It was a Team Katusha show on the uphill finish to the Superga Basilica after the 95th Milano-Torino (193,5 km), race won by Giampaolo Caruso. With Dani Moreno (3rd), Joaquim Rodríguez (5th) and Sergey Chernetckii (7th), four Team Katusha riders finished in top ten. – I am very happy. I […]
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Hushovd Will Close Career Saturday
Past world road champion Thor Hushovd will close his professional cycling career Saturday in Belgium at the Primus Classic Impanis-Van Petegem, the BMC Racing Team announced Wednesday. 2004 Tour de France win 2005 Tour Prologue 2006 Tour de France win Leaving His Legacy#Hushovd’s final race will cap 15 years in […]
Evans’s Future Includes BMC Ambassador Role
Ponferrada, Spain Cadel Evans will compete for the BMC Racing Team at the start of the 2015 season before transitioning into a brand ambassador role for the team’s title sponsor, BMC Switzerland. The news was shared Thursday during a press conference at the UCI road world championships in Spain. ‘Right […]
UCI Cyclocross Event of the Season takes riders to China
Story and Photos by Christine Vardaros September 23, 2014 The moment I got confirmation that I was invited to participate in China’s QianSen Trophy Cyclocross Yanqing Station race, my head immediately exploded with nervous excitement. My travel had been extensive, yet limited to Europe and North America. What would it […]
Czech Olympic Committee clears Roman Kreuziger
Lyngby, Denmark, 22/09/2014 Tinkoff-Saxo’s rider was found not guilty for the alleged abnormalities in his Biological Passport Profile. The team is very happy that Kreuziger has been cleared by the Judicial system of the Czech Olympic Committee and that he is is now eligible to resume racing. Tinkoff-Saxo has been […]
Tinkov and Riis excited about prospect of overall Tinkoff-Saxo victory in Vuelta
Tinkoff-Saxo’s captain Alberto Contador sealed his overall lead at Vuelta a España after winning stage 20 to the feared Puerto de Ancares. Contador followed multiple strong accelerations from Chris Froome and finally attacked his main rival with 500 meters to go, taking 16 seconds plus bonus seconds. He now leads […]
Contador: The next four days will be really hard
Tinkoff-Saxo and Alberto Contador got safely through today’s stage and avoided the crash that occurred as the riders passed the final kilometer mark. Alberto crossed the finish line in front of his rivals, although that did not have much significance, since the time was neutralized. “There was a crash in […]
Vuelta a España, Stage 11: Sánchez Seventh; Morabito Lost To Crash
Santuario de San Miguel de Aralar, Spain Samuel Sánchez of the BMC Racing Team continued his climb up the standings at the Vuelta a España with seventh place on Wednesday’s summit finish to move from seventh to sixth overall. A Few Seconds Lost On a day when Sánchez lost teammate […]
Contador Defends the Jersey
Tinkoff-Saxo’s captain and leader of the Vuelta, Alberto Contador, defended his overall lead by finishing 4th in today’s tactical mountain battle together with Alejandro Valverde and Joaquim Rodriguez. Fabio Aru took the stage win 6 seconds ahead. The final 9,9 k climb of stage 11 became a tactical stop-and-go affair […]
Nairo crashes out of Vuelta
September 2, 2014 San Miguel de Aralar Second crash by Quintana at 20km into Aralar stage forces him to abandon; Colombian to undergo surgery after scapula fracture. Valverde 2nd at today’s finish, takes 7″ back on Contador. Bad luck ended Nairo Quintana’s chances in the 2014 Vuelta a España after […]