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Late last week, Team Saxo Bank succeeded in finishing the cycling school in Akko, Israel. This morning, the numerous cycling activities on the ground surrounding the building were used by [...]
Saxo Bank, the trading and investment specialist, will take over the full title sponsorship of Riis Cycling in 2012. In 2011 the sponsorship was held jointly with SunGard, one of [...]
PARIS, Oct 21, 2011 (AFP) – Saxo Bank have signed Japanese veteran Takashi Miyazawa on a one-year deal, team manager and owner Bjarne Riis announced Friday. “In my opinion Takashi [...]
by Justin Davis ADELAIDE, Australia – Saxo Bank team manager Brad McGee called for patience from Richie Porte Thursday after a failed attack late on the Tour Down Under’s third [...]
Written by: Justin Davis PARIS – Seasoned Tour de France campaigner Stuart O’Grady has rubber-stamped his departure from Saxo Bank by signing with the Luxembourg Cycling Project being led by [...]
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 [...]
Belgian Nick Nuyens has been told to expect bigger things in his career after signing a two-year deal with Danish outfit Saxo Bank. Nuyens, who has previously won Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, Omloop [...]
COPENHAGEN – Saxo Bank team director Bjarne Riis said Wednesday he still believed in the innocence of new team recruit Alberto Contador despite his positive test for a banned substance. [...]
Switzerland’s Fabien Cancellara is leaving Team Saxo Bank a year before the end of his contract, the head of the Danish team Bjarne Riis told TV2 news Saturday. “I will [...]
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 [...]
Mansac (Corrèze) – The Russian rider Alexander Bocharov (Katusha) won the third stage of the 43rd Tour of Limousin cycling race on Thursday. The stage covered a distance of 191.5 [...]
Team Saxo Bank has secured an important weapon on the French/Belgian cobblestone sections by signing a two year- contract extension with Dane, Kasper Klostergaard. The strong fighter has been showing [...]
It was a determined Team Saxo Bank ready to fight to secure Jakob Fuglsang a third consecutive win of Tour of Denmark, taking on the sixth and final stage from [...]
[06.08 18:40] On a sunny Friday, Team Saxo Bank forced the peloton to its knees during the 185 kilometer long third stage of Tour of Denmark from Hadsten to Vejle. [...]
Luxembourg pair Andy and Frank Schleck are to leave their Saxo Bank team with a view to joining a home-based outfit next season, it was reported the pair stated on [...]
Today, Team Saxo Bank tempo specialist, Gustav Larsson won the prologue over eight kilometers of Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid that runs this weekend after. Teammates, Andre Steensen and [...]
MORZINE-AVORIAZ, France, July 12, 2010 (AFP) – Saxo Bank manager Bjarne Riis announced a new co-title sponsor for his team Monday as Tour de France contender Andy Schleck refused to [...]
by Justin Davis ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, July 1, 2010 – Former Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis stood defiant Thursday amid rumors that his two top contenders for the yellow jersey [...]
Today, the Danish national road championships were held in Hobro, Denmark where Team Saxo Bank conquered the podium in the national time trial championship. And the Danish Team Saxo Bank [...]
COPENHAGEN, June 27, 2010 – Kim Andersen, the sporting director of the Danish team Saxo Bank, is stepping down from his job less than a week before the start of [...]
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 [...]
Home rider Frank Schleck of Saxo Bank won the second stage of the Tour of Luxembourg on Friday but Italian Matteo Carrara of Vacansoleil took the overall lead from previous [...]
[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 [...]
Team Saxo Bank’s Richie Porte signed with Team Saxo Bank in the autumn of 2009 and he has entered his first season as a professional taking a stage victory in [...]
[10.05 17:23] The 224 kilometer long stretch between Amsterdam and Middelburg formed today’s third stage of Giro d’Italia and similar to yesterday’s wild ride on the narrow and windy roads [...]
[07.05 17:14] Team Saxo Bank’s Alex Rasmussen conquered his third great victory this week when he out sprinted everyone on a demanding stage in race, Four Days At Dunkerque. The [...]
[05.05 17:06] Saturday, he won GP Herning on home ground and today, Team Saxo Bank’s Alex Rasmussen out sprinted everyone on stage one of Four Days at Dunkirk from Dunkirk [...]
The 101st edition of the Giro d’Italia kicks off in the most spectacular fashion when the riders this coming Saturday are sent off to do the 8,4 kilometer time trial [...]
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 [...]
