Loes Gunnewijk (Nederland Bloeit) won the Unive Ronde Van Drenthe, the third round of the UCI Women’s World Cup in the east of the Netherlands, after escaping from a 13-rider group in the closing kilometres. Teammate Annemiek Van Vleuten won […]
Chris Horner (RadioShack) won the Vuelta al Pais Vasco after beating all his close rivals with victory in the 22km final stage time trial in Orio. Overnight race leader Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d’Epargne) finished second, 8 seconds behind Horner, meaning […]
Anthony Ravard gave the French something to cheer about as the AG2R La Mondiale rider won the bunch sprint of the final stage in the Circuit de la Sarthe. He beat Luis León Sánchez (Caisse d’Epargne) and Julien Simon (Saur […]
Joaquím Rodríguez attacked 21km from the line to take a well deserved win in the fifth stage of the Volta al País Vasco. He saved 14 seconds ahead of Samuel Sánchez, Alejandro Valverde and Chris Horner. Valverde managed to keep […]
Ina Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) won her third successive Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo, the first support race for this weekend’s Ronde van Drenthe World Cup. The German champion won the sprint from a breakaway group of eleven riders that escaped in the […]
Samuel Sanchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) won the tough queen stage of the Vuelta al Pais Vasco between Murgia and Eibar Arrate. He beat Alessandro Valverde (Caisse d’Epargne) and Robert Gesink (Rabobank) into second and third after the first category climb of the […]
Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) won stage 4 of the Circuit de la Sarthe from Angers to Pré-en-Pail as the fastest of a large group of breakaway riders. He beat Julien Simon (Saur-Sojasun) and Xaier Florencio (Cervélo TestTeam) into second and third. […]
Lampre-Farnese Vini sprinter Francesco Gavazzi brought some much needed good news to his team today by winning the 187 kilometer stage three of the Vuelta al Pais Vasco from Viana to Amurrio. Spaniard Oscar Freire (Rabobank) finished in a disappointing […]
On the day that his team leader Lance Armstrong dropped out with stomach problems, young Portugese prodigy Tiago Machado (RadioShack) won the 6.8km stage 3 time trial of the Circuit de la Sarthe-Pays de la Loire in the Loire town […]
Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) won the Scheldeprijs race in a bunch sprint in Schoten, on the outskirts of the Belgian city of Antwerp. He beat Robbie McEwen (Katusha) and Robert Förster (Milram) into second and third place to become the first […]
Anthony Ravard (AG2R-La Mondiale) won the 97km stage 2, the first part of today’s Circuit de la Sarthe split stage, between Varades and Angers. Yesterday’s third place finisher proved to be the fastest in a sprint finish in the Loire-side […]
Luis León Sánchez (Caisse d’Epargne) took his third win this season, when he outsprinted his competitors in the Circuit de la Sarthe. Sánchez won the opening stage in the sprint, after a two-man move had been eliminated with only three […]
Alejandro Valverde won the sprint in the second stage of the Vuelta al País Vasco against Oscar Freire without controversy this time. The peloton managed to neutralize a last-minute three-man move with 200m to go. Freire was perfectly placed behind […]
Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d’Epargne) won the first stage of the Vuelta al Pais Vasco at the end of a 152km hilly circuit in Zierbena. The overall race favourite was awarded the victory after three-time World champion Oscar Freire (Rabobank), who […]
Riccardo Riccò (Ceramica Flaminia) took his second win since returning from suspension with the final stage of the Settimana Cicistica Lombarda in the city of Bergamo. He was the fastest of a group of 19 riders who arrived at the […]
One day after Fabian Cancellara won the Tour of Flanders, Juan José Haedo delivered another victory to his Saxo Bank team, when he took the sprint in the 198km long Rund um Köln. Haedo jumped out of the Rabobank wheels […]
An exciting final in the fourth stage of the 40th Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda was won by Josè Rodolfo Serpa Perez, after the jury decided that Matteo Carrara needed to be relegated to third place. In the 153km stage, Michele Scarponi […]
Grace Verbeke took out a solo win in the women’s Tour of Flanders, held on a shortened route over many of the same climbs as the men’s race. Marianne Vos sprinted past a small group of riders to finish second, […]
