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Pro Cycling

Vuelta a España: Chris Horner climbs into the red for a second time on the Alto Hazallanas

American veteran takes another summit stage as the others hesitate behind him Chris Horner (RadioShack-Leopard) climbed into the record books for the second time in the 2013 Vuelta a España, as the oldest rider ever to take a Grand Tour […]

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

Valerio Piva to move from Katusha to BMC Racing Team

Former HTC Highroad DS worked with van Garderen in the past Former pro and past T-Mobile and HTC Highroad director sportif Valerio Piva has been confirmed as the newest signing for the BMC Racing Team, with the Italian coming on […]

Author: VeloN Categories: Pro Cycling,

UCI presidential election: International federations call on McQuaid to agree to a CAS ruling on Article 51.1

Irishman’s insistence that he has a valid nomination under scrutiny; USA Cycling and others want clarity With the UCI presidential election now just 25 days away and considerable uncertainty existing about whether or not Pat McQuaid has a valid nomination, […]

Author: Shane Stokes Categories: Pro Cycling,

Pozzato times sprint perfectly to triumph in GP Ouest France

Italian beats Nizzolo, Dumoulin and a number of fast sprinters Italian Classic specialist Filippo Pozzato (Lampre-Merida) turned around an at-times frustrating season with a big sprint today, winning the GP Ouest France in Plouay and notching up important WorldTour points […]

Author: Shane Stokes Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results,

Vuelta a España: Moreno surges clear on final climb to win stage nine, takes red jersey by one second

Roche nets fourth but ends day second overall Attacking hard inside the wall-like final kilometre of the stage in search of the stage win, the top time bonus and the overall lead, Dani Moreno achieved all three of those on […]

Author: one second by Shane Stokes Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results, Vuelta a España,

Ten Dam, Mollema and Kreuziger all showing effects of tough Tour de France

Trio lose time on eighth stage of Vuelta a España They went into the race with hopes of repeating their strong Tour de France form but Belkin riders Bauke Mollema and Laurens ten Dam – who were sixth and thirteenth […]

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

Vuelta a España: Pinot says he wasn’t at his best despite fourth place on stage eight

Mixed feelings for talented French rider Even though Tibaut Pinot finished a fine fourth place on yesterday’s mountain finish of the Vuelta a España, the Frenchman admitted to having mixed feelings about the result. While his final position was a […]

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

Triple Tour de France winner Greg LeMond backs Brian Cookson in UCI Presidential battle

American says he believes that Cookson wants “honest and transparent leadership” for the sport He’s already made his feelings clear about the need for change, and now Greg LeMond has issued a statement explaining why he believes that Brian Cookson […]

Author: Shane Stokes Categories: Pro Cycling,

Horner not given any leash on Vuelta a España stage eight

41-year-old threat shut down by Nibali on final climb before both lose some time Chris Horner (Radioshack-Leopard) continued his aggressive racing on stage eight of the Vuelta a España, putting in one of the first important accelerations that really kicked […]

Author: Kyle Moore Categories: Pro Cycling, Vuelta a España,

Vuelta a España: Konig jumps clear to win stage eight, Roche takes over red jersey of race leader

Anton overhauled inside final kilometre, Nibali and Horner not as strong as expected on final climb NetApp Endura earned its wildcard slot for the Vuelta a España today when Czech climber Leopold Konig attacked towards the top of the Alto […]

Author: Shane Stokes Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results, Vuelta a España,

Tjallingii nabs first win in eight years on day two of World Ports Classic

Maes wins overall after stage one victor Wallays is distanced to breakaway group Maarten Tjallingii (Belkin Pro Cycling) raced to a superb solo win on stage two of the World Ports Classic today, attacking a break on the final stage […]

Author: Shane Stokes Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results,

Pieter Weening signs two year contract extension with Orica-GreenEdge

Future goals include winning a stage in the Vuelta a España, thus completing hat trick of Grand Tour successes Part of the team since its 2012 debut, the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia stage winner Pieter Weening has agreed […]

Author: VeloN Categories: Pro Cycling,

Dan Martin out of Vuelta a España due to concussion

Setback for Irish world championship contender Irish professional Dan Martin will not be able to take the start of today’s eighth stage of the Vuelta a España, with the injuries from his crash on yesterday’s seventh leg proving too much. […]

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

Marianne Vos takes 2013 World Cup in style with GP Plouay-Bretagne victory

Solo victory for World champion in final race in the classification Marianne Vos (Rabobank-Liv/Giant) confirmed her overall victory in the 2013 World Cup with a second successive solo win in the GP Plouay-Bretagne in western France. The World champion jumped […]

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

Wallays beats Greipel and Petacchi to the line on day one of World Ports Classic

Bizarre error in route directions hands young Belgian rider the first leader’s jersey Riding very well in a solo move but also benefitting from a race direction error which saw the break cover less ground than the main bunch, Jelle […]

Author: Shane Stokes Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results,

Gilbert goes close to win, says his form will be “better and better” as the world championships approaches

Pinotti gets good workout with long breakaway Although he is still battling to take his first victory in the rainbow jersey of world champion, Philippe Gilbert has taken encouragement from his near miss today when he finished second on stage […]

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

Stybar notches up his first Vuelta a España stage win, denies Gilbert in two up sprint

Stage to Mairena de Aljafare decided by opportunistic move inside final ten kilometres Following up on his two stage wins and overall victory in the recent Eneco Tour, former world cyclo-cross champion Zdenek Stybar continued his rise as a road […]

Author: Shane Stokes Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results, Vuelta a España,

Kimmage confirms that legal appeal over McQuaid and Verbruggen lawsuit has been dismissed

Journalist to speak to his lawyer to consider if further course of action should be taken The journalist Paul Kimmage has confirmed that an appeal lodged against the original dismissal of a case taken by him has been rejected by […]

Author: Shane Stokes Categories: Doping, Pro Cycling,

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