Groenewegen poised to win unofficial ‘King of Sprints’ title
The Dutch sprinter took another win Saturday to give him more victories than anyone else in the WorldTour — for now
The Dutch sprinter took another win Saturday to give him more victories than anyone else in the WorldTour — for now
Who has had a better season: Egan Bernal or Primoz Roglic? Il Lombardia could feature a showdown between the two stars of 2019.
Italy's fall classics don't get the attention they deserve, but a new project could help revive some of cycling's most prestigious races
Bernal adroitly steered clear of a worlds course that doesn't suit him and now he's taking aim at Lombardia to close out his spectacular season
The new route for this year’s Giro di Lombardia will have the riders either climbing or descending for most of the final third of the race.
If Maxim Iglinskiy's positive EPO test is confirmed, Astana will have to sit out the Tour of Beijing, which ends the 2014 WorldTour season
Joaquim Rodríguez locks up the WorldTour in Italy before the finale in Beijing
The only major classic of the autumn, Giro di Lombardia will see a showdown between the world championship favorites of a week ago
The official list of riders slated to compete in the Italian classic
Rodriguez, Valverde, and Nibali are seeking a victory after coming up short in the worlds road race
After speaking with Alejandro Valverde, Joaquim Rodríguez is trying hard to turn the page on Sunday's bitter worlds disappointment
The pair was among several riders to crash and/or abandon the worlds road race in Florence
Though it came without a true showdown against Tom Boonen, Fabian Cancellara's triumphant return to the cobbles proved his place yet again
Milan-San Remo, Lombardia set for move to sundays in 2014
Where does Joaquim Rodriguez's win at Lombardia rank him among Spain's classics men?
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It seems fitting that thunderclaps should accompany Rodriguez's ascent to the pinnacle of the WorldTour
Graham Watson braves the driving rain to photograph an epic Il Lombardia
1. Joaquin RODRIGUEZ OLIVER, Katusha, in 6:36:27 2. Samuel SANCHEZ GONZALEZ, Euskaltel-Euskadi, at :9 3. Rigoberto URAN URAN, Sky, at :9 4. Mauro SANTAMBROGIO, BMC Racing, at :9 5. Sergio Luis HENAO MONTOYA, Sky, at :9
Rodriguez becomes the first Spaniard to win Il Lombardia and takes the WorldTour lead from Bradley Wiggins
Belgian world champion dreams of winning at Lombardia in rainbow stripes
Movistar captain goes down with illness and will miss his shot a revenge on Philippe Gilbert in Italy
World Champion Philippe Gilbert hopes to showcase his rainbow jersey, and his resurgence, on Saturday with a win at the Giro di Lombardia
Graham Watson shoots the Race of the Falling Leaves.
Oliver Zaugg (Leopard-Trek) stunned a host of favorites to claim the biggest win of his career at the Tour of Lombardy Saturday.
World No. 1 Gilbert will line up as the two-time defending champion against a field of challengers who hope to knock him off balance.
The 2010 UCI World Ranking calendar wrapped up with Saturday's Giro di Lombardia.
Lombardia will be Chechu Rubiera's last major race. In retiring, he says the state of Spanish cycling is 'sad and worrying' but he supports Contador.
Omega Pharma's fall classics specialist Philippe Gilbert has won the Giro di Lombardia for the second year in a row.
Riders will face a longer, tougher course for Saturday’s season-closing Giro di Lombardi. Can defending champ Philippe Gilbert stay with the true climbers?
This week, new world champ Thor Hushovd will lead Cervelo TestTeam at the team's final races
Photos from the 2009 edition of the Classic of the Falling Leaves
Tour of Lombardy winners since 1905
The history and romance of this weekend's Tour of Lombardy, in an exclusive excerpt from The Spring Classics.
The new world champ is delaying surgery so he can wear the rainbow jersey in Cervelo TestTeam's final season.
The Tour of Romandy gets UCI permission to add a 26th team — RadioShack — to the race.
