After announcing his retirement as a professional rider, Ivan Basso is embarking on the next step of his already long career in cycling. Basso will assume the role as Technical Coordinator of Tinkoff Team, overseeing, developing and optimizing the collaboration between the athletes and technical functions. “A happy rider is […]
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2016 Tour de France
The new 2016 Tour de France will look like this: Stages:
Alberto Contador and Steven de Jongh react to Tour de France 2016 route
The full 2016 Tour de France parcours was unveiled at the official presentation in Paris on Tuesday and displays a Tour consisting of several new summit finishes making their first appearance, a tough revisit to the top of Mont Ventoux and two challenging individual time trials likely to be some […]
An open, attractive 2016 Tour
Quintana, Valverde, Unzué react to 103th edition route presented on Tuesday, with plenty of different mountain stages and more TT terrain The 2016 Tour de France features more TT terrain than in the previous year -54km, divided into a hilly, 37-kilometer parcours on stage thirteen and a mountain-like, 17km effort […]
Tinkoff Team to hold initial 2016 meeting in Poreč, Croatia
The seaside resort of Valamar Diamant in Poreč will play host to the riders, sport directors, doctors, technical staff and management of Tinkoff Team from October 26th to 29th, in order to start planning and preparing for the 2016 season. According to Stefano Feltrin, Managing Director of Tinkoff-Saxo, this meeting […]
More Ochowicz Fallout
The following is an article that appeared in Velo News on Thursday. “Armstrong names Ochowicz in ’93 race fixingBy Caley Fretz Velo NewsPublished Oct. 22, 2015Updated 5 hours ago In sworn testimony from the Floyd Landis-U.S. federal government whistleblower lawsuit against him, Lance Armstrong has not only admitted that his […]
Armstrong-Andreu ControversyAgain!
Lance Armstrong and Frankie Andreu are in a new controversy after Lance said that Frankie had doped during most of career. His September US federal court statements were just made public. 1999 Tour de France Armstrong and Andreu “This is absolutely false” , Andreu said in USA Today Wednesday: “I […]
Ben King has re-signed with Cannondale Garmin
Jonathan Vaughers, CEO of Slipstream Sports and Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling said: “Ben is a very talented rider and he is still developing his skills. In 2015 he showed glimpses of what he will be capable of in the coming years, and a highlight was his performance at World Championships, which […]
Carlos Betancur signs with Movistar Team
October 16th, 2015 Colombian seeking for career relaunch in strengthened telephone squad after winning 2014 Paris-Nice, Young riders’ jersey in 2013 Giro d’ItaliaMovistar Team announces on Friday that Carlos Betancur (Ciudad Bolívar, Antioquia, COL; 1989) will be part of its roster during the 2016 and 2017 seasons. Betancur, a remarkable […]
Colombia-Coldeportes waves goodbye to the peloton
The Escarabajos will not be at the start of the 2016 season. Corti: “Feels bad, but we left a mark” Due to the impossibility of its primary sponsor, Colombia’s Sports Ministry “Coldeportes”, to confirm the necessary funding to continue the cycling activity at the highest level, Team Colombia-Coldeportes and its […]
