Erwin Vervecken will cap his illustrious career at the end of this cross season, in February of 2010. He will have an official good-bye race on February 27, three days after the indoor cross race in Hasselt ends the 2009/2010 […]

The reactions to the road ambitions of Niels Albert have been mixed. His BKCP-Powerplus team is fully supporting him in the plans, as it also looks to push into the road sector. BKCP-Powerplus already hired Enrico Franzoi (Liquigas), who has […]

Ryder Hesjedal for the men and Catharine Pendrel for the women won the award of the Canadian cyclist of the year 2009. The voting was hosted by CanadianCyclist.com. In addition, Hesjedal took the Rider of the Decade award. His triumph […]

Sylvain Chavanel will ride all the major Classics in April 2010. His program includes the Ronde van Vlaanderen, Paris-Roubaix, the Amstel Gold Race and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. “This way I have an important race every week in April,” the Frenchman told L’Equipe. […]

Sven Nys won an exciting finale today against his eternal rivals Zdenek Stybar and Niels Albert. In heavy snow fall, a slip by Nys in the last lap reduced his three-second gap to zero, but he continued to lead. With […]

Bruno Risi and Franco Marvulli won the Zurich Six Days in their native Switzerland, one lap ahead of Germans Leif Lampater and Christian Grasmann. Swiss riders Alexander Aeschbach/Tristan Marguet closed out the podium spots. It was Risi’s 60th Six Days […]

The Milram team with all its 24 riders is currently doing a tough program on Mallorca. Sessions are up to six hours long, with different groups building, depending on season planning. One faction will have to get going sooner than […]

Ezequiel Mosquera was honored in his home region in Teo, Galicia, this weekend, where a sports pavilion was named after him. With three top five places in the last the Vueltas a España, he was recognized for his athletic achievements […]

Track rider Bruno Risi calls it quits after 18 years as a professional and the crowd gave him en emotional good-bye yesterday in the next to last night of the Zurich Six Days. Risi’s career started in 1991 and if […]

Nery Felipe Velásquez, the winner of the Vuelta a Guatemala in October, tested positive for Boldenone, an anabolic steroid. The sample was analyzed by a lab in Canada and was the only one of the ten samples taken that showed […]