Injury

Italian sprinter doesn’t need surgery and could return to road training in ten days’ time

Italian facing a week off the bike after being blown off his bike on exposed causeway course

Luxembourg rider faces another setback in his return from 2012 injuries

Injured Vacansoleil DCM rider has a long road back, says his girlfriend saw whole accident Two days after a serious accident occurred in Spain when he was hit by a car in training, Johnny Hoogerland has spoken about the crash […]

Saxo-Tinkoff’s Dutchman to miss the Classics with deep thigh wound Karsten Kroon (Saxo-Tinkoff) will be forced to sit out the 2013 Spring Classics season after sustaining a deep thigh wound in a crash in today’s third stage of the Tour […]

Dutchman will miss several months of racing after being hit by car, unclear if Tour will be affected Vacansoleil DCM rider Johnny Hoogerland will miss the entire Classics season after a more complete medical assessment revealed further injuries from his […]

Italian had shown speed ahead of Cavendish already this year Having beaten Mark Cavendish to win a stage of the recent Tour de San Luis, Sacha Modolo’s aim of adding more success at the Tour of Qatar unravelled on yesterday’s […]

Fractured ribs sustained by Dutch breakaway specialist Johnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil-DCM) has been hospitalised after being hit by a car while out training in Spain, his team has announced. The Dutch rider was reportedly descending in front of the motor scooter […]

Lotto Belisol rider likely to return to competition in Paris-Nice Danish rider Lars Bak has been given some good news today, learning that he won’t now need to undergo surgery to help heal the scaphoid he fractured in his crash […]

Three-time Tour de France champion suffers compression fracture Triple Tour de France winner Greg LeMond is recovering in hospital after a car accident close to his home in Minnesota yesterday. The American former pro crashed en route to a dental […]

Belgian rider back on track and eager to get racing Six days after Omega Pharma Quick Step confirmed that Tom Boonen would have to miss the Tour of Qatar due to an elbow problem, the team has said that the […]

Danish rider likely to miss first semi-Classics Winner of a stage in last year’s Giro d’Italia plus the GP de Fourmies, Lars Bak’s goal of a strong Classics campaign has been dented by an injury suffered yesterday in the GP […]

Team Saxo Tinkoff rider will be sidelined for immediate future US national champion Timmy Duggan is facing several weeks away from racing after a heavy fall on today’s third stage of the Santos Tour Down Under in Adelaide. The Team […]

“It was intended to be a two-pronged attack on doping: prevention both by dissuasion and repression.” Elaborating on his confirmation Tuesday that Lance Armstrong and other riders were given warnings over suspect test values, former UCI chief and current honorary […]

Belgian champion to go home tomorrow but not soon enough for defence of desert race Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) has been ruled out of defending his title at the Tour of Qatar as he recovers from Monday’s elbow surgery. […]

Bad luck at team training camp It’s been a frustrating past few weeks for the Katusha team with the Licence Commission’s decision to turn down its WorldTour registration, thus prompting an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The […]

Season over for British champion who may face surgery Nikki Harris (Telenet-Fidea) has been forced to withdraw from the World cyclocross championships in Louisville, Kentucky, on February 3rd, due to a persistent knee injury. The newly crowned British champion has […]