Belgian rumoured to be heading to Switzerland to bolster classics squad Belgian rider Greg Van Avermaet is bound for BMC Racing, according to the Gazet Van Antwerpen. The 25-year-old has signed a two-year contract with the American team, the newspaper […]

Manx Missile fires at last to leave sprint rivals in his wake and silence his critics Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) won the fifth stage of the Tour de France between Épernay and Montargis, as the HTC-Columbia team got its sprint to […]

Tour champion delivers belated thank you gift to former teammate and director Tour de France champion Alberto Contador (Astana) paid a visit to the RadioShack team bus before the start of stage 5 in Épernay this morning. The Spaniard was […]

Dutchwoman confirms pink jersey by outsprinting breakaway rivals after long rolling stage Marianne Vos (Netherlands) won the sixth stage of the Giro d’Italia Femminile between Gallarate and Arcisate, just outside Varese, the venue for the 2008 World championships. Vos beat […]

Ale-Jet flies once more and is re-crowned king of the sprinters in Champagne capital Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) won the fourth stage of the Tour de France between Cambrai and Reims, the capital of the Champagne region. He outsprinted the […]

Dutch sensation outsprints World champion to win tough hilly stage and takes pink jersey Marianne Vos (Netherlands) won the fifth stage of the Giro d’Italia Femminile between Orta San Giulio and Pettenasco. The former World champion outsprinted the current holder […]

Mighty Norse rider shows his cobble class as Spartacus smashes the peloton Thor Hushovd (Cervélo TestTeam) won the third stage of the Tour de France between Wanze and Arenberg-Porte du Hainaut after outsprinting a very select group. The Norwegian champion […]

Dutch rider breaks bones for the second successive Tour but carries on this time Another casualty of stage 2’s crashes was Rabobank team leader Robert Gesink. The 24-year-old Dutchman, who won the toughest stage of last month’s Tour de Suisse, […]

Young Belgian denied the chance to sprint into green on home soil in debut Tour Another voice of dissention could be heard today, that of OmegaPharma-Lotto’s Jürgen Roelandts, showing that yesterday’s race neutralisation was by no means unanimously supported within […]

Frenchman takes his second career stage and first career yellow as peloton hit by crashes on wet roads Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step) won the second stage of the Tour de France between Brussels and Spa, Belgium, as the last remaining […]