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Simon Gerrans won the first stage of the Jayco Bay Cycling Classic in Australia today, riding for the local O2 Networks team. Riding with him was Cervélo TestTeam mate Jeremy Hunt. The win by Gerrans is the first win by a member of the new team.
“Gerrans, along with Australian domestic professionals, Dean Windsor, Joel Pearson [...]
Team CSC Saxo Bank managed to maintain both first and second place overall for Stuart O’Grady and Lars Bak in the final 66 kilometer stage of Herald Sun Tour on the streets of Melbourne.
As it became clear that the criteria stage would not remove the yellow jersey from the Danish team the focus was [...]
On Sunday Matthew Goss won the preface in Herald Sun Tour and on Monday the young Australian followed up with another victory in the 130-kilometer first stage from Traralgon to Inverloch.
The stage was decided in a bunch sprint and Barloworld’s sprinter Baden Cooke took the second place exactly like Sunday.
With this victory Goss also [...]
[03.10 11:27] It’s been a week since his last race so he’s had time to adjust and there’s absolutely no sign of regret when speaking to Michael Blaudzun: He’s completely comfortable with the fact that his career as a pro rider has come to an end.
“It’s been a weird week that’s for sure. On one [...]
[03.10 12:02] Team CSC Saxo Bank has received a thorough briefing from Fränk Schleck and awaits the Luxembourg Anti-doping committee’s ruling and further information from the UCI.
The Luxembourg Anti-doping committee has had a preliminary meeting with Fränk Schleck on the basis of which it will be decided whether or not to open disciplinary proceedings concerning [...]
CSC rider Frank Schleck has been suspended from racing by his team after becoming the latest big name rider to become embroiled in the Opertion Puerto doping affair.
Schleck, 28, wore the Tour de France yellow jersey for two days in July but following damaging allegations last week CSC [...]
IT FACTORY will be the new main sponsor in cooperation with Saxo Bank from January 1 2009 and 3 years onwards. The team will be named Team Saxo Bank – IT FACTORY.
From 1 January 2009, Bjarne Riis will have two main Danish sponsors for the team. IT FACTORY will become a main sponsor together [...]
KRAKOW, Poland, Sept 20, 2008 (AFP) – Germany’s Jens Voigt, of the CSC team, won the Tour of Poland after the seventh and final stage won by compatriot Robert Foerster of the Gerolsteiner team on Saturday.
Results from the final stage of the Tour of Poland, held over 1OO km between Rabka Zdroj [...]
PARIS, Sept 10, 2008 (AFP) – Australia’s Stuart O’Grady has inked a new deal with CSC that will keep him with the Danish outfit for another two years, the team announced Wednesday.
O’Grady, one of the most successful Australians in the peloton and a former winner of the tough Paris-Roubaix [...]
Contract Extension with Stuart O’Grady
One of the absolute biggest profiles on the team has extended his contract. Australian Stuart O’Grady will be with Team CSC Saxo Bank for the next two seasons.
”It’s been an easy choice for me because I simply couldn’t imagine working for another team. The results I’ve achieved here I wouldn’t [...]
PRESS RELEASE by CSC Saxo Bank
The 36-year old American rider has been with the team since 2004 is now retiring and looking ahead to a possible future within the sport.
“I have had a long career as a professional cyclist and it has been an honour to be part of a team like Team CSC [...]
American veteran Bobby Julich, a former podium finisher at the Tour de France, has announced the end to his 15-year professional career.
Julich relaunched his career with the CSC team of former 1996 Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis in 2004, and could now join the team on a [...]
Specialized and Riis Cycling in a new partnership
Riis Cycling / Team Saxo Bank and Specialized will embark on a new partnership that will mean a completely new and exiting setup for the team in terms of bikes and shoes. This partnership will see a new legacy in the development of high-end bikes and [...]
Team CSC Saxo Bank Official Fan Club has the pleasure of giving our members the chance to say hello to the newest rider in the team even before his first race with us. Jonathan Bellis is in the chat Monday at 20.00 CET /2 PM ET – CLICK HERE
Bellis has been to Italy the [...]
Over the coming weeks the eyes of the entire sports world will be on Beijing, China, where the 2008 Olympic Games are taking place. This is of course also the case for the world of cycling and Team CSC Saxo Bank is strongly represented with all of 15 riders.
The road race will be taking place [...]
by Justin Davis
PARIS, July 28, 2008 (AFP) – For Australia’s Cadel Evans, the Olympic
road race in Beijing is already too far on the horizon.
For the immediate future, the 31-year-old wants to concentrate on winding
down at the one-day criteriums which follow the end of the Tour de France -
and then [...]
by Justin Davis
PAU, France, July 15, 2008 (AFP) – Cadel Evans spent his first day in the Tour de France yellow jersey being treated like a rock star – although there was at least one vital ingredient missing.
“I don’t see any screaming girls here!” said the [...]
by Justin Davis
PAU, France, July 15, 2008 (AFP) – CSC have promised a repeat of the collective power which virtually eliminated Alejandro Valverde from yellow jersey contention once the Tour de France hits the Alps this weekend.
But this time, it is Australian Cadel Evans and Denis [...]
by Justin Davis
HAUTACAM, France, July 15, 2008 (AFP) – Silence-Lotto team manager Marc Sergeant believes Australia’s Cadel Evans has shown his rivals the tools that could land him an historic Tour de France yellow jersey in Paris.
But the Belgian admitted after a thrilling 10th stage [...]
by Justin Davis
AURILLAC, France, July 11, 2008 (AFP) – There’s a golden rule in cycling which is usually respected. When the yellow jersey wearer needs a loo stop, the peloton usually slows down considerably to let him catch up.
On Friday’s second day of climbing, that rule [...]
by Justin Davis
AURILLAC, France, July 11, 2008 (AFP) – The first skirmishes in the battle for the Tour de France yellow jersey left damage in their wake during the tumultuous seventh stage to here on Friday.
But the biggest souvenir from the second day of climbing in [...]
by Justin Davis
BREST, France, July 4, 2008 (AFP) – Luxembourg brothers Andy and Frank Schleck are set to make a little piece of cycling history when they saddle up for the Tour de France with big ambitions for the race here on Saturday.
Both riders are part [...]