Linus Gerdemann Trades Team Columbia For Team Milram, And Columbia Signs Monfort
HIGH ROAD SPORTS AND TEAM COLUMBIA CONFIRMS MONFORT, RELEASES GERDEMANN
San Luis Obispo, CA, 29th October 2008 - High Road Sports, owner and operator of Team Columbia, today confirms that Maxime Monfort (25) of Belgium will join Team Columbia for the 2009 season and announces the release of Linus Gerdemann from his contract, effective October 31, [...]
COLUMBIA STAYS FOCUSSED FOR WIDE-OPEN TOUR OF LOMBARDY
San Luis Obispo, CA, 16 October 2008 - Team Columbia are expecting this Saturday’s Tour of Lombardy Classic in Italy to be anything but predictable.
“It’s our last race of the season, but we will have to stay very focused because Lombardy is going to be a fast-moving, wide-open race this year,” comments team [...]
Team Columba Gunning For Breaks In Paris-Tours
San Luis Obispo, CA, 10 October 2008 - Team Columbia will be aiming to make their mark in the Paris-Tours Classic in France this Sunday by getting their riders in the breakaways.
“That tactic worked out for us well on Thursday, when Bernhard [Eisel] won Paris-Bourges, so I don’t see why it can’t work on Sunday, [...]
EISEL HITS TOP SPEED TO TAKE PARIS-BOURGES
San Luis Obispo, CA, 9 October 2008 - Bernhard Eisel has outsprinted four other riders for a hard-fought victory in the Paris-Bourges Classic in France on Thursday.
“The attacks kept coming towards the end” the Columbia pro. said, “because the others knew that I was the fastest rider for the finish.”
“To make it even harder, I [...]
Greipel Rounds Off Season With Victory
German fast man Andre Greipel has finished his 2008 season exactly as he started it, with his arms raised in victory in a bunch sprint. Victorious in the Tour Down Under Classic in Australia way back in January - his first race of the year - the Columbia rider’s final win of the [...]
Maxime Monfort Quits Cofidis For Team Columbia
BRUSSELS, Sept 30, 2008 (AFP) - Belgian rider Maxime Monfort announced Monday that he will quit French team Cofidis at the end of this season to race for Columbia over the next two years.
The 25-year-old was still under contract with Cofidis, and Columbia would have had to pay an [...]
GREIPEL GRABS FOURTEENTH VICTORY OF SEASON WITH BUNCH SPRINT
San Luis Obispo, CA, 19 September 2008 - German speedster Andre Greipel was first across the line in the Championships of Flanders one-day race on Friday - taking his 2008 win total to a remarkable total of 14.
Greipel took his latest victory in a bunch sprint after Columbia team-mates used their tried-and-tested formula for [...]
ARNDT LEADS IN TOSCANA AND TEUTENBERG TAKES STAGE WIN
Altopascio, Italy, 17 September 2008 - Judith Arndt has taken over as race leader in the Giro della Toscana - Memorial Michela Fanini in Italy on Wednesday whilst Ina-Yoko Teutenberg cruised to a strong lone stage win in the same race.
Arndt took the lead on the first sector of Wednesday’s stage, a 57.2 kilometre run [...]
Arndt Blasts To Third World Cup Of Season And Wins Series Overall
Nürnberg, Germany, 14 September 2008 - World Cup winner Judith Arndt soloed to a spectacular victory in the 129 kilometre Rund um die Nurnberger Altstadt, the last round of the series.
After taking the Tour of Flanders and the GP Montreal, Nurnberger is Arndt’s third World Cup win of 2008.
Part of a much larger break of [...]
Boasson Hagen Takes Third Win At The Tour of Britain
San Luis Obispo, CA, 13 September 2008 - Team Columbia’s Edvald Boasson Hagen won his third stage at the Tour of Britain on Saturday with yet another unbeatable powerful sprint finish.
The 21 year-old Norwegian won stage four to Stoke-on-Trent in the Midlands on Wednesday and stage five to Dalby Forest in the Yorkshire moors on [...]
