Cunego choses Vuelta/worlds combination over Tour de France
Italian gunning to win rainbow jersey four years after taking silver Absent from today’s announcement of the lineup of the Lampre-ISD team for the Tour de France, Damiano Cunego has structured his season around trying to become world road race […]
Tour de France: Martin Velits replaces injured Vandenbergh on Omega Pharma Quick Step team
Tour debut means twin brothers will compete together in race Omega Pharma Quick Step rider Martin Velits will join his twin brother Peter on the already-announced lineup for the Tour de France, marking a very rare occasion for siblings to […]
Petacchi and Scarponi head twin Lampre-ISD challenge at Tour de France
Sprints and climbs targeted by Italian team, Lloyd also selected Six-time stage winner and 2010 Maillot Vert Alessandro Petacchi has been confirmed as heading the Lampre-ISD team’s sprint ambitions for the Tour de France, with the 38 year old showing […]
Turtur calls on Bobridge and Hepburn to knuckle down after drink-drive incident
“It’s a crazy situation that I can’t understand,” states former team pursuit gold medalist Olympic gold medallist in 1984, Mike Turtur has said that Jack Bobridge and Michael Hepburn are at a crucial point in relation to their Olympic ambitions, […]
Démare, Chavenel, Voeckler among seven French riders preselected for Olympic berth
Jalabert choosing from a mixture of sprinters and attackers Laurent Jalabert has preselected seven riders for the French Olympic team, as reported Monday by L’Equipe. The list contains a variety of sprinters and veteran attackers who may be suited to […]
Daryl Impey: I always wanted to race the Tour, now that dream is a reality
Giro, Tour de France and Olympics part of the South African’s big year Daryl Impey’s dream season continues after being named in the Orica-GreenEdge Tour de France line up at the weekend. The South African made his Grand Tour debut […]
Jonathan Vaughters Interview: New backer, July targets and chasing Giro-Tour double
Garmin-Sharp team manager speaks in final countdown to Tour de France While at least one other team has had a month to forget, the past few weeks have been good ones for the Garmin-Barracuda team. The American squad took the […]
Brian Vandborg Interview: New direction with Team SpiderTech
Dane to miss Tour this year, twelve months after riding for Contador in the race It’s late June and ‘all roads lead to Liege’ and le Tour – but only if you’re a World Tour team. A man who has […]
Cofidis team all behind Rein Taaramäe in the Tour de France
Estonian looking to better eleventh place of 2011; white jersey a possibility The Cofidis team has announced the names of the nine men that it will be sending to the Tour de France, which starts in the Belgian city of […]
Rabobank extends with Dutch cycling but also voices reservations
Doping rumbles from 2007 could have prompted a withdrawal The Dutch national federation KNWU has received a boost of a renewed sponsorship agreement with Rabobank, its current sponsor, but it has emerged that there was a danger that backer could […]
