Zabriskie makes it three in a row
David Zabriskie of the Garmin-Chipotle successfully defended his national time-trial title for the third year in succession and fourth as a professional. The feat is made even more remarkable when condsidering the fact that Zabriskie was laid up with a […]
Demol makes a familiar move
It turns out that the early speculation about Dirk Demol’s future with Team Astana was correct. The Director for the Quick Step team will be moving over to work with Johan Bruyneel once again. The combination had already proven to […]
Lund extends with CSC-Saxo Bank
Anders Lund has extended his contract for another year with CSC-Saxo Bank. The young Danish rider has been with Bjarne Riis team since 2007. ”Anders still has great potential and we’d like to keep him around and help him evolve. […]
Britain's Brailsford in high demand
When all was said and done at the 2008 Summer Olympics Great Britain’s cyclists won 14 medals – eight of them gold. In many cases such a great degree of success could bring turmoil, but British Cycling performance director Dave […]
Germans to Varese
Team Columbia has the largest contingent of riders nominated by the German Cycling Federation (BDR) for the World Championships in Varese, Italy. The Worlds are being held from the 23-28th of September. Behind Team Columbia’s 7 riders, Team Gerolsteiner has […]
Boonen wins Benelux fourth stage
Tom Boonen of team Quick Step won the 213 kilometer 4th stage of Benelux from Terneuzen (Nl) to Ardooie (Bel). Boonen beat Kevin Van Hummel (Skil-Shimano) and Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Columbia) in a stage that included the Kwaremont, Kluisberg […]
Greipel takes stage two in Eneco
German rider Andre Greipel of Team Columbia won the wet second stage of the Eneco Tour. The German’s sprint proved to be too much for CSC’s JJ Haedo and Gerolsteiner’s Robert Förster. For the first 50km of the race the […]
Hinault wins Tour of Limousin
At the start today in Chamborêt 22 riders were still in contention for the overall victory. In the end, Sebastien Hinault from Credit Agricole who kept his yellow jersey and wrote his name into the Tour du Limousin history books. […]
Davis signs with Quick Step for 2
Austrailian rider Allan Davis will make his debut for team Quick Step on September 3rd, 2008 in the Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen – Aartselaar race. Davis was a vicitim of the Discovery Channel fallout when team management could not find […]
Boonen wins first stage of Tour of Benelux
Tom Boonen has won the first stage of the Eneco Tour in Holland. The race covered 173.8 km and brought the riders from Beek to Roermond. Boonen’s Quick Step train delivered him in the final sprint ahead of Italians Daniele Bennati of Team Liquigas and […]
