Belgian satisfied with prologue performanceAs was the case last year, Jurgen Van Den Broeck has gone into the Critérium du Dauphiné following a block of altitude training; as was also the case, he’s getting back into the racing groove, and [...]
Plays down overall GC while Lelangue suggests it could be an aimDefending Tour de France champion Cadel Evans had a solid showing in yesterday’s opening prologue of the Critérium du Dauphiné, clocking a time of six minutes 45 seconds over [...]
Omega Pharma-Quick Step and Rabobank in good shape after early testThe changes in the weather throughout the day weren’t severe, but many of the top finishers in yesterday's prologue of the Critérium du Dauphiné were the men who went off [...]
Belgian says RadioShack Nissan tensions must dissipate There’s been signs of tension for some time, as well as public statements by both the Scheck brothers and Johan Bruyneel himself confirming friction, but the latter has said that all parties need [...]
Type 1-Sanofi goes 1-2 with Ino Ilesic in second, Teutenberg wins Liberty ClassicAleksandr Serebryakov (Team Type 1-Sanofi) sprinted to victory in the TD Bank Philadelphia International Championship, taking the 28th edition of the popular American one-day race ahead of team-mate [...]
Stronger wind may have cost Briton stage victory Third in last year’s prologue, Bradley Wiggins stepped up a place today when he finished a very close second to Luke Durbridge on day one of the Critérium du Dauphiné. The defending [...]
Final GC battle ended early due to dangerous conditionsGoing clear in an early breakaway and then attacking towards the end of the stage, Jurgen Roelandts won the fourth and final stage of the Skoda Tour de Luxembourg. Ben Swift and [...]
Wiggins’ title defense off to a good start with second placeLuke Durbridge (Orica-GreenEdge) showed off his Australian national time trial champion colors in style on Sunday afternoon in Grenoble, taking the 5.7km prologue in the Critérium du Dauphiné. Durbridge finished [...]
‘Show me that you still exist…but little or nothing changes’Stijn Devolder said after a frustrating Classics campaign that he wanted to show what he could do in the Tour de France but his Vacansoleil DCM team isn’t convinced by the [...]
Five man squad named for London GamesThe Spanish cycling federation RFEC has named its selection for the London Olympic Games, with defending champion Samuel Sanchez (Euskaltel Euskadi), three time world champion Oscar Freire (Katusha), Alejandro Valverde, current Spanish road race [...]
Four man break slips clear on tough finishing circuitVacansoleil DCM rider Wout Poels triumphed on today’s third stage of the Skoda Tour de Luxembourg, winning a three man sprint against RadioShack Nissan riders Jakob Fuglsang and Fränk Schleck. Fuglsang takes [...]
Team continues to look for new backer for 2013Following suggestions by Italian newspaper La Gazzetta Dello Sport that the Liquigas-Cannondale and Saxo Bank teams may be considering a merger for 2013, the press officer of the Italian outfit has declined [...]
BOA welcomes proposed rule as ‘a step in the right direction’Although the World Anti Doping Agency successfully fought the British Olympic Association’s lifetime Olympic ban pertaining to athletes who have committed serious doping offences, it has plans of its own [...]
23-year-old Colombian beats 22-year-old Italian Moser in an uphill battle to the lineCarlos Betancur (Acqua & Sapone) won the 21st edition of the Trofeo Melinda - Val di Non, in Trentino, northern Italy. The 23-year-old Colombian escaped from a group [...]
Italian team may lose sponsor, while Danish outfit lacks WorldTour pointsAccording to la Gazzetta dello Sport, Roberto Amadio and Paolo Zani of Liquigas-Cannondale have reportedly had a conversation with Team Saxo Bank owner Bjarne Riis about a possible merger in [...]
Sky Procycling rider to miss Tour, but aims for Olympics and Vuelta It hasn’t taken Team Sky's Ben Swift long to recover from his latest crash: second place behind Lotto’s Andrei Greipel in the Tour of Luxembourg’s second stage bears [...]
French cycling federation rules no disciplinary action should be takenThe Europcar team has welcomed a decision by the French cycling federation FFC to clear the Paris-Roubaix runner-up Sébastien Turgot in an anti-doping hearing. On May 16th L’Equipe reported that the [...]
Four places each for Netherlands, Germany, United States, Italy and Great Britain in 67-strong pelotonThe International Cycling Union (UCI) has officially announced the allocation per country of places in the women’s Olympic road race in London on July 29th. The [...]
