Fiorenzo Aegean Bonazzi given four year ban in connection with Mantova doping investigationFormer world road race champion Alessandro Ballan has been handed a two year doping ban by the Italian anti-doping tribunal (TNA), starting today, due to his part in [...]
Adelaide rated hottest city on earth earlier today The contrast between a cold European winter and the sweltering conditions of Australian summer have been accentuated for the riders arriving in advance of the Tour Down Under, with Adelaide currently experiencing [...]
African team clocks up first win of the season on rollercoaster dayAwaiting a wildcard which never came, the MTN Qhubeka team learned today that it would miss out on the Giro d’Italia, its big goal for the season. The Grand [...]
“We found raising his arms helped to reduce frontal profile and cut drag”Double Tour de France winner Alberto Contador and Specialized’s engineers have come up with a bike position that they believe will be faster and more efficient for the [...]
Wildcards also named for Tirreno-Adriatico, Milan-Sanremo and Il LombardiaPassing over the candidature of some highly-tipped teams such as MTN Qhubeka, Giro d’Italia organisers RCS Sport have gone for teams with a strong Italian slant in choosing three wildcard places for [...]
Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox celebrates securing wildcards to four RCS Sport races Bolstered by its second consecutive Giro d’Italia wildcard, Team Colombia has said that it is determined to leave its mark on the race this coming May. Last year Fabio [...]
Lampre Merida sprinters Modolo and Richeze aiming for stage victoriesEach committed to racing hard but also saying that they don’t feel pressure to get a specific result, 2004 Giro d’Italia winner Damiano Cunego and Classic specialist Filippo Pozzato are the [...]
Stage two winner Jérôme Baugnies takes second as Egoitz Garcia closes the gap to the leadRoy Jans took a second straight victory for the new Wanty-Groupe Gobert team, in the second stage of the Tropicale Amissa Bongo, between Ndjolé and [...]
Synergy Baku team manager McQuaid says rider will be given time to decide next stepHe spoke with optimism last month in a video interview carried out at his Synergy Baku training camp, saying that he believed that he could return [...]
Welshman about to kick off 2014 with an eye on the Classics and the TourGeraint Thomas (Team Sky) is preparing to start his 2014 season at the Santos Tour Down Under, and hopes to begin in a similar way to [...]
Diabetic squad to get 2014 season underway with Tour de San Luis participationSome of Team Novo Nordisk’s top riders have made the trip to Argentina to participate in their first race of the 2014 season, the Tour de San Luis. [...]
Frenchman had supporting plate taken out of shoulder earlier this month Having recently had a plate and screws removed from his right collarbone, Thomas Voeckler has fractured the same area again and is out of what would have been his [...]
Europcar team names lineup for Malaysian event Team Europcar has become the sixth WorldTour team confirmed for this year’s Tour de Langkawi, with the organisers announcing that the French squad will be amongst the peloton lining out on February 27th. [...]
Spaniard outlines season programme, Riis says team’s top rider is stronger than last seasonHeading into a season which will be crucial for his chances of winning the Tour de France again, Alberto Contador has expressed optimism about both his condition [...]
WorldTour event still able to invite national team despite promotion of DrapacThe Santos Tour Down Under has announced the seven-man line up that will represent the UniSA-Australia team - the Australian national team - at the race, which starts with [...]
Products weight and reliability highlighted as important factors in decisionAfter using SRM in the past, Team Sky has decided to change to the crankarm-mounted Stages power meter for 2014. Smaller and more discrete than some of the other systems on [...]
Luis León Sánchez moves into the lead with second-place time bonusJérôme Baugnies took the first ever victory for new team Wanty-Groupe Gobert, and the biggest of his own career so far, as he took the second stage of the Tropical [...]
South African honoured to be presented jersey by Bernard HinaultSongezo Jim (MTN-Qhubeka) was awarded the most combative rider’s jersey at the end of today’s second stage of the Tropicale Amissa Bongo, between Awoua and Oyem, in the west African republic [...]
