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COPENHAGEN, Sept 21, 2011 (AFP) – Germany’s Tony Martin ended the long reign of Switzerland’s Fabian Cancellara by powering to the time trial gold at the road world championships here [...]
COPENHAGEN, Sept 20, 2011 – Defending champion Fabian Cancellara has admitted an upset could be on the cards when he puts his time trial crown on the line at the [...]
by Justin Davis COPENHAGEN, Sept 20, 2011 (AFP) – Tony Martin will take inspiration from his recent beating of world time trial king Fabian Cancellara when he aims to end [...]
CARMAUX, France, July 12, 2011 (AFP) – Tour de France challengers Andy and Frank Schleck got a taste of a regular dish at this year’s race, but survived a minor [...]
Written by: Justin Davis (AFP) LES HERBIERS, France, July 2, 2011 – Uphill sprint specialist Philippe Gilbert dominated an incident-packed first stage of the Tour de France here on Saturday [...]
LEOPARD TREK has named the riders that will team-up with Andy and Fränk Schleck for the team’s first ever Tour de France. Andy Schleck, Fränk Schleck, Fabian Cancellara, Linus Gerdemann, [...]
Written by: Justin Davis (AFP) SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, June 19, 2011 – American Levi Leipheimer snatched overall victory from Damiano Cunego in the Tour of Switzerland Sunday to leave the Italian [...]
Written by: Justin Davis LUGANO, June 11, 2011 – Four-time world champion Fabian Cancellara stuck to tradition by powering to victory in the opening stage time trial at the Tour [...]
BASCHARAGE, Luxembourg, June 2, 2011 (AFP) – Up-and-coming Russian sprinter Denis Galimzyanov of the Katusha team won the first stage of the Tour of Luxembourg on Thursday. Leopard’s Swiss rider [...]
LUXEMBOURG, June 1, 2011 – Quadruple World Champion Time Trial Fabian Cancellara delivered another time trial victory today in the opening stage of the Skoda Tour of Luxembourg. The five-day [...]
Written by: Justin Davis ROUBAIX, France, April 10, 2011 – Belgian Johan Van Summeren upstaged a host of race favorites to claim the biggest win of his career at a [...]
Written by: Justin Davis PARIS, April 9, 2011 – Stuart O’Grady said he will be primed for a second shot at Paris-Roubaix glory on Sunday — if circumstances rule team [...]
Written by: Justin Davis PARIS, April 8, 2011 – Another thrilling chapter in cycling’s hardest one-day classic will be played out Sunday when Belgian Tom Boonen puts his pedigree up [...]
MEERBEKE, Belgium, April 3, 2011 – Belgium’s Nick Nuyens of Saxo Bank claimed the biggest victory of his cycling career when he won the Tour of Flanders one-day classic here [...]
For most of the peloton heading into the Tour of Flanders one-day classic this Sunday, surviving the cobbles and ‘bergs’ and rallying the finish in Merbeke in one piece will [...]
For the second year in a row Fabian Cancellara has won E3 Prijs Harelbeke, a 202 kilometres long race including twelve climbs and several cobbled sectors that turn the race [...]
ROME, March 15, 2011 – Australian Cadel Evans won the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race following Tuesday’s final stage, a 9.3km time-trial around San Benedetto del Tronto, won by Swiss Fabian Cancellara. [...]
Boom beats Cancellara to Qatar prologue win DOHA – Dutchman Lars Boom of the Rabobank team deprived Olympic time-trial champion Fabian Cancellara of his first victory in 2011 when he [...]
LUXEMBOURG – Andy Schleck believes his new Team Leopard-Trek can power him to a first Tour de France triumph after two successive, heartbreaking runner-up finishes to Spain’s Alberto Contador. Schleck [...]
After more than half a year of solid efforts, including meticulous planning, rider recruitment and rigorous application processes, the Luxembourg Pro Cycling Project has finally come to full fruition. The [...]
