Quick-Step pays UCI, will race in Paris-Nice
Team Quick-Step confirms that, as requested by the UCI, the Biological Passport payment which means the team will be able to take the start in Paris-Nice this Sunday. The first € 30,000 payment was made March 4th, the second of […]
25 teams announced for the 93rd Tour of Flanders
The organizers of the Tour of Flanders announced the names of the teams that will take the start in the 93rd edition of the event on Sunday, April 5. The organizers of the Tour of Flanders announced the names of […]
Driedaagse West-Vlaanderen begins today
Today the Driedaagse West-Vlaanderen starts in the Grote Markt of Kortrijk. The race is comprised of three relatively flat stages and ends on Sunday in Ichtegem. Since the race doesn’t have a clear front-runner, Bobbie Traksel and Niko Eeckhout, first […]
Barloword: The wins keep Cummings in the Giro del Capo
The day after Chris Froome’s first professional victory, Team Barloworld rider Stephen Cummings sprinted over the finish line to only the third win of his professional cycling career. Second place went to Johann Rabie (Neotel), and Dennis van Niekerk (Konica-Minolta) […]
Paris-Nice: Five ProTour teams might be excluded from the race
Five ProTour teams are in danger of being excluded from Paris-Nice, which is set to start this Sunday, unless they pay the fees owed for the International Cycling Union’s biological passport program. UCI president Pat McQuaid told a news conference, […]
MPCC enforces an even more stringent code of ethics
The Movement For Credible Cycling (MPCC) has updated it’s code of ethics so it is now more strict than the World Anti-Doping Agency. The MPCC was created on July 24, 2007 by seven professional cycling teams in response to the […]
CAS rules Fuji-Servetto out of Paris-Nice, in for Tirreno-Adriatico and Milan-San Remo
The Fuji-Servetto cycling team, who’s Pro Tour license is owned by G.M. Bikes SA, was unsuccessful in it’s bid to overturn the Amaury Sports Organization’s (ASO) descision to refuse the team entry into Paris-Nice based on its doping history. The […]
Tour of Missouri announces strong lineup
Event organizers and Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder today announced the first five teams for the third Tour of Missouri professional cycling race, scheduled for September 7-13, 2009 Top United States-based teams Garmin-Slipstream and Columbia-High Road, one of Italy’s top […]
Quick-Step for Paris-Nice
Team Quick-Step will be sending a stong team to Paris-Nice featuring Frenchmen Sylvain Chavanel. In the Belgian Classics opening weekend Chavanel showed his form as he worked tirelessly for teammate Tom Boonen. His super efforts in the newly named Het […]
Team Barloworld's Froome opens his account at the Giro del Capo
Team Barloworld’s Chris Froome took his first victory as a professional cyclist today in the 146.7km second stage of the Giro del Capo from Durbaville-Durbanville. Barloworld bookended second placed rider Jay Thomson (MTN) with third place going to Froome’s teammate […]