Deignan hopes for a good end of season
Vuelta a España stage winner Philip Deignan has just three races left this season and is hoping for a good finish before he takes a well-deserved break back home in Letterkenny, Ireland. On Saturday the 26 year old will join […]
Dekker vows to return after his ban
Dutch rider Thomas Dekker has admitted to using EPO and has said that he is determined to return to professional cycling after his ban ends. “I will accept that sentence and then I will start again,” he said in an […]
Cofidis pledges to prove its worth, BBox also to fight on
Informed Tuesday that it would not be given a ProTour licence, the Cofidis team will use the decision as an incentive to ride to a higher level in 2010. “We have a good group, it is on the sporting field […]
Patrick Calcagni to retire with Barloworld
Swiss rider Patrick Calcagni has decided to retire from professional cycling at the end of the 2009 season. The 32-year-old from Lugano turned professional in 2000 with Vini-Caldirola, before moving to the newly formed Liquigas in 2005; he has been […]
Dekker B-sample also positive
The B-sample requested by Dutch cyclist Thomas Dekker has confirmed his positive drug test for the banned blood-booster EPO, the ANP news agency reported on Wednesday. Dekker has accepted the findings and is awaiting his sanction, ANP reported. The 24-year-old […]
Bos goes back to his roots in Amsterdam and Rotterdam
He’s just signed a deal to compete with the Cervélo Test Team in 2010, but Theo Bos is returning to the boards. However the former track world champion is not having a chance of heart; he won’t be going back […]
Cunego resigned to three year wait
Second in Varese twelve months ago, Damiano Cunego has accepted that it will be another three years before he can entertain ambitions of becoming world road race champion. “The next two years, the circuit if the Championships will be more […]
Fedrigo wants out after ProTour loss
Tour de France stage winner Pierrick Fedrigo has signalled that he is not happy to continue in the BBox Bouygues Telecom team after it was yesterday refused a renewal of its ProTour licence. The Frenchman isn’t satisfied that the Tour […]
Evans to miss Tour?
Newly crowned world champion, Cadel Evans, will be missing next year’s Tour de France if it’s up to Herman Frison, team manager at Silence-Lotto. After a poor performance in this past edition of the Tour, Evans refocused his season on […]
Cavendish ends season
Mark Cavendish ended his season without trying for another victory, in Paris-Tours (October 11). The Briton did not start stage four of the Tour of Missouri, due to a lung infection and has not raced since then. Columbia-HTC’s directeur sportif, […]
