Milram’s Niki Terpstra has taken over the overall lead in the Dauphiné Libéré with his win in the third stage. The Dutchman won the 182 kilometre race from Tournus to St. Etienne beating Ludovich Turpin (AG2r) and Yuri Trofimov (Bbox-Bouygues […]
Lampre’s Angelo Furlan won the 228km stage two of the Dauphine Libere between Nancy and Dijon. Marcus Zberg (BMC) finished second in the sprint, followed by Tom Boonen (Quick-Step) in third. There was no change on general classification meaning Cadel […]
Fränk Schleck of the Saxo-Bank team took the honors in his home tour today, sealing up the overall by just 10 seconds over Team Astana’s Andreas Klöden. This was Schleck’s first victory in the Tour of Luxembourg. To add icing […]
Silence-Lotto’s Cadel Evans scorched the opening 12.10 km prologue of the Dauphiné Libéré today in Nancy, France besting fellow Tour de France contender Alberto Contador in the process. Defending race winner Alejandro Valverde followed just behind in third place carrying […]
In a race that Shawn Milne said he simply hoped to finish, the fifth-year pro from Beverly, Mass., delivered much more in Sunday’s Air Force Cycling Classic. Milne pulled off one of the most high profile victories in the two-year […]
Dutchman Lars Boom won the Tour of Belgium cycling race here on Sunday following the fifth and final stage, a 16.7km individual time-trial won by Belgium’s Sebastien Rosseler. Boom, who rides for the Rabobank team, took over the race leader’s […]
Russian rider Denis Menchov won the Tour of Italy here on Sunday despite suffering a dramatic fall in the last kilometre of the final stage, a 14.4km time-trial round. The Rabobank cyclist, who is the third Russian to win the […]
Trek-Livestrong rider Taylor Phinney carved another little slice in the history books today becoming the first American rider to win Paris-Roubaix Espoirs. The storied cobblestones of Northern France have long been the subject of a love-hate relationship with cyclists – […]
Ken Hanson of Team Type 1 nearly spoiled the victory celebration by Alejandro Borrajo (Colavita-Sutter Home presented by Cooking Light) Saturday at the U.S. Air Force Cycling Classic Clarendon Cup. Hanson overcame poor positioning out of the final turn to […]
Belgium’s Bert De Waele won the fourth stage of the Tour of Belgium in a sprint finish here Saturday, finishing ahead of compatriot Greg van Avermaet and Dutchman Lars Boom, the new overall leader. Boom took the black leader’s jersey […]
Belgian Philippe Gilbert of the Lotto team won the 20th stage of the Tour of Italy over 203km from Naples to Anagni on Saturday as Russian Denis Menchov held onto the overall lead. Gilbert sprang away from the bunch in […]
Bozic at the double to retain Tour of Belgium lead TEMSE, Belgium, May 29, 2009 (AFP) – Slovenia’s Borut Bozic, riding for Vacansoleil, won the third stage of the Tour of Belgium on Friday to retain the overall race lead. […]
Today at the top of Mount Vesuvius Spainiard Carlo Sastre won his second stage of this year’s Giro d’Italia, while in his wake the mountain experienced a different kind of eruption as Italian Danilo Di Luca left everything on the […]
Michele Scarponi (Serramenti Pvc Diquigiovanni) won his second stage of this year’s Giro d’Italia today, a 182km ride from Sulmona to Benevento. The Italian took the sprint from a seven-man breakaway with Felix Rafael Cardenas (Barloworld) coming in second piping Danny Pate (Garmin-Slipstream) on […]
Italian Franco Pellizotti of Team Liquigas won the 17th stage of the Giro d’Italia today with a solo victory on the short 83km stage from Chieti to Blockhaus. In second place was a charging Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone) aiming for […]
Russia’s Sergei Ivanov, riding for the Katusha team, won Wednesday’s Tour of Belgium first stage, with Australian Graeme Brown in second and Slovenia’s Borut Bozic in third. Results of the 185km Tour of Belgium 1st stage held here on Wednesday: […]
Last year’s Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre (Cervelo TestTeam) won today’s stage of the Giro d’Italia, attacking the favorites on the final climb of the Monte Petrano and moving himself up the leader board. He was followed by an attacking […]
Spaniard Alejandro Valverde won the 89th edition of the Volta a Catalunya today, while Columbia High-Road’s sprinter Greg Henderson took out the sprint for the stage. The 110km between Sant Cugat and the motor racing circuit at Montmelo had no […]
