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24/11/2014 13:44
Chris Horner has reportedly signed a one-year deal with a US domestic team, according to Cyclingnews. The 2013 Vuelta a Espana winner's contract was not renewed by Lampre-Merida after an injury and illness-hit season.
Horner had been scheduled to ride the Giro d'Italia, but his plans were...
19/11/2014 11:46
Victor Okishev of the Astana Continental team has become the fourth Astana-affiliated rider to test positive in the last year. The 20-year old has returned an adverse analytical finding for Anabolic Androgenic Steroids at the Asian Championships in May 2014.
Okishev had won the under-twenty three...
19/11/2014 00:25
Mark Cavendish has started his preparation for the 2015 season with a ride in the Gent Six Day track race, alongside his Omega Pharma-Quickstep teammate Iljo Keisse. He completed the first night of the competition on Tuesday evening and is placed fourth in the contest.
Cavendish's return to the...
22/10/2014 12:18
The route for the 2015 Tour de France has been unveiled in Paris this morning. The likes of Vincenzo Nibali, Mark Cavendish, Thibaut Pinot and UCI President Brian Cookson were all present to witness Tour director Christian Prudhomme reveal the mountain-heavy, climber friendly route.
Although the...
21/10/2014 23:16
The Vuelta a Espana is to follow the lead of the Tour de France and host a women's one-day race on the last day of the men's three week grand tour. The race is along the same vein as La Course by the Tour de France hosted for the first time this year.
The French race was deemed a success with...
27/04/2014 20:54
Michael Rogers of Tinkoff-Saxo returned to racing today at Liege-Bastogne-Liege after an enforced absence due to his positive test for Clenbuterol. He initially tested positive after winning the Japan Cup in October last year, and has been provisionally suspended ever since. The UCI announced...
30/03/2014 21:08
Andre Greipel (Lotto-Belisol) has broken his collarbone in a nasty crash in the finale of Gent-Wevelgem earlier today. He came down hard and immediately abandoned the race, ending his hopes of a win and a strong performance in the remaining spring races. His disappointment was clear to see from the...
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...
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...
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...
07/09/2013 11:11
Simon Gerrans of Orica-GreenEDGE has been forced to abandon the Vuelta a Espana, and also end his season, due to a hip fracture he sustained on stage 3 of the race. This is not only a blow for Gerrans but also a blow for the Australian national team, of which he was long-listed to be a member of...
02/09/2013 12:17
Formula One driver Fernando Alonso has bought out the license for Euskaltel-Euskadi, a team who were set to fold at the end of this year due to lack of sponsorship. He says he plans to build a team around the team's current leader, Samuel Sanchez, with a budget of around 6 million euros.
The...
22/08/2013 13:18
Maxime Monfort, currently riding for RadioShack-Nissan, has confirmed he is in talks with Trek (the company taking over the RadioShack team next season) and Lotto-Belisol, the Belgian team currently hosting the likes of Greipel and Van Den Broeck. This is to the contrary of other earlier reports...
20/08/2013 11:20
Euskaltel-Euskadi, the Basque team that currently hosts riders such as Samuel Sanchez and Igor Anton, have been forced to disband at the end of the current season. This is apparently due to the lack of a second sponsor, which they say is vital to the running of the team. This also dispels the...
19/08/2013 14:26
Bradley Wiggins has today announced that he plans to ride one more year with Team Sky, before turning his attention back to the track for the 2016 Rio Olympics. He has also conceded he will no longer be a grand tour contender, as he has put on seven kilograms of weight in preparation for the world...
18/08/2013 19:54
Zdenek Stybar of the Czech Republic has won stage seven of the Eneco Tour today and with it the overall classification. Stybar won two stages on the way to winning the race overall, and described the win as "one of the best days of his life." Stybar attacked on the second-to-last climb of the day,...
16/08/2013 15:59
Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quickstep) could be looking at an early finish to his season, as it is speculated that he may need surgery on a saddle sore that has forced him to miss this week's Eneco Tour.
Boonen's 2013 season has not been his best, with bad luck cursing him with injuries,...
14/08/2013 14:14
Ben Swift of Team Sky has ended his season early to prepare for a shoulder operation over the winter. It's the end of what had already been a tough campaign for the Brit; he crashed at the Trofeo Alcudia in February, and has reportedly struggled with the shoulder injury for the best part of three...
14/08/2013 14:03
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