Bettini still undecided about taking over for Ballerini
Former professional cyclist Paolo Bettini has admitted that he’s still undecided on whether he will take the place of the late Franco Ballerini as the Italian national coach. The Italians were close friends and, while the position is open for […]
Traffic signalers threaten to boycott Tour of Flanders
Former Belgian national coach Jose De Cauwer made comments yesterday on Sporza during Dwars door Vlaanderen that has the signalmen scheduled to work the Tour of Flanders up in arms. De Cauwer complained that the signalers weren’t doing a proper […]
Rasmussen secures world scratch title for Danes
Olympic silver medalist Alex Rasmussen handed Denmark their first gold of the world track cycling championships Thursday when he won the men’s scratch race. Rasmussen finished the 15km, 60-lap race ahead of Colombia’s Juan Esteban Arango, with Japan’s Kazuhiro Mori […]
Australia takes women's team pursuit gold, Kiwi's set new world record
Australia’s women’s pursuit team maintained the squad’s impressive gold medal momentum with victory in the 3km event at the world track cycling championships Thursday. Defending champions Britain finished second to take the silver, losing their world record in the process, […]
Day and Neben take Redlands Classic prologue
The NRC calendar kicked off today with the prologue at the Redlands Classic, with Fly V Australia’s Ben Day repeating his win from last year, taking out the Jelly Belly duo of Carter Jones and Kiel Reijnen, who finished second […]
UCI appeals Swiss decision to abandon doping case on Jan Ullrich
Last month the disciplinary committee of the Swiss Olympic Committee made the decision to drop the case against former professional cyclist Jan Ullrich. The action was taken against the cyclist for his alleged involvement in the Operación Puerto doping scandal […]
2010 Women’s World Cup preview
Let the competition begin, in Italy Sunday sees the twelfth edition of the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Commune di Cittiglio, the first round of this year’s Women’s UCI Road World Cup. The race will cover 129.8km starting and finishing in the town […]
Hoy takes back the world keirin title
Four-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy took back his keirin World Championship title in Copenhagen, Denmark today to give him a British record of 10 world titles. Hoy dominated the final of the men’s event, finishing in front of Malaysia’s […]
Taylor Phinney successfully defends 4000m pursuit title
American Taylor Phinney brought home the first gold medal for the United States men today by defending his 4000 meter individual pursuit title from last year. Phinney clocked 4,16.600 minutes to beat New Zealand’s Jesse Sergent in the final. Phinney’s […]
Meares and McCullough defend sprint title
Australia’s Anna Meares and Kaarle McCullough successfully defended their team sprint title at the world track cycling championships on Thursday in Copenhagen, Denmark by beating China into a silver medal. McCullough said afterwards, “We’re so happy so have defended our […]