Two of the strongest riders on the roads of the Tour of Flanders simply rode away from the peloton on the Molenberg, with Fabian Cancellara then demolishing Tom Boonen on the Muur van Geraardsbergen. Philippe Gilbert and Björn Leukemans finished […]
Skil-Shimano’s Yann Huguet won the 37th edition of the Hel van het Mergelland ahead of Jos van Emden of the favored Rabobank team. The two had escaped with 30km to go from a 20-man group. Huguet praised his teammates. “I […]
Joaquín Rodríguez continued his winning way and took the GP Miguel Indurain over 179km, after having won the Volta a Catalunya just last week. Rodríguez was the strongest in a tough final, outlasting Alejandro Valverde and Michel Kreder. Numerous attacks […]
It took Riccardo Riccò less than three weeks from the end of his doping suspension mid-March to winning a race. The Italian took the third stage of the Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda. In a hectic finale, six riders slipped away from […]
Cyril Gautier gave his Bouygues Telecom team the fifth victory in seven days, by winning the 1.1 Route Adélie de Vitré in France solo. Gautier arrived at the finish 38 seconds ahead of a group of four, taking his first […]
Mattia Gavazzi won the bunch sprint in stage two of the Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda, ahead of Roberto Ferrari and Alberto Loddo. The stage around Dalmine was 175km long. There were no changes in the overall, with Michele Scarponi still leading […]
Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) won stage 3a of the Three Days of De Panne in a bunch sprint in the eponymous seaside town. He beat the Skil-Shimano pair of Robert Wagner and Kenny Van Hummel into second and third places. Farrar […]
David Millar (Garmin-Transitions) has taken victory in the final time trial stage of the Three Days of De Panne. His margin of victory was enough to secure the overall race win, his first stage race since the Tour de Picardie […]
Bbox Bouygues Telecom continued their winning ways in stage two of the Three Days of De Panne today, when Frenchman Sébastien Turgot took the sprint in Sint-Idesbald easily over his three breakaway companions in a shortened stage marked by foul […]
Bbox Bouygues Telecom’s Steve Chainel continued the 2010 renaissance of French cycling by winning the first stage of the Three Days of De Panne from a breakaway of seven. Chainel took the sprint in front of Italians Luca Paolini and […]
Russel Downing took the sprint in the short, 75km stage two of the Critérium International. Overall leader Pierrick Fédrigo finished third to take two more bonus seconds. He now leads Tiago Machado by 17 seconds and Samuel Sánchez by 23 […]
Marianne Vos, riding for the Netherlands national team, got her 2010 road season off to a perfect start with the successful defence of the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio. The Dutch champion beat compatriot Martine Bras (Gauss-RDZ-Ormu) and last year’s […]
Pierrick Fédrigo (Bbox Bouygues Telecom) won the Critérium International overall title by placing 13th in the final time trial. David Millar won the 7.7km race against the clock, ahead of Alberto Contador and Michael Rogers. Fédrigo had a 17-second margin […]
Bernhard Eisel outsprinted his five breakaway companions to take a deserved win in Gent-Wevelgem. He beat Sep Vanmarcke and Philippe Gilbert decisively. George Hincapie, who launched the sprint with a little more 300m to go, ended in fourth place, ahead […]
Juan José Haedo won the final stage of the Volta a Catalunya when he took the bunch sprint ahead of Robert Förster and Nicolas Roche. Joaquím Rodríguez defended his overall lead, ahead of Xavier Tondo and Rein Taaramae. Saxo Bank’s […]
Saxo Bank’s Fabian Cancellara took a convincing win in the E3-Prijs today, with a powerful move from more than a kilometer out to finish off breakaway companions Tom Boonen (Quick Step) and Juan Antonio Flecha (Team Sky). The Swiss champion’s […]
HTC-Columbia’s Ina-Yoko Teutenberg raced aggressively in the criterium at the Redlands Classic on Saturday, distancing herself from the main field by 1’12” with the help of her seven breakaway companions. Theresa Cliff-Ryan (Colavita/Baci pb Cooking Light) sprinted to the race […]
Samuel Dumoulin continued the French Cofidis team’s hot streak in Barcelona today, by winning the hilly sixth stage of the Volta a Catalunya. The Frenchman’s teammate Rein Taaramäe finished just behind the sprinter, with overall leader Joaquin Rodriguez (Katusha) placing […]
