Fabian Cancellara to leave Vuelta a España today
World TT champion planning towards defence of his title With six days left until the end of the Vuelta a España, Fabian Cancellara has said that he will leave the race in order to build towards the world time trial […]
Marc de Maar to rejoin UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team in 2012
Climber returns after one year at Quick Step The American team UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling has announced that Marc de Maar will rejoin the squad for the 2012 season, after the Curaçao national champion finishes his first season with Quick Step. […]
Emilia Fahlin races to prologue victory in Tour de l’Ardeche
HTC Highroad rider picks up first individual UCI victory Having said in a video interview earlier this year that one of her big season goals was to grab her first big win, Swedish rider Emilia Fahlin achieved that target in […]
More details emerge about new RadioShack Nissan Trek team
Bruyneel to be involved, says all contracts will be respected Following today’s earlier announcement that the American RadioShack team will merge with that of Leopard Trek, joining the likes of the Schleck brothers and Fabian Cancellara with Chris Horner, Janez […]
Tour de l’Avenir: Moreno Hofland wins stage one from seven-man break
Rohan Dennis moves into race lead as Michael Hepburn misses the move Moreno Hofland (Netherlands) took the opening stage of the Tour de l’Avenir between Yutz and Lunéville as he outsprinted the rest of a seven-rider group that had escaped […]
Juan José Cobo: “I knew that this weekend was crucial”
Vuelta leader leaps from eighth to first in two dramatic mountaintop finishes Juan José Cobo (Geox-TMC) spent the first two weeks of the Vuelta a España in the shadows. On the crucial mountaintop finishes to Sierra Nevada and La Covatilla […]
Vuelta a España : Jean Francois Bernard doubts Cobo’s authenticity
Former pro believes Spaniard is more than likely going to win L’Equipe analyst and former French pro Jean Francois Bernard has expressed doubts about the return to form of Juan Jose Cobo, who dominated yesterday’s stage to the Angliru and […]
Leopard Trek confirms collaboration with RadioShack and Nissan
Horner, Klöden and Brajkovic amongst those moving to Luxembourg squad Appearing to contradict l’Equipe’s contention that the Leopard Trek team will cease to exist, the squad has announced this evening that a collaboration of sponsors will take place, but says […]
Vincenzo Nibali: “I want to honour this race until the last Kilometre”
Defending Vuelta champion concedes that his dream of a second straight victory is over In the space of two mountain stages the Vuelta a España defence of Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) fell apart. The Sicilian lost 2’37” to stage winner – […]
Sky’s Wiggins and Froome pledge to battle onwards
Multiple other teams showing interest in securing Froome’s signature Speaking on the second rest day of the Vuelta a España, Sky Procycling duo Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome have pledged to fight onwards in a bid to topple race leader […]
