Giro d’Italia: Losing time to rivals wasn’t part of the plan, says Evans
A crash with around 10km to go in today’s Giro d’Italia stage 3 saw race leader Cadel Evans (BMC Racing) caught behind a split in the front group. Despite a hard chase the World champion was unable to close the […]
Giro d’Italia: Weylandt sprints to stage 3 as pink changes hands again
Young Belgian gets back on track Wouter Weylandt (Quick Step) won a scrappy sprint to take stage 3 of the Giro d’Italia between Amsterdam and Middelburg. Graeme Brown (Rabobank) was second with Robert Förster (Milram) third at the end of […]
Giro d’Italia: Farrar wins crash marred stage 2
American builds on his Classics success Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) won stage 2 of the Giro d’Italia between Amsterdam and Utrecht. He beat Matt Goss (HTC-Columbia) and Fabio Sabatini (Liquigas-Doimo) at the end of a 210km stage that was peppered with […]
Giro d’Italia: Wiggins blasts into pink in Giro stage 1
Tour hopeful rides into pink Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky) flew around the stage 1 time trial course in a time of 10’18” to take the victory and first maglia rosa of this year’s Giro d’Italia. The British time trial champion […]
Great Britain women injured in road accident
Riders from the Great Britain women’s team were injured in a road traffic accident between Oudenaarde and Brakel, Belgium this morning. The group of five women was involved in a collision with a car while out training at around 10:30, […]
Napolitano wins Dunkerque stage 2 and takes lead
Danilo Napolitano (Katusha) won the second stage of the Four Days of Dunkerque between Coulongne and Auby in a sprint finish. He beat Juan Jose Haedo (Saxo Bank) and Rafaâ Chtioui (Acqua & Sapone) into second and third at the […]
Garmin-Transitions confirms “versatile” Giro d’Italia team
The US Garmin-Transations team has announced its line-up for the Giro d’Italia, which begins in the Netherlands’ capital Amsterdam on Saturday. Christian Vande Velde returns to the race that last year saw him break five vertebrae, effectively ending his chance […]
Giro d’Italia: Oscar Freire definitely out
Rabobank’s Spanish sprinter Oscar Freire has been the latest rider to confirm his non-participation in the Giro d’Italia, which starts in Amsterdam on Saturday. The three-time World champion has been plagued by sinusitis since last month’s Amstal Gold Race and […]
Giro d’Italia: Cadel Evans starts as number 1
Traditionally, the honour of race dossard number 1 is awarded to the previous year’s winner, but with Rabobank’s Denis Menchov electing to sit out this year’s Giro d’Italia this is not possible. The race organiser RCS Sport has decided to […]
Giro d’Italia: More Liquigas woes as Bennati drops out
The woes of the Liquigas-Doimo team continued today with the loss of star sprinter Daniele Bennati. The Tuscan from Arezzo, to the east of Florence, has not yet recovered from the muscle problem that he sustained while racing in Flanders […]