Team RadioShack will start Lombardy after all
RadioShack is asking the Court of Arbitration for Sport for damages after the team was not invited to the fall classic, Tour of Lombardy
With four kilometers to go, it was obvious that an Italian wasn’t going to win Giro di Lombardia for the ninth consecutive year. A Belgian and a Spaniard ? Philippe Gilbert (Silence-Lotto) and Samuel Sánchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) – were 12 seconds clear of a chasing group that included three-time winner Damiano Cunego (Lampre), enough gap to end the Italian stranglehold on the season-concluding fall classic.
Saturday’s Giro di Lombardia – the “Race of the Falling Leaves” – is Italy’s long good-bye to yet another exciting, daring and controversy-filled season. In the last major European event of the 2009 campaign, Lombardia always packs an emotional and palpating punch to put the peloton to rest for an ever-shortening winter to recharge the batteries going into the next year.
Chris Horner has signed with Team RadioShack for the next two seasons, according to an Oregon newspaper. Horner told The Oregonian that he had talked with other teams, “but wanted to stay here” — that being alongside Astana teammates Lance Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer.
Recently crowned world champion Cadel Evans promises to honor the rainbow jersey with aggressive racing for the remainder of the 2009 season. The 32-year-old Aussie isn’t wasting any time, and will make his debut in the famed rainbow jersey on October 8 in the Coppa Sabatini in Italy. “I will try to honor the rainbow jersey even if my legs are understandably a little tired after a grueling season,” Evans said during a press conference Thursday at the Silence-Lotto team headquarters.
Behind the story there is always a greater story, one which is often missed. The Tour of Lombardy unfolded in traditional fashion: a breakaway, a gauged acceleration in the peloton, the knife-stabbing attacks that seal most riders’ fate, and then, finally, the winning attack and the defeated sprints for the places of honor. The favorite won.
Damiano Cunego won the 102nd Giro di Lombardia, the season’s final one-day classic, for the third time in his career on Saturday. Cunego – winner in 2004 and 2007 – scored the win after taking a gamble and attacking 15 kilometers from the finish at lake front of Lake Como in northern Italy. Cunego won the famed “race of the falling leaves” ahead of a hard chasing Janez Brajkovic (Astana), who reached the line 20 seconds later. [nid:84391]Cunego earned the victor’s laurels at the end of the 242-kilometer race that had been largely controlled by his Lampre team.
LAMPRE (ITA)
1. Damiano Cunego (ITA)
2. Alessandro Ballan (ITA)
3. Francesco Gavazzi (ITA)
4. Paolo Tiralongo (ITA)
5. Sylvester Szmyd (POL)
6. Matteo Bono (ITA)
7. Marco Marzano (ITA)
8. Mauro Santambrogio (ITA)
Director: Maurizio Piovani
ACQUA & SAPONE - CAFFE' MOKAMBO (ITA)
11. Massimo Codol (ITA)
12. Francesco Failli (ITA)
13. Stefano Garzelli (ITA)
14. Andrea Masciarelli (ITA)
15. Francesco Masciarelli (ITA)
16. Simone Masciarelli (ITA)
17. Giuseppe Palumbo (ITA)
18.
While Damiano Cunego of Lampre-Fondital returned to his sensational best on Saturday to win a second Tour of Lombardy, three years after he took his first, Cadel Evans was left ruing what might have been. Predictor-Lotto’s remarkable Aussie crossed the line in sixth place, 10 seconds back, to end his season with overall victory in the 2007 UCI ProTour, but he felt he was good enough to have been sprinting for the day’s main prize alongside Cunego and runner-up Riccardo Ricco of Saunier Duval-Prodir. “I got something in my eye on the descent into Lecco [with 80km to go],” Evans told VeloNews
While two-time defending world champion Paolo Bettini (Quick Step-Innergetic) is heavily favored to score his third consecutive Tour of Lombardy victory on Saturday, the venerable 242km fall classic is not the only title in play. The 2007 ProTour series is also up for grabs because the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) this week handed longtime ProTour leader Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas) a three-month suspension for his implication in the 2004 Oil for Drugs scandal, which caused the UCI to drop him from the standings. These developments put the consistent Cadel Evans (Predictor-Lotto) into the
With Puerto unraveling, Basso may race Lombardia
Bettini hopes for a Lombardia win
DiLuca may not be in Lombardia on Saturday... but he really doesn't have to be