Colombian jumps away in the final kilometre to take seventh victory in debut season at the top level After the success of Carlos Betancur the previous year, Nairo Quintana (Movistar) became only the second Colombian to win the Giro dell’Emilia […]
Henderson, Wellens also for Lotto Belisol, Marcyznski and Hoogerland lead Vacansoleil-DCM Having completed 98 days of racing already this year, surpassed over 15,000 kilometres in competition and finished the Giro, Tour and Vuelta, Adam Hansen has already proven his toughness. […]
2011 Ronde winner signs for American team on three-year deal Nick Nuyens has joined Garmin-Sharp on a three-year deal that will see the Belgian Classics specialist with the American team through 2013. The 32-year-old winner of the 2011 Ronde van […]
New rainbow jersey meets the press It was, for many months, the toughest year of his career. Handed a multi-million Euro contract last winter when he moved to the BMC Racing Team, Philippe Gilbert began the season with a huge […]
No sprinter for French WorldTour team at the end of “a good year” FDJ-BigMat will line up at next week’s Tour of Beijing without a conventional sprinter, but will be looking to take glory in other ways in a race […]
Swift rules himself out, leaving team with just five riders Clearly in strong form after winning the GP Ouest France – Plouay and taking silver in the world road race championships, Edvald Boasson Hagen is seeking to keep the momentum […]
Triple world champion retires from cycling An effort to get Oscar Freire to delay his retirement has proven unsuccessful, with the Euskaltel-Euskadi team’s advances to the triple world champion not convincing him to change his mind. Freire told VeloNation prior […]
Former WADA president speaks on doping, Landis, USPS and a range of topics It’s been just over two weeks since it was established, but a fund to help the currently-unemployed journalist Paul Kimmage mount a legal defence against Pat McQuaid […]
Hesjedal, Nibali, Contador, Cavendish and Rodriguez speak Speaking about their impressions thus far of the event as well as giving key thoughts about next year’s route, five of the top riders who were at this month’s Giro d’Italia presentation have […]
Rabobank calls at least two witnesses in case over rider’s expulsion while leading 2007 Tour The ongoing Michael Rasmussen case will go before the courts again on November 12th, when several witnesses will be called to give evidence. Rasmussen is […]
Frank, Cummings and Lodewyck also earmarked as protected riders Taylor Phinney will have a chance to hammer out any residual frustrations from his near miss in the recent world championship time trial when he lines out next week as ome […]
Tour of Britain winner has chance to show what he can do at WorldTour level Following weeks of rumours, Team Sky have officially confirmed the signing of Jonathan Tiernan-Locke to the team, finalizing a two year deal with the Briton. […]
Australian team motivated to end first season on a high On a high after winning a stage and taking the King of the Mountains classification in his debut Grand Tour, this year’s Vuelta a España, Simon Clarke heads to the […]
Champion System team to make WorldTour debut in race As confirmed yesterday, Andy Schleck’s withdrawal from the Binche-Tournai-Binche/Memorial Frank Vandenbroucke has not interfered with his plans to ride the Tour of Beijing. The race organisers have today announced his participation, […]
Former Giro winner states Italian cycling is in the doldrums The retired champion rider Francesco Moser has criticised the current state of Italian cycling, saying that there is a dearth of strong riders from the country, that Vincenzo Nibali is […]
Defending champion accepts lack of time trial makes things tougher for him Tony Martin has pledged to do his utmost to try to defend his Tour of Beijing title despite the fact that the race against the clock, which was […]
Argos Shimano seeks to step up a level, Lotto Belisol registration slightly delayed The UCI has confirmed that all bar one of the current ProTeams [those with a licence to ride WorldTour events – ed.] have applied for registration in […]
Former rider commanded to pay 10,000 Swiss Francs to McQuaid and Verbruggen The UCI, current president Pat McQuaid and former president Hein Verbruggen have secured a judgement against Floyd Landis in the Eastern Vaud District court in Switzerland, relating to […]
