Australian would have faced serious sanction if he had made a false signingRemoved from the Australian Olympic Committee’s Athlete’s Commission two days after he admitted to used EPO during the 1998 Tour de France, it appears that earlier this year [...]
UCI presidential candidate wants to bring ASO and top women riders together for talksAfter recent indications that the Tour de France organisers ASO may be open to considering a female equivalent of the race, UCI presidential candidate Brian Cookson has [...]
Stage wins a target, although Degenkolb and Kittel will miss the raceAlthough last year’s quintuple stage winner John Degenkolb will not be travelling to the race, the Argos Shimano team has named a dozen riders from which it hopes a [...]
Italian leads Astana team, Fuglsang heads line-up for San Sebastian Following a long break from competition, Vincenzo Nibali will don a racing number for the first time since May 26th when he heads the Astana selection in the Tour de [...]
Important success for promising Eritrean rider His talent has long been recognised, his potential long been seen, but Daniel Teklehaimanot made an important breakthrough today when he notched up his first professional victory in a European race. The 24 year [...]
Frank, Hushovd, Pinotti and Phinney all hoping fro results in WorldTour raceBMC Racing sends a team of six riders to the Tour of Poland hoping to capitalise on the form shown at the recent Österreich-Rundfahrt. The eight-day race begins with [...]
“We disagree on how the team should be run…I have decided to explore other possibilities”Yesterday’s admission by the press officer of the Saxo Bank company that negotations with Oleg Tinkov were proving ‘difficult’ for Bjarne Riis’ team have been followed [...]
Riis says differences hampered collaboration, says Tinkov’s tweets were also an issueSpeaking after Bjarne Riis today announced that Team Saxo Bank had decided to end negotiations with Oleg Tinkov about his backing of the squad, the Russian businessman has given [...]
‘The Armstrong Lie’ to be distributed by Sony Pictures ClassicsThe Lance Armstrong documentary into the Texan’s return to the sport, his attempt to win another Tour de France and then his long, gradual descent into doping limbo has moved a [...]
Says telling his parents he doped was “the worst moment of my life”; Bannan gives full backingFollowing the publication of the French Senate report earlier today and reports that a sample from him was suspicious for EPO, Stuart O’Grady has [...]
World champion and Tour de Wallonie winner head to Spanish Classic with confidencePhilippe Gilbert and Greg Van Avermaet will be joint leaders of the BMC Racing Team in Saturday’s Clásica San Sebastián, the first big race to follow the Tour [...]
BMC rider gets Mur de Thuin victory as Kolobnev has bike troubleGreg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing) took his second Tour de Wallonie overall victory in the last three years, after winning in 2011, with a final stage attack and triumph [...]
No decision yet, despite Twitter declarations that Russian businessman will walk awayThe team of Alberto Contador appears still to be uncertain of the position of Oleg Tinkov as co-sponsor, with confusion existing about whether or not he will continue as [...]
Former breakaway specialist says sport has changed, and today’s riders should not ‘pay for our crap’ from the pastFollowing on from yesterday’s Le Monde article which stated that retests proved that Laurent Jalabert, Jacky Durand and Laurent Desbiens had used [...]
Irishman confirms that he’ll be targeting Vuelta a España and world championshipsTour de France stage winner Dan Martin has indicated that he is doubtful for this Saturday’s Clásica San Sebastián due to the illness which hit him in the final [...]
Former Tour de France champion on the comeback trail after Giro d’Italia injuryBradley Wiggins is set to make his return to the peloton this weekend, as he takes his place in Sky Procycling’s six-man line up for the Tour of [...]
Race winner Van Avermaet rapidly becomes a hot favourite in the pelotonAlexander Kolobnev (Katusha) entered the final stage of the Tour de Wallonie nursing a slight lead in the overall classification, but the Russian seemingly had the team and the [...]
Results will not be changed after retests show identities of doping ridersSome of the biggest names in the 1998 Tour de France have had their achievements in that already-blighted race officially diminished by the publication today of the French Senate [...]
