Rabobank has boosted it’s lineup next season with the signing of 25-year-old Stef Clement. The rider is moving over the French Bouygues Telecom team. Clement has had some good success this season in the week long stage races and would […]

Norwegian cyclist Thor Hushovd, a stage winner on last month’s Tour de France, on Friday pulled out of the Beijing Olympics citing health problems. “It’s stupid and very bitter but I have to think of my health. I struggled on […]

Real Madrid’s Portuguese defender Pepe said Thursday that he has been inspired by reading seven-time tour de France winner Lance Armstrong’s best-selling book on his struggles with cancer. “My wife gave me Lance Armstrong’s biography, which tells what he went […]

Today Team Manager Johan Bruyneel announced that nine riders have re-signed for the 2009 season. Assan Bazayev, Chris Horner, Maxim Iglinskiy, Andreas Klöden, Steve Morabito, Dmitriy Muravyev, Daniel Navarro, Gregory Rast and Michael Schär. Those rider will join the team’s […]

Italian cyclist Leonardo Piepoli said he had “denied everything” following his doping hearing with the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) on Thursday. Piepoli was heard just a day after his former Saunier-Duval team-mate Ricardo Ricco, who admitted to using EPO. Ricco […]

Disgraced Italian cyclist Ricardo Ricco was on Thursday suspended by the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) anti-doping tribunal after admitting to using the banned blood-booster EPO. Ricco has been kicked off the Tour de France, and subsequently sacked by his Saunier-Duval […]

Japanese Olympic cyclist Tomohiro Nagatsuka plans to wear Speedo’s record-breaking LZR Racer swimwear beneath his track racing suit in his quest for a medal at the Beijing Games. Knee-length LZR shorts helped him slash his personal 250-metre record by about […]

Spain’s Carlos Sastre received a hero’s welcome Wednesday when he returned to his hometown of El Barraco after becoming the third Spaniard in a row to win the Tour de France over the weekend. Hundreds of ecstatic supporters cheered when […]

World champion cyclist Marta Bastianelli is to face an Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) hearing on August 5 after failing a dope test this month. The 21-year-old has been kicked off the Italian Olympic team but protested her innocence, claiming she […]

Injured Australian cycling star Cadel Evans has pulled out of the time trial event at the Beijing Olympics, Cycling Australia said on Wednesday. The national federation added Evans slipped on a wet floor on Sunday night, in the aftermath of […]