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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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: […]

2009 San Dimas Stage Race winner, Ben Day, managed to duplicate the feat Sunday afternoon after a strong effort by his Fly V Australia team resulted in a finish safely in the main field in Sunday’s criterium. Day took the […]