Tom Boonen is back to his desert winning ways, taking the third stage of the Tour of Qatar in dominating fashion. With a huge gear, the Belgian propelled himself past Heinrich Haussler and Baden Cooke. A crash on the finishing […]

Sven Nys is still going strong as the cyclocross season nears its end and with a late attack he surprised the five-man lead group to win the Superprestige  in Zonhoven, Belgium. Niels Albert managed only fifth place. World Champion Zdenek […]

Andy Schleck was scheduled to start his season today at the Challenge Mallorca. Instead, the Luxemburger is on his way home and nursing a knee injury, which he hopes he caught early enough as not to cause further problems down […]

Robbie McEwen won the opening race for the Mallorca Challenge, the Trofeo Palma, ahead of Koldo Fernández and Oscar Freire. André Schulz was fourth, ahead of Manuel Cardoso, winner of  a stage in the Tour Down Under. The race was fast with […]

Team Sky continued its good debut season with a win in the opening team time trial of the Tour of Qatar. The British squad beat the Cervélo Testteam by eight seconds over the 8.2-kilometer course. Garmin was third, also eight […]

Italian National team coach Franco Ballerini died Sunday morning in an accident while participating in the Rally Ronde di Larciano in Tuscany. He was 45 years old. La Gazzetta dello Sport reported that Ballerini was the co-pilot for Alessandro Ciardi. Cardi came […]

Power sprinter Niko Eeckhout (An Post-Sean Kelly) took the final stage of the Etoile de Bessèges stage race, ahead of Valentin Iglinskiy and Hans Dekkers. A tenth place in the 145-kilometer stage was enough for Samuel Dumoulin to take the […]

Gerald Ciolek had a disappointing 2009 but is hoping to make an impact in this year’s Classics. A day before the travel to the Tour of Qatar, Ciolek went to Belgium together with teammates Servais Knaven, Roy Sentjens, Niki Terpstra […]

Luis León Sánchez is looking forward to the Mallorca Challenge, where the Caisse d’Epargne rider wants to continue to build his form that saw him finish second in the Tour Down Under. Surprisingly, the 2009 Paris-Nice winner will not defend […]

Kurt Hovelijnck of Quick Step has recovered from his bad crash in the spring of last year and will be racing for the first time in 11 months at the Mallorca Challenge, which starts on Sunday. The Belgian is quite […]