Headache avoided for French selectors for Olympic Games? Concerns that Jeannie Longo might be sent to the Olympic Games for France despite the serious doping charges her husband and coach faces appear now to be irrelevant after she was comprehensively […]
Seventh TT championship win for RadioShack Nissan rider Although he’s still feeling the effects of the Tour de Suisse in his legs, particularly the two mountainous concluding stages on Saturday and Sunday, Fabian Cancellara today grabbed the seventh national time […]
Two-time World champion aiming for Olympic gold after a strange day in the Italian championships Giorgia Bronzini (Diadora-Pasta Zara) spent a somewhat strange day in the peloton during the Italian elite women’s road race championships. The World champion, racing for […]
23-year-old Diadora-Pasta Zara rider escapes Silvia Valsecchi in final lap to win tricolore alone Giada Borgato (Diadora-Pasta Zara) took the Italian road race title alone after escaping breakaway companion Silvia Valsecchi (Be Pink) in the final lap of a hot, […]
Returning King of the Mountains will skip Spanish nationals, recovering from Dauphiné crash Though it won’t officially announce its roster for the Tour de France until after the Spanish national championships, multiple sources are listing the nine men set to […]
Grabsch, Brammeier and Chavanel defending; Chavanel going for fourth TT jersey; Boonen aiming for a second road one Omega Pharma-Quick Step will be sending a number of riders to the various national championship races in Europe this week. Some riders […]
Classics king climbed off early to catch his flight home Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) has declared himself ready for Sunday’s Belgian championships, despite climbing off his bike 80km from the finish of yesterday’s final Tour de Suisse stage. The […]
Swift, Dowsett and Hunt part of five man squad Team Sky’s aim of fighting for the yellow and green jerseys in the Tour de France plus then riding as well as possible in the Olympic Games mean that a smaller […]
No road race, but Garmin Barracuda rider hopeful of riding Tour Twelve months after he finished an extremely close second in the Irish road race championships, losing out to Matt Brammeier by millimetres, Dan Martin made the difficult choice to […]
BMC Racing Team says virus is the reason for rider’s poor form this spring Winner of two stages last year and member of the best overall team, Thor Hushovd will have no such success at this year’s Tour de France […]
Holds off chase group containing Van Garderen, Danielson on hot South Carolina afternoon Timmy Duggan (Liquigas-Cannondale) used a well-timed solo move to take the win by himself in the USA professional road race championship. Duggan won the race of attrition […]
‘Captain America’ flanked by BMC’s van Garderen and Bookwalter on the podium It wasn’t easy, but Dave Zabriskie (Garmin-Barracuda) captured his second USA professional time trial championship in a row, and seventh in his career, today in Greenville, South Carolina. […]
Dennis and Noonan take second under 23 wins of championships Battling strong, gusting winds which were strong enough to cause 2011 Australian road race champion Jack Bobridge to crash out of the event, his GreenEdge team-mate Luke Durbridge powered to […]
Kannibaal speaks of emotional outpouring after reclaiming his driekleur; expresses concern over health of old rival Bart Wellens The post-race party thrown for Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) in his hometown of Baal reportedly kept the newly restored Belgian champion up past […]
Trebon, Page round out podium; Compton nets eighth straight women’s title Jeremy Powers (Rapha Focus) powered away from Ryan Trebon (LTS-Felt) and the rest of a five-man group with two laps to race, and stayed away to take his first […]
Kannibaal back to his old self in the mud as some champions lose their thrones Sven Nys takes back the jersey that belongs to him After his domination of his own GP on New Year’s Day, it was no surprise […]
National championships decided all over Europe with most going to the biggest names Marianne Vos cruises to Netherlands title number two It was all too easy for Marianne Vos (Rabobank) once again, as the World champion cruised to what is […]
First victory for men’s GreenEdge team Delivering on the victory he said he was hoping for in a long pre-race interview, Simon Gerrans blasted home in a three-man sprint to take the Australian road race championship in Buninyong earlier today. […]
