Columbia-Highroad’s Linda Villumsen used her climbing skills to outpower Lithuanian Modesta Vzesniauskaite in the hilly GP Costa Etrusca on Sunday – for her first victory of 2009. “I’m really pleased for Linda,” commented sports director Ronny Lauke, “she’s always sacrificing […]
Team Saxo Bank’s sprinter from Argentina, Juan José Haedo, came in first when he pushed his bike across the finish line and gave the team a hard-earned victory in GP of Cholet in front of Frenchman, Jimmy Casper (Besson Chaussures […]
Day two of the GP Costa Etrusca saw win number two for Cervélo TestTeam. This time it was Sarah Düster coming through for the win beating Emma Johansson (Red Sun Cycling) and Noemi Cantele (Bigla Cycling Team). Manel Lacambra, team […]
The Women’s Cervélo TestTeam captured a 1-2 finish in the first day of GP Costa Etrusca with Emma Pooley taking first place and Kristin Armstrong taking second, finishing 19 seconds down from Emma. Marianne Vos (Nazionale Paesi Bassi) captured third […]
On Saturday, 21st of March, the 100th edition of the Milan-Sanremo is due with the participation of Team Saxo Bank, but without Fabian Cancellara as defending winner of 2008. The one-day race is both the first and longest of the […]
Former Paris-Roubaix winner Servais Knaven will lead Team Milram this coming Sunday in the one-day race, Ronde van het Groene Hart (March 23/UCI Category 1.1). In the third running of the race in the region of the same name between […]
A bad crash during training yesterday meant a trip to the hospital and now a shorter break from racing for Team Saxo Bank’s Fränk Schleck. The rider from Luxembourg skidded with his front wheels during a training ride and crashed […]
Under the leadership of Gerald Ciolek, Team MILRAM will look for its first major season success this coming Saturday, March 21, at the 100th edition of the Italian Classic Milano-Sanremo (UCI Category HIS). The Milram captain will be supported over […]
Columbia-Highroad tackles Milan-San Remo this weekend with high hopes for Mark Cavendish, the recent winner of the last stage of Tirreno-Adriatico. However, the squad has no intention of placing their top sprinter under any pressure to come up with a […]
Alessandro Ballan won’t take part in Milano-Sanremo 2009. The 29 year old current reigning World Champion had to quit the “Classicissima” because of an undiagnosed illness he was battling with recently. Now the true nature of the illness has come […]
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has partially upheld the appeal filed by the Italian cyclist Ricardo Ricco against the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) following his positive doping test with EPO (Mircera) at the Tour de France 2008. The […]
British Cycling has today announced the team of 19 riders who will travel to Pruszków in Poland to compete in the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, taking place on 25– 29 March 2009. Eight Beijing Olympic medallists will once again […]
Cervélo TestTeam is pleased to announce the signing of Emilie Aubry, the final rider to be signed for 2009. The nineteen year-old Chevenez native is considered one of the biggest talents in Switzerland. She was third in the 2008 national […]
Cervélo TestTeam has appointed Damon Rinard as race engineer for the Team. Already asserting themselves as a top team for 2009, the team will use Rinard to collaborate engineering between Cervélo TestTeam’s race mechanics and its equipment partners to develop […]
Team Columbia-Highroad scored a second straight win in Spain on Friday after Frantisek Rabon captured the stage-three time trial of the Tour of Murcia and simultaneously moved into the overall lead. Teammate Bert Grabsch confirmed Columbia-Highroad’s domination of the five-day […]
Event organizers and Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder today announced the first five teams for the third Tour of Missouri professional cycling race, scheduled for September 7-13, 2009 Top United States-based teams Garmin-Slipstream and Columbia-High Road, one of Italy’s top […]
Team Type 1 announced today that it has launched its first anti-doping testing program. The world’s only professional cycling team that includes riders who have Type 1 diabetes administered blood and urine tests to its riders at training camp in […]
Servais Knaven has recovered from his cold and will lead Team MILRAM on Wednesday, March 4, in the Belgian one-day race Le Samyn (UCI 1.1). In addition to the Netherlander, Directeur Sportif Ralf Grabsch will look to Germans Markus Eichler, […]
