Frenchman quickest in bunch gallop into Hamburg World under 23 champion Arnaud Démare got the better of older, more experienced competitors in yesterday’s Vattenfall Cyclassics in Hamburg, the FDJ-BigMat rider beating Andrei Greipel (Lotto Belisol), Giacomo Nizzolo (RadioShack-Nissan), Tom Boonen […]
Dreaded climb back after 50 years in 251km course between Bergamo and Lecco Race organiser RCS Sport has announced the route of this years il Lombardia – previously known as the Giro de Lombardia – which will be raced on […]
Race of the falling leaves to pay tribute to two-time winner with its earlier date The moving of the Giro di Lombardia – or ‘il Lombardia’ as it is now officially called – forward two weeks was not popular with […]
Best Irish Classics performance in two decades nets ninth in UCI WorldTour rankings Daniel Martin secured the best Irish Classics performance since Sean Kelly won the 1992 Milan-Sanremo, with today’s runner-up slot in the Giro di Lombardia showing that he […]
Dutch climber aiming high on a wave of post Vuelta form Bauke Mollema will start tomorrow’s il Lombardia as the leader of the Rabobank team, with the 24-year-old Dutch climber looking to capitalise on the good form that he has […]
Ivan Basso and Vincenzo Nibali to race together to close season Ivan Basso and Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) will act as co-captains on the road as their Italian squad closes out its season at tomorrow’s Giro di Lombardia. While it has […]
Third straight victory would put Belgian champion up there with the Italian greats, but is feeling the fatigue of a long season Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) will start tomorrow’s il Lombardia with the aim of taking a third straight victory […]
Italian champ Giovanni Visconti leads team in his last race for Italian squad For Giovanni Visconti (Farnese-Vini), tomorrow’s Giro di Lombardia marks his last race with the Farnese-Vini team prior to a move to Movistar for 2012. The team will […]
Triple winner hoping form comes good for tomorrow’s big clash Last year’s runner-up Michele Scarponi has been forced to cancel his planned participation in this year’s Giro di Lombardia due to illness; consequently, the Lampre-ISD team will throw its full […]
24-year-old Saxo Bank-SunGard rider now looking forward to il Lombardia on familiar roads Eighth place in the GranPiemonte represents the best result of André Steensen’s career so far. The Danish rider, who only turned 24 years old on the day […]
Belgian team banking on Sylvain Chavanel, Dries Devenyns and Dario Cataldo in race of the falling leaves Quick Step will be starting Saturday’s il Lombardia with the three-headed attack of Sylvain Chavanel, Dries Devenyns and Dario Cataldo. The Frenchman, Belgian […]
GranPiemonte winner credits his team and looks forward to il Lombardia on Saturday Victory in today’s GranPiemonte – formerly known as the Giro del Piemonte – is the third, and biggest, of Dani Moreno’s season so far. The Katusha rider […]
Vuelta stage winner the best of a fourteen-man group; outsprints Van Avermaet and own teammate Paolini Daniel Moreno (Katusha) was the best of a fourteen-man group that contested the sprint at the end of the Gran Piemonte, between Piasco and […]
Belgian climber ends his 2011 season to avoid recurrence of old injury Jelle Vanendert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) has decided against taking the start of both today’s Gran Piemonte and Saturday’s Il Lombardia because of an irritation to his knee, according to […]
Dutchman to join 1t4i as sports director after 12 years serving others in the peloton Addy Engels (Quick Step) will retire from professional cycling in the Sluitingsprijs – the closing race of the Belgian season – in Putte-Kapellen tomorrow. The […]
The race of the falling leaves comes forward to allow specialists to capitalise on Worlds form; Tour of Beijing to become WorldTour finale Il Lombardia, as the Giro di Lombardia has become known, will move forward in the calendar next […]
Philippe Gilbert assured of final victory with only Lombardia remaining Overall victory in the inaugural Tour of Beijing lifts World time trial champion Tony Martin (HTC-Highroad) into the top ten of the overall International Cycling Union (UCI) WorldTour standings. The […]
Belgian Classics team sending a squad of attackers for shortened Avenue de Grammont finishing straight Quick Step is one team that is banking on the new finish to Sunday’s Paris-Tours race disrupting the sprinters enough to allow a breakaway to […]
