Tour de France race leader Impey inks three year contract extension with Orica GreenEdge

White believes South African rider will continue to improveEnding a season where he became the first South African to ever lead the Tour de France, Daryl Impey has inked a new three year contract with the Orica GreenEdge team and [...]

2013-11-06T00:00:00+00:00November 6th, 2013|

Dan Martin on Hesjedal’s admission: ‘He is a friend and I won’t be looking at him in a different light’

Garmin-Sharp team-mate vouches for Canadian rider, believes he has been racing clean in recent yearsSpeaking days after Ryder Hesjedal admitted to using banned substances earlier in his career, his current Garmin-Sharp team-mate Dan Martin has said that he still considers [...]

2013-11-05T00:00:00+00:00November 5th, 2013|

Amgen Tour of California releases host cities for 2014 race

Opening stage in Sacramento; final stage at pharmaceutical sponsor’s hometownThe day after the USA Pro Challenge outlined its 2014 route, the organiser of the Amgen Tour of California, AEG Sports, has released details of the stage towns for next year’s [...]

2013-11-05T00:00:00+00:00November 5th, 2013|

Frost and Hoffman out of Team Saxo Tinkoff due to budget pressures

Frost: “It is an uncertain situation, and they can't promise me something”Although Saxo Bank said that it would cover the budget shortfall until a secondary sponsor was found, there are indications of money pressures at Team Saxo Tinkoff after two [...]

2013-11-05T00:00:00+00:00November 5th, 2013|

Lotto-Belisol states only “administrative formalities” stand in the way of ProTeam registration

Belgian team green-lighted on sporting, ethical and financial criteriaLotto-Belisol has issued a statement to it was just “two administrative formalities” that prevented it from being among the nine teams to have been granted ProTeam registration for 2014 in the first [...]

2013-11-05T00:00:00+00:00November 5th, 2013|

UCI confirms initial ProTeam and ProConti registrations for 2014

Nine in the top division so far as others reapply for licencesThe International Cycling Union (UCI) has confirmed the names of the first batch of teams to have been granted ProTeam - first division - registration in 2014, with just [...]

2013-11-05T00:00:00+00:00November 5th, 2013|

Claudia Häusler completes Argos-Shimano line-up for 2014

Former German champion targets a second Giro Donne victory after “adventure” in the USTeam Argos-Shimano has announced the signing of Claudia Häusler on a two year contract, with the former German champion completing the Dutch team’s 2014 roster. The 27-year-old [...]

2013-11-05T00:00:00+00:00November 5th, 2013|

Orica GreenEdge expresses ‘full support’ for Weening after Dutch confirm no anti-doping enquiry against rider

Climber had been accused by Michael Rasmussen, who claimed entire 2007 Rabobank Tour team dopedAfter stating earlier this week that it would seek to determine the truth after Michael Rasmussen made claims that the Rabobank squad took banned substances for [...]

2013-11-05T00:00:00+00:00November 5th, 2013|

Cavendish says he’s been ‘relatively unchallenged’ in sprinting, but now needs to work hard to remain ahead

“Now people are challenging my position as the most dominant sprinter in the world”Previously regarded as the fastest sprinter in the world, Mark Cavendish was deposed of that title in the Tour de France this year when Marcel Kittel clocked [...]

2013-11-05T00:00:00+00:00November 5th, 2013|

Tiernan Locke says he’s training for 2014 season, no conclusion yet in biological passport case

Rider's agent, Team Sky and UCI won’t comment for nowIt’s already been a month and a half since he was told of biological passport patterns that required further investigation, but Jon Tiernan Locke is still waiting to hear what the [...]

2013-11-05T00:00:00+00:00November 5th, 2013|

Freire denies Rasmussen’s suggestion of doping, Danish climber backtracks and says he never saw him take substances

Orica GreenEdge wants clarification from WeeningAfter Michael Rasmussen claimed yesterday that each of his team-mates during the 2007 Tour de France had used some form of doping products, triple world champion Oscar Freire has threatened to sue and caused the [...]

2013-11-04T00:00:00+00:00November 4th, 2013|

USA Pro Challenge announces host cities for 2014 edition with a vote for final stage

Aspen start and Monarch Mountain stage finish for Colorado raceThe organisers of the USA Pro Challenge have announced the cities that will host the stage starts and finishes for the 2014 edition, which will run from August 18th to 24th. [...]

2013-11-04T00:00:00+00:00November 4th, 2013|

Successful minor surgery for Marianne Vos to remove abdominal cyst

World champion’s return scheduled for Zolder World Cup on December 26thMarianne Vos (Rabobank-Liv/Giant) has undergone successful surgery to remove a small abdominal cyst from her lower back, the World champion’s team has announced. The 27-year-old Dutchwoman went under the knife [...]

2013-11-04T00:00:00+00:00November 4th, 2013|

Nicolas Roche video interview part II: Getting the balance right, building for a bigger 2014 and looking further ahead

Irish rider speaks about Giro start in Belfast, his goals if he rides and a possible new build-up to the Tour Nicolas Roche had the best race of his career in the Vuelta a España, winning a stage, wearing the [...]

2013-11-04T00:00:00+00:00November 4th, 2013|

Brammeier moves closer to a contract, hoping to finalise terms this week

Multiple Irish champion aiming to continue in the sport after Champion System’s dissolutionIrish road race champion Matt Brammeier has been left in a nervous position by the collapse of his Champion System team, but appears to be inching closer to [...]

2013-11-04T00:00:00+00:00November 4th, 2013|

Verbruggen says UCI didn’t protect Armstrong, and they are not friends

Former UCI chief fights back against critics in long statementFormer UCI president Hein Verbruggen has rejected suggestions that the governing body shielded Lance Armstrong from detection, issuing that denial as part of a long statement released yesterday defending his reputation. [...]

2013-11-04T00:00:00+00:00November 4th, 2013|

Tinkov’s spokesman confirms talks with Team Saxo Tinkoff plus other squads about possible purchase of a team

Russian billionaire seems intent on owning his own team, but will it happen for 2014? Although he said after talks with Cannondale failed that it would be 2015 before he had a team in cycling, it appears that there is [...]

2013-11-03T00:00:00+00:00November 3rd, 2013|

Sven Nys wins his fifth Superprestige Zonhoven over Niels Albert again

World champion is Mr Superprestige once more in a final lap duel with big rivalSven Nys (Crelan-KDL) took a repeat of his previous year’s victory to over the sand of Zonhoven, to take his fifth edition of the Superprestige race [...]

2013-11-03T00:00:00+00:00November 3rd, 2013|
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