Cameras onboard team cars to debut in Ronde van Vlaanderen
Flanders Classics sides with teams’ organisation in radio debate Tomorrow’s Ronde van Vlaanderen will see cameras mounted onboard team cars for the first time, which the race organiser says will make it “possible for the television audience to witness the […]
Ian Stanard Interview: In good form for Flanders and Roubaix
British Sky Proteam rider goes close in Gent-Wevelgem The cobbled Classics season has started well for Team Sky; Aussie CJ Sutton won from a huge bunch at Kuurne; Welshman Geraint Thomas took second to a resurgent Nick Nuyens (Saxo & […]
Team Type 1 – sanofi-aventis riders back in action after bike theft
Affected squad returned to racing yesterday in France A week after the theft of hundreds of thousands of euros worth of bikes and equipment while on the the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali, the affected riders on the American Team […]
Redlands Bicycle Classic: Bennett and Cliff-Ryan beat the heat in stage one, overall leaders unchanged
Scorching hot day in Cali takes its toll on the peloton Stage one of the Redlands Bicycle Bicycle Classic presented by PossAbilities for the men was won by John Bennett from the California Giant Team. Bennett edged out talented 19-year-old […]
US amateur rider and journalist Andrew Tilin handed two year doping ban by USADA
Californian wrote a book about doping himself for races A book written by journalist and amateur rider Andrew Tilin on doping in cycling races appears to have secured him a two year ban from the US Anti-Doping Agency. USADA announced […]
Washington group says bid to host Giro d’Italia start is postponed, not abandoned
Giro could yet travel across the Atlantic Today’s news that Denmark will host the start of the 2012 Giro d’Italia spelt the end of the push to try to bring the race to Washington next year. However, the people involved […]
Basso feeling confident heading into Vuelta al Pais Vasco
Liquigas-Cannondale increasingly ambitious Most of the current attention is on the Tour of Flanders, but the sport’s Grand Tour specialists are also racing hard in the days ahead. 2010 Giro d’Italia winner Ivan Basso is part of the Liquigas-Cannondale squad […]
Stijn Devolder and Leif Hoste will be walking wounded in Sunday’s Ronde van Vlaanderen
Both riders say they must ride, even if they only make it halfway round Stijn Devolder (Vacansoleil-DCM) and Leif Hoste (Katusha) have both suffered bad crashes in the lead up to Sunday’s Ronde van Vlaanderen. The former came down in […]
Damiano Cunego to return for Vuelta al Pais Vasco
Basque race should be good proving ground before the Ardennes classics While half of the peloton is looking towards the cobbles and bergs of Flanders, the rest is preparing itself for the Vuelta al Pais Vasco, which starts on Monday. […]
Juan Antonio Flecha wants to win the Ronde but riding a good race is more important
Sky’s classics star just wants to enjoy his racing Juan Antonio Flecha (Team Sky) is the British team’s number one man for Sunday’s Ronde van Vlaanderen. The Spanish classics star has come close to taking the race, being outsprinted by […]
