Tour of California adds more mountains and coastline to 2012 route
Beverly Hills and Hollywood finale after Big Bear Lake and Mount Baldy stage finishes AEG Sports, the organiser of the Amgen Tour of California, has announced the route of the 2012 race, which features even more mountains that last year’s […]
Giro d’Italia organiser expresses frustration at Contador case timeline
Corsa Rosa organiser now faced with the task of rewriting the results of its 2011 race, but cannot change the memories RCS Sport, the organiser of the Giro d’Italia, has officially acknowledged the decision to suspend 2011 race winner Alberto […]
Tour of Qatar: Tom Boonen takes stage four as the wind smashes the race again
Second stage this year for Belgian sprinter – and twenty in his career – who increases his overall lead Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) took an incredible twentieth career stage victory in the Tour of Qatar, and his second in […]
Lars Petter Nordhaug solos to Trofeo Deià victory
Norwegian Sky rider escapes a select breakaway to win third Challenge Mallorce race On a double day for Team Sky, shortly after Mark Cavendish had taken the third stage of the Tour of Qatar, Lars Petter Nordhaug escaped alone to […]
Mark Cavendish takes his first rainbow victory in Qatar stage three
World champion outsprints race leader but Tom Boonen reopens overall lead Mark Cavendish (Team Sky) has opened his 2012 account, taking his first victory for his new team, and his first in the rainbow jersey, in the third stage of […]
WorldTour 2010 and 2011 Redux: Erasing Alberto Contador
How big a task is it for the UCI to remove suspended rider from the last two year’s rankings? With the Court for Arbitration in Sport (CAS) having imposed a two-year suspension on Alberto Contador, with a forfeiture of all […]
Andy Fenn doubles up in Mallorca with Trofeo Migjorn sprint
21-year-old British neo-pro fastest again in Balearic bunch sprint As his teammate Tom Boonen was holding on to the race lead in the Tour of Qatar by his fingernails, Omega Pharma-Quick Step neo-pro Andy Fenn was chalking up his second […]
Michele Scarponi: “I’m very sorry for Alberto Contador”
Lampre-ISD captain stands to inherit 2011 Giro d’Italia title after Spanish rider’s retrospective suspension One of those to benefit from Alberto Contador being handed a retrospective two year suspension for his clenbuterol positive at the 2010 Tour de France, is […]
Tour of Qatar: Garmin-Barracuda blitzes team time trial but Boonen clings to gold
Belgian holds race lead by three-hundredths of a second after American team fastest in 11.3km Lusail test Garmin-Barracuda blasted around the 11.3km stage two team time trial course, out and back from the Lusail Cycling Circuit, in a time of […]
Eddy Merckx: “I think people want to kill off cycling”
Belgian legend reacts to CAS verdict in Alberto Contador case Eddy Merckx has spoken about his disappointment about the fact that the Court for Arbitration in Sport (CAS) has ruled that Alberto Contador should be suspended for two years. The […]
