Italian Champion, Giovanni Visconti, accused of motorized doping
Team quick to denounce claims made by Amore e Vita founder, Ivano Fanini The controversy surrounding Fabian Cancellara after accusations of motorized doping has beckoned in a new era of distrust in cycling. The Cancellara incident was the first, but […]
Tour de France: Andy Schleck suffers to Mende, but not worried
“There’s no real lesson from today’s stage. I could not have done anything differently.” The possibilities posited by the Tour de France’s two top riders differed greatly ahead of today’s stage finish on the Montee Jalabert. Alberto Contador was weary […]
Tour de France: Garmin's Tyler Farrar bows out and heads home
10 stages with a broken wrist an incredible feat of suffering and endurance After managing to survive ten stages of the Tour de France with a broken wrist, including a day over the cobbles, the Alps, and a number of […]
Dauphine casualties, Michel Kreder and Jean-Christophe Peraud, set to return
Kreder to return at Brixia Tour and Peraud to make comeback in Poland Two riders who were forced to leave June’s Criterium du Dauphine as a result of injury are set to return to racing. Garmin’s young Dutch talent, Michel […]
Rabobank will likely not renew contract with Nick Nuyens
Team manager, Erik Breukink, admits disappointment in Belgian Classics specialist Belgian Nick Nuyens’s stay with Rabobank looks set to end two years after it started. Nuyens moved over to Rabobank from Cofidis with a lot of hope and promise, but […]
Tour de France: Schleck and Contador to resume GC battle in Mende tomorrow?
3.1 km, 10.1% average finishing climb of the Montee Laurent Jalabert should provide fireworks The relative tranquility of the past two transition stages should end tomorrow with the 210.5 kilometer stage starting in Bourg-de-Peage and finishing high above Mende on […]
Tour de France: Bjarne Riis's Saxo Bank troops try to exploit crosswinds
Effort proves ultimately fruitless, but shows that no stage is without its opportunities for Grand Tour hopefuls Ahead of Thursday’s Stage 11, Saxo Bank team manager, Bjarne Riis, had expressed hope that his team would get an easier day en […]
Feillu Brothers to Kim Andersen's team in 2011?
Move to new Luxembourg team a possibility, but Vacansoleil seeking ProTour status as well According to De Telegraaf, Brice Feillu and Romain Feillu are dissatisfied with their Vacansoleil team and wish to move on to greener pastures in 2011. De […]
BMC signs top Belgian climbing talent Yannick Eijssen
Ronde de l’Isard winner opts for Rihs’s team over three other ProTour possibilities Previously, it was presented as a possibility that both Cofidis’s Amael Moinard and Omega Pharma’s Greg Van Avermaet could move to Andy Rihs’s BMC Racing Team in […]
Astana's Enrico Gasparotto breaks collarbone in training
Still hope for a late season comeback While the Tour de France has been the prime stage for battering and breaking riders so far in June, the traditional training time run-ins continue unabated outside of the warring confines of the […]