Doha, Qatar – Axeon Hagens Berman Cycling Team’s Neilson Powless was sixth, Geoffrey Curran was seventh and Eddie Dunbar finished ninth Monday at the Under 23 UCI Road World Time Trial Championships in Qatar. Racing in 93-degree (Fahrenheit) heat, Powless was one of the earlier starters in the 28.9-kilometer race. […]
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Etixx – Quick-Step crowned TTT World Champion
After Valkenburg and Firenze, our team took the gold medals in Doha, following a masterful display in the Qatari desert 09-Oct-2016: Bob Jungels, Marcel Kittel, Yves Lampaert, Tony Martin, Niki Terpstra and Julien Vermote will go down in the history books as the winners of the 2016 World TTT Championships, […]
U.S. Cycling Athlete, Danielson, Accepts Sanction for Second Anti-Doping Rule Violation
Colorado Springs, Colo. (October 6, 2016) – USADA announced today that Tom Danielson, of Longmont, Colo., an athlete in the sport of cycling, has tested positive for a prohibited substance and accepted a four-year sanction for his second anti-doping rule violation. Danielson, 38, tested positive as a result of an […]
Chaves & ORICA-BikeExchange take another step towards future
Colombian Esteban Chaves has penned a new agreement with ORICA-BikeExchange that sees the future of the 26-year-old and that of the Australian outfit secured for the next three years. After a breakthrough season, including podium finishes at the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a Espana and a history-making victory at monument […]
Four years on top of cycling
1st October 2016 Alejandro Valverde’s 6th place in Il Lombardia confirms a record-setting fourth victory for Movistar Team in the UCI WorldTour ranking, a success achieved through enormous efforts during ten long months of racing. It was difficult, as in every single previous season. And still, the Movistar Team made […]
Hesjedal announces retirement at end of 2016 season
Ryder Hesjedal has confirmed that he will retire at the end of the 2016 season. The 35-year-old began as a professional in mountain biking in 1999 before switching full-time to the road with Discovery Channel in 2005, a career that has spanned 18 seasons professionally and over 20 years including […]
‘Game-changing’ Kreuziger joins ORICA-BikeExchange
Czech Republic champion Roman Kreuziger will ride for ORICA-BikeExchange across the next two seasons in what sports director Matt White has described as a ‘game-changing signing’. The 30-year-old joins the Australian outfit from Tinkoff, adding valuable experience for the outfit’s Grand Tour general classification ambitions going forward. ORICA-BikeExchange has enjoyed […]
Alberto Contador continues Vuelta a España build at Vuelta a Burgos this week
Following his participation in the Clasica San Sebastian, his first race back after injury during the Tour de France, Tinkoff’s GC leader Alberto Contador lines up at the five day Vuelta a Burgos in Spain. The race will be a strong test and preparation race in the build-up for the […]
Etixx – Quick-Step to Clasica San Sebastian
First World Tour one-day race of the summer will see a strong team, with many cards to play, line up at the start 27-Jul-2016: This year, San Sebastian is the European Capital of Culture, and among the hundreds of events which it stages, there’s also the Clasica San Sebastian, one […]
RACE PREVIEW: JUNE 27- JULY 5 GIRO D’ITALIA INTERNAZIONALE FEMMINILE (WWT)
While most of the cycling world’s attention is focused on the Tour de France with the Grand Départ in Mont-Saint-Michel this weekend, the biggest stage race on the elite women’s calendar, the Giro d’Italia Internazionale Femminile will get underway this Friday. Contested over ten stages starting with a prologue, followed […]