Danish rider tenth in prologue, feeling good Regarded as one of the biggest Danish talents, former world Under 23 mountain bike champion Jakob Fuglsang is building up to what will be his first Tour de France. The Saxo Bank rider […]
Says he will focus on a few stages along with final time trial HTC-Columbia’s Tony Martin, last year’s second place finisher behind Andy Schleck in the best young rider classification at the Tour de France, heads into today’s opening time […]
8th career stage win for Cancellara at Tour de Suisse World Time Trial Champion, Fabian Cancellara, put in a sizzling second half in the 7.6 km opening day time trial in Lugano to turn an eight second deficit into a […]
Illness has delayed his return to form Irish rider Philip Deignan will start the Tour de Suisse tomorrow uncertain about his form, but knowing that a strong performance there should secure him a place in his first Tour de France. […]
Squad motivated by strong world ranking performances One year after not being invited by the organisers to its sponsor’s home race, the BMC Racing Team will head to the Tour de Suisse looking for an aggressive showing. World champion Cadel […]
Dutchman struggling to hit top form Dutch rider Johnny Hoogerland had high hopes of an excellent 2010 season but things haven’t quite gone to plan for the 27 year old. He’s been solid rather than spectacular, and will now miss […]
The team’s lineup is back to full strength The Milram team will be heading into the Tour de Suisse this Saturday looking to bring their leaders Fabian Wegmann and Gerald Ciolek into the Tour de France on a high note. […]
Team confirms the Manx Missile is ready to fire HTC-Columbia is heading to the Tour de Suisse in Lugano, Switzerland this weekend hunting for stage wins in the nine-day race. Last year the overall classification was won by Saxo Bank’s […]
Says repeat victory will be difficult Fabian Cancellara put in a fairly quiet race at the Tour of California last month. The 2010 winner of the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix took a well-earned break following his success and used […]
Irishman hopeful he’ll ride the Tour de France Irish road race champion Nicolas Roche has been sidelined from racing since the Tour de Romandie, but he will make his competitive return this Sunday in the Tour du Canton d’Argovie in […]
Will follow same plan as in 2001 RadioShack team leader Lance Armstrong will follow the same preparation for this year’s Tour de France as he did back in 2001, with the Texan lining out in the Tour de Suisse on […]
Texan still chasing form Bashed by a crash during the Tour of California and buffeted by this week’s allegations by Floyd Landis that he doped, Lance Armstrong is continuing with his plans to ride the Tour de France, and will […]
Very quick recovery expected from collarbone break Stuart O’Grady’s Tour de France participation appeared out the window when he crashed on the fifth stage of the Tour of California but, against expectation, the tough Aussie expects to be riding the […]
Irish champion likely to return in Tour de Suisse Nicolas Roche’s chances of riding this year’s Tour de France got back on track yesterday when he was given the green light to resume training and prepare for the Tour of […]
Last week VeloNation reported that Cervélo TestTeam rider Heinrich Haussler was back on his bike after an injury to his quadriceps tendon knocked him out of commission for the spring Classics. Now he has a tentative plan to come back […]
Swiss Olympic time-trial champion Fabian Cancellara won the Tour of Switzerland on Sunday after winning the ninth and final stage of the race here, a 38.5 kilometres time-trial. The 28-year-old beat Germany’s Tony Martin – winner of Saturday’s penultimate stage […]
Columbia-High Road managed to win another stage in the Tour de Suisse today, this time with German Tony Martin. And if winning six of the eight stages isn’t impressive enough, they have managed to accomplish this feat with five riders […]
Luxembourg’s Kim Kirchen won the seventh stage of the Tour of Switzerland, a 204 kilometre ride from Bad Zurzach to here on Friday. Last year’s winner, Czech rider Roman Kreuziger was second over the line and Germany’s Linus Gerdemann third. […]