On Sunday 25th of April, the last of this year’s spring classics, Liege-Bastogne-Liege is winding its 258 kilometers through an increasingly rugged landscape as the field will be approaching the [...]
Sunday April 19th, the 45th edition of the Dutch classic, Amstel Gold Race is due. The course takes place in an undulating landscape on roads so narrow that the riders [...]
[13.04 13:40] It has been a very successful past month for Team Saxo Bank. With convincing victories in Volta a Catalunya (Jens Voigt and Juan José Haedo, Dwars door Vlaanderen [...]
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 [...]
Paris-Roubaix is with its 259 kilometres, of which 52.9 will be on uneven and slippery cobblestone divided into 27 sections, probably the most loved and still very much hated one-day [...]
Today, Team Saxo Bank continued on their path of success represented by Juan José Haedo who took a convincing sprint victory ahead of home ground favorite, André Greipel on the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Riis Cycling and Luxembourg Airlines have agreed to formalize their cooperation so Luxair will become an official sponsor and continue to support Team Saxo Bank throughout 2010. Over the past [...]
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 [...]
Team Saxo Bank totally dominated Dwars door Vlaanderen and Matti Breschel took the win in convincing style. Today, Team Saxo Bank took on the series of Belgian Spring races by [...]
In December, Andy Schleck was hit by a car during training. The knee of the national champion of Luxembourg was hurt but not severely enough to keep him from training. [...]
Yann Huguet (Skil Shimano), Nikolas Maes (Quick Step) and Jurgen Roelandts (Omega Pharma Lotto) characterized the third and 208 kilometer long stage of Paris-Nice between Saintjunien and Aurillac. Entering the [...]
It was an extremely nervous first and 201, 5 kilometer long stage of Paris-Nice between Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines og Contres. Two crashes along the way was the direct consequence of the eager [...]
Today, The Race to the Sun, Paris-Nice was launched with an 8 kilometer long and hilly time trial in Montfort-L’Amaury. The course took off with a 15, 5 kilometer long, [...]
Today, the international cycling peloton took on the 190 kilometer long Belgian race, GP Le Samyn which remained an exiting duel between attacking riders and the chasing pack until the [...]
Argentina’s Jose Juan Haedo on Sunday won the inaugural Tour de Mumbai, India’s first professional cycling race sanctioned by the sport’s governing body. The Team Saxo Bank sprinter took the [...]
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 [...]
[12.02 13:03] Sixth and final stage of Tour of Qatar ended with six laps on a circuit of seven kilometers. Four escapees had a lead of one minute with eleven [...]
[10.02 00:03] Team Saxo Bank’s world champions delivered a world class performance in the final hunt of the six-day race in Ballerup Super Arena, Copenhagen where the four leading couples [...]
The first hunt of day one of the six-day race in Ballerup Super Arena, Copenhagen was no parade as it was decided after one hour of breathtaking pace. Team Saxo [...]
LUXEMBOURG, Feb 5, 2010 (AFP) – Luxembourg’s Franck Schleck said Friday he wanted to continue to race in the same team as his 2009 Tour de France runner-up brother Andy [...]
Tuesday night, Team Saxo Bank’s world champions swept all competition aside by winning the six-day race in Berlin after an incredibly exciting finale with Alex Rasmussen and Michael Mørkøv in [...]
Team Saxo Bank’s youngest rider did not get it from strangers. The father ruled the Danish premier cycling division during the eighties. This was before Danes got a real chance [...]
[26.01 13:23] Jaroslaw Marycz was born and raised in Koszalin, Poland and now lives in Wroclaw where he enjoys the time home with his girlfriend, Milena before taking on the [...]
[25.01 13:23] Australian Richie Porte is starting his first year at Team Saxo Bank and has just returned to his home in Monaco after his first team training camp on [...]
Team Saxo Bank has signed a three year extension of the contract with 25-year-old Chris Anker Sørensen who has been a part of the team since his first professional contract [...]
Blood is thicker than water and everyone who sporadically has been following Team Saxo Bank’s activities on the European roads knows that Andy and Frank Schleck are each others biggest [...]
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) [...]
The new Team Saxo Bank rider Baden Cooke won his first race of the year Baden riding for Skilled/Lowe Farms won race 4 of the Jayco Bay Cycling Classic in [...]
Rasmus’ company Clearidium will work directly for the UCI next year and it is therefore not possible for Rasmus to continue the private programs he initiated. Autumn 2006 Bjarne Riis [...]
[12.12 10:05] Team Saxo Bank rider, Jakob Fuglsang was recently voted Danish Rider of the Year by Danish TV2 and the website www.feltet.dk. A price that makes an impact on [...]
