Matt White takes on position as Australia's new Professional Men's Road Coordinator
Garmin-Cervelo director will continue with current team, takes over from Neil Stephens With the Tour Down Under set to kick off in two days time, Cycling Australia announced the appointment of a new Professional Men’s Road Coordinator, Garmin-Cervelo director sportif […]
Jurgen Van Den Broeck leaving nothing to chance in working towards 2011 Tour de France
Belgian Grand Tour hope employing a personal trainer, mental coach, and training coach There is no doubt where the ambitions of Jurgen Van Den Broeck, one of Belgium’s brightest stars lies: the Tour de France. The 27 year old finished […]
Philippe Gilbert has a little fun at training camp: hits 119 km/h on his bike
Belgian says he can do much more, teammate Adam Blythe unimpressed It’s not all intense training and dreaming about the future in Mallorca right now for the Omega Pharma-Lotto team. Philippe Gilbert had a little bit of fun on a […]
Alexandr Kolobnev still waiting on his Olympic Games bronze medal
Katusha’s Russian national champion perplexed about delay Russia’s top one day specialist, Alexandr Kolobnev, is still waiting on the medal that has been rightfully his for many months now following the disqualification of Davide Rebellin from the Olympic road race […]
Greg Van Avermaet on Omega Pharma-Lotto: "We were totally bored with each other."
Belgian talent admits that relationship with Belgian team fizzled, now looking forward to new chances with BMC Belgian talent, Greg Van Avermaet, has had a hard go of it the past two seasons after two sensational years kicked off his […]
Björn Leukemans tweaks knee, hoping to win a Classic in 2011
Vacansoleil Classics specialist crashes in training camp Björn Leukemans, one of the big breakout successes of last year’s Spring Classics, is going into the 2011 season with a lot of expectations, both from himself and his team. In 2010, Leukemans stormed […]
2011 Giro del Trentino to conclude with two mountaintop finishes
Final day returns to Madonna di Campiglio, 12 years after Marco Pantani’s 1999 Giro stage win The major Italian prep race ahead of May’s Giro d’Italia, the Giro del Trentino, looks set to provide an extremely difficult final test for […]
Tour of the Battenkill loses UCI status for 2011
News follows the Tour of the Gila’s same announcement from a day ago The murmurs that the Tour of the Battenkill might not end up as a UCI 1.2 event in 2011 have come to fruition. According to race organizer, […]
Sven Nys returning to health, dreaming of second Worlds win
Will start this Sunday in seventh round of World Cup The stomach flu that laid former World Cyclocross Champion Sven Nys low for the Belgian Championships last weekend has passed, and the sport’s dominating force over the past ten years, […]
Marc Sergeant: Envisioning spring success for Gilbert and summertime glory for Van den Broeck
Omega Pharma-Lotto manager’s two Belgian superstars look ready for their best years yet At the start of a season, things have never looked quite so good for one of Marc Sergeant’s incarnations of this year’s Omega Pharma-Lotto team. Philippe Gilbert […]