Other fast gallopers set to be announced in coming days A stage winner in 2012, the Italian sprinter Sacha Modolo has been confirmed as heading back to this year’s Presidential Tour of Turkey and is fired up to again achieve [...]
MTN Qhubeka riders looking for good showing in semi-ClassicAfter missing out on Scheldeprijs and the GP Pino Cerami due to a recent cold, Milan-Sanremo winner Gerald Ciolek has been confirmed as leading the MTN Qhubeka team in Wednesday’s Brabantse Pijl. [...]
Suggests he may have gone too deep rather than building a sufficient baseRacing hard since the start of the year but frustrated by a series of near misses, Alberto Contador has said that he wants to take time to pause [...]
Euskaltel Euskadi rider faces disciplinary hearing before Russian Cycling Federation Officially announcing the rider’s suspension after Alexander Serebryakov’s Euskaltel Euskadi team said that it had fired him for testing positive for an unspecified substance, the UCI has stated that the [...]
Van Avermaet into top ten, Vanmarcke and Terpstra clock up points Fabian Cancellara’s sprint victory against Sep Vanmarcke (Blanco Pro Cycling) in yesterday’s Paris-Roubaix led to the Swiss rider’s third win in the race, but has also brought the additional [...]
Roelandts rendered ineffective after flat tire during Cancellara’s first move After utilizing aggressively smart tactics to animate the Tour of Flanders last Sunday, Lotto-Belisol was unable to keep the magic going in Paris-Roubaix. The aggression in Flanders helped net Jurgen [...]
Young BMC Racing Team rider leads through Arenberg, builds important experience Phinney_Taylor_Roubaix13_Arenberg-1Paris-Roubaix is about strength and skill, but also depends a lot on experience and gauging effort. Taylor Phinney had hoped to be closer to the front than his eventual [...]
Leukemans one of many to suffer ill-timed bad luck Juan Antonio Flecha (Vacansoleil-DCM) has had better days at Paris-Roubaix, including several podium finishes, but the Spaniard had a good day overall in the Hell of the North on Sunday, and [...]
Belgian reflects on being outsprinted by Fabian Cancellara in Paris-Roubaix finish Sep Vanmarcke (Blanco Pro Cycling) finished a very close second in Paris-Roubaix to Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack-Leopard) in a sprint that many thought he could have won. The 24-year-old Belgian, [...]
Niki Terpstra salvages third place as Vandenbergh and Štybar blocked on the cobbles Omega Pharma-Quick Step was sitting pretty with twenty kilometres to go in the 2013 Paris-Roubaix, with Stijn Vandenbergh and Zdeněk Štybar in the leading group of four, [...]
‘The last hour was just pure fight, and I’m really happy. I probably never damaged myself like this’ He soloed to victory last week in the Ronde van Vlaanderen, having time to really savour his second win in that event. [...]
Contador and Intxausti caught in final kilometre Rui Costa continued a very good weekend for the Movistar team, following up Nairo Quintana’s success in the Vuelta al Pais Vasco yesterday when he won the Klasika Primavera today. Costa was quickest [...]
Van Dijk holds overall lead heading into final day Argos Shimano rider Kirsten Wild continued her superb run of form in the Energiewacht Tour yesterday, clocking up her fourth sprint win in the race. Her success came out of a [...]
Sagan remains in pole position prior to Paris-Roubaix He had to be satisfied with second place overall in the Vuelta al Pais Vasco but Richie Porte’s runner-up slot there has elevated him up three places to third in the UCI [...]
Roelandts rendered ineffective after flat tire during Cancellara’s first moveAfter utilizing aggressively smart tactics to animate the Tour of Flanders last Sunday, Lotto-Belisol was unable to keep the magic going in Paris-Roubaix. The aggression in Flanders helped net Jurgen Roelandts [...]
Young BMC Racing Team rider leads through Arenberg, builds important experienceParis-Roubaix is about strength and skill, but also depends a lot on experience and gauging effort. Taylor Phinney had hoped to be closer to the front than his eventual 23rd [...]
Leukemans one of many to suffer ill-timed bad luckJuan Antonio Flecha (Vacansoleil-DCM) has had better days at Paris-Roubaix, including several podium finishes, but the Spaniard had a good day overall in the Hell of the North on Sunday, and came [...]
Belgian reflects on being outsprinted by Fabian Cancellara in Paris-Roubaix finishSep Vanmarcke (Blanco Pro Cycling) finished a very close second in Paris-Roubaix to Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack-Leopard) in a sprint that many thought he could have won. The 24-year-old Belgian, who [...]