Like last year, the 4000 meter squad on the track was today voted for Rider of the Year by Cycling World´s readers. The 4000 meter squad with Team Saxo Bank [...]
[23.10 10:15] The Danish talent, Jakob Fuglsang, has had a dream start in his professional career with a terrific debut season with Team Saxo Bank. This has not passed unnoticed [...]
[23.10 15:13] Team Saxo Bank and Riis Cycling have now received written confirmation that all documents are in order for the requirements concerning the 2010 UCI license. Media reports earlier [...]
[20.10 19:28] When Marcus Ljungqvist ended his career after last weekend’s Paris-Tours it was after thorough consideration and most importantly, it was his decision alone. Not even a contract from [...]
[14.10 13:42] Tour de France 2010 kicks off with a prologue over eight kilometers in the largest port in Europe, Rotterdam in Holland. That was a fact when the Tour [...]
[09.10 09:10] Team Saxo Bank has signed a two-year contract with the big Australian talent, 24-year-old Richie Porte, who after a phenomenally short career has impressed the world of cycling [...]
PARIS, Sept 14, 2009 (AFP) – Former Tour de France green jersey winner Baden Cooke is aiming to give fresh impetus to his once blossoming career after signing a one-year [...]
BRUSSELS, Sept 12, 2009 (AFP) – Australia’s Matthew Goss, of Saxo Bank, won the Paris-Brussels cycling classic on Saturday, succeeding compatriot Robbie McEwen as champion. Goss finished ahead of fellow [...]
Team Saxo Bank Fränk Schleck has for a long period of time been suffering from knee problems and has after consultation with team doctors made the decision to abandon this [...]
[03.09 06:51] Team Saxo Bank is pleased to announce that one of Denmark’s greatest talents now has extended his contract with the team. The only 21-year-old André Steensen, who launched [...]
[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. [...]
The Olympic time trial silver medalist, Team Saxo Bank’s Gustav Larsson, consolidated his victory on yesterday’s time trial and today he could celebrate the first stage race victory in his [...]
[27.08 16:44] In spite of a crash during today’s second half stage, Team Saxo Bank succeeded to defend Gustav Larsson’s leader’s jersey which he captured on today’s first half stage [...]
[26.08 22:03] Tonight in the street race, Sparkassen Vesthimmerland GP in Aars, Denmark Team Saxo Bank’s Frank Høj demonstrated a peaking condition after participating in Vattenfall CyClassics and Eneco Tour. [...]
The horrific crash during this year’s edition of the Tour de France made no permanent damage on Jens Voigt’s good health. The 37 year-old German is with his sense of [...]
[24.08 13:56] Team Saxo Bank is pleased to reveal that 23 year-old Jonas Aaen Jørgensen has signed a two-year contract with Team Saxo Bank. In January, Jonas made a huge [...]
[14.08 00:21] It was an ugly scene when Team Saxo Bank locomotive, Jens Voigt, hit the asphalt on a descent during the Tour de France with 80 km/h. It was [...]
Jakob Fuglsang and Saxo Bank defend lead, win Tour of Denmark [02.08 20:23] Coming into the final stage of the Tour of Denmark with a narrow three second lead, Saxo [...]
Jakob Fuglsang holds tight lead going into final stage in Denmark [01.08 21:56] The evening time trial at the Tour of Denmark turned into a heart-stopping race for the overall [...]
[31.07 23:20] Just as Niki Sörensen predicted after stage two at the Tour of Denmark, another Saxo Bank rider won solo after a late stage attack in the circuits around [...]
Takes Over Leader’s Jersey [30.07 20:19] There was little doubt coming into the second stage of the Tour of Denmark that the Saxo Bank race leaders would be hot favourites [...]
[29.07 19:26] Topping off what has been a satisfyingly successful week of racing for the team, Saxo Bank bagged their third stage victory of the tour. Matthew Goss won his [...]
Alexandr Kolobnev takes fifth in difficult fourth stage at Wallonie, moves up GC [28.07 18:10] The fourth stage at the Tour de Wallonie saw another large split happen in the [...]
[27.07 19:56] Coming into the stage with a plan to work for the team’s sprinters, Saxo Bank sent Matthew Goss on the attack very early on. Getting into a break [...]
[26.07 16:57] The Team Saxo Bank riders were once again very visible on today’s 210 kilometer long second stage of Tour de Wallonie. Thus, both Michael Mørkøv, Juan Jose Haedo [...]
