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22/01/2014 21:29
The Tour Down Under continued today with another tough stage; this time 150 kilometres from Prospect to Stirling. It was the first real uphill finish of this year's Tour, and it was expected that the race's major contenders would show their hand today. On the attack for the second day running was...
21/01/2014 21:52
The Tour de San Luis continued today with a 170 kilometre stage from La Punta to the Mirador de Protrero de los Funes. It was a tough stage with a final climb of 4.8 kilometres. Phillip Gaimon of Garmin-Sharp was the overnight leader, but it would be a difficult day to keep his lead.  The...
21/01/2014 21:13
The WorldTour season started today with the first stage of the Tour Down Under in Adelaide. The peloton travelled 135 kilometres from Nuriootpa to Angaston. The stage went ahead as normal, but just a couple of days ago there was talk of a possible cancellation of the stage due to local forest...
20/01/2014 21:43
The major cycling season has finally started for 2014, with the first stage of the Tour de San Luis. The Argentinian race has grown in prestige over the past couple of years, thanks to high-profile winners such as Vincenzo Nibali and Levi Leipheimer; and subsequently, the race has a strong field...
20/01/2014 15:29
There will be two more names added to the list of non-starters for this year's Tour Down Under, after both Giovanni Visconti and Christopher Sutton crashed out of the People's Choice Classic in Adelaide. Both men crashed at high speed in the pre-Tour criterium race, whilst Visconti was left on the...
06/11/2013 18:31
Eddy Merckx is widely considered as the best cyclist ever to have lived. Best known by his nickname 'The Cannibal', he won a staggering 525 races as a professional, and a total of eleven grand tours. He dominated in his peak, and riders rarely found ways to get past him that didn't involve injury...
05/11/2013 15:50
Michael Rasmussen has today retracted his accusation that Juan Antonio Flecha and Oscar Freire doped during the 2007 Tour de France. Rasmussen had previously stated that his entire Rabobank team in the 2007 Tour de France doped. However, he has re-worded his statement during an interview with...
29/09/2013 21:17
Warm but very wet weather greeted the peloton this morning in Tuscany, as they lined up for the 2013 men's road race world championships. The 272.2 kilometre journey from Lucca to Florence was set to be one of the most open world championships on record, with many different styles of riders being...
27/09/2013 22:42
Brian Cookson has defeated Pat McQuaid in the UCI Presedential Elections at the UCI's annual conference in Florence today. The head of the British Cycling Federation defeated McQuaid by 24 votes to 18, and has subsequently stepped down from his job in Britain. Pat McQuaid had been UCI President...
25/09/2013 22:53
This year's time trial championships were set to be one of the best yet, with the three best time triallists in the world all going head to head. Tony Martin, the incumbent champion, was challenged by none other than four time world champion Fabian Cancellara, and 2012 Tour de France champion, and...
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