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart that he essentially gave to Lance Armstrong ‘the keys to defeat the [...]
Team Sky’s remaining Manxman putting the Olympics behind him as he looks ahead to 2013Peter Kennaugh (Team Sky) is getting ready for his fourth season in the International Cycling Union (UCI) WorldTour, and is hoping for more success on the [...]
‘No solid plans’ to run professional event in the future Following on from a decision in late November not to apply for UCI status for his race in 2013, the organiser of the Tour of the Battenkill has now abandoned [...]
Dutchman moves to Riis’ team after recent doping confessionA little over two months after he left his post with Team Sky, Steven de Jongh has been given a similar directeur sportif role with Team Saxo Tinkoff. The 39 year old [...]
British Cycling president vouches for 2012 winner, says Armstrong should get no reduction in banWith Lance Armstrong expected to make an admission of doping next week to Oprah Winfrey, British Cycling president Brian Cookson has reiterated his belief that Bradley [...]
Nine WorldTour squads and fourteen Pro Continental teams amongst list of full and provisional membersThe number of provisional members of the anti-doping movement MPCC has risen again with the confirmation that the Vacansoleil DCM team has been given an initial [...]
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 [...]
