Great Britain champion takes first rainbow jersey to add to Beijing silver Emma Pooley (Great Britain) won the women’s World Championship time trial in Geelong, just outside Melbourne, Australia. Fastest at all the checkpoints, the British champion flew around the […]

Italian team dedicated to late head coach Franco Ballerini This weekend two-time rainbow jersey Paolo Bettini will oversee his World Championships as head coach of the Italian team. The “cricket” from La California in Tuscany is confident that he has […]

Defending champion feels his rainbow jersey will go to a specialist in the Flemish races Reining World champion Cadel Evans is looking forward to defending his rainbow jersey in Sunday’s race, but says that the course is more suited to […]

Philippe Gilbert’s key lieutenant injures elbow and hip in training crash Race favourite Philippe Gilbert’s hopes took a bit of a knock today as Björn Leukemans, one of his key Belgian lieutenants crashed while the team was out on a […]

Defending champion’s retirement opens the door to a number of contenders The women’s time trial will be run over one lap of the same 22.7km course that the men will cover twice the day after. Largely based on, although slightly […]

Former cyclocross World champion thinks his team can do well Although he was forced to sit out Sunday’s Herald Sun World Cycling Classic in Ballarat, just outside Melbourne, the Netherlands’ Lars Boom is confident about the chances of his team […]

Manxman talking down his chances after seeing the course for himself Until now, Great Britain’s Mark Cavendish had been typically bullish about his chances in Sunday’s World Championships road race in Melbourne, Australia. The Manx Missile had declared that he […]

Skil-Shimano rider looking forward to racing in his girlfriend’s city For Dutch rider Koen de Kort, Sunday’s World Championships will be almost like a home race. The 28-year-old from Gouda, north east of Rotterdam, has spent a number of winters […]

Mendrisio bronze medallist is surprised by the severity of the course’s two climbs It’s not just the road race course that is tougher than people thought, as Tony Martin found out on inspection of the World Championship time trial course. […]

Monaco neighbours insist that the other is favourite for the rainbow jersey Good friends off the bike, Belgian Philippe Gilbert and Italian Filippo Pozzato are engaging in a little light-hearted mind game to deflect pressure towards each other in the […]