Team looking to be competitive from the Classics to the Grand Tours Life as a Professional Continental team from the Netherlands hasn’t been particularly fruitful in 2010. Both Skil-Shimano and Vacansoleil have missed out on critical wild card invites throughout […]

Alberto Contador’s team are top earners, Footon-Servetto lowest Unsurprisingly, the team of Tour de France winner Alberto Contador, Astana, finished the Tour de France as the highest earning team in the 2010 Grand Boucle. The largest chunk of the money […]

Two Tour de France success stories set their sights on the Tour of Spain Following hugely successful Tours de France by two very different riders, it looks likely that both Mark Cavendish and Denis Menchov will be headed to the […]

27-year-old Van den Broeck first since Criquielion in 1986 to finish in the top five With 27-year-old Jurgen Van den Broeck’s 5th place overall finish in Paris, 6 minutes and 54 seconds behind three-time winner Alberto Contador, he became the […]

Petacchi follows in the footsteps of Franco Bitossi….42 years later. Alessandro Petacchi finally accomplished the trifecta of points jerseys at all three Grand Tours with his 2nd place on the Champs Elysees today. Coming in second behind Cavendish was more […]

Former cyclocross world champion prefers to see Dutch team focus on Dutch talent The future of Danish top one-day prospect, Matti Breschel, seems very much in the air. The 2009 Danish National Champion has been linked with various teams over […]

German ProTour team’s woeful Tour continues The Tour that can’t end soon enough continued in Bordeaux for Germany’s only remaining, and soon to be extinct, ProTour team on Friday. The embattled team, which is still desperately searching for a 2011 […]

Admits that Tour de France victory could be a difficult goal Former racer and ex-Telekom/T-Mobile manager, Walter Godefroot, weighed in with his thoughts on this year’s Tour de France in a candid chat with Sporza following the conclusion of the […]

Three-time Tour de France champion: “What I want now is rest.” After finishing a comfortable 31 seconds in front of arch-rival Andy Schleck in Bordeaux, the tears of happiness and relief flowed from the soon to be five-time Grand Tour […]

Saxo Bank manager happy with Schleck’s ride After a thrilling time trial from the two best riders at the this year’s Tour de France, Andy Schleck came up just a little bit short. Schleck lost 31 seconds to an ailing […]