Still ready to tackle the Clásica de San Sebastián Saturday Euskaltel-Euskadi’s Samuel Sánchez raced the final days of the Tour de France with a fissure in his right hand. The injury is unlikely to change his race schedule, to resume […]

Several weeks of rehab ahead – teammate Amorison luckier Landbouwkrediet rider Bert De Waele is recovering after he had a knee surgery on Wednesday. De Waele crashed hard in the Tour of Belgium, making a surgery necessary. Sporza reported that […]

Final day’s stage win gives Downing the edge over Marcato Russel Downing of the British Sky team has won the overall classification of the Tour of Wallonia (July 24-28). In each of the five stages the stage winner also took […]

Rides over 15km on mini bike with toe clips to reach spare bike Jens Voigt crashed hard on Tuesday’s stage, in the descent of the Col de Peyresourde. With the team cars long gone and his front tire exploded, the […]

Spaniard confident in podium battle against Menchov Samuel Sánchez and his Basque Euskaltel-Euskadi teammates took a well deserved rest day in Pau today. Sánchez hopes to defend himself well in tomorrow’s grueling stage 17 up to the Col du Tourmalet […]

Injured Clement happy with support; Moerenhout was with team since 1996 Two changes in the Rabobank team were announced today. Stef Clement extended his contract with the Dutch team for one year, while its veteran rider Koos Moerenhout will end […]

Belgian hopes to avoid bad day in final mountain stage Jurgen van den Broeck is now openly stating his goal of a top five finish in this year’s Tour de France. With one tough mountain stage and a 50-kilometer time […]

Confident Luxemburger thinks one minute over Contador is enough ahead of time trial Andy Schleck is doing everything he can to still win this year’s Tour de France. That included to keep in a rhythm during the rest day by […]

Final hilly stage is good terrain for Spaniard Sergio Pardilla won the Vuelta Ciclista Madrid, a two-day, three-stage race in and around the Spanish capital. Pardilla used the final, hilly, 132km stage to dislodge prologue winner Gustav Erik Larsson from […]

Battle for green jersey continues in Revel Rolf Aldag, the directeur sportif of the HTC Columbia team, had said on German television that after the ejection of lead-out man Mark Renshaw, the team would not work to bring the breaks […]