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With this year’s Giro d’Italia starting in the Netherlands’ capital Amsterdam, the Dutch teams may have been hoping for a favour from the race’s organiser RCS Sport. It was not to be though, and the country’s sole representative at the […]

British Tour de France hope Bradley Wiggins has been forced to withdraw from the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya due to illness, and consequently will lose out on the chance to chase his first win of the year in today’s prologue. […]

It seems that the unlikely coexistence between two of the world’s best sprinters on the same team is just how most had thought it would be: not an easy one. This is an understood fact, but HTC-Columbia has done a […]

Caisse d’Epargne rider Alejandro Valverde has come out and denied reports in the Spanish press that in the recent hearings before the Court of Arbitration in Sport (CAS) regarding his Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) ban in Italy, he accused […]

Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) failed to match his 2005 win yesterday at Milano-Sanremo, but he came away impressed, impressed with his form and with the power of winner Oscar Freire (Rabobank). “A ‘grande campione’ won today,” Petacchi told La Gazzetta […]

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 […]

Italian Daniele Bennati finished off Liquigas-Doimo’s work in Milano-Sanremo yesterday, but unfortunately, he did not have enough to stop the surge of Oscar Freire. He started the sprint first after a lead-out by team-mate Daniel Oss, but ended the day, […]

Cofidis’s Leonardo Duque succeeded Saxo Bank’s 2009 winner, fellow South American JJ Haedo, when he reached the line first in a bunch sprint at the early season French classic, the 1.1 ranked Cholet-Pays de Loire. The soon to be 30 […]

Paul Martens was a crucial link in the Rabobank chain that gave the win to the team’s captain, Oscar Freire, in yesterday’s Milano-Sanremo. Martens was at the side of his leader until the end and rolled over the line in […]

Newly crowned World Champion Cadel Evans (BMC Racing) has joined the long distinguished list of cyclists who have won the “Mendrisio d’Oro” trophy for his outstanding achievements during the 2009 cycling season. The “Mendrisio d’Oro” award is handed out annually […]