The Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport reported Thursday that U.S. investigators are working with their Italian counterparts to review millions of dollars’ worth of financial transactions involving physician Michele Ferrari and several high-profile cyclists.
2011 Giro d'Italia startlist
Geox-TMC has named its "long list" for the upcoming Giro d'Italia, putting 12 riders on a list that will be whittled down to nine for the season's first grand tour.
WALSHOUTEM, Belgium (VN) – Nearly lost in the fever of Philippe Gilbert’s triumph for Omega Pharma-Lotto at La Flèche Wallonne Wednesday was Alexander Vinokourov’s best-ever result in the mid-week classic. Astana’s defending champion of Liége-Bastogne-Liége ground out a fourth-place result atop the Mur de Huy and said afterward that the ride gave him much confidence ahead of Sunday’s Ardennes finale.
HUY, Belgium (VN) ─ Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Cervélo) is hoping to cap his spring campaign with a run for the podium at Liège-Bastogne-Liège on Sunday.
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Brian Holcombe talks to HTC-Highroad's Evelyn Stevens about her long solo attack at Wednesday's Fleche Wallonne
Brian Holcombe chats with Liquigas-Cannondale's Tim Duggan about the Ardennes and Mur de Huy
HTC-Highroad's Tejay Van Garderen talks with Brian Holcombe about his first Fleche Wallonne and his pressure-free Ardennes program
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HUY, Belgium (VN) — Philippe Gilbert will wake up Thursday morning as he did Monday, focused on recovering from a tough, winning effort in the hills near his hometown of Verviers, Belgium. So says the winner of all three high profile hilly classics contested this spring.
Full results for the 2011 Flèche Wallonne classic
HUY, Belgium (VN) – The Walloon fans of his home region carried Philippe Gilbert up the über-steep Mur de Huy Wednesday as he ran away with his third win in a row. The Omega Pharma-Lotto rider came onto the steepest section of the Mur at the front of the peloton and burst away from his rivals 400 meters from the line at La Flèche Wallonne.
Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) won Wednesday's second stage at the Giro del Trentino in northern Italy in an intense battle to the line.
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HUY, Belgium (VN) - Marianne Vos (Nederland Bloueit) was the strongest on the Mur de Huy and a tough 100-kilometer circuit Wednesday. The Dutch master of most trades was triumphant at La Flèche Wallonne Feminine, finishing a handful of seconds ahead of Emma Johansson.
HUY, Belgium (VN) – Alexander Vinokourov will have a full arsenal at his disposal in his bid for a third Liège-Bastogne-Liège title Sunday. Roman Kreuziger will join his Astana teammates Saturday evening in Liège after the Giro del Trentino wraps up earlier in the day in Italy.
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Andreas Klöden (RadioShack) continues his early season winning form and notched victory in Tuesday’s TT opener at the Giro del Trentino in northern Italy.
FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (VN) – After a tough first year at Team Sky, it looks like Simon Gerrans is back on top. The 30-year-old Australian finished third Sunday in the Amstel Gold Race, his first classic of the spring.
FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (VN) — The steep ramps of the Mur de Huy await the peloton Wednesday at La Flèche Wallonne.
Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank-Sungard) says he is still feeling the effects of a spring cold ahead of Wednesday’s Flèche Wallonne in what will be his only spring classic of the season.
Ivan Basso, who was forced to abandon the Tour of the Basque Country earlier this month with a cold, is back in the saddle for the season’s penultimate spring classic at Flèche Wallonne on Sunday.
Editor’s note: Every week through the 2011 road season, VeloNews editor-at-large John Wilcockson is writing about key features of the week’s racing. This 10th installment focuses on the career of rider of the week Philippe Gilbert.
FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (VN) – Chris Baldwin is back to earning a paycheck and just in time to build up for a race he’s dreamt about his entire career. A week after missing out on the overall at the Redlands Classic by one second, Bissell Pro Cycling added the two-time national time trial champion to their roster Friday.
Persistence paid back in spades for Xavier Tondo, who earned his first professional stage-race crown on home roads when he secured overall victory at the Vuelta a Castilla y León in Spain on Sunday.
Last year, Cadel Evans roared up the Mur de Huy to win Flèche Wallone while wearing the rainbow jersey, giving BMC one of its most important victories in team history.
Stuart O’Grady was probably watching Sunday’s Amstel Gold Race from the comfort of his couch, but he wasn’t surprised to see teammate Andy Schleck on the attack late in the race.
