Sky ink new three year deal with Pinarello, collaboration continues
Italian bike brand has helped team to notch up two Tour de France wins plus over 130 other races After some degree of media and fan speculation about what bikes they will be using from 2014 onwards, the Sky Procycling […]
Tour of Portugal winner Marque to step up to WorldTour with Movistar
Galician rider has spent ten years with smaller Portuguese teams Securing a place in the WorldTour after he won the 2013 Volta a Portugal, Galician rider Alex Marque has been announced as the newest signing for the Movistar team. The […]
Cancellara gets important reinforcements with six RadioShack riders moving across to new Trek team
Devolder, Irizar, Popovych, Rast, Roulston and Sergent to remain alongside Swiss rider The odds of Fabian Cancellara being able to achieve his big Classic goals next have improved with the announcement that the new Trek team has signed up six […]
RadioShack Leopard appeals Horner jersey loss, but team and rider ultimately accept result
“The gap on the photo finish was 1.01 seconds…there is no discussion” Although two US commentators, some journalists and a number of fans cried foul immediately after the stage, both the deposed race leader Chris Horner and his RadioShack Leopard […]
Bauke Mollema overcomes a day of bad luck to stay in Vuelta a España contention
Dutchman delayed by a crash and a mechanical but still finishes with the favourites Bauke Mollema (Belkin) overcame a day of bad luck in the third stage of the Vuelta a España, recovering from both being caught behind a crash […]
Sky: Henao’s problem on stage two was lack of food
Designated team leader was angry after giving up time to his rivals Dropped on yesterday’s final climb and appearing at first to be out of shape, the Sky team have said that their leader for the Vuelta a España, Sergio […]
Vuelta a España: Chris Horner climbs into the red jersey on the Mirador de Lobeira
Late attack sees American veteran become oldest ever Grand Tour stage winner and take overall lead Chris Horner (RadioShack-Leopard) seized the overall lead in the 2013 Vuelta a España with a final kilometre attack in the third stage between Vigo […]
Nicolas Roche Interview: “There’s a long way to go. I want to keep my head cool and not get overexcited”
Irishman speaks of relief of winning first stage in his eleventh Grand Tour, remains fixed on top five finish in GC Looking ahead after having what he termed ‘the best day of his life,’ and winning his first Grand Tour […]
McQuaid and Cookson to present manifestos to European Cycling Union delegates in open assembly
National federations will give thoughts to delegates in Zurich meeting on September 15th Twelve days before the UCI Congress on September 27th, incumbent president Pat McQuaid and his sole challenger Brian Cookson will present their electoral programmes at the exceptional […]
Froome non finisher in USA Pro Challenge, has one month to hit top form for worlds
Briton had said worlds road race was big end of season goal An quiet performance for Team Sky at the USA Pro Challenge ended yesterday with Ian Boswell being best of the team in 52nd place overall, and Tour de […]
