Australia's Cadel Evans finally landed one of cycling's big prizes as he claimed the world road race championship title in Switzerland on Sunday.
Fabian Cancellara displayed his customary invincible form against the clock by claiming Saturday's 30 kilometer individual time trial in Valencia to reclaim the lead in the Tour of Spain.
Fabian Cancellara retained his gold jersey at the Vuelta Espana despite being caught up in a huge pile-up involving the leading riders near the end of Tuesday's fourth stage from Venlo to Liege.
German rider Gerald Ciolek won the second stage of the Vuelta Espana on Sunday to move into second place overall behind prologue victor Fabian Cancellara.
Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara claimed the Vuelta Espana golden jersey on Saturday with victory in the opening time-trial in the Dutch city of Assen.
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has announced that he will race for a new U.S.-based team next year.
Seven-time champion Lance Armstrong was denied the yellow jersey again as unknown home rider Brice Feillu won a dramatic seventh stage of the Tour de France.
Thor Hushovd led a mass sprint finish win the sixth stage of the Tour de France in wet conditions on Thursday, while overall leader Fabian Cancellara remained a second ahead of comeback king Lance Armstrong.
Lance Armstrong has failed by under a second to take the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, after the American's Astana team powered to victory in the 39km fourth stage team time-trial around Montpellier.
Thomas Voeckler won the fifth stage of the Tour de France as Lance Armstrong remained in second place in the overall standings behind Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara.
Australia's Cadel Evans finally landed one of cycling's big prizes as he claimed the world road race championship title in Switzerland on Sunday.
Fabian Cancellara displayed his customary invincible form against the clock by claiming Saturday's 30 kilometer individual time trial in Valencia to reclaim the lead in the Tour of Spain.
Fabian Cancellara retained his gold jersey at the Vuelta Espana despite being caught up in a huge pile-up involving the leading riders near the end of Tuesday's fourth stage from Venlo to Liege.
German rider Gerald Ciolek won the second stage of the Vuelta Espana on Sunday to move into second place overall behind prologue victor Fabian Cancellara.
Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara claimed the Vuelta Espana golden jersey on Saturday with victory in the opening time-trial in the Dutch city of Assen.
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has announced that he will race for a new U.S.-based team next year.
Seven-time champion Lance Armstrong was denied the yellow jersey again as unknown home rider Brice Feillu won a dramatic seventh stage of the Tour de France.
Thor Hushovd led a mass sprint finish win the sixth stage of the Tour de France in wet conditions on Thursday, while overall leader Fabian Cancellara remained a second ahead of comeback king Lance Armstrong.
Lance Armstrong has failed by under a second to take the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, after the American's Astana team powered to victory in the 39km fourth stage team time-trial around Montpellier.
Thomas Voeckler won the fifth stage of the Tour de France as Lance Armstrong remained in second place in the overall standings behind Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara.
Mark Cavendish has won the third stage of the Tour de France to cement his reputation as the fastest man in cycling, following a devastating spell of riding by his Team Columbia colleagues.
Mark Cavendish underlined his position as the fastest man in cycling by sprinting away from his rivals to comfortably take the 187km second stage of the Tour de France from Monaco to Brignoles.
Lance Armstrong returned to the Tour de France for first time in four years by finishing 10th in the opening time trial in Monaco which was won by Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland.
American Amber Neben was a surprise winner of the women's time-trial at the world championships in Varese on Wednesday.
This week's world cycling championships in Varese, Italy lost one of its main attractions when time trial king Fabian Cancellara pulled out on the eve of the event.
American cyclist Kristin Armstrong added the Olympic time trial gold medal to her 2006 world title with a triumph in Juyongguan on Wednesday.
Samuel Sanchez upstaged his hotly-tipped Spain teammates to claim cycling's men's road race gold at the Beijing Olympics on Saturday.
It's always pleasant to poke a bit of fun at CSC-Saxo Bank, with its Outward Bound-like team-building exercises, mandated by director Bjarne Riis, an earnest Dane with a slightly checkered past. But the truth is, they're a class bunch. Davis Phinney, the ex-Tour de France stage winner with whom I happened to be watching today's stage, recalled being stiffed on the eve of the Tour of California prologue earlier this year: an American rider who was supposed to speak before a fundraiser for the Davis Phinney Foundation bailed on short notice.
German rider Stefan Schumacher claimed the biggest victory of his career on Tuesday, winning the first individual time-trial of the Tour de France to take the leader's yellow jersey.
Roman Kreuziger of the Czech Republic claimed overall victory in the Tour of Switzerland on Sunday as home hero Fabian Cancellara won his second stage of the nine-day race.
Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara won the seventh stage of his home tour with a typical lone effort which took the peloton by surprise.
Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara upstaged the sprinters to claim an impressive solo victory in the Milan-San Remo on Saturday, the first one-day classic of the cycling season.
Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland won the weeklong Tirreno-Adriatico race on Tuesday when Italy's former amateur world champion Francesco Chicchi took the final stage.
Flamboyant Italian Mario Cipollini made his eagerly-anticipated return to professional cycling in the prologue of the Tour of California.
Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara retained his world time trial championship with another stunning ride against the clock around the streets of Stuttgart on Thursday.
Italian star Damiano Cunego claimed his first victory in the Tour of Germany as he outsprinted a small breakaway group to win the fourth stage into the foothills of The Alps.
Alexander Vinokourov put his injury woes behind him to revive his Tour de France hopes with an outstanding victory in the individual time trial 13th stage on Saturday.
South Africa's Robert Hunter claimed his first stage win in the Tour de France and the second for his unheralded Barloworld team as he sprinted to victory in Montpellier.
Friday's flat 200-km Stage 6 through wine country came down to another riotous mass sprint taken, surprisingly, by Tom Boonen, a Belgian of Quickstep-Innergetic who much prefers to be escorted toward the finish with a more orderly lead-out than he was provided. But Boonen ham-and-egged it, Robbie McEwen-style, for his 10th win of the season, his first of this Tour. Say goodbye to the sprinters for a while. On Saturday the boys must get over a serrated colossus called the Col de la Colombiere. Boonen, Thor Hushovd and their ilk will be more concerned with making the time cut than winning the stage.
I know today's stage went to Thor Hushovd, the ripped Norseman whose Christmas-ham-sized quads quivered under the green Lycra of Credit Agricole as he accepted bouquets from the podium girls in Joigny.
We knew some of the flatlanders would be shed on Thursday's Stage 5, the Tour's first foray into mountainous country. More surprising was the fabric and epidermis shed by pre-race favorite Alexandre Vinokourov, who hit the deck hard 25 km from the finish of the rippling, 184-km run from Chablis to Autun. As a splintered field approached the finish line, there was drama at either end of the race. Out front, the dashing Filippo Pozzato of Team Liquigas shot up the left side of the road, barely managing to hold off Rabobank's Oscar Freire for the win. With that resolved, all eyes turned to the clock, to see how much time (and blood) Vinokourov had lost.
Yes, Tuesday's Stage 3 into Compiegne featured an electrifying finish, with race leader Fabian Cancellara of Team CSC schooling the sprinters, throwing down a vicious acceleration 700 meters from the finish line, then holding off the muscle-bound likes of Erik Zabel, Tom Boonen and Robert Forster. To me, the biggest story of the day was not Cancellara's breathtaking speed at the finish, but the stately, unhurried, club-ride pace set by the peloton in the hours before the thrilling denouement. This was the slowest stage in recent memory. As I will explain later, that's a good thing.
A late burst of speed gave overall leader Fabian Cancellara a dazzling victory in the third stage of the Tour de France on Tuesday.
Australian Robbie McEwen shrugged off a mid-race crash to score a stunning victory on the opening stage of the Tour de France in Canterbury on Sunday.
Russia's Vladimir Karpets of the Caisse d'Epargne team proved he is on form for next month's Tour de France by winning the Tour of Switzerland on Sunday.
Disgraced German cyclist Erik Zabel, who recently admitted he took EPO (erythropoietin) in 1996, won the 157 kilometers second stage of the Tour of Switzerland in Lucerne on Sunday.
Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara has won the elite men's time trial title at the world road race championships.
Fabian Cancellara returned to racing after a month-long absence with a surprise win in stage one of the Tour of Catalonia on Monday.
Theo Bos won his second gold medal of the world track cycling championships in Bordeaux when he claimed victory in the speed event.
Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara has won the Paris-Roubaix classic ahead of Belgian pair Leif Hoste and Peter van Petegem, who were both later disqualified.
Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara battled through rain and hailstorms to win the 20-km stage five time trial in the Tirreno-Adriatico cycle race in Servigliano on Sunday.
Fabian Cancellara seized the lead in the Paris-Nice cycling race on Thursday after a fourth stage marked by the exit of Lance Armstrong with a sore throat.
Estonian Jaan Kirsipuu won the first stage of the Tour de France in a sprint finish at the end of a 202.5-kilometer ride from Liege to Charleroi.
Magnus Backstedt upset the favorites to become the first Swedish winner of the grueling Paris-Roubaix World Cup race.
Spaniard Isaac Galvez handed his Baleares team victory on the third stage of the Catalan cycling race after shading German sprinter Erik Zabel on the line.
Gerolsteiner's Beat Zberg dominated a sprint finish to win stage two of the Catalan cycling week.
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