Written by: Justin Davis PARIS – The scourge of doping blighted cycling once more in 2010, where the most gripping Tour de France duel in years was marred by the [...]
LUXEMBOURG – The new Luxembourgian cycling team set up around the brothers Franck and Andy Schleck will be called ‘Team Leopard’, Danish cyclist Jakob Fuglsang claimed on Monday. “We’re going [...]
PARIS – Swiss cyclist Fabian Cancellara has joined the Luxembourgian team set up around the brothers Franck and Andy Schleck, the new outfit announced on Tuesday. Cancellara, Olympic champion in [...]
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Team Saxo Bank’s reigning World and Olympic time trial champion, Fabian Cancellara won the prestigious French cycling award, Vélo d’Or after an unusually magnificent season. The Swiss phenomenon started off [...]
GEELONG, Australia – Belgium’s Philippe Gilbert has warned Swiss contender Fabian Cancellara he will be a marked man during the world road race championship on Sunday. The elite men’s road [...]
Written by: Justin Davis GEELONG, Australia – Italy coach Paolo Bettini is keeping rival teams guessing as the mind games gather pace ahead of Sunday’s battle for cycling’s coveted rainbow [...]
Written by: Justin Davis GEELONG, Australia – Swiss Olympic champion Fabian Cancellara rode into the history books Thursday by winning a record fourth time trial crown at the world road [...]
by Justin Davis GEELONG, Australia- Olympic time trial champion Fabian Cancellara has gone to extreme lengths to make sure his trip across the globe for the world road race cycling [...]
by Justin Davis GEELONG, Australia, Sept 27, 2010 (AFP) – Olympic time trial champion Fabian Cancellara has admitted that the prospect of a record-breaking fourth world crown in the discipline [...]
BALLARAT, Australia – Italy’s Filippo Pozzato put his world championship title credentials on display by winning the Herald Sun World Cycling Classic Ballarat on Sunday. Pozzato, who rides for the [...]
PARIS – British cyclist Mark Cavendish and Switzerland’s Fabian Cancellara, two riders riding for the title in the next road world championship (October 3), arrived in Australia, organizers said Thursday. [...]
The rumors are flying that Fabian Cancellara is for sale. Well at least his contract is. The rumors that we have been hearing are putting the price tag to buy [...]
SEVILLE- British sprint sensation Mark Cavendish took the leader’s jersey on the first day of the Tour of Spain after powering his HTC Columbia team to victory in the team [...]
SYDNEY – Beijing Olympic and three-time world time trial champion Fabian Cancellara will spearhead the Swiss team at next month’s UCI Road World Championships in Australia, organizers said on Friday. [...]
PAUILLAC, France- Alberto Contador admitted to being pushed to his absolute limits on his way to virtually securing a third yellow jersey triumph on the Tour de France Sunday. “This [...]
PAUILLAC, France – Swiss Olympic champion Fabian Cancellara overcame the fatigue of three tough weeks of racing to win his first long time trial on the Tour de France’s 19th [...]
LES ROUSSES, France – Fabian Cancellara failed to live up to expectations when he surrendered the Tour de France yellow jersey on the first day in the mountains Saturday. Cancellara, [...]
GUEUGNON, France – Cadel Evans and Andy Schleck will be among the Tour de France contenders keeping their eyes glued to Lance Armstrong and his RadioShack team Saturday as the [...]
MONTARGIS, France – Britain’s Mark Cavendish finally relaunched his stuttering sprint on the Tour de France by powering to victory on the fifth stage Thursday. Switzerland’s Fabian Cancellara retained the [...]
REIMS, France – Italian Alessandro Petacchi, riding for the Lampre team, produced a perfectly timed sprint to claim victory in the 153km fourth stage of the Tour de France from [...]
ARENBERG, France – Cadel Evans launched his 2010 yellow jersey bid in the most unlikely of places on Tuesday — on cobblestones that played havoc with Lance Armstrong’s futile bid [...]
