Four-time Tour stage winner finally walks away from competitionAfter a professional career spanning 21 years, including stints with the Ag2r La Mondiale, Crédit Agricole and Champion System teams, Jaan Kirspuu has hung up his racing wheels at 43 years of [...]
Tom Meeusen (Telenet-Fidea) is set to miss his second straight weekend of cyclocross races as he continues to suffer with pain in his ribs. The 24-year-old crashed spectacularly as he lost control of his bike in the rutted sand at [...]
Athletes, coaches and officials could be jailed if they lie about doping involvement A proposal which would see Australian athletes jailed if they lied about having used performance enhancing drugs in the past moved a step closer towards formal implementation [...]
2011 Tour winner applauds USADA’s investigationWhile he acknowledges that many questions are going to be asked about the sport after the Lance Armstrong/US Postal Service investigations, Cadel Evans has said that he is frustrated by any suggestions that every big [...]
Ups and downs for Great Britain as the host nation continues to ride the post-Olympic wave The first ever World Cup event to be held at the brand new Sir Chris Hoy velodrome in Glasgow, Scotland was a mixed one [...]
Italian manager negotiating with Venezuelan government After long gaining access to the Giro d’Italia on a wildcard basis, most often as a result of his team winning the season-long Coppa Italia standings, Androni Giocattoli – Venezuela manager Gianni Savio is [...]
Double London gold medalist wants to win more often to break four-year cycleOlympic Sprint champion Jason Kenny has spoken of suffering from depression following his double gold medal triumph in London this summer. The 24-year-old took victory in the Sprint [...]
Three more teams sign up to Movement for a Credible CyclingAfter recently adding the Lotto-Belisol team to its ranks and also pushing for a toughening of anti-doping measures, the Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme Crédible [Movement for a Credible Cycling/MPCC] organisation [...]
Irishman riding scratch and pursuit in Glasgow World Cup, will focus on road racing next season Having competed last year as part of the Continental RTS Racing Team, Irish track racing Olympian Martyn Irvine will move up a level next [...]
Official confirmation that Luxembourg star will begin his season in Australian WorldTour event A report on Tuesday that Andy Schleck will make his Tour Down Under career debut in January has been officially confirmed today by the race organisers, who [...]
New faces join an established core at Giallo-fluo teamThe MCipollini-Giordana team has announced details of its almost-finished 2013 roster, and describes the line up as presenting “continuity and novelty.” The giallo-fluo team -currently called MCipollini-Giambenini - sponsored by the bike [...]
Tour de France runner up seeks to end speculation that he could have ridden for himself in JulyChris Froome (Team Sky) has once again sought to set the record straight on the events of this year’s Tour de France in [...]
Canadian and Korean move to bigger teamsNew team announcements continue to be made as the off season progresses, with a change of squads for riders in both the men’s and women’s pelotons being announced today. In finishing fourth in the [...]
Earlier financial problems overcome, but further guarantees must be metDespite earlier rumblings that the 2014 world road championships in Ponferrada could be moved to a different location due to economic difficulties, the UCI has now confirmed that the Spanish city [...]
Texan increasingly distanced from foundationAfter stepping down as LiveStrong chairman on October 17th, then losing his place on its board, Lance Armstrong faced another separation from the foundation he set up in 1997 when that structure officially dropped his name [...]
Addition of new backer could help in push for WorldTour placeWhile it continues its push for a WorldTour licence registration for 2013, the Lotto Belisol team has been strengthened financially with the news that the media and telecommunication provider Telenet [...]
Three-day session in Aigle to discuss doping, women’s cycling and the integration of para-athletesThe International Cycling Union (UCI) Athletes Commission held a three-day session of meetings at the governing body’s headquarters in Aigle, Switzerland, to draw up proposals to improve [...]
Diabetes team growing in status with WorldTour wildcards in second season at ProConti levelTeam Type 1-Sanofi is looking back at a successful 2012 season, which was only its second at Professional Continental level. The Atlanta, Georgia, based team features six [...]
