It wasn’t all good news for the BMC Racing team today at la Flèche Wallonne.  While World champion Cadel Evans was celebrating his victory atop the Mur de Huy, his teammate Karsten Kroon was on his way to hospital with […]

Emma Pooley (Cervélo TestTeam) won the Flèche Wallonne Femmes, the fourth round of the Women’s World Cup, after attacking on the steepest section of the Mur de Huy. Pooley beat compatriot Nicole Cooke (Great Britain) in a British 1-2, denying […]

Quick Step rider Dries Devenyns has declared himself fit to ride Wednesday’s Flèche Wallonne, despite being taken to hospital after a crash in the Amstel Gold Race on Sunday. “I’m still a little stiff in the muscles of my neck, […]

After winning the Amstel Gold Race, the only counting race this week, Philippe Gilbert (OmegaPharma-Lotto) has jumped from sixth to third in the UCI’s “World Rankings”. Ranking leader Luis Leon Sanchez and World Number 1 Alejandro Valverde (both Caisse d’Epargne) […]

Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d’Epargne) is a rider whose characteristics are well suited to the classics of the Ardennes, the Amstel Gold Race, la Flèche Wallonne and Liege-Bastogne-Liege. The controversial Spanish rider approaches the races after two stage wins and finishing […]

André Greipel (HTC-Columbia) won his third stage of this year’s Tour of Turkey between Denizli and Fethiye. The big German outsprinted Mattia Gavazzi (Colnago-CSF Inox) and Kenny Van Hummel (Skil-Shimano) into second and third after 221km. The longest stage of […]

Theo Bos (Cervélo TestTeam) won the 209.9km second stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y León between Burgos and Carrion de los Condes. For the second day in succession the former track sprint, kilo and Keirin World champion outsprinted Graeme […]

Two crashes in Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix have put a temporary stop to the spring campaign of two-time Ronde van Vlaanderen winner Stijn Devolder of Quick Step. An injury to his left knee, sustained in one of those crashes, means that the […]

Robert Gesink will lead the Dutch Rabobank team to its home classic, the Amstel Gold, on Sunday. The 23-year-old will be hoping to improve on his third place of last year, building on the good form he showed in last […]

Giovanni Visconti (ISD-Neri) won the 166km stage 3 of the Tour of Turkey between Bodrum and Marmaris. The former Italian champion was the fastest of an audacious breakaway group of five riders that escaped on the final climb with 10km […]