Scheldeprijs: Hincapie crashes twice, will assess injuries tomorrow on pre-Paris-Roubaix ride
American hopes that injuries won’t affect chances for Sunday George Hincapie’s Paris-Roubaix preparations had an unwelcome disruption today when the American rider crashed twice during Scheldeprijs. The American scraped his right hip and banged his left knee in the incidents. […]
Circuit Cycliste Sarthe: Kreder grabs his first pro win for Garmin-Cervelo
Dutchman beats stage one winner Bennati into Angers Garmin-Cervélo’s Michael Kreder boosted team morale after a frustrating Tour of Flanders campaign when he grabbed a stage win on today’s second leg of the Circuit Cycliste Sarthe in France. The 23 […]
Vuelta al Pais Vasco: Kiryienka clips away to grab victory, Klöden now leading overall
Stalemate amongst major contenders Belarusian rider Vasil Kiryienka attacked inside the final two kilometres of today’s second stage of the Vuelta al Pais Vasco, surging clear on the descent to the line and then soloing to victory. The Team Movistar […]
Big boost for Team Type 1 with Tour de Suisse invite
Important wildcard confirmed for American team The American Team Type 1 – sanofi-aventis has received a major boost with the news that it has been awarded wildcard entry to the Tour de Suisse. The race will be one of the […]
UCI backing Ponferrada to host 2014 world road championships
Spanish application deemed best Although the awarding of the right to host future world championships is normally announced during the worlds itself, the UCI has taken the step of backing a candidate at this point of the season. It has […]
Vuelta al Paìs Vasco: Rodriguez beats Sanchez on stage one
Klöden and Horner third and fourth, others lose time The 2010 world number one Joaquim Rodriguez picked up his first win of the season today when he outsprinted three others to take the opening stage of the Vuelta al Pais […]
Hajo Seppelt Interview Part 2: more on the Alberto Contador positive case
German anti-doping journalist comments further German TV journalist Hajo Seppelt was one of the first to learn of Alberto Contador’s positive test, being informed about the case several weeks before the news was officially released. As he told VeloNation in […]
Pinotti begins Vuelta al Pais Vasco today aiming for overall success
Italian time trial specialist feeling ambitious heading into six day race Multiple Italian time trial champion Marco Pinotti starts today’s Vuelta al Pais Vasco determined to fight for the overall classification in the race. The respected HTC Highroad rider has […]
Nuyens plays things perfectly to win gripping Tour of Flanders
Belgian back to his best, Cancellara fires too soon and gets third Nick Nuyens has been falling short of his top form for several seasons, but his rejuvenation continued today when he picked up his second success in less than […]
Team Type 1 – sanofi-aventis riders back in action after bike theft
Affected squad returned to racing yesterday in France A week after the theft of hundreds of thousands of euros worth of bikes and equipment while on the the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali, the affected riders on the American Team […]