Team Sky rider talks about being focussed on the Olympic track, switching Giro for Tour, and leading out the World champion 2011 was the strongest year yet for Team Sky’s Geraint Thomas as the 25-year-old continues to develop as a […]
World champion will miss his long time lead out man as he moves to Team Sky; will follow similar programme to 2009 on the build up to the Olympic Games With the folding of the HTC-Highroad team at the end […]
World champion looks ahead to 2012 and the London 2012 road race Mark Cavendish was the overwhelming favourite for this year’s World championships in Compenhagen, Denmark, and he won; he’s overwhelming favourite for Olympic victory in London next summer and, […]
Tickets to go on sale Thursday for 2012 Olympic preparation event The schedule has been announced for the London round of the 2011/12 Track World Cup, to be run between February 16th and 19th. The event, which will serve as […]
World champion lends his support to charity ride from the Tour de France to the Olympic Park World champion Mark Cavendish was present at the Specialized Concept Store in London’s Covent Garden to launch the 2012 Right to Play Bike […]
Previously ended season before worlds Rejigging his race programme to ensure that he is in the best shape possible for the Tour de France, Alberto Contador has said that he is also planning to ride the Olympic Games and might […]
Team will ‘be the very best that we can be’ With a maximum of just one rider from Great Britain being eligible to compete in each of the ten track events in next year’s Olympic Games, the team’s performance director […]
Series begins in Kazakhstan today Two out of the four 2011-2012 track cycling World Cup rounds will be held in new venues this year, with Astana in Kazakhstan and the Olympic velodrome in London both hosting races in the next […]
Says Sky will find the right balance between his and Bradley Wiggins’ Tour ambitions World road race champion Mark Cavendish has big targets for next summer, namely aiming to win both the green jersey in the Tour de France and […]
“Team Sky has boosted our Olympic preparations,” says chief executive The Great Britain and Northern Ireland team has reacted positively to the news that it has been allocated the maximum number of places in the men’s road race and time […]
Irish pro on his mental approach, winning attitude and more Thirteenth overall in this year’s Vuelta a España and showing continuous improvement year on year as a professional, Daniel Martin believes that he has the potential to finish in the […]
Australia, Great Britain and United States join the big cycling nations with five spots apiece The International Cycling Union (UCI) has announced the provisional allocation of places in the men’s road race in next summer’s Olympic Games in London. The […]
Promises to be fully committed for Australian team The defence of his Tour de France title will undoubtedly be of prime importance to Cadel Evans next year but the Australian has said that he is also open to competing in […]
Welshman will ride Giro instead, London Olympic Games top priority Having won team pursuit gold in the 2008 Olympic Games, Geraint Thomas has decided to replicate his-then preparation for next year’s contest. As a result, the Welshman will deliberately miss […]
2008 individual pursuit winner leaves Olympic programme Frustrated by disrupted preparation towards the London Olympics, Rebecca Romero has made the difficult decision to abandon her ambitious of competing there, and of becoming one of a rare group of athletes to […]
Differening reactions to LeMerritt/USOC’s successful appeal Scottish professional David Millar has welcomed today’s ruling against the International Olympic Committee’s Rule 45, which blocks athletes found guilty of doping from competing in the next Olympic Games after their ban ends, and […]
LaShawn Merritt case decision due, USADA’s Tygart wants standard bans worldwide The Court of Arbitration for Sport will today announce its ruling on the LaShawn Merritt doping case, a matter which could determine if riders such as David Millar will […]
2008 gold medallist turns down the honour of number one in favour of what he wore three years ago Samuel Sánchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) has turned down the honour of wearing race number one in the Tour of Beijing, which start in […]
