Following a successful debut, the Dutch Pro-Continental team Vacansoleil will head into 2010 with an even larger budget. Wim Backers, owner of Vacansoleil, a company that books camping holidays, visited the Vuelta A Espana this week to look onto his […]

Ivan Rovny (Katusha) will be riding for Johan Bruynel’s RadioShack team according to biciciclismo. The 21 year old Russian rode for Katusha since 2006, a year after he became junior World Champion and European Champion. In 2007 he won a […]

Leo Van Vliet, Dutch national director, named Lars Boom (Rabobank) and Johnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil) to the Dutch Worlds team. Both riders have had very successful grand tour debuts in the Vuelta A Espana with Boom winning stage 15 to Cardoba […]

The UCI announced on Monday that Italian rider Maurizio Biondo tested positive for EPO in an out-of-competition control on August 12. The Ceramica Flaminia-Bossini rider finished second overall in the Tour of Denmark after winning the time trial in remarkable […]

Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Columbia) won the third stage of the Tour of Britain. The talented Norwegian sprinted ahead of the Italian Michele Merlo (Barloworld) and the Australian Chris Sutton (Garmin). Dutchman Kai Reus (Rabobank) still maintains an 11 second […]

Jan Bakelants (Topsport Vlaanderen) will be riding for Silence-Lotto next year. Manager Marc Sergeant confirmed the young-Belgian’s future after Mathew Goss’s (Saxo Bank) win in Paris-Brussels. Bakelants, regarded as Belgium’s most promising stage-racing talent after winning last year’s Tour de […]

Baden Cooke (Vacansoleil) has signed a one year contract with Bjarne Riis’ Team Saxo Bank in 2010. The 30 year old Australian is looking to play a role in the spring classics and improve on his winless season. After a […]

Linus Gerdemaan (Milram) will not be starting today’s stage 12 of the Vuelta A Espana. The German team captain has decided he hasn’t fully recovered from his crash in stage 11 to Murcia. He still complains of back pain and […]

Argentinean Juan Jose Haedo (Saxo Bank) could finally claim the top step of the podium in stage four of the Tour of Missouri as he out muscled Thor Hushovd (Cervelo) and Dario Cataldo (Quick-Step) atop “Capital Wall” after three near […]

Tyler Farrar (Garmin) will not be starting today’s 12th stage of the Vuelta A Espana, where it takes the peloton from Almeria to the top of the steep Alto de Velefique. The American, who won the 11th stage in Caravaca […]