A Prognostication We Hoped We’d Be Wrong About
A Prognostication We Hoped We’d Be Wrong About
Sometimes The Labs Confirm What Our Noses Already Sensed…
As the Tour headed into the Pyrenees in recent days we wrote that “young gun” Ricardo Ricco was positively en fiero, and we added a few innocuous words as a sort of footnote, or perhaps as a garlic clove intended [...]
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- Robbie McEwen Is A Little Off Target, As Renshaw Delivers For Hushovd
July 6th, 2008by Justin Davis
SAINT BRIEUC, France, July 7, 2008 (AFP) - Robbie McEwen’s bid for a first stage win on this year’s Tour de France was postponed for another day Sunday, but on the third stage the Aussie sprinter will be one to watch.
Sunday’s second stage - [...] - Russian Tinkoff Team Signs Gert Steegmans To A two Year Deal
July 6th, 2008Steegmans to ditch Quick Step for Tinkoff
SAINT BRIEUC, France, July 6, 2008 (AFP) - Belgian sprinter Gert Steegmans, a former stage winner here at the Tour de France, will join the Russian Tinkoff team on a two-year deal, it was revealed at the race here Sunday.
Steegmans is currently a [...] - Cadel Evans’ Tour de France Yellow Jersey Bid Puts McEwen In The Shadow
June 16th, 2008Evans’ yellow jersey bid puts McEwen into the shade
GOSSAU, Switzerland, June 17, 2008 (AFP) - Australian Robbie McEwen’s annual battle for the Tour de France green jersey has been delivered a blow before the start of next month’s race — by compatriot and team-mate Cadel Evans.
Evans became Australia’s [...] - Factfile on Dauphine Libere Winner Alejandro Valverde
June 15th, 2008GRENOBLE, France, June 15, 2008 (AFP) - Factfile on Dauphine Libere winner Alejandro Valverde:
Date of birth: April 25, 1980
Place of birth: Las Lumbreras, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Height: 1.78m
Weight: 61kg
Sport/discipline: cycling/road
Teams: Kelme (2002-2004), Iles [...] - Philippe Gilbert Signs With Silence-Lotto Today
June 5th, 2008Gilbert moves up a gear at Silence-Lotto
BRUSSELS, June 5, 2008 (AFP) - One-day race specialist Philippe Gilbert will be looking to boost his victory chances after signing for Belgium’s second-biggest cycling team, Silence-Lotto, here Thursday.
The 26-year-old Gilbert, who earlier this season won the Het Volk one-day classic for the [...] - AG2R Rider Rene Mandri Fractures His Rib And A Vertebra In Giro Stage 6 Crash
May 16th, 2008PESCHICI, Italy, May 15, 2008 (AFP) - Estonian cyclist Rene Mandri suffered a cracked vertebra, broken rib and pneumothorax following his crash on the sixth stage of the Giro d’Italia on Thursday, his AG2R team said.
Initial diagnosis suggestted that Mandri had suffered a punctured lung.
Mandri, 24, [...] - Danilo Di Luca Acquitted On Doping Charge
April 16th, 2008ROME, April 16, 2008 (AFP) - The Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) court of last instance on Wednesday acquitted cyclist Danilo Di Luca on doping charges which, had he been found guilty, would have brought a two-year ban.
Coni had requested a two-year suspension for the former Pro Tour champion after [...] - Paolo Bettini Fractures Rib In Fall At Tour of Basque
April 12th, 2008PARIS, April 12, 2008 (AFP) - Italian rider Paolo Bettini fractured a rib when he fell in Thursday’s fourth stage of the Tour of the Basque country, his Quick Step said Saturday after he had hospital tests in Cecina, Italy.
“I have suffered a lot this past couple of [...] - Broken Wrist Sidelines Team Type 1s Matt Wilson
March 22nd, 2008Broken Wrist Sidelines Team Type 1s Matt Wilson
Los Angeles What was supposed to be a routine training ride for Team Type 1s Matt Wilson instead resulted in a broken wrist that will keep the former Australian national road champion out of competition for a couple of weeks.
Wilson was training last Wednesday on the Pacific Coast [...] - Australian Davis joins Mitsubishi
March 21st, 2008PARIS, March 21, 2008 (AFP) - Australian rider Allan Davis, who finished second in the Tour Down Under in January, has joined Belgium’s Mitsubishi team which competes on the second-division Continental Pro circuit.
Davis, 27, kicked off his professional career in 2003 under Manolo Saiz with the ONCE and then Liberty teams.
Last year, the [...] - Tom Boonen opts for Italian stage race over Paris-Nice
February 29th, 2008BRUSSELS, Feb 29, 2008 (AFP) - Belgium’s former world champion Tom Boonen has opted to race at the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race instead of Paris-Nice, his Quick Step team said Friday.
Boonen, a one-day specialist who would use either race as preparation for the upcoming classics season, says the profile of the French ‘Race to the [...] - Feeling Better -Slipstream keeps Pate?
February 21st, 2008Today’s stage will feature two Herbalife Sprints and three California Travel and Tourism King of the Mountains climbs on a route that is hilly and technical down the picturesque Pacific Coast Highway that will pedal through Big Sur and past the Hearst Castle before arriving in San Luis Obispo. Leipheimer’s GC lead over CSC’s Fabian [...]
- Bicycle.Net’s New Features
December 27th, 2007Bicycle.Net is adding a handful of great new features. Check back over the next couple weeks as we launch our expanded magazine format.
