Three-time Grand Tour winner, Denis Menchov, will resume his 2010 campaign with this week’s five-day stage race, the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon. Menchov has been absent from racing for three weeks now after withdrawing from the Vuelta a Catalunya […]

There isn’t a team in the world like it: Euskaltel-Euskadi. The team serves as an unofficial Basque national team, receives funding from the Basque government, and employs almost entirely native Basques, with star Samuel Sanchez as the notable exception. The […]

The ProTour could be looking to head to Kazakhstan in 2011. Vice-President of the Kazakh Cycling Federation, Nikolai Proskurin, is pushing for a possible spot on the ProTour calendar for the central Asian nation next season via two one-day races. […]

Saxo Bank has a cadre of budding Danish hopefuls in its ranks, from Matti Breschel to Jakob Fuglsang to last year’s Japan Cup winner, Chris Anker Sørensen: Saxo Bank is the home of Danish talent. This May’s Giro d’Italia was […]

Luis Leon Sanchez’s almost perfect start to 2010 continued at the Volta Catalunya this week. The Caisse d’Epargne all-around threat finished 4th, just 45 seconds behind Katusha’s Joaquim Rodriguez and only two seconds off of final podium occupant, Cofidis’ Rein […]

The Redlands Stage Race used to be decided by significant time gaps. There were years where minutes were used to separate the riders on the podium, but in 2010, the race produced arguably the narrowest of separations between 1st and […]

It was only nine days ago that former Danish star and now TV commentator, Rolf Sorensen, directed his attention at the lack of results from Denmark’s superteam, Saxo Bank. Sorensen wasn’t unreasonable in his criticism of the team’s so-so rides […]

In the finale of the E3 Prijs Harelbeke on Saturday, Fabian Cancellara, Tom Boonen, and Juan Antonio Flecha stole the show. Behind, Filippo Pozzato sprinted to 4th place out of the chasing group of six. It was a sterling four-some […]

After a banner 2009 campaign followed a promising debut season in the ProTour ranks the previous year, it should come as no surprise that Tony Martin is being lauded as the next great German. His 2009 was awash in success: […]

It seems that the unlikely coexistence between two of the world’s best sprinters on the same team is just how most had thought it would be: not an easy one. This is an understood fact, but HTC-Columbia has done a […]