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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Lotto Soudal Mallorca

Yesterday, the eleven riders that are selected for the Challenge Mallorca (28 – 31 January) arrived on the Spanish island. Lotto Soudal has chosen the same approach as last year: no Tour de San Luis, no races in the Middle-East and a different composition of the team for Tour Down […]

Giant-Alpecin Training Accident Update 3

Team Giant-Alpecin reports that Warren Barguil (FRA), Fredrik Ludvigsson (SWE), Ramon Sinkeldam (NED) and Max Walscheid (GER) have left the hospital in Spain and are currently traveling home. “Warren is doing relatively well,” said team physician Anko Boelens (NED). “In France he will undergo an additional examination to determine whether […]