International Cycling Event Launched In Ireland
The Sky Ride Etape Hibernia to attract thousands of cyclists to County Clare
Ireland is set to become home to an annual international cycling event organized by the world’s largest sports, entertainment and media company.
IMG today, in partnership with Sky, Fáilte Ireland, Shannon Development, the Shannon Region Conference and Sports Bureau, Clare County Council, announced details [...]
Amateur Road Racing Season Now Officially Underway
Saturday unfolded a balmy sixty degrees, shockingly sunny, and with just the mildest of breeze from some direction or another. That’s what left a few of us worryingly overdressed for what was arguably the first road race of the new decade in Texas.
Aside from the technical glitch that 2010 might be more like the last [...]
Tour de Georgia Canceled for 2010
(Atlanta, GA) – The Board of Directors of the Tour de Georgia Foundation, Inc. announced today that the 2010 race, which had been scheduled to take place in the last week of April 2010, is officially canceled, postponing the return of the Tour de Georgia until at least 2011.
“This was not an easy decision, [...]
Popovych, Steegmans Boost Armstrong’s Tour Down Under Team
SYDNEY, Dec 3, 2009 (AFP) – Tour de France stage winners Yaroslav Popovych and Gert Steegmans will boost Lance Armstrong’s Team RadioShack when it makes its worldwide debut at Australia’s Tour Down Under, organizers said Thursday.
Seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong is returning for a second attempt at the first UCI ProTour race of [...]
Hoy Leads British Sprint Clean Sweep
MANCHESTER, England, Oct 31, 2009 (AFP) – Sir Chris Hoy won the men’s sprint in a race where Great Britain monopolized the podium at the Track World Cup here on Saturday.
Four-time Olympic champion Hoy, who claimed one of Britain’s four victories on Friday’s opening day by winning the keirin, [...]
Crocodile Trophy Stage 10
Aussie Battler Gifted Final Stage
The ultimate battler in the Crocodile Trophy of 2009, Australia’s Chris Neal, was awarded the race’s final accolade yesterday as he crossed the finish line in first place after leading the peloton home on the final stage from Ayton to Cape Tribulation.
According to race tradition, one that began with Belgian ironman [...]
Crocodile Trophy Stage 4
Brentjens Wins at Outback ChillagoeBrentjens Chillagoe
The great Dutchman Bart Brentjens today recorded his second Crocodile Trophy stage victory after outsprinting Swiss marathon specialist Urs Huber to the finish line of a gruelling 157 kilometre Out-back marathon from Irvinebank to Chillagoe.
Brentjens was forced to call upon all of his energy reserves during the longest stage of [...]
Crocadile Trophy Stage 3
Bart’s Outback Adventure a Day to RememberBart’s Remember
Medical emergencies, raging bushfires and a full-scale search for missing riders. Australia’s Croco-dile Trophy has always promised competitors an outback adventure but today, on what was defi-nitely the most dramatic day in the race’s history, drama was laid-on for the protagonists in rich helpings.
Stage three of the Croc [...]
Lance vs. Alberto 2010
What A Difference A Year Makes
The 2010 TdF route was announced last week and, ou est la! It largely involves a long, hard bike ride around France. Yes it has different features and towns and mountain passes, and yes it lacks a Team Time Trial and Mont Ventoux and so on, but if you step [...]
Philippe Gilbert Winning Streak Continues At Tour of Lombardy
Belgian Philippe Gilbert won his fourth race in a row as his hot streak continued with victory in Saturday’s Tour of Lombardy over 242km from Varese to Cuomo.
Gilbert beat breakaway companion and Spanish Olympic champion Samuel Sanchez in a two-man sprint to win the last Classic of the [...]
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