The Etixx – Quick-Step rider got his season off to a rolling start 03-Feb-2016: First race of the year, first win for Marcel Kittel, who enjoyed a perfect start to his spell in the Etixx – Quick-Step jersey! Racing the Dubai Tour for the first time since 2014, when he […]
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Garfoot takes the solo win on stage two of Ladies Tour Of Qatar
Santos Women’s Tour champion Katrin Garfoot has attacked emphatically with a little over one kilometre to go on stage two of the Ladies Tour Of Qatar to take a solo victory in fine style in the Middle East today. Garfoot held off the chasing field for a 13 second […]
Are Electromagnetic Wheels Mechanical Doping?
The Italian sports newspapers has reported on Electromagnetic wheels as “poor man’s doping” following the reports of the motorized doping scandal at the CycloCross Worlds this past weekend. They say it’s the new frontier of doping. Theses wheels are said to be able to produced 20-60 watts with electromagnetics. They […]
Eddy Merckx Calls for Lifetime Bans for Motorized Doping
He described motorized doping as a worse offense than performance enchancing drugs. It’s more brazen and even more serious than chemical doping. He wants the offenders to be suspended for life. He said that from what he learned about the incident with Van den Driessche, this wasn’t the first […]
Mechanical Doping at CycloCross Worlds
Femke Van den Driessche, a 19 year old Belgian teenager who raced the CycloCross Worlds on Sunday was found to have an electric motor in her bike. She claims innocence and that her bike was inadvertently switched with that of a friend. The UCI is looking into what is now […]
Giant Alpecin Race Preview: February 1 – 9 Dubai and Qatar
The third edition of the Dubai Tour begins Wednesday. The four stages all start in the city of Dubai and range in length from 132km to 188km. Team Giant-Alpecin will be heading to Dubai with a mixed team with a lot of experience as well as young talents, including Sindre […]
Etixx – Quick-Step to Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
The five-day race (3-7 February) returns to the calendar following a 8-year hiatus. 01-Feb-2016: Spain was good with Etixx – Quick-Step in this start of the season, as Gianluca Brambilla landed the squad’s third victory of 2016 in Challenge Mallorca, a result in addition to which the team scored a […]
Movistar Team aims for the top yet again in 2016
The team was officially presented this afternoon in the Madrid headquarters of its sponsor Telefonica. The event was distributed on the social media, and recorded for television broadcast for the first time. Over the past five years, Eusebio Unzué’s team has won nearly 150 races, finished World Number 1 Team […]
BMC Racing Team ready to tackle the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
27, January 2015, Geelong (AUS) BMC Racing Team is set to cap off the team’s Australian racing program at the second edition of the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race this Sunday, 31 January. The team’s six-man squad at the UCI 1.HC-ranked, 174 kilometer race is based on the team’s […]
Ladies Tour of Qatar
RACE PREVIEW: JANUARY 25 – FEBRUARY 2 First on Team Liv-Plantur’s calendar for 2016 is the Ladies Tour of Qatar, which is now in its eighth edition. The race kicks off with a 97km opening stage on the same course as this year’s road world championships and closes with a […]
