Training is over for Giro champion, it’s time for racing to begin The training camps are now over for 2010 Giro d’Italia winner Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Cannondale) and after last month’s Tour de San Luis in Argentina, he is ready to […]
January illness could have ruined RadioShack rider’s spring campaign Sébastien Rosseler (RadioShack) is counting the cost of having fallen ill in early January, according to Sporza. The Belgian rider missed the Santos Tour Down Under and is finding his form […]
Danish track star hopes to be a stage race contender His third consecutive win at the Copenhagen Six Days, with log time track partner and former Saxo Bank teammate Alex Rasmussen, closed a successful winter on the track for Michael […]
Belgian will work with American ProTeam to boost chances of success Double Tour of Flanders winner Peter Van Petegem has confirmed that he will take up a temporary position with the Garmin-Cervélo team, seeking to aid the squad to land […]
Missing Qatar and Oman means Belgian star is not at the level he wants for Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Although he has put in some strong performances in the races of the Mallorca Challenge, Philippe Gilbert (OmegaPharma-Lotto) feels that he needs […]
40-year-old Belgian still has the legs to make the break At 40 years of age, Nico Eeckhout is by far the eldest member of the An Post-Sean Kelly Team and so naturally he acts as a sort of role model […]
Belgian classics legend offered Matt White’s former role at Garmin-Cervélo Retired classics specialist Peter Van Petegem has been offered the role of director sportif at the Garmin-Cervélo team, according to Sporza, in order to lend his experience to World champion […]
RCS Sport’s spring races to be available worldwide; fingers crossed for the Giro d’Italia! The three spring races organised by Giro d’Italia owners RCS Sport will all be broadcast on international networks, thanks to a deal brokered by Italian TV’s […]
Tough climb brought back into race after improvement works by local council The tough Côte de la Haute-Levée climb is to be reintroduced to the parcours of Liège-Bastogne-Liège after a one-year absence, race organiser ASO has announced. The decision to […]
Youngest member of Marianne Vos’ team can’t wait to get racing in 2011 Emma Trott is the latest and, at just 21 years old, the youngest recruit to the Nederland Bloeit team for 2011. The rider from Cheshunt, just a […]
Calls it an important piece in his preparation The early season programme of Philippe Gilbert is mostly with the race planning for the upcoming Spring Classics season. After discussions with the management of his Omega Pharma – Lotto team he […]
Same objectives as usual for Quick Step’s biggest stars As one of Belgium’s two biggest teams Quick Step naturally aims its biggest guns at the spring classics; in 2010 though, those guns missed. Tom Boonen’s third places at Milano-Sanremo, the […]
American looking forward to cobbled hills in April Tyler Farrar is known to everybody as one of the fastest men in the sprinting peloton, but the American really dreams of a victory in the Tour of Flanders. Farrar lives in […]
Belgian classics star coming round to Dutch champion that he “cursed many times” One of the many new recruits to the Quick Step team for 2011 is Dutch champion Niki Terpstra. The 26-year-old spent the last four years at the […]
World time trial champion can’t wait for the new season with his new team Fabian Cancellara is one of the biggest names, if not the biggest name, to be part of the new Leopard-Trek team created around the two Schleck […]
One of the few Cervélo TestTeam survivors feels that new-look team can be just as powerful Iris Slappendel is one of only five riders from the 14-strong 2010 Cervélo TestTeam line up to be joining the new Garmin-Cervélo team. Along […]
Dutch winner of Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne latest to secure new team after Pegasus debacle Bobbie Traksel has become the latest rider from the proposed 2011 Pegasus line up to find a new team, securing a place at the Belgian Landbouwkrediet team. The […]
Belgian classics star of the 1950’s is lost to the sport Raymond Impanis, a tough Flemish Classics specialist of the 1950s, has died, aged 85, after a long illness, according to Sporza. The former professional rider was born on October […]
