Giro d’Italia: Andrea Guardini comes of age with a sprint victory in Vedelago
The “future of Italian sprinting” bests Mark Cavendish in a straight dash for the line After enduring a torrid debut Giro d’Italia, with first week crashes and struggling through the mountains, Andrea Guardini (Farnese Vini-Selle Italia) confirmed his talent with […]
Giro Donne announces nine stages for 2012 race
1000km between Napoli and Bergamo for the only women’s Grand Tour With the men’s Giro d’Italia coming to its climax this week, the organisers of the Giro d’Italia Femminile – the Giro Donne – have announced the route of the […]
An Post Rás video: McLaughlin impresses with daring seventy kilometre break, caught 100 metres from finish
Pedersen takes fourth stage while Lang continues to lead overall Starting Wednesday’s stage in a skinsuit and using a vent-covered helmet, Ronan McLaughlin’s goal would have been clear to the other riders; get clear early, drive all the way to […]
Team Tibco-To The Top bikes stolen on eve of Exergy Tour
Shivs recovered, but eight Specialized Amiras still to be found; reward offered for information Team Tibco-To The Top has suffered a robbery on the eve of the Exergy Tour, as thieves broke into the team’s trailer in the race hotel […]
Bayern-Rundfahrt: Alessandro Petacchi takes a 2012 victory at last in stage one
The Ale-Jet finally fires in southern Germany after long breakaway pulled back Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-ISD) finally opened his 2012 account, after a string of near-misses, in the opening stage of the Bayern-Rundfahrt between Traunstein and Penzberg. The 38-year-old, who was […]
Tour of Belgium: André Greipel takes it in a photo finish in stage one sprint
German Gorilla millimetres in front of Danilo Napolitano in flat opening stage André Greipel (Lotto-Belisol) took the opening stage of the Tour of Belgium, between Mechelen and Buggenhout, by the tightest possible margin. The big German sprinter managed to throw […]
Giro d’Italia: Joaquim Rodríguez wins the battle of the favourites on stage seventeen
Purito takes his second stage as the race’s big names fight it out across the Dolomites Joaquim Rodríguez (Katusha) won an epic seventeenth stage, between Falzes/Pfalzen and Cortina D’Ampezzo, as the big favourites for the race did battle across the […]
Video: Defending champion Bagdonas reacts to An Post Rás stage win
Lituanian searching for WorldTour or Pro Conti contract after Geox deal fell through Having gone close to a top contract for 2012 but being frustrated when the Geox TMC team he was due to race for fell apart, Lithuanian rider […]
McQuaid defeated in IOC executive board vote
UCI president loses out to AIBA’s Wu The effort of UCI president Pat McQuaid to secure a place on the IOC executive board proved unsuccessful yesterday, with the Irishman being defeated in a vote held by the Association of Summer […]
Giro d’Italia stage 17 video preview: tackling the Passo Giau and its descent
Michael Barry and Dan Lloyd talk route, tactics, descending and carbo-loading With three mountains stages left in the 2012 Giro d’Italia and the top eight riders less than two minutes apart, todays stage seventeen from Pfalzen to Cortina d’Ampezzo will […]
