Giovanni Visconti has forgotten about being overlooked for the Giro d’Italia, his problems this spring and has returned to win two stages of the Tour of Turkey. He leads the race with four stages left, looking ahead to a second […]

Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) failed to match his 2005 win yesterday at Milano-Sanremo, but he came away impressed, impressed with his form and with the power of winner Oscar Freire (Rabobank). “A ‘grande campione’ won today,” Petacchi told La Gazzetta […]

Italian Daniele Bennati finished off Liquigas-Doimo’s work in Milano-Sanremo yesterday, but unfortunately, he did not have enough to stop the surge of Oscar Freire. He started the sprint first after a lead-out by team-mate Daniel Oss, but ended the day, […]

Team Katusha gave its all in Milano-Sanremo yesterday to avoid a sprint finish, cumulating with the attack of Italian Champion Filippo Pozzato in the final kilometre. He failed to repeat his 2006 win and the sprint went to Oscar Freire, […]

Italian footwear company Geox will sponsor Lampre-Farnese Vini according to La Gazzetta dello Sport. Lampre’s riders, including Milano-Sanremo favourite Alessandro Petacchi, will race with Geox on the sides of their blue and fuchsia kits. “Geox,” reported the newspaper, “could expand […]

Norway’s Edvald Boasson Hagen stepped up from Milano-Sanremo outside favourite to hot pick after his sprint win at Tirreno-Adriatico Tuesday in San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy. Team Sky will support the 22-year-old, but will that support come in a sprint […]

In two day’s time, Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) will search to repeat his Milano-Sanremo win. The Swiss hard man warns that he is going stronger than last year and that he is ready. “At Tirreno-Adriatico I managed myself well,” he […]

Italian Champion Filippo Pozzato demonstrated in Strade Bianche yesterday in Siena, Italy, to be on the right road towards the Spring Classics, even if lacking the punch to remain with the winning group. “I gave all I had,” Pozzato (Katusha) […]

Tour de France Champion Alberto Contador began Paris-Nice, an eight-kilometre time trial, just off the fastest time of the day set by Lars Boom (Rabobank). “It’s true that I was not able to win,” said Spain’s Contador, “but it is […]

A sunny spring day, though crisp, allowed fans to relax in Siena’s Piazza del Campo and watch cycling’s emerging classic: Strade Bianche. Only in its fourth year, the Italian one-day race, organised by RCS Sport, has produced great racing thanks […]