Columbia-Highroad tackles Milan-San Remo this weekend with high hopes for Mark Cavendish, the recent winner of the last stage of Tirreno-Adriatico. However, the squad has no intention of placing their top sprinter under any pressure to come up with a […]

Alessandro Ballan won’t take part in Milano-Sanremo 2009. The 29 year old current reigning World Champion had to quit the “Classicissima” because of an undiagnosed illness he was battling with recently. Now the true nature of the illness has come […]

Team Quick-Step’s Kurt Hovelijnck remains in the intensive care unit with cranial trauma suffered after a fall in training yesterday. Apparently the accident was caused by a mechanical problem with the rider’s rear wheel. Hovelijnck is being cared for at […]

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has partially upheld the appeal filed by the Italian cyclist Ricardo Ricco against the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) following his positive doping test with EPO (Mircera) at the Tour de France 2008. The […]

Team Quick-Step rider Kurt Hovelijnck crashed heavily this morning during a training ride. Hovelijnck was taken immediately to the intensive care unit at Universitair Ziekenhuis di Gent. (Gent Hospital).He’s been diagnosed with cranial trauma which for the time remains unstable. […]

Team Quick-Step will be sending a strong team to Milan-Sanremo with an eye on getting Tom Boonen his second win in the first Spring Classic of the season. Team Quick-Step will be sending a strong team to Milan-Sanremo with an […]

British Cycling has today announced the team of 19 riders who will travel to Pruszków in Poland to compete in the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, taking place on 25– 29 March 2009. Eight Beijing Olympic medallists will once again […]

World Champion Alessandro Ballan has pulled out of Tirreno-Adriatico, and will not take part in the 5th stage time-trial from Loreto to Macerata. Instead, he will go for an easy training session in the morning and head home. His decision […]

Cervélo TestTeam is pleased to announce the signing of Emilie Aubry, the final rider to be signed for 2009. The nineteen year-old Chevenez native is considered one of the biggest talents in Switzerland. She was third in the 2008 national […]

Francaise des Jeux’s Jeremy Roy made the fifth stage of the Paris-Nice his first professional victory here on Thursday.  The stage was a 204.0km ride from Annonay to Vallon Pont d’Arc, with a finishing time of 4hr 58min 47sec. Quick-Step’s Sylvain Chavanel […]