As expected, today’s stage was one of the most spectacularly dramatic events in the history of the Tour de France as the peloton had a rough and violent encounter with [...]
ARENBERG, France – Seven-time champion Lance Armstrong was one of the big losers on the Tour de France on Tuesday as the cobblestones of the feared third stage exacted a [...]
SPA, Belgium – Lance Armstrong’s white and yellow bike stands out from the rest of the super-slick red and grey Trek machines used by his RadioShack team. But on Monday [...]
SPA, Belgium – Tour de France officials on Monday agreed to help reduce the risk of further injuries in the peloton by virtually canceling the sprinters’ points competition on the [...]
SPA, Belgium – Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel claimed the leader’s yellow jersey after winning yet another crash-marred stage of the Tour de France Monday as the peloton called a truce in [...]
BRUSSELS – Lance Armstrong was reminded of just how tough life can be on the Tour de France, even before the mountain stages, as the first stage of the race [...]
BRUSSELS – Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland retained the race leader’s yellow jersey after the crash-marred Tour de France first stage won in spectacular fashion by Alessandro Petacchi of Lampre on [...]
Written by: Justin Davis ROTTERDAM, Netherlands – Swiss Olympic champion Fabian Cancellara stuck with tradition on Saturday by winning the opening prologue of the 97th Tour de France to take [...]
PARIS, June 22, 2010 (AFP) – Saxo Bank team owner Bjarne Riis named his nine-man team for the Tour de France, with Andy Schleck, last year’s runner-up, once again spearheading [...]
GENEVA, June 15, 2010 – A Hungarian engineer who claims to have developed an electric motor that can be hidden in a bicycle frame says it can propel a cyclist [...]
LUGANO, Switzerland, June 12, 2010 – Switzerland’s Fabian Cancellara of the Saxo Bank team won the Tour of Switzerland opening time-trial over 7.6km through the streets of Lugano on Saturday. [...]
Fabian Cancellara on Friday has again denied, on the eve of the Tour of Switzerland, the rumors that accuse him of having used a bicycle with a motor at his [...]
[03.06 15:11] Team Saxo Bank rejects all insinuations and accusations that have been made in the media regarding Fabian Cancellara’s alleged use of an electric motor in his bike. Team [...]
PARIS, June 1, 2010 – Olympic time-trial champion Fabian Cancellara on Tuesday rubbished claims that he used a ‘motorized’ bike when winning this season’s Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix classic. [...]
David Bernstein of TheFredCast brings you an introduction to the Tour California 2010. David lays out the stages of the tour, brings you highlights from the preliminary press conference and [...]
Danish cycling team Saxo Bank will line up for the three-week Giro d’Italia in May without any of its major stars. Top names like Swiss Fabian Cancellara and the Luxembourg [...]
LIEGE (Belgium), April 23, 2010 – Alberto Contador, who is scheduled to attack the cobblestones at the next Tour de France, said he was not losing sleep worrying about the [...]
Switzerland’s Fabian Cancellara, who won Sunday for the second time Paris-Roubaix, emphasized psychological blow dealt to his opponents when he attacked 49 km from the finish, leaving behind all its [...]
by Justin Davis Olympic time-trial champion Fabian Cancellara powered to his second one-day classic victory in a week, winning Paris-Roubaix Sunday with another humbling of Belgian rival Tom Boonen. For [...]
Team Saxo Bank’s Fabian Cancellara crushed everyone in today’s Paris-Roubaix and secured Team Saxo Bank The Double. The queen of the classics was however invaded by 19 riders after 60 [...]
by Justin Davis PARIS, April 10, 2010 (AFP) – Fabian Cancellara has issued a warning to Paris-Roubaix rival ‘Tornado’ Tom Boonen as the Belgian embarks on a quest to equal [...]
by Justin Davis PARIS, April 9, 2010 (AFP) – Cycling enthusiasts who fancy a wager at decent odds on this weekend’s Paris-Roubaix one-day classic would do well to steer clear [...]
