Belgian stands aside after thirteen years of managing a team at the raceRadioShack Nissan manager Johan Bruyneel has announced that he will not take part in this year’s Tour de France, being absent from the race as a result of [...]
In-form Classics men looking to grab title in Geel amongst loaded fieldThe Belgian National Road Race Championships will be one of the feature events on Sunday, when many elite men’s road race titles roll off in Europe and around the [...]
Second and eight championships respectively; Lars Teutenberg a surprise bronze medallistTony Martin (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) and Judith Arndt (Orica-GreenEdge) both added the German time trial championships to their World titles in Zwenkau, near Leipzig, in eastern Germany. Despite not originally [...]
New Zealander says no egos on the team, sprint train fully committed to GreipelWhile George Hincapie (BMC Racing Team) will start his seventeenth Tour de France and Jens Voigt (RadioShack-Nissan) will start his fifteenth, Greg Henderson (Lotto-Belisol) is a complete [...]
Nicole Cooke to defend her Beijing title; Sharon Laws misses out on second gamesThe British Olympic Association (BOA) has announced the names of the four women that will make up the Great Britain women’s road race team in London 2012, [...]
Fuglsang makes a point in Danish TT nationalsWinner yesterday of the French time trial championship for the fourth time in his career, Sylvain Chavanel states that the jersey will ensure that he’s full fired up for the time trials in [...]
Without Contador, Danish squad will chase stages rather than go for general classificationSaying that he is looking forward to taking some risks and following an aggressive, attacking template this year, Bjarne Riis has named the nine riders who will represent [...]
Italian superteam aiming to match Corsa Rosa performance of “brother team” Farnese Vini-Selle ItaliaMCipollini-Giambenini has announced its line up for the upcoming Giro d’Italia Femminile - the Giro Donne - which starts in the southern city of Napoli on June [...]
Both riders aiming to make up for crashing out of 2011 raceTeam Astana has announced its roster for next month’s Tour de France, with Alexander Vinokourov at its head once more. The Kazakh veteran will not be the sole leader [...]
Team aiming for Giro-Tour double, Dan Martin to make his debutHeading back to the race where it shone last year with four stage victories plus a win in the team classification, the Garmin-Barracuda team has announced the line-up for this [...]
Kenny van Hummel aiming at sprint stages; Stijn Devolder misses out once againAfter sending a veritable United Nations to the Giro d’Italia, the Vacansoleil-DCM team for next month’s Tour de France is a far more Dutch affair. Giro third place [...]
Says Contador is clear favourite for the Vuelta, but Schleck’s participation is boost for raceThe 1988 Tour de France winner Pedro Delgado has made his predictions for this year’s race, saying that he believes that the nature of the course [...]
Mark Cavendish to be the first British road rainbow in the race since 1966Team Sky has announced the eight men that will ride alongside Bradley Wiggins in his bid to become first Briton to win the Tour de France. The [...]
“It shows I’m on a good way”Clocking up the silver medal behind Fabian Cancellara in yesterday’s Swiss time trial championships, Thomas Frei has said that the result shows that he is back on track and building up towards what he [...]
First ever title for men’s winner as van Dijk regains former jerseyLieuwe Westra (Vacansoleil-DCM) and Ellen van Dijk (Specialized-lululemon) took victory in the Netherlands elite men’s and women’s time trial championships in Emmen, Drenthe, yesterday. The result was a first [...]
Headache avoided for French selectors for Olympic Games?Concerns that Jeannie Longo might be sent to the Olympic Games for France despite the serious doping charges her husband and coach faces appear now to be irrelevant after she was comprehensively defeated [...]
Seventh TT championship win for RadioShack Nissan riderAlthough he’s still feeling the effects of the Tour de Suisse in his legs, particularly the two mountainous concluding stages on Saturday and Sunday, Fabian Cancellara today grabbed the seventh national time trial [...]
Two-time World champion aiming for Olympic gold after a strange day in the Italian championshipsGiorgia Bronzini (Diadora-Pasta Zara) spent a somewhat strange day in the peloton during the Italian elite women’s road race championships. The World champion, racing for GS [...]
