Edvald Boasson Hagen (Columbia – High Road) repeated his explosive sprint of yesterday’s stage, but this time it earned him victory in stage seven of the Giro d’Italia, a stage that took the race from Innsbruk to Chiavenna over 240km. Oddly enough, the […]
Michele Scarponi (Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli) won stage six of the Giro d’Italia after detaching himself from the day’s main breakaway that formed 50km into the stage, 30 seconds after he crossed the line Edvald Boasson Hagen (Columbia – High […]
Former Vuelta champion Denis Menchov (Rabobank) climbed to his first Giro d’Italia stage win today after launching a searing attack over top of a bid by reigning Tour de France champion Carlos Sastre (Cervelo TestTeam), separating the Russian and yesterday’s […]
The centennial Giro d’Italia held its first test today in Dolomites with Italian Danilo Di Luca (LPR Brakes – Farense Vini) taking the stage win with a powerful surge to the line, followed by Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone ) […]
Sprinter Alessandro Petacchi put an exclamation point in the history books today by taking another stage win in today’s 198km race from Grado to Valdobbiadene, securing the classy Italian a ride tomorrow in the Maglia Rosa. American hopeful Tyler Farrar […]
On a day when all eyes were on the seemingly unbeatable Mark Cavendish (Columbia – High Road) wearing his prized maglia rosa, pure emotion saw Alessandro Petacchi (LPR Brakes – Farense Vini) cross the line first earning the Ciclamino sprinters […]
Team Columbia – High Road scorched the roads in the opening stage of the centennial Giro d’Italia in Venice Italy with a time of 21 minutes and 50 seconds, beating their fellow American team Garmin – Slipstream by 6 seconds. […]
Recently the Giro d’Italia made a public statement that they were increasing their efforts with respect to drug testing for the race participants. Austrian cyclist Christian Pfannberger of team Katusha was due to take part in the race until it […]
Team Quick-Step has announced the names of the 9 riders who will take part in the 2009 Giro d’Italia. Belgian Kevin Seeldraeyers will be taking his second start in Italy’s grand tour, and will focus on trying to win a […]
Team Columbia heads to the 2009 Giro d’Italia with their eye on unleashing the sprint power of team leader Mark Cavendish. After taking home two stage wins in last years race, he will look to better his performance this time […]
Based on his results in the Tour of Romandie, Fuji – Servetto will be riding for Swede Fredrik Kessiakoff in this year’s Giro d’Italia. The 28-year-old Kessiakoff performed well in the mountains of Switzerland last week, taking fourth place on […]
The new Russian team Katusha will be leaning on the talents of Italian Filippo Pozzato to win stages in the 100th edition of the Giro d’Italia which starts next Saturday. Australian Robbie McEwen, normally good for stage victories in the […]
Reigning Italian road race champion Filippo Simeoni is angry at the Giro d’Italia organization for leaving his team off of the start list of the centennial edition. Simeoni points to two teams, ISD and Xacobeo Galicia, who have a lower […]
Lance Armstrong capped his return from injury with a second-place finish behind teammate Levi Leipheimer in the Tour of the Gila Sunday – a solid tuneup for the Giro d’Italia. Leipheimer and Armstrong finished one-two in the five-day race in […]
Robbie McEwen’s Katuysha team has decided that the sprinter will not ride the upcoming 100th edition of the Giro d’Italia. In a message on the cyclist’s website, the decision to leave him off the roster was due to the course […]
After a rough start to the year, Saxo Bank’s Olympic Time-Trial Champion Fabian Cancellara hopes to shake off his bad luck this year with a win in next weekend’s Giro d’Italia prologue. The Swiss rider missed much of the early […]
More bad luck for the reigning World Champion as Lampre-NGC confirm that Alessandro Ballan will be absent from the team’s Giro d’Italia line-up next month. Ballan has already missed out on the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix, two of the […]
With the recent revelations that Italian Davide Rebellin along with German Stefan Shumacher have tested positive for CERA at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Giro d’Italia organization has announced that they will be taking further steps to ensure that when […]
