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Brent Bookwalter Interview: Backing Evans to the Tour's Yellow Jersey by Ed Hood - Saturday, August 6, 2011 American rider talks Tour de France plus his targets for remainder of this seasonWhilst Sky and Omega Pharma successfully hedged their bets, giving their baroudeurs and sprinters freedom to go for stage wins early in the Tour, there was no room for distractions on board the BMC bus; no sprints, no breaks, no jerseys - 'all for Ca... → Read More
Porte wins Tour of Denmark's evening time trial by Bjorn Haake - Saturday, August 6, 2011 On Aussie day, Gerrans hangs on to overall leadRichie Porte (Saxo Bank) took the stage six evening time trial in the Tour of Denmark. The Australian clocked 15'09 on the 13.2-kilometer long course and was ten seconds faster than teammate Gustav Erik Larsson and 17 seconds faster than Sky's Alex D... → Read More
Vuelta a Burgos: Moreno takes the glory on stage four by Bjorn Haake - Saturday, August 6, 2011 Katusha teammate Rodriguez still in overall lead with one mountain day remainingIn the Vuelta a Burgos stage four, Katusha's Daniel Moreno took a one-second win over a small group of riders, led by Samuel Sanchez (Euskaltel Euskadi) and Pablo Lastras (Movistar). In the hectic final of the 168km stage between Roa de Duero and Rom... → Read More
Peter Sagan grabs victory in Tour of Poland, Kittel takes final stage by Shane Stokes - Saturday, August 6, 2011 Martin drops to second overall due to conceded time bonusesGaining back two seconds in the intermediate sprint plus six in the final gallop to the line, Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) scooped the final overall victory in the Tour of Poland. The Slovakian rider sprinted home just behind the German victor M... → Read More
Tour of Denmark: Sacha Modolo fastest again in morning’s short fourth stage by Ben Atkins - Saturday, August 6, 2011 Daniele Bennati edges closer to Simon Gerrans’ lead ahead of afternoon time trialSacha Modolo (Colnago-CSF Inox) showed once again that he is the sprinter to beat in this year’s Tour of Denmark, taking his second victory of the race in the short fourth stage between Sorø and Frederiksværk. The Italian was the fastest on the uphi... → Read More
Zaugg, Rohregger on the attack in Poland for Leopard-Trek by Kyle Moore - Saturday, August 6, 2011 ‘Second tier’ riders shining for Luxembourg squadOliver Zaugg and Thomas Rohregger (Leopard-Trek) animated yesterday’s stage six in the Tour of Poland, and though they could not make an attack that stuck, they were happy when the stage was complete.
The Austrian Rohregger began the day in the br... → Read More
Mørkøv leading SaxoBank-SunGard in Denmark, Dane looking for high GC placing with two stages left by Kyle Moore - Saturday, August 6, 2011 Poised in fourth overall heading into this afternoon’s time trial In his home Tour of Denmark, Michael Mørkøv continues to show himself well, the Dane sitting fourth overall for SaxoBank-SunGard after yesterday’s queen stage plus this morning’s big group finish.
Stage three had most of the fireworks that many e... → Read More
Lotto looks to build a similar set up to Rabobank by Xylon van Eyck - Saturday, August 6, 2011 Belgian team would love to have Philippe Gilbert on boardOmega Pharma and Lotto, the Belgian National Lottery, have confirmed they will go their separate ways next year, ending a seven year partnership between the two team backers. In an official statement earlier this year, they explained the split, sayin... → Read More
Ted King speaks about recovery from injury, is confirmed for Utah and Colorado by Xylon van Eyck - Saturday, August 6, 2011 Fully recovered from injury, Liquigas-Cannondale man ready to raceTed King (Liquigas-Cannondale) will return to racing at the Tour of Utah, over two months after breaking his collarbone at the Philadelphia International Cycling Championship in June. A week after finishing third at the national championships, the Ne... → Read More
Quick Step’s Zdenek Stybar talks about first season on the road by Xylon van Eyck - Saturday, August 6, 2011 Will decide on his future next year and hopes to ride first Grand TourWorld cyclocross champion Zdenek Stybar switched to the road with Quick Step this year after another successful cyclocross season. The Czech rider took part in his first race in May at the 4 Jours de Dunkerque. While the race was dominated by Thomas ... → Read More
Boardman: Cavendish would be crazy not to take Renshaw and Eisel to new team by Xylon van Eyck - Saturday, August 6, 2011 Manxman expected to announce new team soonFollowing the announcement that HTC-Highroad will disband at the end of the season, sprinter Mark Cavendish announced on his website that he has decided which team he will ride for next and will make it public soon.
