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Pro Cycling

Emanuele Sella wins Coppa Agostini after long breakaway

Italian climber outsprints Fortunato Baliani after more than 100km up the road Emanuele Sella (Androni Giocattoli-Venezuela) finally took his first victory of the season in the Coppa Agostini – the second event of the unofficial Trittico Lombardo – in Lissone, […]

Author: Ben Atkins Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results,

Specialized-lululemon wins Open de Suède Vårgårda team time trial

German-registered team defends the race it won as HTC-Highroad; Marianne Vos still leads classification The Specialized-lululemon team of Charlotte Becker, US champion Amber Neben, Evie Stevens, Ina Teutenberg, Netherlands champion Ellen van Dijk and Trixi Worrack won the Open de […]

Author: Ben Atkins Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results,

US Pro champion Timmy Duggan to ride for SpiderTech-C10 in 2013

American rider to transfer to Canadian team from Liquigas-Cannondale Team SpiderTech C10’s bid to grow the team has received a sizeable boost with the news that the current US national pro champion Timmy Duggan has signed up to compete for […]

Author: Shane Stokes Categories: Pro Cycling,

Final Tour de France doping tests declared clear

Frank Schleck sole positive result from race The UCI has announced the outcome of the doping controls carried out in the latter part of the Tour de France, saying that there were no positive findings. “The Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation (CADF) […]

Author: Shane Stokes Categories: Doping, Pro Cycling, Tour de France,

UCI announces allocations for World championship road races and time trials

Top nations to field nine in men’s race and seven in women’s; extra places granted to Olympic, World Continental and champions The International Cycling Union (UCI) has announced the allocation of places by nation for next month’s World championship road […]

Author: Ben Atkins Categories: Pro Cycling, World Championships,

Craig Lewis targeting stage victory in USA Pro Cycling Challenge

American rider and compatriot Chris Butler head Champion System team Encouraged by a stage win in June’s Tour de Beauce, American rider Craig Lewis is heading into the USA Pro Cycling Challenge aiming to take a victory on a bigger […]

Author: VeloN Categories: Pro Cycling,

Schleck’s disappointing season continues with withdrawal from US Pro Cycling Challenge

RadioShack Nissan rider still suffering from effects of Dauphiné crash Several weeks after his RadioShack Nissan team said that he’d ride the USA Pro Cycling Challenge rather than the Vuelta a España due to a slow recovery from his June […]

Author: Shane Stokes Categories: Pro Cycling,

Fuglsang signs three year contract with Astana

Tour de France and/or Vuelta believed to be rider’s target in 2013 Danish stage race talent Jajob Fuglsang has finalised his contract negotiations and will compete for the next three seasons in the colours of the Astana team. The 27 […]

Author: VeloN Categories: Pro Cycling,

Froome: ‘I’d certainly love to win a Grand Tour after finishing second in the last two I’ve done’

Sky Procycling rider fired up for Vuelta a España Starting the race as one of the top favourites, Tour de France runner-up Chris Froome has said that he is hoping that the strong form he showed at the Tour de […]

Author: VeloN Categories: Pro Cycling, Vuelta a España,

Wiggins withdraws from Sky team for Tour of Denmark

Uncertainty about rider’s schedule A question mark exists over Bradley Wiggins’ racing programme in the coming weeks, with the Tour de France and Olympic time trial champion withdrawing from his next scheduled event, the upcoming Tour of Denmark. Wiggins was […]

Author: Shane Stokes Categories: Pro Cycling,

AA Drink-Leontien.nl team set to fold as sponsors pull out

Olympic silver medallist faces second search for a new team in two years The AA Drink-Leontien.nl team is set to fold at the end of the season as the main sponsor ends its two year association, team press officer Léon […]

Author: Ben Atkins Categories: Pro Cycling,

Guardini and Fuglsang bolster strength of Astana team

Top Italian sprinting talent joins Danish all rounder on roster Confirming the arrival of two riders who should considerably boost the team’s firepower next season, the Astana WorldTour team has announced that Jakob Fuglsang and Andrea Guardini will come on […]

Author: Shane Stokes Categories: Pro Cycling,

Sacha Modolo sprints to Coppa Bernocchi in Colnago CSF-Inox one-two

Italian sprinter hits back at critics after Italy returns from Olympics empty-handed Sacha Modolo (Colnago-CSF Inox) sprinted to victory in the Coppa Bernocchi, the first race in the unofficial Trittico Lombardo, in the city of Legnano, to the north west […]

Author: Ben Atkins Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results,

Samuel Sanchez confirmed at helm of Euskaltel Euskadi in Tour of Britain

2008 Olympic Road Race champion to make debut, Saur Sojason also racing After a mention this week in Samuel Sanchez’s race schedule for the rest of the season, the organisers of the Tour of Britain have announced today that the […]

Author: Shane Stokes Categories: Pro Cycling, Tour of Britain,

Omega Pharma-Quick Step sending teams to Vattenfall Cyclassics and USA Pro Cycling Challenge

Boonen leads Classics team to Hamburg; Leipheimer defending with climbers in Colorado Although nine of its riders are lining up at the start of la Vuelta a España this Saturday, Omega Pharma-Quick Step will also be sending rosters to the […]

Author: Ben Atkins Categories: Pro Cycling, Vattenfall Cyclassics,

Hansen aiming to join exclusive list of riders to finish all three Grand Tours in one season

Australian also hungry for first-ever stage win in three week race Although he started his season back in January and has ridden well over 11,000 kilometres in competition, Adam Hansen has decided to try to complete all three Grand Tours […]

Author: Shane Stokes Categories: Pro Cycling, Vuelta a España,

Under par Hushovd has more tests, ends season

Frustrated BMC Racing Team rider to retun in 2013 Having dropped out of the Giro d’Italia, foregone the chance to ride the Tour de France, pulled out of the Tour of Poland and then missed the Olympic Games, Thor Hushovd’s […]

Author: Shane Stokes Categories: Injury, Pro Cycling,

Kristoff Vandewalle takes Belgian time trial title

Defending champion Philippe Gilbert still winless in 2012 with third; Liesbet De Vocht defends women’s title Kristof Vandewalle (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) won the Belgian time trial championships in Eau d’Heure, in the east of the French-speaking Walloon region of the […]

Author: Ben Atkins Categories: National Championships, Pro Cycling,

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