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This week in Tirreno-Adriatico Belgian Tom Boonen finally managed to win a race on Italian soil. In one week’s time the first Spring Classic of the season will also take place in Italy.  It is there on the Italian Riviera […]

Current Tirreno-Adriatico race leader and defending champion Michele Scarponi went to the hospital in Macerata following today’s fifth stage. The Italian crashed on the descent of the Sassotetto on the way to Colmurano and injured his wrist. He was able […]

Cadel Evans is getting great support from all his BMC teammates in the Tirreno-Adriatico race. Today the Australian showed his good early season form by pulling hard in the end to gain eight seconds against race leader Michele Scarponi. Evans […]

Luis León Sánchez was unable to defend his Paris-Nice title, finishing third, 25 seconds behind Alberto Contador. But the Caisse d’Epargne rider has no regrets and was quite happy with his form this early in the season. Last year he […]

Denis Flahaut (ISD) won the 46th edition of the Omloop van het Waasland on Sunday, in a bunch sprint. After 191 kilometers, Flahaut left Baptiste Planckaert behind in second and Lithuanian Egidius Juodvalkis in third. The race is situated northeast […]

Fabian Wegmann is out for at least four weeks after his crash in stage three of Tirreno-Adriatico and will miss most of the classics season. The Milram rider complained about shoulder pain after he came down hard in the Italian […]

Enrico Gasparotto (Astana) has won the 216 kilometer fifth stage of Tirreno-Adriatico today which took place from Chieti to Colmurano. The determined Italian was the fastest in a leading group of four on the stage’s uphill drag to the finish. […]

Frenchman Amael Moinard (Cofidis) took victory in Sunday’s 119 kilometer seventh and final stage of Paris-Nice by less than a wheel over compatriot Thomas Voeckler (Bbox Bouygues Telecom). Moinard overtook the Bbox rider just before crossing the line. For the […]

All things considered, yesterday’s Paris-Nice stage went well for overall leader Alberto Contador. The Astana captain learned from his mistake last year and ate properly during the stage, and put himself in a position where the other teams with overall […]

Earlier today Italian Danilo Di Luca told Alessandra De Stefano on his RaiSport show that he was expecting to return to cycling soon, and had already signed a contract with one of Italy’s largest teams. “There’s a good chance that […]