Pound: “It’s embarrassing for Spain. Everybody knows if the samples are made available, we will be able to uncover quite a bit more doping.” Although yesterday’s Operacion Puerto ruling appeared to close the door on the handover of 211 blood […]
Three Corsa Rosa debutants in Dutch ProTeam as Thomas De Gendt aims for the Tour Vacansoleil-DCM has taken the precautionary decision to leave Jose Rujano out of its nine-man line up for the Giro d’Italia. In what it describes as […]
Two-time winner’s “results and preparation were as expected,” says directeur sportif Ivan Basso will lead the Cannondale team in the Giro d’Italia, which starts in the city of Naples on Saturday, May 4th, with the aim of taking a third […]
Serge Pauwels and Gianluca Brambilla also targeting mountain stages The Omega Pharma-Quick Step team for the Giro d’Italia will be built around the sprint ambitions of Mark Cavendish, who has ten stage victories on his palmares so far. The former […]
Russian team aiming for top-ten in the absence of its two big Grand Tour riders With Joaquim Rodríguez concentrating on the Tour de France, and Denis Menchov having suffered a recurrence of an old knee injury, the Katusha Team is […]
Crucial vote for current UCI president will take place on June 15th Pat McQuaidFour days after its announcement that it would put its nomination of Pat McQuaid as UCI president on hold and would instead call an extraordinary general meeting […]
Judge denies WADA’s request to hand over blood bags Almost seven full years after the Operacion Puerto raids in Madrid and elsewhere, the ringleader of the doping practice Eufemiano Fuentes plus Ignacio Labarta have been found guilty by the judge […]
Two-time winner’s “results and preparation were as expected,” says directeur sportif Ivan Basso will lead the Cannondale team in the Giro d’Italia, which starts in the city of Naples on Saturday, May 4th, with the aim of taking a third […]
Serge Pauwels and Gianluca Brambilla also targeting mountain stages The Omega Pharma-Quick Step team for the Giro d’Italia will be built around the sprint ambitions of Mark Cavendish, who has ten stage victories on his palmares so far. The former […]
Russian team aiming for top-ten in the absence of its two big Grand Tour riders With Joaquim Rodríguez concentrating on the Tour de France, and Denis Menchov having suffered a recurrence of an old knee injury, the Katusha Team is […]
Crucial vote for current UCI president will take place on June 15th Four days after its announcement that it would put its nomination of Pat McQuaid as UCI president on hold and would instead call an extraordinary general meeting to […]
Judge denies WADA’s request to hand over blood bags Almost seven full years after the Operacion Puerto raids in Madrid and elsewhere, the ringleader of the doping practice Eufemiano Fuentes plus Ignacio Labarta have been found guilty by the judge […]
Argos Shimano will focus on sprint wins and also breakaways on tougher stages Having clocked up five stage wins in last year’s Vuelta a España, John Degenkolb and his Argos Shimano team are turning their attention to the Giro d’Italia, […]
Two former race winners to support the ambitions of aggressive young team Vini Fantini-Selle Italia has historically been more associated with the performances of its ambitious youngsters at the Giro d’Italia, but the headline for the ‘giallo-fluo’ team at this […]
An important cooperation for drug testing has been confirmed for major French races this season, with the Cycling Anti Doping Foundation linked to the UCI plus the French agency for the fight against doping (AFLD) agreeing to work together in […]
South American team targeting the mountains as it makes its Grand Tour debut edwin avilaThe Colombia team has named its nine-man line up for the Giro d’Italia, which starts on Saturday, May 4th, with the intention of putting on a […]
German rider wants to take on Cavendish in the Tour; says he and Greipel have mutual respect Kittel_Marcel_Turkey13_st8-1He missed out on a stage win last year; this time round, he was the best sprinter with three successes in the race. […]
“I have no doubt that the strongest and most willing riders will be there to support me” Commenting in the wake of Bradley Wiggins’ assertion today that he does want to achieve the Giro/Tour double this year, Chris Froome has said that […]
