Sanne Cant overcomes the British challenge to also go two from two Sven Nys (Crelan-KDL) yet again emphasised his status as “Mister Superprestige” with a hard-fought victory in the Aspere-Gavere race, which capped a perfect weekend for the World champion. […]
Radical changes to WorldTour teams and calendar proposed by stakeholders committee Radical plans to reshape the upper echelon of professional cycling have been leaked to Italian website Cicloweb.it, with a presentation document showing the apparent International Cycling Union (UCI) intentions […]
Fourth victory in a month for emerging Lotto-Belisol sprinter Jens Debusschere (Lotto-Belisol) took his fourth victory in less than a month as he won the Nationale Sluitingsprijs, in Putte-Kapellen, to officially bring the 2013 Belgian road season to a close. […]
Danish champion pays credit to his team as he is edged out by John Degenkolb Michael Mørkøv (Saxo-Tinkoff) proclaimed himself “very happy” with his second place in Paris-Tours despite being well beaten by John Degenkolb (Argos-Shimano). The Danish champion did […]
Italian rider speaks of warm reception from fans and team strategy for today’s Classic When Marco Pinotti rolled back in the direction of the BMC Racing Team bus after signing on this morning, he rode through a corridor of Italian […]
World champion and Tour de Wallonie winner head to Spanish Classic with confidence Philippe Gilbert and Greg Van Avermaet will be joint leaders of the BMC Racing Team in Saturday’s Clásica San Sebastián, the first big race to follow the […]
Movistar captain bouyed by form ahead of next weekend’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) recorded his best ever finish in the Amstel Gold Race today, as he sprinted to second place behind winner Roman Kreuziger (Saxo-Tinkoff). The Murcian rider was part […]
Anglo-German ProConti team “delighted” with invitations to Tirreno-Adriatico and il Lombardia NetApp-Endura was not one of the three teams to receive wildcard invitations to this year’s Giro d’Italia, as announced by RCS Sport today, despite what the team referred to […]
Safety, traffic disruption and TV coverage the main motivators, and fans events to follow The International Cycling Union (UCI) confirmed yesterday that it had consented to the moving of Milano-Sanremo and Il Lombardia to Sundays in 2013. The two Classic […]
Colombia, MTN-Qhubeka and Team Type 1 confirmed as ProConti; WorldTour registration to wait until December 10th The International Cycling Union (UCI) has confirmed that it has accepted the request from race organiser RCS Sport to break with more than a […]
Italian outpaces Laurens De Vreese and Niki Terpstra after an attacking day in the Sprinters’ Classic Marco Marcato (Vacansoleil-DCM) took victory in the 2012 edition of Paris-Tours, as the breakaway artists had their day again in the Sprinters’ Classic. The […]
Colombian jumps away in the final kilometre to take seventh victory in debut season at the top level After the success of Carlos Betancur the previous year, Nairo Quintana (Movistar) became only the second Colombian to win the Giro dell’Emilia […]
French champion taking aim at the Sprinters’ Classic Nacer Bouhanni (FDJ-BigMat) is looking to end his season in style, with victory in tomorrow’s Paris-Tours. The race, known as “the Sprinters’ Classic” – as well as sharing the nickname “the Race […]
Belgian ends the season as he started it; operation necessary Jürgen Roelandts (Lotto-Belisol) has ended the 2012 season as he started it, suffering a fracture. The latest is a busted collarbone incurred in a crash in Binche-Tournai-Binche/Memorial Frank Vandenbroucke. The […]
British sprinter finds late-season form to give himself a belated birthday present Adam Blythe (BMC Racing) took a belated 23nd birthday present, a he won a rainy edition of Binche-Tournai-Binche/Memorial Frank Vandenbroucke as he outsprinted the remains of the depleted […]
Belgian glad about rain, says ‘the legs will decide’ the winner There may be several big contenders in the running as the peloton speeds towards this afternoon’s conclusion of Il Lombardia, but all eyes are on one rider in particular: […]
No Philippe Gilbert but many of Sunday’s animators as the race returns after five-year absence Philippe Gilbert himself might not be riding – since his BMC Racing Team is not on the list of attendees – but tomorrow’s Milano-Torino peloton […]
Frenchman escapes a select group in the final kilometre to win race in Namur’s citadel Julien Simon (Saur-Sojasun) took his fifth, and arguably most prestigious, victory of the season as he escaped a select breakaway group in the final kilometre […]
