Italian ProContinental team has qualified for all three Grand Tours by 2008 agreement, but manager is not sure it will happen Michele Scarponi’s second place in Saturday’s Giro di Lombardia saw the Androni Giocattoli team finish the season in 17th […]
Dismisses Christian Pruhomme’s uncertainty about adopting ruling UCI president Pat McQuaid has insisted that the recently-announced rules for participation for ProTour and Historic Calendar races will apply in 2011, despite the reservations expressed by the organisers of the Tour de […]
Liquigas rider has a clear target in mind for 2011 Vuelta a España winner Vincenzo Nibali has dismissed suggestions that Italian cycling is on a downturn, nominating the big victories by himself and team-mate Ivan Basso this year as a […]
Monte Zoncolan climb to return to Giro d’Italia next year The Monte Zoncolan climb will feature again in the Giro d’Italia next year, following its success this season when Ivan Basso and Cadel Evans battled head-to-head. Italy’s Basso used the […]
Riis thinks 2011 is too soon to aim for Giro-Tour-Vuelta triple Triple Tour de France winner Alberto Contador has spoken about his move to the Saxo Bank Sungard team for 2011, saying that he is motivated to compete strongly with […]
Giro’s star Nibali dreams of Worlds gold Vincenzo Nibali gained star status in Italy this May thanks to one stage win, three days in the leader’s pink jersey and a third overall at the Giro d’Italia. He now wants to […]
Italian Giro winner plans on Giro-Tour win in 2011 Italian Ivan Basso races again today at the GP Carnago following a disappointing Tour de France. It is not the GP Carnago that he is thinking about, but to return next […]
Grand Slam is ‘impossible’ says Tour winner’s agent Contradicting the goal attributed to Alberto Contador yesterday by Bjarne Riis, the rider’s brother and agent Fran Contador has said that there are no plans to try to win three Grand Tours […]
Spaniard sets unprecedented Grand Slam as a career objective Alberto Contador has said in the past that he’s not obsessing about winning the most Tours de France, stating instead that he’ll take his career season by season and look at […]
Celebrations for a unified Italy are highlighted by another individual test Following an announcement that the 2011 Giro d’Italia will start in Turin, once the capital city of United Italy, organizers have confirmed that the race will end with an […]
Giro to kick off in Turin next year Italian city Turin is releasing its plans today for hosting the start of next year’s Giro d’Italia. The 2011 Giro d’Italia will start in Turin to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the […]
An incredible accomplishment that came over a tough road Today Alberto Contador not only won the Tour de France for the third time, but secured the fifth consecutive Grand Tour victory of his career. He first won the overall at […]
City says that it would do it again The eternal question as to whether it pays for cities to pony up the big cash necessary to bring a Grand Tour to its streets will continue forever, but for one city, […]
Things falling in place for a first time visit abroad The Washington Convention and Sports Authority (WCSA) and Capital Criterium race organizers today have announced a partnership to host the 2010 Capital Criterium presented by the Washington Convention and Sports […]
Giro d’Italia winner under examination Ivan Basso’s hematocrit values decreased by 4.3 percentage points on his way to winning the Giro d’Italia last month. Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport published yesterday the results of three controls used for Basso’s […]
Triple crown winner talks about the state of the sport 1987 Tour de France winner and former world champion Stephen Roche always has interesting opinions about professional cycling, and spoke to VeloNation recently about a number of matters in the […]
Pushed through recent Giro d’Italia in pain Cervélo TestTeam’s Carlos Sastre has been diagnosed with a posterior spinal disc herniation and a central extruded disc of the L5-S1 as a result of his two crashes in the recent Giro d’Italia. […]
Wants contract with a ProTour team South American climber José Rujano has left the ISD-Neri team and is heading back home to his former Gobernación del Zulia squad, according to the Entorno Inteligente. He met with team director Hernán Alemán […]
