Two Euskaltel-Euskadi riders in the break proves decisive on hilly Dartmouth finale Pablo Urtasun (Euskaltel-Euskadi) won the seventh, and penultimate, stage of the 2012 Tour of Britain, as it crossed the county of Devon between Barnstaple and Dartmouth. The Basque […]
Leopold König wins Welsh stage as two break clear on two ascents of final climb Jonathan Tiernan-Locke (Endura Racing) attacked into the 2012 Tour of Britain gold jersey over the two climbs of Caerphilly Mountain on the sixth stage, between […]
Leigh Howard takes back the gold jersey as Mark Cavendish left behind on the Staffordshire hills Marc de Maar (UnitedHealthcare) took the biggest victory of his season so far as he escaped a 23-man breakaway to win the fifth stage […]
Frenchman escapes a select group in the final kilometre to win race in Namur’s citadel Julien Simon (Saur-Sojasun) took his fifth, and arguably most prestigious, victory of the season as he escaped a select breakaway group in the final kilometre […]
World champion reluctantly exchanges his rainbow jersey as time bonuses give him the lead Having said the day before that he had no intention of exchanging his precious rainbow jersey for gold, Mark Cavendish (Team Sky) did so after the […]
Manx Express launched into Dumfries finishing straight by stage one winner Luke Rowe It was third time lucky for Team Sky as it finally managed to deliver Mark Cavendish to the line to take a victory in the 2012 Tour […]
Australian beats Mark Cavendish in untidy sprint after long wet Peak District stage Leigh Howard (Orica-GreenEdge) took the second stage of the 2012 Tour of Britain, between Nottingham and Knowsley Safari Park, as he won an untidy sprint to the […]
Outduels Moser and Kolobnev in late break Lars Petter Nordhaug (Sky Procycling) nabbed the biggest victory of his career in the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal on Sunday, coming back on Moreno Moser (Liquigas-Cannondale) and Alexander Kolobnev (Katusha) in the […]
Olympic champion outsprints Evie Stevens to take fourth straight Ladies Toer In what she surely hopes is a forecast for the World championships, Marianne Vos (Rabobank) took the final stage, and overall race victory, in the sixth and final stage […]
German sprinter the class of the field once more after mostly ceremonial stage John Degenkolb (Argos-Shimano) took his fifth victory of the 2012 Vuelta a España, in the largely ceremonial final stage between Cercedilla and the Paseo de la Castellana […]
World champion ends up with torn rainbow rather than gold jersey Swiftly moving to Plan B after world road race champion Mark Cavendish went down inside the final two kilometres, Luke Rowe (Team Sky) powered home to take stage one […]
Denis Menchov takes breakaway stage; race leader bends under pressure but doesn’t break Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank) bent, but did not break, under pressure from both Joaquim Rodríguez (Katusha) and Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) on the steep climb to the […]
Belgian champion outsprints Mark Renshaw and Oscar Freire after a long day of breakaways The Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) domination of the 2012 Classics continued in Paris-Brussels as the Belgian champion added the race between the two European capitals […]
German sprinter shows versatility in defence of teammate Charlotte Becker’s overall lead Ina Teutenberg (Specialized-lululemon) showed her versatility in the fifth stage of the Brain Wash Holland Ladies Toer, in Bergeijk, in the southern Netherlands, as she outsprinted the rest […]
Australian champion outpaces Greg Van Avermaet on false flat finishing straight Simon Gerrans (Orica-GreenEdge) won the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec in a two-up sprint in the capital of French-speaking Canada. The Australian champion outpaced Belgian Greg Van Avermaet (BMC […]
Charlotte Becker takes second and holds lead as the wind finally hits the Dutch race Marianne Vos (Rabobank) won the fourth stage of the Brain Wash Holland Ladies Toer in the town of Zaltbommel, just north of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, southern Netherlands, […]
Former Belgian champion leaps away from the pack on long uphill drag Philippe Gilbert (BMC Racing) took his second victory of the 2012 Vuelta a España on the “complicated” uphill finish of stage 19 between Peñafiel and La Lastrilla. The […]
Rémi Pelletier-Roy makes it a one-two for the Canadian boys Zach Bell gave Team SpiderTech powered by C10 a boost by winning the Challenge Sprint Pro in Québec. The race was a warm up event for the sprinters where each […]
