Giro champion training on volcano ahead of Tour de France bid Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Cannondale) needed fifteen stitches to facial wounds yesterday, after he crashed while descending Mount Etna in Sicily. The 2010 Giro d’Italia winner has skipped his national tour […]
Manx Missile fires again to take sprint victory in Teramo Mark Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) has proved once more that you write him off at your peril, taking a dominant sprint victory in the Giro d’Italia’s tenth stage between Termoli and Teramo. […]
Controversy hits the race as sprinters point fingers at one another There was controversy amongst the sprinters at the start of the Giro d’Italia’s tenth stage in Termoli this morning, according to la Gazzetta dello Sport, as stage six winner […]
HTC Highroad directeur sportif Valerio Piva was a satisfied man at the finish of stage ten of the Giro d’Italia. The team had just picked up its second stage win of this year’s race thanks to Mark Cavendish’s speed into […]
‘Everyone is going to attack’ Having taken the Maglia Rosa on Sunday, two full weeks before the end of the race, Giro d’Italia leader Alberto Contador appears willing to let it pass to a rider from another team. “We’ll have […]
Rejects Ventoso allegations about Etna stage Netting the sixth Giro stage win of his career, Mark Cavendish this evening underlined the importance of his victory ahead of Fran Ventoso and Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-ISD) on the crowd-thronged streets of Teramo. “It […]
Giro champion training on volcano ahead of Tour de France bid Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Cannondale) needed fifteen stitches to facial wounds yesterday, after he crashed while descending Mount Etna in Sicily. The 2010 Giro d’Italia winner has skipped his national tour […]
Manx Missile fires again to take sprint victory in Teramo Mark Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) has proved once more that you write him off at your peril, taking a dominant sprint victory in the Giro d’Italia’s tenth stage between Termoli and Teramo. […]
Controversy hits the race as sprinters point fingers at one another There was controversy amongst the sprinters at the start of the Giro d’Italia’s tenth stage in Termoli this morning, according to la Gazzetta dello Sport, as stage six winner […]
Belgian couldn’t make it into break on Sunday Stage seven winner Bart de Clercq lost his green mountains jersey on Sunday’s stage to Mount Etna, but said that all going to plan, he will attack again and try to do […]
‘Everyone is going to attack’ Having taken the Maglia Rosa on Sunday, two full weeks before the end of the race, Giro d’Italia leader Alberto Contador appears willing to let it pass to a rider from another team. “We’ll have […]
Belgian couldn’t make it into break on Sunday Stage seven winner Bart de Clercq lost his green mountains jersey on Sunday’s stage to Mount Etna, but said that all going to plan, he will attack again and try to do […]
Believes runner-up slot on Mount Etna shows he can fight for podium finish It’s been a long time coming, but yesterday’s stage to Mount Etna closed a six year gap and finally saw Jose Rujano return to the form which […]
French rider hopes to recover during today’s rest day Garmin-Cervélo rider Christophe Le Mevel sounded optimistic in a video interview carried out before the start of yesterday’s stage of the Giro d’Italia, saying that he was going to make a […]
Rider says race not over despite dominating Etna stage In the minutes after the attack by Alberto Contador on yesterday’s stage to Mount Etna, things became considerably more muted amongst the mainly-Italian crowd standing at the summit finish. The Spaniard’s […]
Liquigas-Cannondale team hoping to step up in the race’s second part and put Spanish rider into difficulty Having finished third in the Giro d’Italia last year, behind teammate Ivan Basso, then going on to win the Vuelta a España, Liquigas-Cannondale’s […]
“We have to attack Contador from far out.” Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) had what he described as “a bad day” on yesterday’s stage to Mount Etna. He lost 2’21” to stage winner, and new race leader, Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank-SunGard) and […]
Liquigas-Cannondale team hoping to step up in the race’s second part and put Spanish rider into difficulty Having finished third in the Giro d’Italia last year, behind teammate Ivan Basso, then going on to win the Vuelta a España, Liquigas-Cannondale’s […]
