Danish team manager under pressure since Tyler Hamilton’s 2012 bookBjarne Riis, the now-former owner of the Tinkoff-Saxo team, has been suffering from pressure and breakdowns for more than a year, which will be outlined in a documentary on Danish TV [...]
Team aiming to be first German squad to ride Tour since 2010 Previously thought to be vying for a place in the Giro d’Italia, the NetApp Endura team will instead focus on riding its first-ever Tour de France this July, [...]
Moser shows off vocal cords, Sagan, Basso and others also in attendanceIt’s aiming to set itself apart from other teams on the bike, and it did it off the bike as well yesterday evening. The Cannondale Pro Cycling team eschewed [...]
Financial turmoil for squad of quadruple Tour de France stage winner KittelAlthough the Argos Shimano team announced at the end of October that it had agreed a new three year deal with an un-named company and that the future was [...]
Kerby and Crooks take under 23 gold medalsGetting its national championship campaign off to a superb start, the riders from the Orica GreenEdge team took gold, silver and bronze in the Australian TT champs today. Michael Hepburn defeated Luke Durbridge, [...]
Rider had twice served suspensions for cocaine use, returned to take four wins in 2013 Last January he roared back into the headlines when he outsprinted Peter Sagan to win the final stage of the Tour de San Luis, successfully [...]
Two more teams confirmed for first World Tour raceHe’s won the Tours of California and Oman plus the Grand Prix Montréal and Québec; now Robert Gesink will take on the Santos Tour Down Under in his first competitive event of [...]
Slovakian champion starting in Argentina again as he hopes to repeat last spring’s formPeter Sagan (Cannondale) will start his 2014 season as he began 2013, at the Tour de San Luis, and hopes that the Argentine race will lead him [...]
Three commission members finalised and named, goal is to compete work by end of 2014Almost a year after the UCI under Pat McQuaid shut down the Independent Commission charged with investigating it, new president Brian Cookson has today announced the [...]
Corsa Rosa announces Oxfam as charity partnerThe organiser of the Giro d’Italia, RCS Sport, presented the leaders’ jerseys for the 2014 race, during the Pitti Immagine Uomo event in Florence, Italy, with the four designs created by Irishman Fergus Niland to [...]
Craft replaces Santini as supplier for Australian men’s and women’s teamsOrica-GreenEdge and Orica-AIS have presented their new jerseys for 2014, ahead of the Australian national championships and the Santos Tour Down Under. With Swedish manufacturer replacing Italian Santini, who has [...]
Sorensen, Sutherland, Veikkanen, Westra and Gasparotto amongst riders announcedThe organisers of the Santos Tour Down Under have confirmed the lineup of three of the WorldTour teams which will take part in this month’s event. The rosters for Tinkoff Saxo, FDJ.fr [...]
With hip resurfacing settled down, South African ready to begin second career with MTN QhubekaSet to officially return to professional cycling in six days' time at La Tropicale Amissa Bongo in Gabon, South African climber John Lee Augustyn has said [...]
Frenchman becomes green team’s 28th rider; likely comes along with Sojasun as sponsorCannondale Pro Cycling has confirmed that, as rumoured in early December, it has signed Frenchman Jean-Marc Marino for the 2014 season. The 30-year-old from Castres, in the Tarn [...]
Drapac Pro Cycling team did mountain training camp rather than riding Mitchelton Bay racesThe 2011 Australian criterium champion Jonathan Cantwell has said that he is in top form and very psyched for this year’s edition of the race, which will [...]
Rider’s B-sample apparently confirmed, despite rumours of “borderline” testMauro Santambrogio could well be cooperating with the International Cycling Union (UCI) over his positive test for EPO at last year’s Giro d’Italia, Gazzetta dello Sport reports, as he faces a possible [...]
Spaniard says he’ll ride for Colombian team-mate if requiredHe’s won a Vuelta a España but is yet to finish higher than sixth overall in the Tour de France; in addition to that, his Movistar team-mate Nairo Quintana finished second in [...]
2013 stage winner, race leader and podium finisher says Sky team will play a tactical gameHe led the race last year, won a stage and finished a solid third overall, but Geraint Thomas appears to play down his chances slightly [...]
