Contador plans to ride 2011 Tour of Spain (Reuters)
September 07, 2010 (11:21) [ Indexed from Yahoo! Sports ]
Cycling's top stage racer Alberto Contador has said he wants to ride the Tour of Spain in 2011 after a three-year absence. More...

Colavita-Baci merges with Italys Chirio Forno DAsolo
September 07, 2010 (10:37) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Colavita-Baci is set to announce a merger with Italian women’s team ASC Chirio Forno D’Asolo for 2011. The new team, to be known as Colavita-Forno D’Asolo Pro Cycling, has applied for a license with the International Cycling Union (UCI) and will re-sign the core group of riders from each existing program, including USA Cycling National Racing Calendar (NRC) winner Cath Cheatley. “With Franco's corporate partner, Forno D'Asolo, already focused on the women's side of the sport ... More...

Mosquera on track for Vuelta final podium
September 07, 2010 (09:31) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
After nine stages of the Vuelta a España, perennial contender Ezequiel Mosquera is once again a threat for the general classification win. He lost a spot on the overall standings when Olympic mountain biking silver medallist Jean-Christophe Péraud moved up after his breakaway on stage nine but MOsquera now lies in seventh position, only 1:18 down on race leader Igor Antón, who shares the top of the classification with Joaquin Rodriguez, both riders currently sitting on the same ... More...

Earthquake disrupts New Zealand race series
September 07, 2010 (08:31) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Organisers have announced the cancellation of Saturday’s Benchmark Homes Cycling Tour round in New Zealand following an earthquake in Christchurch at the weekend. Race manager Lisa Ward announced the event’s cancellation after the quake, which registered 7.1 on the Richter scale. “The main concern in making this decision was the impact on people involved with the series who are still working through their own personal losses and damage, as well as the impact on teams trying to ... More...

Catalunya calling for Rodriguez
September 07, 2010 (07:21) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
While he didn't hide his disappointment at not wearing the leader's jersey of the Vuelta a España into his home region of Catalunya, Joaquin Rodriguez says he'll fight for overall honours until Madrid The Katusha leader sits in second place on general classification behind Igor Antón, with both riders locked on the same time after nine stages. Many are tipping Rodriguez for overall honours at race's end, although he made no secret he'd have liked to ride in the red jersey amongst family ... More...

Antn pleased with Vuelta progress
September 07, 2010 (06:21) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Enjoying his first rest day as the overall leader of the Vuelta a España, Igor Antón says that whilst losing the red jersey would be disappointing, it wouldn't be a failure. Speaking to reporters at a rest day press conference in Tarragona, the Euskaltel-Euskadi leader, who holds the narrowest of advantages over Katusha's Joaquin Rodriguez on general classification, knows that there's plenty of pressure from the riders targeting his "jersey rojo". "Yesterday [Sunday] ... More...

25 teams for Giro di Lombardia
September 06, 2010 (22:51) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
RCS Sport announced 25 teams for the Giro di Lombardia, the final race in the UCI's 2010 World Calendar which takes place on October 16. The race will be the last chance for teams to gain important points toward their World Rankings which will determine the automatic selections for the 2011 Tour de France. Footon-Servetto and RadioShack are the only ProTour teams not on the list of invited teams, while Continental squads Acqua & Sapone, Androni Giocattoli, Bbox Bouygues Telecom, Carmiooro NGC, ... More...

Cycling: Latham finishes third
September 06, 2010 (22:11) [ Indexed from New Zealand Herald ]
Te Awamutu's Pete Latham has finished third in the final stage of the testing As-en-Provence Tour that finished in France yesterday. The New Zealand endurance track team competed in the elite national French road tour as a shakedown... More...

Building an empire: Vaughters reinforces Garmin-Transitions
September 06, 2010 (21:51) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Heading into his fifth season of the Slipstream sports "experiment" Garmin-Transitions team manager Jonathan Vaughters has to call the project a success. The American has worked towards building one of the sport's top teams while maintaining strict anti-doping ethics. After the dissolution of the Cervelo TestTeam, Vaughters will have a half-dozen of the squad's best riders, including Paris-Roubaix runner-up Thor Hushovd, and Cervelo as his new bike sponsor for 2011. Adding in the points ... More...

Haussler returns to action at the Tour of Britain
September 06, 2010 (20:51) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Heinrich Haussler will be back in action for the first time since his July knee surgery when he lines up for the Tour of Britain next Saturday. Haussler has not been selected for the Australian team for the world championships but is looking to get back to racing before the end of the season. He will be part of a strong Cervelo TestTeam line-up that is expected to challenge Team Sky, HTC-Columbia and Saxo Bank for stage victories in the eight-day race. Joining him for the race are Roger Hammond, ... More...

