Quick Step leader has two days to overtake the climbers ahead of him Dario Cataldo (Quick Step) started this year’s Giro d’Italia with the intention of finishing as high in the overall classification as possible. The 26-year-old finished 31st in […]

Team Sky sprinter suffers bad crash on Macagnuga stage For Team Sky sprinter Russell Downing, there is very little left to aim at in this year’s Giro d’Italia, except, that is, for the prospect of completing the first ever Grand […]

2009 race winner not happy with current position but sees opportunity to move up Denis Menchov (Geox-TMC) started the Giro d’Italia with the intention of repeating his victory of 2009. With just three stages to go though, he sat in […]

Best ever Grand Tour finish on the cards for HTC-Highroad’s Belarusian Following his part in the break on stage seventeen, between Feltre and Tirano, where he finished almost three minutes ahead of the peloton, Kanstantsin Sivtsov (HTC-Highroad) is sitting pretty […]

Time trial specialists looking forward to Sunday’s Milan test Despite sickness reducing the Garmin-Cervélo team to just five men in the last week of the Giro d’Italia, those left are still highly motivated to make their mark on the race. […]

Stage eighteen winner disappointed not to be competing for white jersey For the second day in succession the Giro d’Italia stage was decided by a breakaway, and once again the victory went to a young Italian rider: Eros Capecchi (Liquigas-Cannondale) […]

Presence of Jesus Hernandez and Kanstantin Sivtsov in the break puts his rivals’ teams on the defensive If it’s at all possible to have an easy day, in what was officially termed as a high mountain stage, while in the […]

Post stage polemics follow Italian champion’s relegation The script at the end of today’s seventeenth stage of the Giro d’Italia was simple: The Italian champion, riding his national Tour in the flag of his country, wins the first true breakaway […]

Presence of Jesus Hernandez and Kanstantin Sivtsov in the break puts his rivals’ teams on the defensive If it’s at all possible to have an easy day, in what was officially termed as a high mountain stage, while in the […]

Post stage polemics follow Italian champion’s relegation The script at the end of today’s seventeenth stage of the Giro d’Italia was simple: The Italian champion, riding his national Tour in the flag of his country, wins the first true breakaway […]