Double stage winner in last year’s Giro d’Italia, Michele Scarponi, will lead the Androni Giocattoli team in this year’s race, which begins in Amsterdam this Saturday. The 30 year old won stages six and eighteen in last year’s event, several […]

The Liquigas team of Franco Pellizotti, who yesterday was named as one of three riders under investigation by the UCI in relation to possible doping, has floated the possibility of taking legal action over the matter. The team issued a […]

Team Saxo Bank rider Chris Anker Sørensen is hoping to use the Giro d’Italia to ride into form, saying that he will go for a stage win if he gets the necessary condition during the race. The talented young Dane […]

Team Saxo Bank owner Bjarne Riis would often be expected to be at the start of major races such as this coming weekend’s Giro d’Italia, but the Dane will give the opening stages a miss. He’s got good reason to […]

Thanks to his victory in yesterday’s Tour de Romandie, the Caisse d’Epargne leader Alejandro Valverde has moved to the top slot in the UCI’s world rankings. Valverde takes over from the Belgian Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto), who previously assumed the […]

Almost a month after suspending former world champion Alessandro Ballan and Mauro Santambrogio from racing due to their links with an Italian anti-doping investigation, the BMC Racing Team has cleared the latter for a return to competition. The squad announced […]

British rider Jonathan Bellis is set to make his comeback to racing in less than two month’s time, continuing his long fight back to full fitness. The 21 year old suffered a near-fatal accident last September when he crashed on […]

Mark Cavendish has backtracked on an explicit gesture he made at the finish of yesterday’s second stage of the Tour of Romandie, where he wheeled across the finish line holding two fingers up. The gesture, which in Britain and several […]

Currently sitting second overall in the GC at the Tour de Romandie, HTC Columbia’s Marco Pinotti has the chance to take his second stage win of the 2010 event when he lines out in Friday’s time trial. The Italian has […]

Following a strong 17th place in Liège-Bastogne-Liège plus 25th in the Amstel Gold, Fabian Wegmann will continue his return from a broken collarbone in Saturday’s Eschborn-Frankfurt City loop, formerly known as the Rund um den Henninger-Turm. Twelve months ago Wegmann […]