Double Giro d’Italia champion to ride race for first timeCurrently backing GC contender Vincenzo Nibali and Maillot Vert wearer Peter Sagan in the Tour de France, two-time Giro d’Italia winner Ivan Basso has been confirmed as leading the Liquigas-Cannondale team [...]
Swiss will return for London Olympic title defence Tour de France Prologue winner Fabian Cancellara has called a halt to his participation in the race, deciding to return to Switzerland to be with his wife as she nears the birth [...]
Second edition of August race will be Hincapie’s last, Leipheimer defendsThe USA Pro Cycling Challenge, America’s newest major stage race, has announced a lineup of 16 teams that will compete in the second edition of the race. Levi Leipheimer (Omega [...]
Says athletes should not work with banned trioResponding to the lifetime bans handed out yesterday by USADA to three of the six people charged in connection with the US Postal Service doping investigation, the World Anti Doping Agency has said [...]
Belgian fighting back from time loss, up to eighth overallHaving dropped time to race leader Bradley Wiggins (Sky Procycling), last year’s race winner Cadel Evans (BMC Racing Team) and several others in the stages thus far, Jurgen Van den Broeck [...]
affable German fights back after being dropped to contest stage ten finishPutting his distinctive, tenacious style on display yet again, this time in stage ten of the Tour de France, Jens Voigt (Radioshack-Nissan) enthralled his legions of fans with an [...]
Clock continues to tick for Bruyneel, who must make decision by SaturdayFollowing a re-submitting yesterday of his complaint to a federal court in Texas to try to fight the US Anti Doping Agency’s doping charges against him, USADA has today [...]
Lampre-ISD leader finds the break and comes home secondStage ten of the Tour de France saw the first big battle in the high mountains, and while all the remaining top favourites completed the stage in the same time, a select [...]
Says not going with Nibali was possibly a missed opportunity Defending Tour de France champion Cadel Evans sought to gain time today on race leader Bradley Wiggins, knowing that he has to reduce his one minute 53 second deficit to [...]
Sky Procycling puts together another lead out, getting the best of Viviani and BoonenBen Swift (Sky Procycling) grabbed victory in stage two of the Tour de Pologne, timing his sprint perfectly after a lead out from team-mate Mathew Hayman. Elia [...]
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Bradley Wiggins under pressure from Vincenzo Nibali on Grand Colombier descentThomas Voeckler (Europcar) bounced back from the knee problem that has dogged the first week of his Tour de France to take victory on the tenth stage between Mâcon and [...]
Bernaudeau believes team is turning things around Having had two standout riders last year in longtime Maillot Jaune Thomas Voeckler (4th overall) and best young rider plus Alpe d’Huez stage winner Pierre Rolland (10th), this year’s Tour de France has [...]
Says team has nothing to hide; Leinders’ Rabobank past being studiedTeam Sky principal Dave Brailsford has admitted there is a ‘reputational risk’ to the squad over its appointment of former Rabobank doctor Geert Leinders, and has said that the team [...]
Journalist says team has not shown the openness it promisedAnti-doping journalist Paul Kimmage has said that he believes Team Sky has not lived up to the promise it made when the team was founded, namely to be fully transparent and, [...]
The Shark refuses to panic over deficit to Team Sky riders after Tour de France’s first weekVincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) has emerged from the first week of the 2012 Tour de France as one of very few genuine rivals to Maillot [...]
Italian prodigy continues Liquigas-Cannondale domination of WorldTour raceMoreno Moser (Liquigas-Cannondale) continued the domination of the Tour of Poland by the green and blue team as he jumped away from a much-reduced peloton to take the opening stage between Karpacz and [...]
Trio didn't contest serious doping charges made by USADAMaking a ruling based on the non-contestation of the charges facing them, the US Anti-Doping Agency has applied a lifetime ban on the controversial doctor Michele Ferrari, blocking him from ‘participating in [...]
