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 […]
Haussler is feeling as strong as in 2009 Garmin Barracuda’s director of competition Allan Peiper has warned that he believes that the team’s Classic campaign will be a stronger one than that of 2011, when it won Paris-Roubaix. “This year […]
Serious setback for Saxo Bank’s Classics captain after Paris-Nice time trial crash After first thinking that he had suffered no broken bones, after his crash in the wet opening time trial of Paris-Nice, Saxo Bank Nick Nuyens has since discovered […]
Operation needed for haemophiliac British time trial champion; will be out at least three weeks Alex Dowsett (Team Sky) faces an operation on his right elbow after fracturing it in a crash in Sunday’s second and final stage of the […]
Swiss champion in unstoppable Classics form across Tuscany’s white roads Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack-Nissan) proved himself well and truly ready for the Classics season with a emphatic solo victory in the Strade Bianche, in the historic Piazza del Campo in Siena, […]
Belgian teams favoured for Ardennes Classics; French teams miss out; Team Type 1 invited to both Race organiser ASO has announced the teams that have been invited to its two Ardennes Classics, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, which will run […]
World under-23 champion takes a simple win after an aggressive race of breaks and attacks; Adrie Visser takes first ever women’s race Arnaud Démare (FDJ-BigMat) sprinted to his second victory of the season in Le Samyn, at the end of […]
Half of those invited from the home nation; keen to impress in RCS Sport’s first race of the year Saturday’s Strade Bianche will be the first of this year’s races run by Giro d’Italia organiser RCS Sport. The 190km course […]
Diabetes team invited to Tour of Poland and both Ardennes Classics for the first time; Colombian team add La Flèche Wallonne to long list of invitations After being named in the list of wildcard teams invited to the Tour of […]
BMC Racing the team to beat with last year’s winner, Montalcino Giro stage winner, and huge Classics pedigree Philippe Gilbert will start this Saturday’s Strade Bianche race, wearing number one as defending champion, at the head of the BMC Racing […]
Greipel frustrated with poor positioning in sprint finale, capping rough weekend for Lotto-Belisol Though several breakaways gave it a shot, Sunday’s Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne once again came down to the expected sprint finish, which Mark Cavendish (Sky Procycling) took ahead of Yauheni […]
Belgian veteran ultra-aggressive as usual for Sean Kelly’s team Niko Eeckhout (An Post-Sean Kelly) was the 120th rider to cross the finish line at the end of the Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne semi-classic, but the 41-year-old Belgian spent nearly the entirety of the […]
World champion powers to victory after Team Sky controls a race littered with breakaways Mark Cavendish (Team Sky) won Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne, the second race of the traditional Belgian Openingsweekend, in a manner that looked all too easy. The World champion was […]
Omega Pharma-Quick Step Classics captain positive about form ahead of the big races to come; will go for a third Kuurne victory tomorrow With his victories in the Tours of San Luis and Qatar showing that he is back to […]
Juan Antonio Flecha third after Classic edition of Flemish opening race Sep Vanmarcke proved that Garmin-Barracuda’s Classics team has not suffered the departure of Thor Hushovd in the winter, with a three-up sprint victory in the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. The […]
Former Dutch champion outsprints compatriot Ellen van Dijk in women’s European season opener Loes Gunnewijk (GreenEDGE-AIS) got the new Australian pro team’s first ever European season off to a perfect start with victory in the elite women’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. […]
Frenchman working with Boonen, trying to extend his team’s winning ways French veteran Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) comes off of a 15th overall in the Tour of Oman and takes to the narrow, cobbled roads of Belgium on Saturday, […]
Dane taking on leadership for new team in early Semi-Classic With Philippe Gilbert no longer on the team, and with Jürgen Roelandts sidelined after an early-season crash, Lars Bak (Lotto-Belisol) finds himself in a position of leadership in his new […]
