Juan Antonio Flecha gave his new Sky team a brilliant start to the classics season by winning the opening race, Het Nieuwsblad. Heinrich Haussler sprinted to second place in the finishing town of Gent, ahead of Gent-resident Tyler Farrar. Flecha […]
Emma Johansson won the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad for women, held on a similar, but shorter route than the men’s race. The Swedish rider was the best sprinter in a group of four in Gent, Belgium, after 125.7 km. Liesbet De […]
Albert Loddo won the final stage of the Giro di Sardegna in a sprint ahead of Alessandro Petacchi, who recovered well from his crash yesterday. Roman Kreuziger took the overall after ending the day in the peloton. He won ahead […]
Samuel Dumoulin won the Giro dell Insubria. After 181 kilometers, he beat José Rojas (Caisse d`Epargne) and Nicolas Roche (AG2R). World Champion Cadel Evans (BMC) ended in fifth place, behind Leonardo Bertagnolli (Androno Giocattoli). Evans was quite pleased with his […]
Shelley Evans of the US National team won her third stage of the Tour of New Zealand in another bunch sprint on stage 5 between Palmerston North and Masterson. Once again the Peanut Butter & Co-Twenty12 rider was too fast […]
Danilo Hondo sprinted to victory in the fourth stage of the Giro di Sardegna, ahead of Giovanni Visconti and Sacha Modolo. The finishing sprint was overshadowed by the crash of Hondo’s teammate, Alessandro Petacchi, and a few others, caused by […]
A split stage in Palmerston North gave the US national team more opportunities to assert itself. A rolling first stage saw the race’s first successful breakaway, but the afternoon’s time trial saw specialist Amber Neben (US National Team) show her […]
Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) won the third stage of the Giro di Sardegna in a sprint finish after a 206km rolling stage between Nouro and Oristano. Enrico Rossi (Ceramica Flaminia-Bossini Docce), who is the brother of Riccardo Ricco’s partner Vania […]
Francisco Ventoso (Carmiooro-NGC) won the fifth and final stage of the Vuelta a Andalucia/Ruta del Sol in a sprint at the front of what remained of the peloton. He beat a brace of Australians in the shape of Simon Gerrans […]
Team USA sprinter Shelley Evans repeated her first day victory to take stage 2 of the Tour of New Zealand from Masterton to Palmerston North. The Peanut Butter & Co TWENTY12 rider was once again the fastest sprinter, taking the […]
Roman Kreuziger (Liquigas-Doimo) outsprinted his breakaway companions to take victory in stage 2 of the Giro di Sardegna. The Czech was the fastest of a group of seven riders that arrived at the mountaintop finish at Nuoro (Monte Ortobene), 922m […]
Shelley Evans, riding for the United States national team, won the opening stage of the Tour of New Zealand. She was fastest of a group of 24 riders at the end of 99.6km between Martinborough and Masterson. Australian champion Ruth […]
Alex Rasmussen (Saxo Bank) was the only rider to break the 13-minute barrier for the 10.9km Vuelta a Andalucia time trial course in the resort city of Malaga. The Dane, who finished third in the sprint on stage 2 overtook […]
Francesco Gavazzi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) sprinted to victory in the first stage of the Giro di Sardegna, ahead of Oscar Gatto and Giovanni Visconti (both ISD-Neri). Gavazzi took over the leader’s jersey. Gatto launched the sprint for Visconti, but it didn’t […]
Oscar Freire won for the second time in two days when he raced to victory in stage three of the Vuelta a Andalucía today. The Spaniard beat Lampre’s Grega Bole and Sky’s Simon Gerrans to the line. Mark Cavendish, who […]
Rabobank’s Oscar Freire confirmed his recent win in the Mallora Challenge today by taking the second stage of the Vuelta a Andalucía-Ruta del Sol, beating Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) into fourth place in what was the Manxman’s first sprint of 2010. […]
Sergio Pardilla surprised everyone in the first stage of the Vuelta a Andalucía-Ruta del Sol. The Colombian slipped away in the final phase of the race, marked by lots of attacks, and won with seven seconds over Jurgen Van den […]
Christophe Le Mevel (Française des Jeux) launched a timely attack under the flamme rouge to win the second stage of the Tour du Haut Var and also took the overall. The others closed in on Le Mevel in the steepest […]