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Organizers of New York's Tour of the Battenkill road race are planning a series of events to be held this year.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (VN) —Collegiate racers from the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cycling conference were treated to hilly races this weekend at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (VN) — The Mid West Collegiate Cycling Conference regional championships were hosted this weekend at Lindenwood University, leaving many of the racers with sore legs and even some with bruised egos.
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Craig Lewis and Tejay Van Garderen will play key roles for Wednesday’s Flèche Wallonne for HTC-Highroad.
"For each of us an hourglass upends at the finish line beginning a new countdown. It’s already late in the afternoon. As the sand drains, we race to recover for the next stage. "
Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank-Sungard) took what he could out of the Vuelta a Castilla y León despite missing a chance to win for the fourth time in five years.
With Sunday’s Amstel Gold hogging the spotlight, Jaan Kirsipuu took the flowers halfway around the world in the fourth stage of the Tour of Korea. Kirsipuu’s win was the first UCI-ranked win for his Champion System team.
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Mark Zalewski looked over the gear at the 2011 Little 500 race in Bloomington, Indiana.
Philippe Gilbert won't say he's the best classic rider — but he will say he's the most complete one.
VILT, Netherlands (VN) — Philippe Gilbert left no doubt Sunday on the Cauberg, launching a violent attack midway up the climb to claim his second Amstel Gold Race in a row. The win was the third consecutive hilly classic for the Omega Pharma-Lotto rider, who cemented his position as king of the Ardennes.
Ben Swift (Sky) took a bunch sprint as Xavier Tondo (Movistar) secured overall victory in the final stage at the Vuelta a Castilla y León in northern Spain.
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VILT, Netherlands (VN) – Fabian Cancellara (Leopard-Trek) started the Amstel Gold Race Sunday with a big weight off his shoulders.
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VILT, Netherlands (VN) – Last week big Swiss Grégory Rast earned the most important result of his career at Paris-Roubaix. On Sunday the RadioShack classics man was headed for a six-week vacation after stepping off the Amstel Gold Race course at the end of the first lap.
Fighting back from a lap down, seniors Eric Young and Zach Lusk take turns pulling, un-lapping themselves in enough time to allow Young to sprint for the Cutter's 11th win in Little 500 history.
MAASTRICHT, Netherlands(AFP) – UCI president Pat McQuaid said he and the management of the international governing body of cycling will be following developments in an ongoing Italian doping case “very carefully” as it works its way through the court syste
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Alberto Contador wins the fourth stage of the Vuelta Castilla y Leon and Xavier Tondo takes the leader's jersey.
Stuart O’Grady (Leopard-Trek) always talks from the heart, but nothing gets his heart racing more than Paris-Roubaix. The 37-year-old Aussie won the race in 2007, but last Sunday, he didn’t make the time cut. O’Grady went down swinging, doing what he could do to help teammate Fabian Cancellara before a series of mishaps derailed his own chances.
The Teter squad attacked at lap 15 and nearly lapped the field twice during the Little 500 women's race.
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talian Filippo Savini (Colnago-CSF Inox) won Friday’s “queen stage” at the Vuelta a Castilla y León while Dutch rider Bauke Mollema (Rabobank) takes the leader’s jersey on a day that ended on a frustrating note for pre-race favorite Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank-Sungard).
Retired pro Burke Swindlehurst is promoting a tough 79-mile point-to-point race in Utah that will be run on dirt and pavement and include 12,000 feet of climbing.
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Organizers of the Amgen Tour of California are adding a women's time trial to the schedule to be held the same day and on the same course as the men's time trial stage in Solvang.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (VN) — The Indiana University Little 500, the race made famous by the Academy Award-winning film "Breaking Away," is once again set to run this weekend — with the 61st edition of the men's race and the women in their 24th year.
Media reports signal a massive doping raid in Italy involving up to 1,000 agents.
Fran Ventoso (Movistar) won for the second day in a row at the Vuelta a Castilla y León in another bunch sprint in northern Spain.
Stuart O’Grady (Leopard-Trek) is steaming mad that he and nine others who crossed the finish line Sunday in Paris-Roubaix after suffering through what he described as “true hell” were disqualified for finishing beyond the time limit.
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Things are never easy for Alberto Contador these days. The start of Wednesday’s first stage at the Vuelta a Castilla y León was delayed when the president of the jury demanded to see Contador’s racing license.
European sports officials took fresh shots at cycling as the specter of doping once again hangs over to the sport going into the season’s grand tours.