CAS, the court of arbitration in Lausanne, Switzerland, will hear the case of Alejandro Valverde on November 16. Valverde is appealing his ban by CONI, the Italian National Olympic Committee. Valverde already filed his objection to CAS in June of […]

Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) won today’s cyclocross race in Belgium’s Ardooie. The 23 year-old world champion left the Czech Zdenek Stybar and countryman Sven Vanthourenhout in his tracks. Albert made his move with three laps to go, distancing himself from his […]

Philippe Gilbert (Silence Lotto) continued his hot streak by winning today’s 184km Giro del Piemonte in Fossano, Italy. The Belgian has been unstoppable since placing sixth at the World Championships, taking three victories in a row, winning last Sunday’s Paris-Tours […]

Liège-Bastogne-Liège may be missing one of its most well-known climbs, the côte de la Redoute. The organizers have decided the current approach, due to some road work, is too dangerous. The Stockeu will also be dropped. La Redoute, situated a […]

Many of the big names from recent Tours were in attendance at yesterday’s presentation of the 2010 race route in Paris, with absentees such as world champion Cadel Evans and this year’s fourth-placed rider Bradley Wiggins only missing out due […]

Yesterday’s Tour de France presentation was primarily about the route of the 2010 race, but the details of next year’s race were preceded by the organisers’ statements on the fight against doping. In a pointed reference to the spat between […]

Chris Sutton continued his domination of the Jayco Herald Sun Tour today when he snagged his third consecutive stage victory and further extended his overall lead. The Garmin Slipstream rider was quickest of 30 riders who sprinted it out for […]

French newspaper L’Equipe reported that the Kazakhstan Cycling Federation has agreed to terminate Johan Bruyneel’s contract with Astana making him free to manage Lance Armstrong’s new RadioShack team in 2010. Bruyneel had one year left on his contract with Astana, […]

Dutchman Steven de Jongh will be wearing a race number for the last time in tomorrow’s Giro del Piemonte, bringing an end to a professional career that began with the TVM team in 1995. Among the highlights of his career […]

No team time trial, just one long race against the clock, three mountain-top finishes, six high mountain stages, four medium mountain legs, 23 big climbs and a total distance of 3596 kilometres; that, in a nutshell, is the outline of […]