Italian Champion Filippo Pozzato looks forward to the Giro d’Italia after his spring campaign did not go as planned. The Katusha rider was knocked out by a fever, which forced him to skip the Tour of Flanders and compromised his […]

Dane Michael Rasmussen dreams of winning the Tour de France, the race his team forced him to abandon in 2007 while wearing the yellow jersey. “If Lance Armstrong can return, and maybe win the Tour de France this summer, then […]

Belgium’s national couch, Carlo Bomans, travelled to Offida, Italy, to preview the Junior World Championships course Friday. His goal is simple, help recent Paris-Roubaix winner Jasper Stuyven defend his rainbow jersey August 8. Bomans drove the 16-kilometre circuit and filmed […]

Florence moves closer to hosting the 2013 World Championships with the conclusion today of two days of inspections by the International Cycling Union (UCI). Two inspectors from the UCI accompanied the Florence organisers in a helicopter fly-over of the proposed […]

Belgian Philippe Gilbert missed the chance to win his home race, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Sunday. However, Omega Pharma-Lotto’s team manger, Marc Sergeant, is pleased with Gilbert’s progression and said that the World Championships is the next major goal. Sergeant knows his rider […]

Aldo Sassi, Italian trainer for Cadel Evans and Ivan Basso, is fighting brain cancer and will receive radiation treatment today. Doctors recently diagnosed him with an advanced-level tumour after he was complaining of strong headaches during his work at the […]

Thomas Löfkvist led up the Mur de Huy for Team Sky at the Flèche Wallonne yesterday in Belgium, but behind him was one of the team’s lesser-known riders: Lars Petter Nordhaug. Nordhaug came to the Ardennes Classics after helping team-mate […]

Italian Damiano Cunego returned to Flèche Wallonne, where he has twice finished third, with an aggressive race. Lampre went on the attack immediately and Cunego positioned himself for the fight up the Mur de Huy. But it was not enough. […]

Spaniard Alberto Contador put on an aggressive show at the Flèche Wallonne yesterday in Belgium. The two-time Tour de France winner sent his Astana team to work and finished the job himself with an attack on the feared Mur de […]

Brit Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) believes that the training he has done will allow him easily to beat his rivals this July and take Tour de France’s green jersey for the first time. “I know if I do the work then […]