Former yellow jersey wearer at ... → Read More
Bob Stapleton Interview: Full details from HTC Highroad’s shock farewell announcement by Shane Stokes - Friday, August 5, 2011 Team owner explains how the sport’s most winning team unravelledAlthough there were some prior signs that things were not progressing as might have been hoped, the news on Thursday that the HTC Highroad team was stopping came as a big surprise to many. Even those who were aware of the team’s tough search for a ne... → Read More
Tour of Denmark: Jakob Fuglsang escapes to take Queen stage by Ben Atkins - Friday, August 5, 2011 Simon Gerrans misses out on stage victory but nets the yellow jerseyJakob Fuglsang (Leopard Trek) took the first home win of this year’s Tour of Denmark, between Aarhus and Vejle, after escaping the peloton on the final lap of the short hilly finishing circuit. The three-time race winner finished two seconds clear o... → Read More
Dan Martin seizes stage win and overall lead in Tour of Poland by Shane Stokes - Friday, August 5, 2011 This year's Tour de Pologne may be less suited to pure climbers than before but defending champion Daniel Martin made the most of today’s hardest leg to take the stage win and the yellow jersey.
Martin attacked several times towards the end of the... → Read More
Vuelta a Burgos: Joaquim Rodriguez holds his lead as Movistar takes team time trial by Ben Atkins - Friday, August 5, 2011 Three Movistar riders now lurking behind him but ‘Purito’ holds onThe Movistar team won the stage three team time trial in the Vuelta a Burgos between Pradoluendo and Belorado. The Spanish team completed the 11.6km course in a time of 9’54” at an incredible average speed of 66.6kph, to finish 10 seconds clear of t... → Read More
“The Devil awaits” this weekend’s Tour of the Catskills by Ben Atkins - Friday, August 5, 2011 United States’ biggest Pro/Am stage race returns to steep Devil’s Kitchen climbThe fourth annual Tour of the Catskills is all set to start this weekend (August 5th-7th) as part of the Great American Cycling Series. With almost 800 entries, from 24 states, across all categories, the event is the biggest Pro/Am stage race in the... → Read More
Michal Golas and Michal Kwiatkowski sign for Quick Step by Ben Atkins - Friday, August 5, 2011 Belgian team recognising rise of Polish cycling with more East European recruitsQuick Step has announced the signing of Michal Golas and Michal Kwiatkowski for 2012, both on to year contracts. The Polish riders are two of only eight from their country currently riding for first division ProTeams and the Belgian team’s acquisiti... → Read More
Twenty-five teams announced for Giro di Lombardia by Ben Atkins - Friday, August 5, 2011 Seven wildcard invitations awarded for WorldTour finaleThe organiser of the Giro di Lombardia, RCS Sport, has announced the list of twenty-five teams that have been invited to the ‘Race of the falling leaves’, which will take place on Saturday, October 15th. As an event in the International Cycling Unio... → Read More
GreenEdge confirms contracts for Jack Bobridge and Meyer brothers by VeloNation Press - Friday, August 5, 2011 New Australian team taking shapeConfirming strong rumours from earlier this year that the GreenEdge team was aiming to sign three of Garmin-Cervélo’s top young Australian riders, the new setup has announced that Jack Bobridge, Cameron Meyer and his brother Travis Meyer will all be ... → Read More
Cavendish thanks HTC Highroad, says he’s proud of what was achieved by Shane Stokes - Friday, August 5, 2011 Manxman comments after news that team will stopResponding to yesterday’s news that the HTC Highroad men’s team will fold at the end of the season, its top sprinter Mark Cavendish has said that he regrets that it will stop, and that he feels that big things were achieved.“I am obviously very disap... → Read More
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