Pro Continental team impresses in first big race Colombia-Coldeportes got off to a solid start on Saturday in Italy, after putting two riders in the main breakaway in the Monte Paschi Strade Bianche, and finishing with Jarlinson Pantano in 12th […]

Emerging Saur-Sojasun team all in for their leader After winning the time trial and the overall in February’s Etoile de Bessèges, as well as taking third overall in the Vuelta a Andalucia, Jérôme Coppel (Saur-Sojasun) is ready for an assault […]

Haedo, Navarro protected riders for the first big stage race Team Saxo Bank rides Paris-Nice as preparation for most of its Classics riders, including Nick Nuyens, but the team also heads to the Race to the Sun with its own […]

Australian squad rolling out with two young sprinters, Gerrans as well While it won’t have a rider who is likely to contend for the overall classification, GreenEdge begins Paris-Nice on Sunday with a stage win in mind.  The Australian team […]

Greipel frustrated with poor positioning in sprint finale, capping rough weekend for Lotto-Belisol Though several breakaways gave it a shot, Sunday’s Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne once again came down to the expected sprint finish, which Mark Cavendish (Sky Procycling) took ahead of Yauheni […]

Belgian veteran ultra-aggressive as usual for Sean Kelly’s team Niko Eeckhout (An Post-Sean Kelly) was the 120th rider to cross the finish line at the end of the Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne semi-classic, but the 41-year-old Belgian spent nearly the entirety of the […]

Frenchman working with Boonen, trying to extend his team’s winning ways French veteran Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) comes off of a 15th overall in the Tour of Oman and takes to the narrow, cobbled roads of Belgium on Saturday, […]

Dane taking on leadership for new team in early Semi-Classic With Philippe Gilbert no longer on the team, and with Jürgen Roelandts sidelined after an early-season crash, Lars Bak (Lotto-Belisol) finds himself in a position of leadership in his new […]

Danish rider hoping to develop rhythm with Garmin-Barracuda sprinter Garmin-Barracuda signed Alex Rasmussen to help eat up long, flat kilometers, to ride a solid time trial, and eventually to help lead out its sprint star Tyler Farrar.  Rasmussen knows his […]

Mixed emotions for confident French team after Voeckler fails to repeat At the conclusion of the Tour du Haut Var, with Sunday’s stage two being the most difficult day of racing to date in 2012, French team Europcar commented on […]