Russian ‘Super-Team’ Looking To Shake Up Cycling
PAU, France, July 15, 2008 (AFP) - A Russian-financed cycling team is set to muscle its way into the professional peloton in 2009, with ambitious plans to radically transform the sport in the country.
Katoucha, presented here on Tuesday by former champion Andre Tchmil, will aim to make an impact [...]
Valverde Strikes First Blow, But Evans Limits Losses
by Justin Davis
PLUMELEC, France, July 6, 2008 (AFP) - Cadel Evans was given a glimpse of the kind of climbing power he might be up against at this year’s Tour de France by Spanish rival Alejandro Valverde here Saturday.
Going on recent race polls Valverde is the [...]
Martijn Maaskant of Team SlipStream 4th in Paris-Roubaix
(April 14, 2008)
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Tom Boonen of Quick Step Ends Classics Famine At Paris-Roubaix
by Justin Davis
ROUBAIX, France, April 13, 2008 (AFP) - Former world champion Tom Boonen drew a golden lining around his mediocre classics season by claiming his second Paris-Roubaix triumph after a dramatic finale here Sunday.
Switzerland’s 2006 champion Fabian Cancellara finished second ahead of Italy’s Alessandro Ballan [...]
Cobbles Taste Better Second Time Around For Tom Boonen of Quick Step
by Justin Davis
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ROUBAIX, France, April 13, 2008 (AFP) - Hounded by a glory-starved media in his native Belgium, cycling star Tom Boonen delivered in style Sunday by claiming what is arguably sport’s most celebrated chunk of granite.
The cobblestone trophy given to [...]
CSC State Case For Third Roubaix Crown
by Justin Davis
COMPIEGNE, France, April 12, 2008 (AFP) - Switzerland’s Fabian Cancellara has been promised the unwavering support of his CSC team as they go into battle for a third consecutive Paris-Roubaix crown on Sunday.
CSC ride into the 259.5km cobblestoned classic, known ominously as the ‘Hell [...]
Tom Boonen of Quick Step On Form, But Calls Out Magnus Backstedt For Roubaix
Former world champion Tom Boonen said he is determined to make amends for his mediocre season so far by winning the prestigious Paris-Roubaix one-day classic.
However Boonen is wary of a few rivals who he said have been preparing specially for cycling’s toughest one-day classic.
The ‘Hell of [...]
Paris-Roubaix Cobblestone Sectors Review
PARIS, April 11, 2008 (AFP) - A list of the 28 cobblestoned sectors on this
year’s Paris-Roubaix one-day classic, which begins Sunday in Compiegne north
of Paris and finishes in the Roubaix velodrome after 259.5km of racing.
Race organizers ASO (Amaury Sports Organisation) have ranked each sector on
a scale of one to five, five [...]
CSC Out For Revenge In ‘Hell of the North’
PARIS, April 11, 2008 (AFP) - Danish outfit CSC will be fired up to make
amends for their debacle on the cobble of the snow-hit Flanders last week when
they line up two former champions at Paris-Roubaix this Sunday.
CSC go into the 259.5km cobblestoned classic, known ominously as the ‘Hell
of the North’, as [...]
Team High Road Announces Paris-Roubaix Roster
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