Race leader loses time but narrowly holds on to race leadRace leader Rui Costa (Movistar) came under big pressure on today’s penultimate stage of the Tour de Suisse, losing fifty seconds to rival Frank Schleck (RadioShack Nissan) but managing to [...]
South African back to winning with Australian WorldTour teamDaryl Impey will always be remembered as the rider who suffered a horrific crash in the final metres of the Presidential Tour of Turkey in 2009 with the yellow jersey on his [...]
Money movements may be part of USADA’s move against US Postal Service teamAlthough witness statements are expected to form a large part of USADA’s case against Lance Armstrong, Johan Bruyneel and four others connected to the US Postal Service team, [...]
American to battle to take the Maglia Rosa backTwenty-four years after Andy Hampsten seized the Maglia Rose in epic conditions on the Passo di Gavia, another American rider will aim to do the same in the amateur version of the [...]
German sprinter bests Cavendish, who moves into overall race leadAndre Greipel (Lotto-Belisol) got his 13th win of the season, tops in the professional peloton in 2012, after taking stage two of the Ster ZLM Toer on Friday. The big German’s [...]
South African takes second win of the season ahead of Ponzi, UlissiDaryl Impey (Orica-GreenEdge) survived the rolling terrain of the second stage of the Tour de Slovénie on Friday and took the bunch sprint ahead of current race leader Simone [...]
Bruyneel’s future with the team appears to be under questionAlthough Johan Bruyneel has claimed innocence in relation to the doping accusations he is being faced with by the US Anti Doping Agency, the RadioShack Nissan team has said that it [...]
Belgian says he’s being pursued ‘from court to court’After two days of silence on the matter, former US Postal Service manager Johan Bruyneel has protested his innocence of the doping allegations that the US Anti Doping Service has made against [...]
Costa extends race lead with strong eighth placeAstana’s Fredrik Kessiakoff took a big scalp today in the Tour de Suisse, winning the stage seven time trial by two seconds ahead of Fabian Cancellara. The Swedish rider completed the 34.3 kilometre [...]
Proposed new anti-doping system to be further discussed in SeptemberThe issue about whether or not race radios will be removed from top level pro competition has been put on hold once again, with the UCI announcing today that it has [...]
USADA had said anonymity was used due to previous coercion and intimidationLast month Lance Armstrong indicated that he was done fighting claims he used banned drugs, saying that he was fatigued with the whole issue, and wanted to move on. [...]
Riders’ agent said to be making enquiries elsewhereAlthough the Schleck brothers signed multi-year contracts with the Leopard Trek setup prior to last season, there is growing speculation about whether they will remain put with the team for the duration of [...]
German wunderkind beats Renshaw and Cavendish in Dutch stage race openerMarcel Kittel (Argos-Shimano) left the World’s best sprinters in his wake as he took the opening stage of the Ster ZLM Toer, between Eindhoven and Sittard/Geleen. The 24-year-old German managed [...]
Italian wins crash-strewn stage as the peloton splits on the final climbSimone Ponzi (Astana) won the opening leg of the Tour de Slovénie, between Celje and Novo Mesto, at the head of a 22-man peloton. The Italian was best at [...]
Company doesn’t rule out taking action if it becomes possibleThe insurance company which was the subject of a hotly-contested court action between 2004 and 2006, SCA Promotions, has said that it will monitor the USADA action against Lance Armstrong and [...]
No road race, but Garmin Barracuda rider hopeful of riding TourTwelve months after he finished an extremely close second in the Irish road race championships, losing out to Matt Brammeier by millimetres, Dan Martin made the difficult choice to withdraw [...]
Dominant Slovakian takes another as Costa retains leadIt’s starting to look like the Tour of California. Victorious in five stages out of eight there last month, Peter Sagan is showing a similar dominance in stages of the Tour de Suisse, [...]
ASO won’t be drawn on case at this point in timeWith the Tour de France just over two weeks away, it remains to be seen what will happen after yesterday’s news that USADA is starting an anti-doping proceeding against those [...]
