Tour de France favorite Alberto Contador won the Spanish national time trial championship today, a 47.8km course between Torrelavega and Cuevas de Altamira. He clocked a time of 1hr 04min 40sec beating Luis Leon Sanchez by 37 seconds and Ruben […]
Team Type 1 rolled onto the Annapolis, Md., City Dock early Friday morning as champions of the eight-person team division of the Race Across America (RAAM). The athletes on Team Type 1 – all of whom have Type 1 diabetes […]
American cyclist Lance Armstrong Sunday won the Nevada City Classic, a modest one-day race set in the hills of northern California, to continue his build-up to the Tour de France. More than 15,000 fans turned out for the race, run […]
Swiss Olympic time-trial champion Fabian Cancellara won the Tour of Switzerland on Sunday after winning the ninth and final stage of the race here, a 38.5 kilometres time-trial. The 28-year-old beat Germany’s Tony Martin – winner of Saturday’s penultimate stage […]
Columbia-High Road managed to win another stage in the Tour de Suisse today, this time with German Tony Martin. And if winning six of the eight stages isn’t impressive enough, they have managed to accomplish this feat with five riders […]
Team Columbia-High Road has been on fire all season long, and today Italian Marco Pinotti added to the team’s win tally of 42 defending his Italian time trial champion title bringing the team’s win total to 43. This is the […]
Luxembourg’s Kim Kirchen won the seventh stage of the Tour of Switzerland, a 204 kilometre ride from Bad Zurzach to here on Friday. Last year’s winner, Czech rider Roman Kreuziger was second over the line and Germany’s Linus Gerdemann third. […]
British cycling star Mark Cavendish won his second stage in the Tour of Switzerland here on Thursday, the 178 kilometre sixth stage from Oberriet. The 24-year-old Isle of Man born cyclist – winner of four stages in last year’s […]
Swiss rider Michael Albasini of the Columbia team won the fifth stage of the Tour of Switzerland, a 202 km ride from Staefa in Switzerland to Serfaus in Austria. Slovenian Tadej Valjavec of the AG2R team retained the race lead, […]
Up-and-coming Danish cyclist Matti Breschel triumphed in the fourth stage of the Tour of Switzerland, a 195km ride from Biasca to here on Tuesday. In a small bunch sprint for the finish, Breschel, of the Saxo Bank team, held off […]
In his first race since the Giro d’Italia, Britain’s Mark Cavendish (Columbia-High Road) picked up where he left off by winning the sprint finish in today’s 195.4km third stage of the Tour de Suisse. In his wake Cavendish left a […]
Austria’s Bernhard Eisel (Columbia-High Road) won the 149.8km second stage of the Tour de Suisse on Sunday in Davos beating German Gerald Ciolek (Milram) and three-time world champion Oscar Freire (Rabobank) in a technical sprint for the line. Saxo Bank’s […]
Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d’Epargne) has won his second consecutive Dauphiné Libere today, after the eighth and final stage was won out of a breakaway by Rabobank’s Stef Clement getting the best of Tim Duggan (Garmin-Slipstream) at the line. Australian Cadel […]
Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) has shown he is back to winning form again after taking honors on the first day of his home Tour. With the Tour de Suisse being an important build up race for Tour de […]
Spaniard Alejandro Valverde stayed in control of the overall in today’s stage seven of the Dauphine Libere today, while Frenchman David Moncoutie (Cofidis) put in an impressive ride coming in to win the stage alone. Forty seconds later Robert Gesink (Rabobank) crossed the […]
Spaniard Alejandro Valverde of the Caisse d’Epargne retained his slim 16-second lead over Cadel Evans after the sixth stage of the Dauphine Libere race here on Friday. Valverde, Evans and 2007 Tour de France winner Alberto Contador crossed the finish […]
Alejandro Valverde of the Caisse d’Epargne team took control of the Dauphine Libere race on Thursday after leaving Australia’s Cadel Evans behind on the gruelling Mont Ventoux climb. The 29-year-old defending champion established a two-minute lead over his Silence-Lotto rival […]
Germany’s world time-trial champion Bert Grabsch of the Columbia team won the fourth stage of the Dauphine Libere race here on Wednesday, a 42.4 kilometre time trial. The 33-year-old German outpaced Australia’s two-time Tour de France runner-up Cadel Evans by […]
