GreenEDGE continues winning streak as Swiss rider escapes breakaway on hilly first stage Michael Albasini took GreenEDGE’s second WorldTour victory in the space of three days – following Simon Gerrans’ Milano-Sanremo win the Saturday before – on the hilly opening […]
Australian champion hands Cancellara a second straight second place as Nibali pulls them clear on the Poggio; no rainbow Primavera for Cavendish Simon Gerrans (GreenEDGE) has become the second Australian to win Milano-Sanremo, a year after his teammate Matt Goss […]
Italian beats Kittel and Blythe in big bunch sprint One day before a Milan-Sanremo that Tom Boonen is trying to win, the Omega Pharma Quick Step team added yet another victory to its 2012 haul when Francesco Chicchi sprinted home […]
Italian Omega Pharma-Quick Step sprinter the fastest man left in Flemish semi-classic after final kilometre crash Francesco Chicchi continued the Omega Pharma-Quick Step team’s love affair with the Nokere Koerse, with a virtually uncontested sprint victory over a peloton that […]
Chris Horner loses race in final flat test; Fabian Cancellara blitzes stage victory Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) snatched final overall victory in the 2012 Tirreno-Adriatico with a strong performance in the final time trial in San Benedetto del Tronto. The Sicilian, […]
‘Purito’ jumps away in steep final kilometre and holds on to win in Offida; GC battle tightens Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) opened his 2012 WorldTour account, as he begins his season-long quest to take back the ranking title he won in […]
Horner maintains overall lead, Kreuziger inches closer After being frustrated by yesterday’s finish when team-mate Peter Sagan swept around him into Chieti with Roman Kreuziger attached, Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) came good one day later, with a victory on the summit […]
Briton emulates Simpson with triumph in Race to the Sun Digging deep in the second half of the Col d’Eze time trial, Bradley Wiggins (Sky Procycling) made history today when he became the first British rider to win Paris-Nice since […]
Stage-long attack sees Belgian triumph alone; Movistar puts Omega Pharma-Quick Step leader under pressure on the final descent Thomas De Gendt (Vacansoleil-DCM) continued what has been an incredible Paris-Nice for the Dutch ProTeam, with an epic solo victory between Sisteron […]
Dutch champion finishes three lengths clear after AA Drink-Leontien.nl isolates her in the closing stages The Stichting Rabo Women Team has started the 2012 World Cup in the manner that its previous incarnation, Nederland Bloeit, finished the 2011 series, with […]
Norwegian steps up after Cavendish fades Yesterday it was Mark Cavendish; today, Sky Procycling triumphed again in Tirreno-Adriatico, although this time the victory came courtesy of Edvald Boasson Hagen. The team was working to set world champion Cavendish up for […]
Powerful breakaway pair holds off a determined peloton in Sisteron Luis León Sánchez (Rabobank) took his fourth career Paris-Nice stage victory by outsprinting German veteran Jens Voigt (RadioShack-Nissan) in the ancient city of Sisteron. The two riders were the last […]
United Healthcare see Boy Van Poppel and Kai Reus as likely protagonists Having gone close to stage wins in the Tour de Langkawi but coming up against an unbeatable Andrea Guardini, American sprinter Jake Keough will seek to improve on […]
Australian outsprints Bronzini and Vos to take Dutch World Cup warm up race Chloe Hosking (Specialized-lululemon) took her biggest European win to date as she sprinted to victory in the Drentse 8, the Dutch warm up race ahead of Saturday’s […]
Freire runs world champion close, Goss keeps lead World road race champion Mark Cavendish has clocked up victory on stage two of Tirreno-Adriatico, winning a big gallop into Indicatore. The Sky Procycling rider came off the wheel of Tyler Farrar […]
Ever-aggressive Dutchman jumps away from leaders group to move up to second overall Lieuwe Westra (Vacansoleil-DCM) continued his irresistible march up the overall Paris-Nice rankings, taking an impressive solo victory in the fifth stage between Onet-le-Château and Mende. The ever-aggressive […]
BMC Racing Team off pace in Italy Clocking up its first WorldTour win since Simon Gerrans took the Santos Tour Down Under, the GreenEdge team upended the leaderboard and dominated the opening team time trial today at Tirreno-Adriatico. The Australian […]
Punchy Belgian goes two better than the day before; Bradley Wiggins holds onto yellow Gianni Meersman (Lotto-Belisol) managed to go two better than his third place of the day before, to take victory on the tough uphill finish of the […]
