“Golden generation” aiming for stage wins and the development of Rafael Valls Spanish Footon-Servetto team will be sending a youthful team to the Vuelta a España, the third Grand Tour of the year, which starts in Sevilla on Saturday; the […]

American sprinter jumps to eighth after strong display in Autumn classics With the Eneco Tour still ongoing, the only result to affect the International Cycling Union’s (UCI’s) World Ranking classification was Sunday’s Grand Prix Ouest France-Plouay. Race winner Matt Goss […]

British champion escapes select group to win alone as last year’s podium is repeated Emma Pooley (Cervélo TestTeam) won the Grand Prix Plouay for the second year in succession after attacking the rest of a very select group in the […]

Emma Pooley out to defend last year’s victory as Marianne Vos has competition all but sewn up The Women’s Road World Cup comes to a somewhat premature climax tomorrow with the ninth edition of the Grand Prix de Plouay in […]

Dutch veteran outsmarts young German as they escape on the hills of Flanders Koos Moerenhout (Rabobank) won the third stage of the Eneco Tour, starting and finishing in Ronse, Belgium. The veteran Dutchman outsprinted German Tony Martin (HTC-Columbia) after the […]

Russian takes two key domestiques with him as he leaves Rabobank As Russian rider Denis Menchov departs the Rabobank team for Team Geox he takes two of his favourite domestiques with him. Colombian Mauricio Ardila and Menchov’s compatriot Dmitriy Kozontchuk […]

Italian team boasts a young core of talent The Italian Liquigas-Doimo team has confirmed that it has extended the contracts of fourteen of its current riders. The acid-green team already managed to hold on to its team leaders Ivan Basso […]

Orange-clad team continues to shape its squad for coming years Basque team Euskaltel-Euskadi has extended the contracts of two of its riders: Amets Txurruka for two more years, and Gorka Verdugo for one. The team is finalising its roster for […]

Young Italian scalps Cavendish, Bennati and Farrar to take second major win of the season Manuel Bennetti (Colnago-CSF) won the Coppa Bernocchi, as the third race of the Trittico Lombardo finished in a bunch sprint in the town of Legnano. […]

ISD-Neri’s main sponsor to join ProTour team, no word on the riders Italian ProTour team Lampre-Farnese Vini will have a new title sponsor for the next three years, becoming Lampre-ISD. The Ukranian steel company, currently the title sponsor of Professional […]