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Race’s only Belgian winner has to settle for seventh in frantic finale Her victory in the 2010 edition made Grace Verbeke (Topsport Vlaanderen 2012-Ridley) one of the big names to watch in this year’s Ronde van Vlaanderen. Early season form […]

Belgian legend comments on Sunday’s race; says it’s time for the route to change Belgian legend Freddy Maertens predicted that a rider like Nick Nuyens would win Sunday’s Ronde van Vlaanderen. The double World champion who, despite going close on […]

Team yet to decide if American talent will make elite race debut According to the BMC Racing Team, there is a still a chance that Taylor Phinney could start this weekend’s Paris-Roubaix Classic. The 20 year old’s first professional season […]

Important wildcard confirmed for American team The American Team Type 1 – sanofi-aventis has received a major boost with the news that it has been awarded wildcard entry to the Tour de Suisse. The race will be one of the […]

News from two separate events Following last month’s news that the Tour de San Luis and Vuelta a Chile winner Marco Arriagada had tested positive, two others from the latter event have also failed tests. Arriagada’s Chilean compatriot José Medina […]

Garmin-Cervelo leader makes no excuses about Flanders, looking ahead to his favorite race Garmin-Cervelo went in to Sunday’s Tour of Flanders as the odds on favorites to be the team that could possibly dethrone the mighty Fabian Cancellara. However, for […]

Sky rider looking ahead to Sunday’s showdown on the cobbles at Paris-Roubaix Geraint Thomas’s steady rise to the top continued on Sunday with another excellent ride on the cobbles. The reigning British road champion finished 10th out of the dozen […]

2011’s ‘eternal second’ opens his Leopard Trek account at last After a succession of second and third places this season, Daniele Bennati (Leopard Trek) has finally taken his first victory in his new team’s colours. The Italian sprinter outpaced Samuel […]

Klöden and Horner third and fourth, others lose time The 2010 world number one Joaquim Rodriguez picked up his first win of the season today when he outsprinted three others to take the opening stage of the Vuelta al Pais […]

Howman said current system is expensive, wants debate to be held on revision The long-standing practice of having A and B samples for testing in doping controls could potentially be dropped in future, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s David Howman said […]