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Tour of Qatar

NetApp-Endura gets desired invites, aiming for Grand Tour start in 2013

Tours of San Luis, Qatar and Oman wildcards secured Having made its Grand Tour debut in the Giro d’Italia last season and picking up second places on stages via Bartosz Huzarski and Jan Barta, the NetApp-Endura team is pushing for […]

Author: VeloN Categories: Pro Cycling, Tour of Oman, Tour of Qatar,

Omega Pharma confirms Cavendish to make debut in Tour de San Luis, Boonen delays season start

Paris-Roubaix and Flanders winner will start racing in Tour of Qatar Former world champion Mark Cavendish will get his 2013 season underway early, with the Briton set to make his Omega Pharma Quick Step competitive debut on January 20th in […]

Author: Shane Stokes Categories: Pro Cycling, Tour of Qatar,

White label/Rabobank team misses out on Qatar, looking for replacement race

Team confirms it will make its Tour de Langkawi debut at end of February The team previously known as Rabobank is currently working to pinpoint another race to compete in February after learning that it will not be given a […]

Author: Shane Stokes Categories: Pro Cycling, Tour de Langkawi, Tour of Qatar,

Operation for Filippo Pozzato following Qatar collarbone break

Italian Classics specialist plans to be back on two wheels as soon as possible Filippo Pozzato (Farnese Vini-Selle Italia) is to undergo surgery tomorrow morning to fix a plate to the collarbone that he broke during the fifth stage of […]

Author: Ben Atkins Categories: Injury, Pro Cycling, Spring Classics, Tour of Qatar,

Alexander Kristoff reflects on first race of the season with Katusha

Norwegian says partnership with Galimzyanov is growing Alexander Kristoff has had a solid debut with his new Katusha team at the Tour of Qatar. The former BMC Racing Team man was brought onto the Russian squad this year to support […]

Author: Xylon van Eyck Categories: Pro Cycling, Tour of Qatar,

Rabobank in Qatar: “It was a learning process”

Renshaw unable to repeat as champion in second race with Dutch squad The Dutch team Rabobank was able to take some positives away from the final stage of the Tour of Qatar, which saw the team’s new sprinter Mark Renshaw […]

Author: Kyle Moore Categories: Pro Cycling, Tour of Qatar,

Cavendish bruised but unbroken, Tour of Oman still on

World champion not badly hurt after high speed crash World road race champion Mark Cavendish is expected to be able to start the Tour of Oman as planned, with his crash on today’s final stage of the Tour of Qatar […]

Author: VeloN Categories: Injury, Pro Cycling, Tour of Qatar,

Tour of Qatar: Tom Boonen wins fourth title as Arnaud Démare comes of age

Mark Cavendish crashes in final sprint as no team takes control World under-23 champion Arnaud Demaré (FDJ-BigMat) scored his first ever win as a professional, to take the sixth and final stage of the 2012 Tour of Qatar, between the […]

Author: Ben Atkins Categories: Pro Cycling, Tour of Qatar,

Tour of Qatar: Cavendish cruises to second victory on stage five

World champion separated his from team but despatches his rivals with ease Mark Cavendish (Team Sky) reaffirmed his claim to be the fastest man on two wheels, as he sprinted to a second victory in the 2012 Tour of Qatar […]

Author: Ben Atkins Categories: Pro Cycling, Tour of Qatar,

Broken elbow for Michael Barry in Qatar crash

Operation needed for Canadian rider after pile up in the desert crosswinds The worst victim of the crash that split the peloton, as it began to accelerate into the closing kilometres of today’s fourth stage of the Tour of Qatar, […]

Author: Ben Atkins Categories: Injury, Pro Cycling, Tour of Qatar,

Tour of Qatar: Tom Boonen takes stage four as the wind smashes the race again

Second stage this year for Belgian sprinter – and twenty in his career – who increases his overall lead Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) took an incredible twentieth career stage victory in the Tour of Qatar, and his second in […]

Author: Ben Atkins Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results, Tour of Qatar,

Mark Cavendish takes his first rainbow victory in Qatar stage three

World champion outsprints race leader but Tom Boonen reopens overall lead Mark Cavendish (Team Sky) has opened his 2012 account, taking his first victory for his new team, and his first in the rainbow jersey, in the third stage of […]

Author: Ben Atkins Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results, Tour of Qatar,

Tour of Qatar: Garmin-Barracuda blitzes team time trial but Boonen clings to gold

Belgian holds race lead by three-hundredths of a second after American team fastest in 11.3km Lusail test Garmin-Barracuda blasted around the 11.3km stage two team time trial course, out and back from the Lusail Cycling Circuit, in a time of […]

Author: Ben Atkins Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results, Tour of Qatar,

Tour of Qatar: Course change reconnaissance puts BMC's Adam Blythe into white

Red and black team checked out new stage finish as roadworks forced a move from Doha Golf Club As soon as it was announced that roadworks had necessitated the move of the finish of the first stage of the Tour […]

Author: Ben Atkins Categories: Pro Cycling, Tour of Qatar,

Tom Boonen cruises to sprint victory in opening Qatar stage

Omega Pharma-Quick Step rider takes yet another stage win in windy Middle Eastern race Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) rekindled his love affair with the Tour of Qatar with an apparently easy victory in the first stage, between Barzan Towers […]

Author: Ben Atkins Categories: Pro Cycling, Race Reports and Results, Tour of Qatar,

Mark Cavendish passed fit to start Tour of Qatar

World champion “not 100% healthy” but cleared to race Mark Cavendish has been passed fit by Team Sky’s medical team, and has lined up at the start of the Tour of Qatar, his first race of the season. The World […]

Author: Ben Atkins Categories: Injury, Pro Cycling, Tour of Qatar,

Tour of Qatar preview: battle in the desert

Cavendish, Gilbert and Hushovd headline field Starting today, the Tour of Qatar signals the start of the season for many Classics riders and sprinters whose aims lie in the first few months of the season. The flat course, mild temperature […]

Author: Reno Van Dael Categories: Pro Cycling, Tour of Qatar,

Cavendish feverish on eve of Tour of Qatar

World Champion ‘unable to get out of bed’ before first race of the season Mark Cavendish’s aim of beginning his season as world road race champion has run into complications before it has started, with a question mark over the […]

Author: VeloN Categories: Injury, Pro Cycling, Tour of Qatar,

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