Giro d’Italia: Carlos Sastre not worried by lost seconds in opening team time trial
Former Tour de France winner knows there’s a long way to go in the race The Geox-TMC team finished an uninspiring eighteenth in the Giro d’Italia’s opening team time trial, losing 53 seconds to stage winners HTC-Highroad. More importantly though, […]
Quick Step's Zdenek Stybar podiums in first road race
Cyclocross world champion makes a quick transition to the road Zdenek Stybar surprised himself in his first road race for the Belgian Quick Step team by finishing 3rd in stage 4 of 4 Jours de Dunkerque, 1 minute 43 seconds […]
Giro d’Italia: Rabobank happy with team time trial performance, if not position
“Five teams on a handkerchief” sees Dutch team slip to seventh in race opener Having won the opening team time trial of March’s Tirreno-Adriatico, albeit with an almost entirely different line up, Rabobank might have expected to finish better than […]
Phil Southerland Interview: Winning Tour of Turkey and planning ahead
Team Type 1 moves up a gear with high profile win From low to high: fortunes turned for Team Type 1 on May 1st when, weeks after it suffered its toughest moment when hundreds of thousands of euros-worth of bikes […]
Giro d’Italia: Team time trial winners and losers
Who was hot and who was not in today’s opening stage? With all 23 teams finishing within 1’13” of each other in today’s opening team time trial, it’s tough to make definite observations on good or bad performances. Nobody split […]
Giro d’Italia: Marco Pinotti snags pink as HTC-Highroad takes team time trial
American teams top the standings as Alberto Contador’s rivals draw first blood Marco Pinotti (HTC-Highroad) pulled on the first maglia rosa of this year’s Giro d’Italia, thanks to his team’s blistering performance in the opening team time trial between Venaria […]
Philip Deignan expects to perform at the Corsa Rosa
Irishman feels good prior to Giro d’Italia start Team RadioShack’s Philip Deignan says he’s a different rider than he was last year, but will be cautious at the Giro d’Italia as he isn’t sure of how his body will react […]
Giro d' Italia: Kevin Seeldraeyers looks for top 10 finish
Young Belgian looks to bounce back in Italy Kevin Seeldraeyers is hoping to put an average 2010 behind him when he lines up on the start line of the Giro d’Italia today. The Quick Step cyclist was the best young […]
Giro d’Italia: Race organisation issues final start list
Changes made to original line up after rider withdrawals Since the publishing of the Giro d’Italia’s start list more than two weeks ago there have been a number of changes made to some teams. Some were enforced by injuries, like […]
Porte ready for second Giro d’Italia
Australian rider’s form on the up One year ago, Richie Porte confirmed his arrival as one of the top young talents in the sport. Starting his first Grand Tour after winning the time trial in the Tour de Romandie, he […]
