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The Ardennes Classics didn’t start off as well as Team Sky’s Chris Froome would have liked.  The British rider was in Italy expecting to fly north to The Netherlands for the start of the Amstel Gold Race, but like so […]

The spring Classics will come to an end in the Ardennes this Sunday with 96th edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège.  The 258 kilometer race will provide the last opportunity for teams to salvage their Classics campaign before changing focus to the Grand […]

Two months after the first sportsman was suspended for testing positive for human growth hormone, a more powerful test for hGH is moving ever-closer towards its official introduction. On Wednesday British doctors reported that a new method of screening has […]

Four years after the ‘Operazione Athena’ began, former Vuelta a España stage winner Luca Paolini and 28 others have been charged in relation to a doping network and will face trial in Bergamo, northern Italy. According to La Gazzetta dello […]

Former Giro d’Italia winners Ivan Basso and Gilberto Simoni both lined out in the Giro del Trentino aiming for a strong performance, knowing that would show that their preparations for the Italian Tour were on track, and also that it […]

Following his eighth place finish in Flèche Wallonne this past Wednesday, Caisse d’Epargne’s Alejandro Valverde says he’s ready to try bring home his third win in Liège-Bastogne-Liège.  The Spaniard missed out on the Amstel Gold Race a week ago due […]

Following an early-season transfer from his previous team, the Italian rider Giampaolo Caruso will tomorrow make his debut for the Katusha squad when he lines out in Liège-Bastogne-Liège. The 29 year old from Avola had been with the Ceramica Flaminia […]

Cervélo TestTeam’s Kirsten Wild successfully defended her Omloop van Borsele title today by winning the race for the third consecutive time. Wild won the 121 kilometer event in a sprint finish over Rochelle Gillmore (AUS-Lotto) and Kirsty Broun (AUS-National Australia […]

The American HTC-Columbia team will be looking to Marco Pinotti for the overall in the Tour of Romandie, while they will have a fit Mark Cavendish ready to take on the sprints.  The race begins Tuesday with a short prologue […]

Cadel Evans is undoubtedly benefiting from a big boost to his morale after the second big one-day race victory of his career in Flèche Wallonne, but he doesn’t appear to rate his chances too highly of taking a rare double […]