Tour de Suisse: Successful arm surgery for Arnaud Coyot
French rider has screw inserted following stage 4 crash Arnaud Coyot (Caisse d’Epargne) was probably the most seriously injured victim of the crash at the end of the fourth stage of the Tour de Suisse on Tuesday. Thankfully initial rumours […]
Tour de Suisse: Cavendish abandons with crash injuries
Manx sprinter decides against tough Alpine stage with after effects of Tuesday’s pile up HTC-Columbia sprinter Mark Cavendish did not take the start of today’s tough sixth stage of the Tour de Suisse. The 25-year-old Manx Express is suffering from […]
Martijn Maaskant: “I’ve earned my place at the Tour”
Dutch rider feels Swiss form means he deserves a place in France After his second place in yesterday’s rainy Tour de Suisse stage, Martijn Maaskant (Garmin-Transitions) believes that he’s earned his place on the American team’s Tour de France roster. […]
UCI ProTour Council meets; agrees changes for 2011
New criteria introduced for the approval of new teams; Biological Passport extended The International Cycling Union (UCI) ProTour Council (UPTC) met yesterday in Birmingham, UK, and approved a new registration system for ProTour teams for the 2011 season. The procedures […]
Tour de Suisse: Cavendish blamed for causing crash and penalised
Manx Express moved off his line says race jury The pile up at the end of today’s 4th stage of the Tour de Suisse, which brought down most of the top sprinters, was the fault of Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) says […]
Tour de Suisse: Petacchi chooses right as Breschel can’t believe his luck
Ale-Jet chooses his own path to success as Danish champion follows Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) was last man standing at the end of today’s Tour de Suisse stage, as he was virtually the only major sprinter in the race to […]
Tour de Suisse: Petacchi sprints to win stage four as most of the peloton comes down
Italian super-sprinter wins the stage after avoiding a pile up that takes out almost all his rivals Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) won the fourth stage of the Tour de Suisse between Schwarzenburg and Wettingen in a chaotic sprint. The Italian […]
AG2R-La Mondiale announces Tour long list; three places taken, six to play for
French ProTour team names riders in contention for July’s race team AG2R-La Mondiale, the sole French ProTour team, has announced a list of 15 names from which its final nine-man Tour de France team will be taken. The team has […]
Fränk Schleck takes Ardennes style Tour de Suisse stage win
Luxemburger attacks to win in Liege-esque stage finish Fränk Schleck (Saxo Bank) won the third stage of the Tour de Suisse between Sierre and Schwarzenburg after attacking on the final metres of the climb to the finish line. In a […]
Contador and Brajkovic rise in otherwise unchanged World Rankings
Dauphiné performers are the big movers in the UCI’s flagship classification With last week’s Critérium du Dauphiné the only counting event, it’s not surprising that the big performers there are this week’s big movers in the International Cycling Union’s (UCI) […]
