Double Tour de France winner Alberto Contador will return to racing this weekend when he lines out in criteriums in Oviedo and Alcobendas. While he focuses on those objectives, he said that he is leaving it to his lawyers to […]

Having made a fine debut season with the Saxo Bank team, the former mountain bike rider Jakob Fuglsang has signed up for another three years with the Danish squad. “I am enormously grateful for the perspective that the extension with […]

Twelve months ago, Ivan Basso made his return to racing after a long doping suspension when he lined out in the Japan Cup. Then, the Italian finished third behind Damiano Cunego (Lampre) and Giovanni Visconti, getting his career back on […]

German ProTour team Milram had a disappointing season in 2009, winning less than ten races and finishing eighteenth in the final rankings of the UCI World Calendar. The team will have to rely on wildcard invites to several major races […]

It’s still uncertain as to whether the Astana team will retain its ProTour licence and, with it, the services of Tour de France champion Alberto Contador. A ruling from the UCI is expected in the near future; in the meantime, […]

Australia’s push to return to the top of track cycling took a boost yesterday when Cycling Australia announced the launch of a five-rider professional track team, to be based in the Adelaide Superdrome. Titled Team Jayco and sponsored by the […]

Almost a year ago Team Saxo Bank’s owner Bjarne Riis learned that the secondary sponsor he had lined up, IT Factory, had collapsed. The company was a victim of fraud by its CEO Stein Bagger, who was sentenced to seven […]

He has raced very little this season due to a dispute with his former team Katusha, but Gert Steegmans can lay claim to reaching the highest speeds of in the European peloton. The Belgian sprinter clocked up a staggering 134 […]

British Olympic champions Bradley Wiggins and Rebecca Romero are amongst a growing group of riders who have serious concerns about the UCI and IOC plans to overhaul track cycling. The UCI announced in recent weeks that it was studying its […]

Alberto Contador has been very quiet since winning the Tour de France in July, but the Spaniard was in action on Saturday in the Gran Premio Cancun races in Mexico. The Astana rider beat his compatriots Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d’Epargne) […]