Zdenek Stybar won the exciting final Superprestige cross race in Vorselaar, Belgium, ahead of Niels Albert. This also gave Stybar the Superprestige overall ahead of Albert, since both had started the day equal on points. On the very icy, slippery […]
Bart Wellens took his first cross victory this season, just as everything is about to wrap up. Wellens won the GP De Eecloonaar solo, ahead of Dieter Vanthourenhout. The top favorites Sven Nys, Niels Albert and Zdenek Stybar finished third […]
The fourth stage of the Tour of the Mediterranean has been plagued by weather problems, with Cofidis rider Julien El Farès crossing the provisional finish line in first place after 114 of the 160-kilometer race. Race officials were debating over […]
In stage three of the Tour Méditerranéen, Yauheni Hutarovitch of Française des Jeux repeated his stage one victory in a sprint, besting Fabien Bacquet (BigMat-Auber 93) and Mathieu Drujon (Caisse d’Epargne). Leonardo Duque (Col/Cofidis, le Crédit en Ligne) and William […]
Francesco Chicchi (Liquigas-Doimo) sprinted to his second win in the Tour of Qatar, beating Garmin’s Tyler Farrar and Juan José Haedo (Saxo Bank). Tom Boonen was victim of a wave in the final 200m and only managed seventh place. Wouter […]
Jussi Veikkanen (la Française des Jeux) took his team’s second successive stage of the Tour of the Mediterranean in the Provence town of Trets. He took the victory ahead of Big Mat-Auber 93 duo Fabian Baquet and Yohan Mombaerts, but […]
Andre Griepel (HTC-Columbia) took victory in the Trofeo Magaluf-Palmanova, the fifth and final race in the Mallorca Challenge. He beat Koldo Fernandez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) and Tour Down Under stage winner Manuel Cardoso (Footon-Servetto) into second and third respectively. The HTC-Columbia team […]
Tom Boonen (Quick Step) won stage 5 of the Tour of Qatar between Lusail and Madinat Al Shamal, his second victory of this year’s race. The Belgian champion was the fastest of a peloton split once again by strong winds; […]
Portuguese rider Rui Costa (Caisse d’Epargne) won the Trofeo Deià, the fourth round of the Challenge Mallorca, today. The 23-year-old, who won the Four Days of Dunkerque last year, beat Mallorcan local Joan Horrach (Team Katusha) in a two-up sprint […]
Yauheni Hutarovich (La Française des Jeux) led home a group of sixteen riders to take a victory in stage 1 of the Tour of the Mediterranean, as he did last year. The Belarusian champion beat Frenchman William Bonnet (Bbox Bouyges […]
Linus Gerdemann of Milram won the third race of the Mallorca Challenge, the Trofeo Inca, ahead of breakaway companions Rafael Valls (Footon-Servetto) and Manuel Vázquez (Andalucía-Cajasur). The Milram team was omnipresent throughout the stage, almost as if trying to console […]
Tom Boonen is back to his desert winning ways, taking the third stage of the Tour of Qatar in dominating fashion. With a huge gear, the Belgian propelled himself past Heinrich Haussler and Baden Cooke. A crash on the finishing […]
Rabobank’s triple World Champion Oscar Freire sprinted to victory on the second stage of the Mallorca Challenge today. He beat HTC-Columbia’s André Greipel and Footon-Servetto-Fuji’s Manuel Cardoso to the line, with the pair finishing second and third respectively. With his win […]
One year after the tragic death of Belgian Frederick Nolf, his former Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator team took an emotional victory with Geert Steurs in today’s stage two of the Tour of Qatar, with breakaway companion Wouter Mol (Vacansoleil) finishing in second […]
Power sprinter Niko Eeckhout (An Post-Sean Kelly) took the final stage of the Etoile de Bessèges stage race, ahead of Valentin Iglinskiy and Hans Dekkers. A tenth place in the 145-kilometer stage was enough for Samuel Dumoulin to take the […]
Robbie McEwen won the opening race for the Mallorca Challenge, the Trofeo Palma, ahead of Koldo Fernández and Oscar Freire. André Schulz was fourth, ahead of Manuel Cardoso, winner of a stage in the Tour Down Under. The race was fast with […]
Team Sky continued its good debut season with a win in the opening team time trial of the Tour of Qatar. The British squad beat the Cervélo Testteam by eight seconds over the 8.2-kilometer course. Garmin was third, also eight […]
Sprinter Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) took his third victory of the season with a sprint in the GP Costa degli Etrusci in Doneratico, Italy. He beat Alberto Loddo (Androni Giocattoli-Serramanti PVC Diquigiovanni) and Fabio Sabatini (Liquigas-Doimo) into second and third, […]
