Cunego, Pozzato pleased with training, ready to test form in Tour de San Luis
Lampre Merida sprinters Modolo and Richeze aiming for stage victories Each 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 […]
RCS Sport selects Bardiani Valvole-CSF, Colombia and Yellow Fluo Neri Sottoli for Giro d’Italia
Wildcards also named for Tirreno-Adriatico, Milan-Sanremo and Il Lombardia Passing 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 […]
Overlooked by Giro d’Italia, MTN Qhubeka to push for wildcard in Tour de France or Vuelta a España
African team clocks up first win of the season on rollercoaster day Awaiting 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 […]
Specialized working to improve Contador’s aerodynamics, identifies faster bike position
“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 […]
Tour Down Under riders hammered by heatwave, concerns expressed by Greipel, Sieberg and others
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 […]
Geraint Thomas: “The Tour Down Under itself is a good hard race to kick-start the season”
Welshman about to kick off 2014 with an eye on the Classics and the Tour Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) is preparing to start his 2014 season at the Santos Tour Down Under, and hopes to begin in a similar way […]
Team Novo Nordisk setting higher targets in 2014
Diabetic squad to get 2014 season underway with Tour de San Luis participation Some 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 […]
Voeckler speaks about fractured collarbone which rules him out of his first Santos Tour Down Under
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 […]
Will Walker weighing up future in competitive cycling after heart problems reoccur
Synergy Baku team manager McQuaid says rider will be given time to decide next step He spoke with optimism last month in a video interview carried out at his Synergy Baku training camp, saying that he believed that he could […]
Berhane and Martinez to lead Europcar’s hopes in the Tour de Langkawi
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. […]
