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CASTELRAIMONDO, Italy (VN) ─ Classics star Philippe Gilbert didn't miss the decisive moment at Tirreno-Adriatico Sunday. Instead, the Omega Pharma-Lotto rider out-kicked a 13-rider group in Castelraimondo to capture stage 5 of the 'race of the two seas.'
TERNI, Italy (VN) — It’s not time to hit the Mark Cavendish panic button just yet. So says HTC-Highroad sports director Valerio Piva.
PERUGIA, Italy (VN) — J.J. Haedo (Saxo Bank-Sunguard) overcame a final-kilometer acceleration from Thor Hushovd (Garmin-Cervélo) to steal a win in stage 3 of Tirreno-Adriatico. Hushovd’s teammate and overall leader Tyler Farrar finished second, followed by Italian Daniel Oss (Liquigas-Cannondale).
PERUGIA, Italy (VN) ─ Two weeks ago, Rabobank’s Sebastian Langeveld was the star of the opening classics weekend. With Milan-San Remo and the Belgian cobbles around the corner, the Dutchman is staying low key on his talent-rich team at Tirreno-Adriatico.
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On Wednesday morning Tirenno-Adriatico kicked off with a street sprint competition. The local kids cycling club "Velo Club Carrara" had the opportunity to race the first few hundred meters, on the same course the pros would ride later in the day. VeloNews photo director Brad Kaminski sent back a few shots from the event.
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RadioShack’s Andreas Kloden positioned himself for overall victory at Paris-Nice after taking a stage victory in Thursday’s 193km fifth stage ahead Samuel Sanchez.
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The heavy sprint corps at Tirreno-Adriatico may be without Andre Greipel after the Omega Pharma-Lotto rider crashed hard during a pre-ride of the course and injured his face.
A day after just falling short in a breakaway effort, French national champion Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) got in right with victory in Wednesday’s 191km seven-climb fourth stage at Paris-Nice when a four-man breakaway stayed clear of the fast-chasing peloton.
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Taylor Phinney is taking it slow in his rookie pro season and that’s just the way BMC wants it.
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Quick Step's Nikolas Maes was taken to the hospital for x-rays after being involved in a multi-rider crash in the final meters of Tuesday's Paris-Nice stage. The X-rays indicated no broken bones, and Maes was diagnosed with trauma on his pelvis, the team said. he will decide on Wednesday whether to start stage 4.
At a time when the major professional teams have become unified in their position opposing the UCI ban on two-way radios, all three of the past week’s semi-classics saw dramatic, unpredictable racing.
MARINA DI CARRARA, Italy (VN) _ A coalition of riders and teams says the UCI has 20 days to begin talks with on the radio ban. If they refuse, riders will begin wearing race radios on March 26. That was the message at a joint press conference with representatives of the sport's events, riders and teams Tuesday night.
Matt Goss (HTC-Highroad) snagged the yellow jersey after he sliced his way past a crash to win Tuesday’s third stage at Paris-Nice.
ROME (VN) — Take two time trials and split them with two days for the sprinters and another three in the mountains, two of them at 240km each, and you get a new-look Tirreno-Adriatico. The race of the two seas opens Wednesday and many of the top classics riders and Tour de France and Giro d'Italia contenders are set for a showdown in the heart of Italy.
AMILLY, France (AFP) - New Zealand's Greg Henderson of the Sky team won a sprint finish on Monday to take the second stage of Paris-Nice.
HTC-Highroad's John Degenkolb sprints to victory in stage one of the Three Days of West Flanders as Jesse Sergent and two RadioShack teammates top the overall standings.
Philippe Gilbert (Omega-Lotto) delivered a thrilling victory at the Monte Paschi-Strade Bianche race in Italy on Saturday.
PARIS (AFP) — Britain's Mark Cavendish has been given a potential boost by organisers of the Tour de France after they announced changes Friday to the rules concerning the race's points competition.
Ina Yoko-Teutenberg turned pro with Red Bull Frankfurt in 2000, 16 years after Alexi Grewal won his stunning gold medal in the Olympic road race in Los Angeles and left the amateur ranks. Both are in Merced, California, this week for the Merco Cycling Classic.
With his first road race for almost two decades behind him, Alexi Grewal can truthfully say that life begins at 50 — well, life as a racing cyclist aiming to return to the top.
The varying roles for race follow cars, pros changing their own tubies, and Nick's favorite workstand, revealed.
MURCIA, Spain (VN) – Alberto Contador headlines the field at the three-day Vuelta a Murcia in what will be his second race since he was cleared by the Spanish cycling federation to return to racing.
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Though Mark Cavendish has been relatively quiet so far this season, HTC-Highroad brass is confident that their ace sprinter is poised for a brilliant season.
No fewer than nine defending champions will line up for Australia at the world track cycling championships later this month in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, Cycling Australia announced Tuesday.
The manner in which Slovak-sensation Peter Sagan scored four victories in Sardinia this past week points to a career that’s headed to the sport’s very highest levels. Maybe he’ll even go as far as the sport’s biggest ever winner, Eddy Merckx.
Matteo Pelucchi delivers a morale-boosting win to Geox-TMC with a photo-finish victory in the Clásica de Almería.
Giovanni Visconti (Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli) sprints to victory in the Grand Prix Regio Insubrica.
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There is a notable difference between amateur racing and the professional ranks, not just in the race style but also in the riders themselves. There are some riders in the peloton who seem to command respect, the ones who make their hardest efforts appear effortless, never showing the strain that their bodies are surely going through.
