Italian sprinter Alessandro Petacchi, now riding for the LPR Brakes – Ballan team, opened up his account at The Tour of Britain today as he held off Rob Hayles (Team GB) and Magnus Backstedt (Garmin – H30) to take victory […]

Today was Allan Davis’ first day in the team Quick Step strip. The 28 year-old Aussie has been hunting for a contract on a Pro Tour team since Discovery Channel pulled out of the sport. Complicating matters was the fact […]

Disgraced American cyclist Tyler Hamilton, the first rider to be found guilty of blood doping in 2004, has capped his comeback by winning the US national road race championship at Greenville on Sunday. The 37-year-old, of the Rock Racing team, […]

Spaniard David de la Fuente of the Scott team won the second stage of the Tour of Germany here on Sunday. The riders best result of the season up until now had been a second place in the fifth stage […]

David Zabriskie of the Garmin-Chipotle successfully defended his national time-trial title for the third year in succession and fourth as a professional. The feat is made even more remarkable when condsidering the fact that Zabriskie was laid up with a […]

It turns out that the early speculation about Dirk Demol’s future with Team Astana was correct. The Director for the Quick Step team will be moving over to work with Johan Bruyneel once again. The combination had already proven to […]

High-end bike manufacturer Cervélo has announced it will be creating a new model for equipment development in the form of their TestTeam initiative.  Johan Bruyneel and Lance Armstrong proved the advantage of providing feedback to manufacturers Trek, Giro, and HED by winning […]

The first stage of the Tour of Ireland was held today under overcast skies. Home favorite and Irish National Champion Daniel Martin of Team Garmin-Chipotle began the day with his own personal battle with a touch of food poisoning. Thankfully […]

Italian Danilo Di Luca will try to earn a spot on Italy’s World Championship team when he takes the start at the Giro del Veneto on Sunday, according to news agency Ansa. Di Luca won the race back iin 2002 […]

Anders Lund has extended his contract for another year with CSC-Saxo Bank. The young Danish rider has been with Bjarne Riis team since 2007. ”Anders still has great potential and we’d like to keep him around and help him evolve. […]