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Swiss Olympic time-trial champion Fabian Cancellara won the Tour of Switzerland on Sunday after winning the ninth and final stage of the race here, a 38.5 kilometres time-trial. The 28-year-old beat Germany’s Tony Martin – winner of Saturday’s penultimate stage […]

Columbia-High Road managed to win another stage in the Tour de Suisse today, this time with German Tony Martin. And if winning six of the eight stages isn’t impressive enough, they have managed to accomplish this feat with five riders […]

Belgian cycling star Tom Boonen has escaped the threat of criminal charges from a first positive test for cocaine, in May 2008, despite a second positive test in April, local media claimed Saturday. However the former world champion and winner […]

Team Columbia-High Road has been on fire all season long, and today Italian Marco Pinotti added to the team’s win tally of 42 defending his Italian time trial champion title bringing the team’s win total to 43. This is the […]

Cyclists in next month’s Tour de France are to be banned from wearing radio-link headphones as an experimental safety measure, event organisers said on Friday. The measure, affecting just two stages in the 2009 event – Limoges-Issoudun (July 14) and […]

Luxembourg’s Kim Kirchen won the seventh stage of the Tour of Switzerland, a 204 kilometre ride from Bad Zurzach to here on Friday. Last year’s winner, Czech rider Roman Kreuziger was second over the line and Germany’s Linus Gerdemann third. […]

Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde has appealed against a doping ban imposed by Italian authorities last month, world sport’s top court said on Friday. The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) last month banned Valverde from racing in Italy for two years due […]

Belgian Tom Boonen and his Quick Step team are to contest his ban from the Tour de France by the race organisers ASO (Amaury Sport Organisation) they announced on Friday. The 28-year-old three-time Paris-Roubaix winner had been barred by ASO […]

Astana on Friday named six of the nine riders who will battle for overall and stage glory in next month’s Tour de France, where Alberto Contador of Spain will start as the yellow jersey favourite. Contador, the 2007 champion, will […]

Dutch cycling great Steven Rooks became the latest former cyclist to confess to taking EPO in a book released this week. The 48-year-old – second in the 1988 Tour de France when he won the classic Alpe d’Huez stage – […]