Champion System team to make WorldTour debut in race As confirmed yesterday, Andy Schleck’s withdrawal from the Binche-Tournai-Binche/Memorial Frank Vandenbroucke has not interfered with his plans to ride the Tour of Beijing. The race organisers have today announced his participation, […]
“Ale-Jet” Petacchi leads blue-fuchsia team as it seeks vital end-of-season ranking points Lampre-ISD will be led by Alessandro Petacchi in next week’s Tour of Beijing as the ble-fuchsia team hopes to close a disappointing season with some success. The Italian […]
2008 Olympic champion makes trip on back of runner-up slot in Il Lombardia Focussed on building up its UCI points and making sure of a renewed WorldTour licence for 2013, the Euskaltel Euskadi team is sending two of its strongest […]
Andersen believes he’ll bounce back and will be a future Tour de France winner Finally due to return to competition today after almost four months out of action due to injury, Andy Schleck will follow up his participation in the […]
Christensen, Tanner and Haedo earmarked to chase stages After backing Alberto Contador to victories in the Vuelta a España and Milano-Torino, Rafal Majka gets a chance to show what he himself can do, leading the Saxo Bank – Tinkoff Bank […]
Duo hoping to push squad into top three of rankings Encouraged by their performances this season, the Movistar team has named two strong, developing riders to spearhead the line-up in next month’s Tour of Beijing. Tour de Suisse winner and […]
Ag2r La Mondiale chasing points in WorldTour licence battle Former Tour de France Maillot Jaune wearer and 2010 Tour Méditerranéen winner Rinaldo Nocentini is the first team leader confirmed for the upcoming Tour of Beijing, with the Italian set to […]
Team has Japanese co-sponsor and rider A month after being awarded a wildcard entry to the Tour of Beijing, the Argos Shimano team has informed its riders that it will no longer take part. The news comes in the wake […]
The race of the falling leaves comes forward to allow specialists to capitalise on Worlds form; Tour of Beijing to become WorldTour finale Il Lombardia, as the Giro di Lombardia has become known, will move forward in the calendar next […]
Philippe Gilbert assured of final victory with only Lombardia remaining Overall victory in the inaugural Tour of Beijing lifts World time trial champion Tony Martin (HTC-Highroad) into the top ten of the overall International Cycling Union (UCI) WorldTour standings. The […]
Liquigas-Cannondale one-two comes after six-man move pulled back Not to be outdone by the Irish one-two the previous day, Elia Viviani led Liquigas-Cannondale teammate Peter Sagan over the line to take the fourth stage of the Tour of Beijing between […]
