Impatient Hovelijnck returns to racing in Mallorca
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 […]
Omega Pharma-Lotto ready to bounce back after Evans loss
Omega Pharma-Lotto was presented in Belgium earlier this week. Its season was off to a bad start when Cadel Evans decided to unexpectedly leave the team and join the BMC squad. But the Belgian team has several other key riders they […]
Will the Schlecks double in the 2010 Tour de France?
Fränk Schleck thinks he can win the Tour de France this year. He isn’t the only one, as brother Andy also believes his older brother is capable of winning the three-week Grand Tour in France. To make things more complicated, […]
Dutch ex-racers record Tour song
Dutch ex-racers Leontien van Moorsel, Michael Boogerd and Joop Zoetemelk are recording a Tour de France song next week. The trio is helping to get the Tour off to a good start in their native Netherlands. The prologue will take […]
Dutch ex-racers record Tour song
Dutch ex-racers Leontien van Moorsel, Michael Boogerd and Joop Zoetemelk are recording a Tour de France song next week. The trio is helping to get the Tour off to a good start in their native Netherlands. The prologue will take […]
Albert redeems himself
After his disappointing World Championships, which he abandoned, Niels Albert came back strong and won the Parkcross in Maldegem, Belgium. He beat Belgians Kevin Pauwels, Bart Wellens and Sven Nys. Newly crowned World Champion Zdenek Stybar finished in seventh place. […]
Cardoso ready to jump on winning bandwagon
Manuel Cardoso is ready for a big season, after taking out the race of his life at the Tour Down Under, where he won stage three. The Portuguese elite road champion is now getting ready for the Challenge Mallorca and […]
Rasmussen and Mørkøv beat home duo in Berlin
The Berlin Six Days ended with the win of World Champions Axel Rasmussen and Michael Mørkøv ahead of Robert Bartko and Roger Kluge (Germany). The Danes crossed the line 50 meters ahead of Bartko/Kluge, who had come agonizingly close to […]
Bozic wins first Bessèges stage
Borut Bozic gave Vacansoleil the first victory of 2010 when he won the bunch sprint of the first stage in the Etoile de Bessèges. Bozic won after 146 kilometers ahead of Nico Eeckhout, according to wielerupdate.nl. Arnaud Molmy was third. […]
Vos becomes World Champion again
Dutchwoman Marianne Vos won her third World Championships title in cyclocross, when she beat Hanka Kupfernagel and Daphny van den Brand in Sunday’s elite women’s race. Vos rode away from the others in lap two of the five-lap race and […]
