Welshwoman Nicole Cooke handed Britain their first gold of the Beijing Olympic Games when she won the women’s cycling road race here on Sunday. Sweden’s Emma Johansson took the silver medal with Italian Tatiana Guderzo placing third for the bronze. […]

A hilly 23.8km loop which leads to the Great Wall finish line of the women’s road race will provide plenty of Olympic cycling action for the second day running here Sunday. But, to the annoyance of some of the 66-strong […]

French cyclist Jimmy Casper has been provisionally suspended from his team, Agritubel, following positive doping tests taken while he was riding in last month’s Tour de France. Casper was in a list of five riders whose tests revealed positive during […]

Spanish cyclist Maribel Moreno, who pulled out of the Beijing Olympics just two days before they got underway, said Saturday she would justify her decision at a press conference in Spain on Monday. In a statement, the cyclist apologized to […]

Defending champion Paolo Bettini of Italy put a brave face on losing his Olympic road race crown to Spaniard Samuel Sanchez here on Saturday. But after the first big endurance test of the Games, the two-time world champion all but […]

Samuel Sanchez’s maiden Olympic victory for Spain in the men’s cycling road race here Saturday has capped another gold-tinged year for his countrymen. And Sanchez, a 30-year-old from Oviedo who has won five stages on the Tour of Spain, was […]

South African Robbie Hunter and Laszlo Bodrogi of Hungary were among the big names to abandon the men’s cycling road race here Saturday, the Olympics’ first major endurance event held in sweltering conditions. Both riders pulled out prior to the […]

Spanish climber Samuel Sanchez claimed his biggest ever career win when he claimed gold in the men’s gruelling Olympic road race, held over 245km here on Saturday. Italian Davide Rebellin finished a close second to take the silver medal with […]

Olympic men’s road race results:         1. Samuel Sanchez (ESP)                             6h23:49.     (Average speed 38.4 km/h)                     2. Davide Rebellin (ITA)                       at         0.      3. Fabian Cancellara (SUI)                                0.      4. Alexander Kolobnev (RUS)                               0.      5. Andy Schleck […]

Italian Paolo Bettini’s bid to defend his crown appeared intact at the halfway stage of the gruelling men’s 245km cycling Olympic road race here on Saturday. Bettini, fellow favourite Alejandro Valverde of Spain and a number of other top gold […]