Sky's Vuelta withdrawal changes Gerrans' focus
September 06, 2010 (19:41) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Australia's Simon Gerrans says that Team Sky's recent withdrawal from the Vuelta a España will affect his approach to next month's world championship road race but completely understands the reasons why team principal Dave Brailsford concluded the squad's race prematurely. Speaking to reporters from Vittoria, Spain, where he will be attending the funeral of Txema González today, Gerrans said that the Vuelta was an important part of his preparations for the world championships but he'll ... More...

Vuelta a Espaa: Anton, Rodriguez and Nibali fighting for race lead
September 06, 2010 (17:46) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
The Vuelta a España has gone from a wide-open race to a tight battle between three riders divided by only two seconds – and all that after nine stages of intense racing. During Monday's first rest day, the peloton finally had a chance to recover from the exceptionally high temperatures and the testing hilly stages already covered. So far no one rider or team has dominated in Spain. On Sunday evening, after stage nine, Igor Anton of Euskaltel-Euskadi was in the red leader's jersey ... More...

Tour of Spain leader Anton keeps lid on race ambitions (Reuters)
September 06, 2010 (17:37) [ Indexed from Yahoo! Sports ]
If Tour of Spain race leader Igor Anton has ambitions of winning the race outright, he is doing a very good job of hiding them. More...

Transfer news: Vandborg back to Saxo Bank, Stamsnijder on the move
September 06, 2010 (16:46) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Brian Vandborg is returning”home” to Team Saxo Bank in 2011. The Danish rider previously rode in 2005 and 2006 for the team which will be called Saxo Bank-Sungard next season. He joined Discovery Channel for the 2007 season, before dropping down to Continental Team GLS – Pakke Shop for a year. Since 2009 he has been with the Italian ProTour team Liquigas. Vandborg took his first pro win with a stage of the Tour of Georgia in 2005, but missed much of the rest of the season with ... More...

Vuelta a Espaa: three riders left in the fight
September 06, 2010 (15:46) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
The Vuelta a España has gone from a wide-open race to a tight battle between three riders divided by only two seconds – and all that after nine stages of intense racing. During Monday's first rest day, the peloton finally had a chance to recover from the exceptionally high temperatures and the testing hilly stages already covered. So far no one rider or team has dominated in Spain. On Sunday evening, after stage nine, Igor Anton of Euskaltel-Euskadi was in the red leader's jersey ... More...

Alessandro Petacchi pulls out of Spanish Vuelta (AP)
September 06, 2010 (15:16) [ Indexed from Yahoo! Sports ]
Italian rider Alessandro Petacchi has pulled out of the Spanish Vuelta after injuring himself in a fall during the eighth stage of the race. Saturday's eighth stage was marred by a large fall 11 kilometers (6.8 miles) from the start, which involved a number of the leading riders. According to a statement on Lampre's website Monday, the crash gave Petacchi cuts that could not be treated by a... More...

Pozzato denies tax evasion
September 06, 2010 (14:26) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Filippo Pozzato is under investigation for tax evasion in Italy but the Katusha rider has insisted he lives in Monaco and denies avoiding paying tax on his contract. According to reports in the Italian press over the weekend, tax officials from Vicenza, near Pozzato’s home town of Sandrigo, suspect the 2006 Milan-San Remo winner has avoided paying tax in Italy since 2008. Italian media has reported that Pozzato could owe up to two million Euro. The classics rider is currently riding the Vuelta ... More...

Wild weather leaves Worlds course under water
September 06, 2010 (13:11) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Wild weather over the weekend throughout Victoria, Australia, has left the 2010 UCI Road World Championship organisers with some mopping up to do, as parts of the Geelong course lay under water on Monday. Fortunately the severe weather system that caused the Barwon River to swell occurred three weeks before the cycling world’s attention is focused on Geelong, giving the floods time to subside before the world’s best cyclists start arriving Down Under. The two sections of the course affected ... More...

Sinkewitz extends with ISD and takes first season win
September 06, 2010 (13:11) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Patrik Sinkewitz secured his first victory of the season on Sunday and only his second win since completing his doping ban, by beating Domenico Pozzovivo (Colnago – CSF)  to win the Giro della Romagna. The ISD-Neri rider subsequently announced that he would stay with the team in 2011. The Giro della Romagna also saw the return to racing of Stefan Schumacher after his two-year doping ban, as well as Riccardo Ricco's debut with Vacansoleil. Ricco' finished 25th, in the chase group ... More...

Petacchi forced out of Vuelta a Espana
September 06, 2010 (12:11) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Alessandro Petacchi's difficult 2010 season continued after he was forced out of the Vuelta a Espana by a crash on Saturday. He will return to his home in Italy to face another doping challenge. The Lampre-Farnesi Vini sprinter won Friday's stage, beating Mark Cavendish of HTC-Columbia at the line. It was his 19th career Vuelta stage win, and his eighth victory this season. However things turned sour early in Saturday's seventh stage, as he went down with a number of other riders shortly before ... More...