Tour of California: HTC-Columbia's Michael Rogers moves into the lead
Three-time world TT champ takes over Michael Rogers arrived in the press room following today’s second place finish behind Liquigas’ prodigal talent, Peter Sagan, with a broad grin. His efforts during the stage to net an intermediate time bonus sprint […]
Tour of California: Fly V's Ben Day talks breaks while Zajicek looks to overall
Day mixes it up with the ProTour squads Fly V Australia’s National Race Calendar forerunner, Ben Day, spent the stage out front in the long break that wasn’t reeled in until the final minutes of the tough finishing circuits around […]
Tour of California: Sagan again shows his class, Rogers takes over lead
Cycling shows its bright future Liquigas-Doimo’s Peter Sagan easily won the sprint for victory in stage five of the Tour of California today, beating Michael Rogers (HTC-Columbia) and David Zabriskie (Garmin-Transitions) into second and third place respectively. Rogers picked up […]
Tour d l’Aude: Teutenberg wins yet again as podium changes again
German champion wins her 20th Aude stage as two Dutch riders make the podium Ina Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) won her twentieth career stage of the Tour de l’Aude, taking stage 6 in Castelnaudary. Once again the German über-sprinter won as part […]
Giro d’Italia: Pozzato wins in yet another bizarre stage finish
Favourites reassert themselves on what should be a day for the sprinters Filippo Pozzato (Katusha) won the twelfth stage of the Giro d’Italia between Città Sant’Angelo and Porto Recanati. The Italian champion outsprinted a small group of riders consisting almost […]
Giro d’Italia: Race jury slaps sprinters’ wrists, opens up points jersey race
Garmin’s Farrar sees his red jersey lead slashed The chaos created by yesterday’s 56-man breakaway wasn’t confined to just the overall classification and the race for the pink jersey. The group that was refered to as the peloton, containing then […]
Giro d’Italia: Sastre is the only one to worry about, says Basso
Liquigas-Doimo captain dismisses the chances of the other l’Aquila opportunists Of the riders who gained time in the incredible breakaway on the road to l’Aquila, Liquigas-Doimo captain Ivan Basso sees only one as a genuine threat to the overall. Of […]
Tour of California: Francesco Chicchi talks after his win
Francesco Chicchi took his sixth victory of the still young season today in the Tour of California’s Stage 4 bunch sprint finish Modesto. The 29-year-old Italian had no problems dispatching JJ Haedo and Mark Cavendish en route to the win. […]
Tour of California: The sprinters talk bunch sprint possibilities
Can anyone rival the Manx Missile… There aren’t very many chances for the sprinters in the 2010 AMGEN Tour of California, but Wednesday’s Stage 4 finish in Modesto has bunch sprint printed all over it. Juan Jose Haedo (Saxo Bank) […]
Giro d'Italia: Porte goes from white to pink in stellar ProTour debut
The second Australian to wear pink this Giro Richard ‘Richie’ Porte is racing his first pro season in Europe and the young Australian is having a blast. After already winning the time trial in Moudon during the Tour de Romandie, […]