Cold showers in fierce winds and Team Saxo Bank in the front of the peloton was the standing image of this year’s edition of Ronde van Vlaanderen. A breakaway of [...]
Belgian cycling ace Tom Boonen was already looking ahead to next week’s ‘Hell of the North’ at Paris-Roubaix — as he digested his runner-up place at the Tour of Flanders. [...]
MEERBEKE (Belgium), April 4, 2010 (AFP) – Fabian Cancellara (SUI / Saxo Bank), Winner: “I was not planning to attack the wall of Grammont although it is a place of [...]
MEERBEKE, Belgium, April 4, 2010 (AFP) – Saxo Bank rider Fabian Cancellara ended Switzerland’s long wait for victory in the Tour of Flanders one-day classic Sunday with a superb solo [...]
Belgian Tom Boonen who aims for a third victory Sunday in the Tour of Flanders after his success 2005 and 2006, said Wednesday night that Fabian Cancellara is “the man [...]
Another Belgian semi classic was due today and Team Saxo Bank took another beautiful victory in the 203 kilometer long E3 Prijs Vlaanderen – Harelbeke. The Danish squad was represented [...]
Today, Team Saxo Bank’s Fabian Cancellara showed off his amazing power engine as he finished second on the final stage of Tour of Oman and took the overall victory of [...]
Bjarne Riis’s successful very cycling team will now have to be on the lookout for a brand spanking new title sponsor during 2010 season after Saxo Bank (current title sponsor) [...]
by Justin Davis MENDRISIO, Switzerland, Sept 24, 2009 (AFP) – Swiss ace Fabian Cancellara claimed his third career gold in the men’s time trial after crushing his rivals at the [...]
Results from the second day of the world road race cycling championships on Thursday: Men Time trial (49.8km) 1. Fabian Cancellara (SUI) 57min 55sec, 2. Gustav Larsson (SWE) at 1:27, [...]
by Justin Davis MENDRISIO, Switzerland, Sept 23, 2009 (AFP) – Olympic champion Fabian Cancellara admits he will have to dose his time trial efforts to perfection Thursday if he is [...]
Switzerland’s Olympic time-trial champion Fabian Cancellara took the leader’s golden jersey of the Tour of Spain on Saturday after winning the seventh stage, a 30-kilometer (18.6-mile) individual time trial. The [...]
[31.08 17:41] Three riders, Lars Boom (Rabobank), Johnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil) and Jesús Rosendo Prado (Andalucia Cajasur) were the first riders in Germany when the Vuelta a Espana peloton rode out [...]
EMMEN, Netherlands, Aug 30, 2009 (AFP) – Germany’s Gerald Ciolek, riding for the Milram team, won the second stage of the Tour of Spain between Assen and here on Sunday. [...]
ASSEN, Netherlands, Aug 29, 2009 (AFP) – Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara of the Saxo Bank team won the Tour of Spain opening prologue on Saturday which took place hundreds of [...]
by Justin Davis ANNECY, France, July 23, 2009 (AFP) – Spaniard Alberto Contador took a virtually unassailable lead in the race for the Tour de France yellow jersey after winning [...]
This is from the 7th stage of the 2009 Tour de France. Fabian Cancellara is bombing down a decent after getting a flat to get back up the peloton.
by Justin Davis SAINT-GIRONS, France, July 11, 2009 (AFP) – A Cadel Evans attack early in the mountainous eighth stage of the Tour de France on Saturday might have raised [...]
BARCELONA, July 9, 2009 (AFP) – Fabian Cancellara insists he will fight to keep hold of his Tour de France yellow jersey, but admitted he could switch to a new [...]
by Justin Davis Norwegian Thor Hushovd finally ended his frustrating wait for victory on this year’s Tour de France by winning a treacherous, rain-hit sixth stage from Gerona to Barcelona [...]
Lance Armstrong dramatically missed out on the yellow jersey by the slimmest of margins here on Tuesday after his Astana team smashed their rivals apart in the Tour de France’s [...]
