Fallout continues from yesterday’s sprint pileup Vacansoleil rider Michal Golas was one of the riders most badly injured in yesterday’s pileup at the Vuelta a España. The 27 year old Pole collided with American sprinter Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervélo) close to […]
Garmin-Cervélo rider starts but then pulls out of today’s stage Although he started today’s stage, the injuries from yesterday’s sprint crash have proven to be too much and Tyler Farrar has been forced to quit the race. The American Garmin-Cervélo […]
Nibali, Scarponi and Van den Broeck involved in pileup Normally staying close to the front is seen as the best tactic to avoid trouble, but a touch of wheels inside the final 100 metres meant that some of the riders […]
US Rider and Garmin-Cervélo will decide Saturday morning if he can start Having hit the ground heavily inside the final metres of today’s seventh stage of the Vuelta a España, Tyler Farrar was one of the most badly affected of […]
Italian couldn’t avoid pileup in final meters Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) was among a host of overall contenders who were unable to stay upright after a high-speed crash in the closing meters of stage seven of the Vuelta a España. Michal […]
Danish rider to undergo operation tomorrow Following this morning’s news that Matti Breschel crashed out of the Vuelta a España, his Rabobank team has confirmed that he has two broken bones and will be forced to take some time off […]
Italian injured wrist in crash yesterday, but hopes to keep racing Italian rider Ivan Basso is expected to decide shortly whether or not he will continue in the US Pro Cycling Challenge. The 2010 Giro d’Italia winner crashed approximately 20 […]
Danish rider had been confirmed today as ‘undisputed leader’ of world championship team Matti Breschel’s hope of taking a world championship victory on home soil in Copenhagen in one month has received a big knock due to the rider’s enforced […]
Quickly healing Kazakh could be racing the Giro di Lombardia The Astana team had two good news today. One was the fourth place in the team time trial of the Vuelta a España, the second was the potential return of […]
Katusha rider hoping that blood injections will cure problem Struck by severe headaches ever since a bad crash in the Three Days of De Panne at the end of March, Leif Hoste has had the cause of the pain diagnosed; […]
Spanish team’s bad luck continues in Benelux race on a day of crashes and fractures The first stage of the Eneco Tour, between Oosterhout and Sint-Willebrord, was another bad day for Movistar. The Spanish team had two riders abandon as […]
Knee injury rules out 2009 victor As a result of the massive crash inside the final three kilometres of yesterday’s first stage of the Tour de Pologne, the 2009 race winner Alessandro Ballan has been forced to withdraw from what […]
Belgian to miss the Vuelta a España Serge Pauwels’ 2011 season continues with adversity as he’s now to miss the Vuelta a España. The Belgian Sky Procycling rider crashed in the Tour de Wallonie this week and hurt his triceps. […]
Briton suffering from bronchitis Jonathan Bellis (SaxoBank-SunGard) has come down sick just before he was scheduled to start the Tour of Poland and, consequently, the ‘other’ rider from the Isle of Man will be forced to take some time off. […]
Belgian feels that he’s back on track after Tour de France crash Now fully recovered from the concussion, bruising and cuts he suffered during the Tour de France, Tom Boonen will return to competition this Sunday when he lines out […]
South African fully recovered from hip operation John Lee Augustyn (Sky Procycling) has made a successful recovery from an operation that has seen him sidelined for the season so far. The operation known as Birmingham Hip Resurfacing took place in […]
MRI scan reveals Tour de France crash was worse than expected Roman Kreuziger was one of the many cyclists who crashed during this year’s Tour de France and although the Astana rider went on to finish the race, it’s now […]
Spaniard had been close to dropping out of 2011 Tour de France Stating that he is tired ‘both physically and psychologically,’ Alberto Contador will miss this year’s Vuelta a España, but has indicated that he could do the race in […]
