International Cycling Union (UCI) President Pat McQuaid has reacted to the latest comments from the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD), according to AFP. In a press conference on the eve of the Paris-Nice race, McQuaid hit back at statements from AFLD […]
Earlier today Caisse d’Epargne rider Juanjo Cobo set off by plane from Madrid to France with his teammates for a big appointment at Paris-Nice. Cobo is new to the Spanish team this year after riding with Fuji-Servetto last season. His […]
Two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador is set to start his second race of the season tomorrow in Paris-Nice, and says he has received his new Specialized Shiv time trial bike for the opening 8 kilometer effort. In the […]
Last year’s Tour de France winner Alberto Contador will start his second race of the season this Sunday in Paris-Nice, but will start the race without his new time trial bike from his sponsor Specialized. This will be the Spaniard’s […]
The RadioShack team will head to France this weekend to take on Paris-Nice with American Levi Leipheimer to lead their overall charge. Leipheimer hasn’t taken part in the event since 2007, instead staying at home to race in the Tour […]
Paris-Nice starts this Sunday and teams are releasing the names of the riders who will be lining up in what many consider the first important European stage race of the year. Paris-Nice is an eight-day stage race which starts in […]
Caisse d’Epargne will be sending two team captains to the start of Paris-Nice this Sunday, a measure of how seriously the team takes the race. In addition to defending champion Luis Leon Sanchez, the team line-up will also include controversial […]
Two weeks after winning the Tour of the Mediterranean in his first participation, Alejandro Valverde returned from a planned break in his racing this Sunday at the Clásica of Almeria. Valverde sealed up his win in the French race two […]
Italian Damiano Cunego (Lampre-Farnese Vini) is fighting ahead towards Paris-Nice despite a crash in the Vuelta a Andalucía last week. “I have had to do it other times, at the 2008 Tour de France when I crashed and at the […]
World road race championship bronze medallist Joaquim Rodriguez has decided to target Paris-Nice rather than Tirreno Adriatico this year, following the news that the savage Montelupone climb will be dropped from the course. Rodriguez proved strongest on the wall-like ascent […]
Rinaldo Nocentini (AG2R La Mondiale) reminded the French that his eight days in the Tour de France yellow jersey was no fluke by winning stage one of Tour du Haut Var. His win came yesterday in Grimaud, France, prior to […]
Following a change in the Tirreno-Adriatico route, Luis León Sánchez has changed his mind and will now defend his Paris-Nice title this year. Just a couple of weeks ago he announced that he will be riding Tirreno-Adriatico instead and that […]
Italian Damiano Cunego (Lampre-Farnese Vini) will race his first stage race of the season starting this Sunday at the Vuelta a Andalucía in Spain. His goal is to check his form after a training camp and ahead of next month’s […]
The Amaury Sports Organization (ASO) announced the twenty-two teams that will be taking part in Paris-Nice this coming March. The 68th edition of the “Race to the Sun” will see the number of teams increased by two over last year’s […]