The bitter taste is subsiding and Henk Vogels will soon be back in the United States with a new-look V Australia team for 2011. Vogels revealed the squad’s roster Thursday and gave his thoughts on returning to race in the U.S. three months after Pegasus Racing collapsed.
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South African Darren Lill was third in the fourth stage of his country's home tour on Wednesday.
The European racing calendar gets busier with each passing week and this weekend sees the opening of the Belgian racing season with two important semi-classics that will see the top guns sharpening their form with the northern classics just around the corner.
The blogosphere is wondering about another vaunted new team, Leopard-Trek, which up until Monday had not registered a single victory since it debuted at the Tour Down Under just over a month ago.
JAEN, Spain (VN) – A day after losing in a photo-finish, Fran Ventoso (Movistar) got it right to claim victory in Tuesday’s stage 3 at the 57th Ruta del Sol.
The French wave continued Monday as Jonathan Hivert delivered Sojasun-Saur its second consecutive win in a bunch sprint when he out-kicked the fastest of the Spanish armada in the second stage at the Ruta del Sol.
Sarah Hammer of the United States wins the women’s omnium at the UCI World Cup track cycling meet in Manchester, England.
Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) clinched the overall victory in the GvA Trofee series on Sunday as Belgian champion Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) won the finale in Oostmalle.
HTC-Highroad's Mark Cavendish scored a sprint victory in the final stage of the 2011 Tour of Oman as Robert Gesink wraps up the overall.
Sir Chris Hoy escapes a spectacular crash to win the World Cup keirin in Manchester. Azizulhasni Awang takes the overall title and collects a seven-inch splinter in one leg to go with it.
André Greipel wins stage 4 of Algarve while Stephen Cummings leads the overall.
Daniele Pietropolli proves fastest of a 10-man break at the Trofeo Laigueglia.
ALBUFEIRA, Portugal (VN) ─ Tejay Van Garderen (HTC-Highroad) is picking up where he left off after his break-out rookie season with a strong ride at the five-day Volta ao Algarve in southern Portugal.
Kevin Sireau, the French sprinter, proved Friday at the World Cup meet in Manchester he will be one of the favorites at the London Olympics
Now that Retirement 2.0 has come, what did Lance Armstrong’s comeback mean for big time American racing? And can the Amgen Tour of California and Quiznos Pro Challenge survive in his absence? One way to answer the question is to look at the effect his presence, or absence, has made on previous events.
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A reader asks if time-sensitive athletes can substitute high-intensity workouts for high volume.
John Degenkolb (HTC-Columbia) nipped Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervélo) to win the second stage at the Volta ao Algarve in Portugal in Thursday’s 186.5km run from Lagao to Lagos.
SUR, Oman (AFP) - Dutch rider Theo Bos of Rabobank won the third stage of the Tour of Oman Thursday as Australia's Matthew Goss held the leader's red jersey.
Julien Absalon is the torch-bearer for a generation of racers. Is he ready to pass the flame to Nino Schurter?
Australian Matthew Goss (HTC-HighRoad) won the second stage of the Tour of Oman on Wednesday taking the leader's red jersey from Dutchman Theo Boss of Rabobank.
The merits of tubular tape, more on the stack-and-reach concept, Mavic freehubs and more
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LONDON (AFP) - British cycling's Team Sky may relax its "zero tolerance" doping policy as they seek to hire staff capable of improving the outfit's performance, it was reported Tuesday.
AL SEEB, Oman (AFP) — Rabobank's Dutch rider Theo Bos saw off HTC-HighRoad's Mark Cavendish and Skil-Shimano's Roger Kluge to win the first stage of the Tour of Oman here on Tuesday.
MUSCAT, Oman (AFP) - Reigning world road race champion Thor Hushovd has admitted his days of pushing to the front in a bid to win every bunch sprint that is within his grasp are now practically over.
American Jonathan Page falls just short of the podium as Kevin Pauwels wins the GP Heuts.
MUMBAI, India (VN) – Robbie McEwen and Robbie Hunter – aka the “Two Robbies” – delivered a big thank you to RadioShack with top racing over the weekend in a pair of one-day races in India.
Robbie McEwen is “95 percent sure” that this year will be his last among the pro ranks and hinted that the 2012 Tour Down Under could be a perfect way to bow out of the sport.
DOHA, Qatar ─ Australian Mark Renshaw (HTC-HighRoad) won the Tour of Qatar here Friday after the fifth and final stage was claimed by Italy's Andrea Guardini (Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli).
NASHIK, India (VN) – India made history Friday by hosting its first-ever international road race, with Italian up-and-comer Elia Viviani (Liquigas-Cannondale) kicking to victory ahead of pre-race favorite Robbie McEwen (RadioShack) in wild ride across the rugged hill country of Maharashtra.
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The most anticipated professional debut for an American in a generation is set to roll next week. Taylor Phinney will make his first start for BMC Racing at the Tour of Oman February 15-20.
Robert Förster is bringing the vision he’s gained over a decade in the European trenches to the young riders at UnitedHealthcare and he’s looking for wins — whether it’s him or one of his teammates.
Tom Boonen said Monday that every year it gets a bit harder to win the Tour of Qatar, a race he's won three times.
Haussler v. Cav'; Contador's mystery meat; Bauer dreams big
For the second consecutive day, Tyler Farrar kicks to victory at the Mallorca Challenge in Spain.
Al KHOR CORNICHE, Qatar (VN) — Tom Boonen stretched out his long-unused sprinter legs to win the first stage of the Tour of Qatar on Monday and take the lead.
Anthony Ravard (AG2R-La Mondiale) claimed overall victory in the Etoile de Bessèges on Sunday.