[24.07 17:25] The Team Saxo Bank-riders were once again ready to go during the 176 kilometer long third stage of the Sachsen Tour International between Aue and Meerane. The stage [...]
[24.07 10:57] When the Tour of Denmark comes to an end Sunday 2nd of August after the traditional mass sprint on Frederiksberg Allé you can find Team Saxo Bank’s webshop [...]
ANNECY, France, July 23, 2009 (AFP) – German Jens Voigt insists the horror crash on the Tour de France which left him with a broken cheekbone could have been far [...]
Tour de France crash victim Jens Voigt has been told he will have to wait for a decision on whether he faces surgery on his smashed cheekbone, his Saxo Bank [...]
BOURG-SAINT-MAURICE, France, July 21, 2009 (AFP) – German veteran Jens Voigt of Saxo Bank crashed out of the Tour de France after suffering a horrific crash on Tuesday’s 16th stage. [...]
by Ryland James VITTEL, France, July 16, 2009 (AFP) – Saxo Bank leader Andy Schleck insisted no one deserves winning Thursday’s 12th stage of the Tour de France more than [...]
ISSOUDUN, July 14, 2009 (AFP) – Tour de France contenders Saxo Bank suffered a blow Tuesday when road captain Kurt-Asle Arvesen was forced out of the race after suffering a [...]
LIMOGES, France, July 14, 2009 (AFP) – Luxemburger Frank Schleck admitted he struggled to cope with media focusing on his younger brother Andy during the first days of the Tour [...]
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 [...]
[26.06 12:29] The Spanish holiday resort, “Playitas”, which is operated by the travel services company “Apollo”, will be a new co-sponsor for Team Saxo Bank with a signed agreement that [...]
[25.06 20:43] Team Saxo Bank took all three places on the podium after today’s Danish championships in time trial held in Sønderborg, Denmark. The riders did 38.5 kilometres on a [...]
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 [...]
[07.06 16:09] On the final stage of Tour of Luxembourg a group of riders was allowed to escape early but shortly after Team Saxo Bank went to the head of [...]
[05.06 17:48] It was an active Team Saxo Bank-squad that did today’s 187 kilometer-long second stage of the race, Tour de Luxembourg, between Schifflange and Differdange. The entire team was [...]
by Justin Davis LIEGE, Belgium, April 27, 2009 (AFP) – The step up from winning one of the world’s toughest one-day bike races to reigning supreme on the Tour de [...]
LIEGE, Belgium, April 25, 2009 (AFP) – After a promising but futile bid last year, Luxembourg’s Andy Schleck knows he has only one chance of beating his big rivals in [...]
LIEGE, Belgium, April 24, 2009 (AFP) – Luxembourg champion Frank Schleck of Saxo Bank has been confirmed by his team as a starter for the Liege-Bastogne-Liege one-day classic this Sunday. [...]
[29.03 16:26] Team Saxo Bank veteran German Jens Voigt won today the annual Criterium International for the fifth time in his career after a fifth place on the final time [...]
[27.03 17:30] After a period of test-riding, Professional Cycling Team Saxo Bank is changing its racing componentry to SRAM RED. Team Director Bjarne Riis, renowned for his selectiveness, has asked [...]
[03.03 08:11] Team Saxo Bank is embarking on this year’s edition of ”The Race Against the Sun” with sky-high ambitions. The race begins with a nine-kilometer time trial in Amily [...]
PRESS RELEASE: [23.02 08:19] Frank Schleck and Team Saxo Bank closed this year’s edition of Amgen Tour of California with an impressive victory in the queen stage in the San [...]
COPENHAGEN, Feb 4, 2009 (AFP) – Top Danish cycling team Saxo Bank, who won last year’s Tour de France through Carlos Sastre when known as CSC, have officially ended an [...]
[26.01 20:41] Team Saxo Bank took the first victory of the season in the final stage of Tour de San Luis. In the 167-kilometer stage with start and finish in [...]
COPENHAGEN, Dec 1, 2008 (AFP) – Danish cycling team CSC-Saxo Bank have lost their new co-sponsor IT Factory after the company was declared bankrupt due to a misappropriation of funds, [...]
Team Saxo Bank-IT Factory has just completed the first mission of a new era – and everything went according to plan: Mission accomplished down to the smallest detail. We’re of [...]
by Justin Davis BAGNERES-DE-BIGORRE, France, July 13, 2008 (AFP) – CSC team manager Bjarne Riis is hoping Spanish team leader Carlos Sastre can give his fellow yellow jersey hopefuls a [...]