LA GRANDE MOTTE, France, July 6, 2009 (AFP) – Britain’s Mark Cavendish of the Columbia team won a dramatic third stage of the Tour de France here Monday as Lance [...]
by Ryland James MONACO, July 4, 2009 (AFP) – Switzerland’s Olympic time-trial champion Fabian Cancellara won the first stage of the Tour de France on Saturday in a time of [...]
Yellow jersey favorite Alberto Contador could strike a first psychological blow to his Tour de France rivals when he lines up for the first stage, a 15.5km time trial, on [...]
PARIS, June 22, 2009 (AFP) – The Saxo Bank team run by former Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis will center its hopes for victory on next month’s race on [...]
BERNE, Switzerland, June 21, 2009 (AFP) – Swiss time-trial Olympic champion Fabian Cancellara won the Tour of Switzerland on Sunday after winning the ninth and final stage of the race [...]
STAEFA, Switzerland, June 16, 2009 (AFP) – Up-and-coming Danish cyclist Matti Breschel triumphed in the fourth stage of the Tour of Switzerland, a 195km ride from Biasca to here on [...]
LUMINO, Switzerland, June 15, 2009 (AFP) – Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara held on to the lead of the Tour of Switzerland as Britain’s Mark Cavendish powered to victory on the [...]
Italy’s reigning world champion Alessandro Ballan and Olympic time-trial champion Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland have both pulled out of this weekend’s Milan-San Remo race, their teams announced on Wednesday. Ballan, [...]
by Justin Davis VARESE, Italy, Sept 24, 2008 (AFP) – Australia’s Michael Rogers is rightly hoping the time trial rivals he will face at the world championships with ‘Tour of [...]
by Justin Davis JUYONGGUAN, China, Aug 13, 2008 (AFP) – It took a maiden Olympic gold and the sight of a Swiss flag to bring a tear to the eyes [...]
by Justin Davis BEIJING, Aug 11, 2008 (AFP) – When they call Swiss time trial specialist Fabian Cancellara ‘Spartacus’, it hits the mark. The 27-year-old battled uphill to a well [...]
by Justin Davis JUYONGGUAN, China, Aug 9, 2008 (AFP) – Spanish climber Samuel Sanchez claimed his biggest ever career win when he claimed gold in the men’s grueling Olympic road [...]
Double world time trial champion Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland on Friday extended his contract with the CSC-Saxo Bank cycling team by another three years, until 2011. Cancellara, who will begin [...]
by Justin Davis NANTES, France, July 7, 2008 (AFP) – Frenchman Romain Feillu took the biggest accolade of his career Monday when a successful breakaway that foxed the sprinters’ teams [...]
by Justin Davis NANTES, France, July 7, 2008 (AFP) – Britain’s David Millar is quietly building hopes of ending his eight-year wait to pull on the Tour de France yellow [...]
by Justin Davis SAINT BRIEUC, France, July 6, 2008 (AFP) – Fabian Cancellara is looking forward to a day of rest, in relative terms, when the Tour de France starts [...]
by Justin Davis SAINT BRIEUC, France, July 6, 2008 (AFP) – Norwegian Thor Hushovd of Credit Agricole claimed his sixth victory from the Tour de France after powering his way [...]
See earlier post with more photos from today’s Stage 5 of the Amgen Tour of California. Additional Stage 5 photos have just been added.
Levi Leipheimer beat 2nd place David Millar by 28 seconds on a 30-minute ride. It was enough to hold off Fabian Cancellara and Robert Gesink and keep the yellow jersey. [...]
Today was the start of the Amgen Tour of California with some of the world’s best bicycle riders coming to compete in Palo Alto, California. The morning started with bitter [...]
Cancellara Wins The Amgen Tour of California Prologue PALO ALTO, California, Feb 17, 2008 (AFP) – Switzerland’s Fabian Cancellara, riding for CSC, Sunday won the prologue of the 2008 Tour [...]