Tour de Picardie: Egidijus Juodvalkis wins uphill opening sprint
Unpronounceable Lithuanian moves into lead after first stage Egidijus Juodvalkis (Landbouwkrediet) won the opening stage of the Tour de Picardie between Abbeville and La Neuville-en-Hez. The unpronounceable 23-year-old former Lithuanian champion outsprinted Kenny Dehaes (Omega Pharma-Lotto) and Swiss champion Martin […]
Tour of Chongming Island: Teutenberg secures overall as Chloe Hosking wins final stage
HTC-Highroad completes almost total domination of Chinese stage race Chloe Hosking (HTC-Highroad) won the third and final stage of the Tour of Chongming Island, the Shanghai East Beach Cup, in a bunch sprint, completing the team’s almost total domination of […]
Giro d’Italia: Eruptions on Mount Etna could disrupt Sunday’s stage
Ash and lava floes could force the shortening of the race’s big showpiece With half of the World’s cycling media currently readying their cliché-ometers for Sunday’s big stage to Mount Etna, the words “volcanic” and “eruption” might well be needed […]
Giro d’Italia: Francisco Ventoso sprints to stage six win as the Ale-Jet switches off his afterburners
Pieter Weening holds onto the maglia rosa after Rabobank controls the stage-long break Francisco Ventoso (Movistar) won the sixth stage of this year’s Giro d’Italia between Orvieto and Fiuggi in a bunch sprint at the head of what was a […]
Millar says team will give full backing to Le Mevel at Giro
Fourth on yesterday’s stage to Orvieto and fourth overall, five seconds behind the Maglia Rosa: it’s been a strong Giro d’Italia thus far for Christophe Le Mevel, and he’ll have the full backing of the Garmin-Cervélo team in the days […]
Giro d’Italia: McEwen expects break to contest stage six
Rules out his own chances of being there in the finale With a lumpy run in to the line in Fiuggi, RadioShack sprinter Robbie McEwen has said that he believes that stage six of the Giro will be contested by […]
Giro d’Italia: Pinotti will fight to get the Maglia Rosa back
Believes retaking pink jersey is better than riding conservatively Five days after he took the pink jersey in the team time trial in Turin, Marco Pinotti showed that he is determined to try to get it back when he rode […]
Giro d’Italia: Mixed fortunes for Saxo Bank-SunGard captains on Strade Bianche stage
Cuts and bruises for Richie Porte but a strong finish for Alberto Contador Saxo Bank-SunGard enjoyed mixed fortunes on yesterday’s fifth stage of the Giro d’Italia, which crossed a number of sections of Tuscany’s iconic Strade Bianche between Piompino and […]
Tour of California: BMC looking forward to racing “at home”
Brent Bookwalter returns from injury, while Steve Morabito hoping to improve on last year’s twelfth place The BMC Racing Team is looking forward to the Amgen Tour of California, which starts in South Lake Tahoe this coming Sunday, sending a […]
Weylandt’s race number retired from Giro d’Italia
Organisers mark his passing with symbolic gesture Following the tragic death of Wouter Weylandts this week, the organisers of the Giro d’Italia have confirmed that they have decided to remove the race number he wore from all future editions of […]
