Leaked UCI document shows plans of five-year reform for professional cycling
Radical changes to WorldTour teams and calendar proposed by stakeholders committee Radical plans to reshape the upper echelon of professional cycling have been leaked to Italian website Cicloweb.it, with a presentation document showing the apparent International Cycling Union (UCI) intentions […]
New title sponsor for Argos Shimano team, three year deal announced
Identity of new backer not yet confirmed, Shimano stays on board as secondary sponsor Although the Argos oil company was expected to be on board for one more season, Team 1T4i – or, Argos Shimano, as it has been titled […]
Dick Pound receives Play the Game Award for 2013
Former WADA chief honoured for his fight for clean sport Former World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president Dick Pound has received the Play the Game Award for 2013, in recognition of “his uncompromising efforts in the fight for a cleaner and […]
Stage one and two locations released for women’s Tour of Britain
The Tour to include visits to Oundle, Northampton, Hinckley and Bedford next May Following on from the news earlier this month that the planned women’s Tour of Britain has been awarded UCI 2.1 status for year one, more details have […]
Matrix Fitness team announces line up for 2014 with hints of a new main sponsor
Fifth year for British women’s team as it aims at “Women’s Tour” The Matrix Fitness Race Academy has announced its initial rider roster for next season, as the British women’s team enters its fifth year, with what it calls “a […]
Tour of Austria stage winner Seeldraeyers left high and dry for 2014, no offers as yet
Belgian previously took best young rider award in Giro d’Italia and Paris-Nice, hoping for a contract Although he won two stages, took the points and mountains classifications and finished third overall in this year’s Tour of Austria, Kevin Seeldraeyers is […]
German court rules Holczer must have known about doping on Gerolsteiner team
Judge throws out former team manager’s case against Stefan Schumacher Although he long claimed that he was running a clean team at Gerolsteiner and then, after it became clear that several of the riders had doped, insisted he didn’t know […]
UCI president Brian Cookson publishes salary, audit of UCI’s anti doping operations announced
New Independent Commission moves closer, UCI also makes progress in relation to women’s cycling commission Fulfilling a promise he made as part of his election manifesto, UCI president Brian Cookson has announced the salary that he will draw as head […]
Feillu still without a contract for 2014, Frenchman hoping he can continue in cycling
“I know that times are tough and there won’t be place for everyone but I did some great things on the bike” Despite the fact that he won a stage in the Tour de France in 2009, underlining his climbing […]
Copeland switches from MTN Qhubeka to Lampre Merida, will take over as general manager
South African previously worked with the team between 1999 and 2009, pleased to return The Lampre Merida team has made a big change to its management, signing up the South African Brent Copeland as its new team manager. The 41 […]
