George Hincapie (Columbia-HTC) won his third national title in Sunday’s US Pro Road Race championships held in his hometown Greenville, South Carolina. Having won the same title in 1998 and 2006, the 36 year old showed he still had the […]
Norway’s Edvald Boasson Hagen of the Columbia team won the Eneco Tour on Tuesday after dominating the final stage, a 13km individual time-trial. The 22-year-old finished ahead of France’s Sylvain Chavanel in the overall standings after the Frenchman clocked the […]
Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen consolidated his lead of the Eneco Tour stage race by beating some of the more specialist fast men in a sprint for the finish of Monday’s sixth stage. Boasson Hagen, who rides for Team Columbia, grabbed […]
American Tyler Farrar of the Garmin-Slipstream team retained the overall lead of the Eneco Tour by winning the race’s fourth stage after a sprint battle with Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen and Italian Francesco Gavazzi. It is Farrar’s third win of […]
Tour de France sprint king Mark Cavendish won stage two of the Tour of Ireland on Saturday. Columbia rider Cavendish, winner of six stages in this year’s Tour de France, coasted to victory in a sprint finish into Killarney for […]
British rider Russell Downing of the Candi TV team won the 196 kilometer first stage of the Tour of Ireland from Powerscourt to Waterford. Second in last year’s edition, Downing powered away from the escape group schooling Saxo Bank’s duo […]
Quick-Step sprinter Tom Boonen enjoyed his first victory since winning the Belgian national championships on home roads in the 158.3 kilometer third stage of the Eneco Tour from Niel to Hasselt. Boonen blasted out of the last curve in perfect position, […]
American Tyler Farrar of the Garmin-Slipstream team continued his string of successes today by winning the 178.1 kilometer second stage of the Eneco Tour from Ardooie to Brussels. Farrar got the better of Belarusan Yauheni Hutarovich (Française Des Jeux ) […]
American Tyler Farrar of the Garmin-Slipstream team won the 185km first stage of the Eneco Tour on Wednesday taking the overall race lead from yesterday’s prologue winner Sylvain Chavanel. “I’m in the best form of my life. The team was […]
Sylvain Chavanel, who rides for the Belgian Quick-Step team, won the opening prologue of the Eneco Tour covering the 4.4 kilometer route through Rotterdam in 4 minutes and 55 seconds. Second place went to the winner of Sunday’s Vattenfall Cyclassics, […]
Tyler Farrar (25) of the Garmin-Slipstream team notched his biggest victory to date in the Vattenfall Cyclassics today, making him the first American to claim victory in the ProTour ranked one-day event. Farrar bested Saxo Bank’s Matti Breschel and home […]
Spaniard Alberto Contador has secured his second Tour de France overall victory after finishing the 21st and final stage on Sunday. Today’s stage, that finished on the Champs Elysees, was won by Britain’s Mark Cavendish of the Columbia-HTC team bringing […]
Make it two days in a row for Columbia-HTC’s star sprinter Mark Cavendish winning the stage over Thor Hushovd and Cyril Lemoine in the 196.5 kilometer wind swept ride from Marseille to La Grande-Motte. With a gesture of appreciation to […]
Columbia-HTC’s Mark Cavendish has taken his fifth stage victory in the Tour de France today with no challenge from second placed Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Slipstream) who was several bike lengths back followed by a charging Romain Feillu of Agritubel who closed […]
Just like he did in 2004 and 2007 Swiss rider and Olympic time-trial champion Fabian Cancellara of team Saxo Bank took the first yellow jersey of the Tour de France during the opening test against the clock in Monaco, besting […]
If he keeps this up, the Manhattan Beach Grand Prix is going to have to be renamed the “Rahsaan Bahati Grand Prix.” Rock Racing’s star sprinter won the 48th edition of the Chevron Manhattan Beach Grand Prix Sunday for the […]
The Danish Saxo bank team picked up several national championship jerseys over the weekend. In their home race twelve riders lined up in the town of Sønderborg to defend Nicki Sørensen’s win from last year. The 196 kilometer course around […]
On the 234.6km course in Aywaille, Belgium Quick-Step’s Tom Boonen took his first Belgian road championship title. The big sprinter bested Philippe Gilbert (Silence-Lotto) and Kristof Goddaert (Top Sport Vlaanderen-Mercator) out of a 15-man group. The Quick-Step team worked well […]
