Blogs Posts in Race category; 308 blog posts

Meares and Meyer grab track gold for Australia

Cameron Meyer added to Australia's early gold rush at the world track cycling championships on Wednesday, but this time had the bonus of posing in the rainbow jersey with Anna Meares. Meares helped ease the pain of recent deaths [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Sydney veteran Queally bids for shock pursuit place

Jason Queally, an Olympic gold winner in the men's kilometre at the Sydney Games in 2000, is making an audacious bid for a coveted place in Britain's world-beating pursuit team at the world track championships. Queally's [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

Wiggins, Basso, Schlecks to light up Catalunya Tour

Two-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will be among the big names missing when the Tour of Catalunya provides an early season tester to the stage race specialists this week.Despite the absence of the Spaniard, who has opted f [...]

Posted On : Mar, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

Cavendish keeps SanRemo favourites guessing

Britain's Mark Cavendish is maintaining hopes of pulling off a rare double by winning the gruelling Milan-SanRemo when it opens the one-day classics season on Saturday. However more than one of the Isle of Man sprinter's ri [...]

Posted On : Mar, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Ballan, but no Evans for Milan-San Remo cycling race

Reigning world champion Cadel Evans has been left off his BMC team's roster for Saturday's Milan-San Remo, the first one-day classic of the season. Evans, a two-time runner-up on the Tour de France, showed his early season f [...]

Posted On : Mar, 18 2010 | Comments : 0

Armstrong, Contador to race in Criterium

Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador will compete in the Criterium International, their first race together since the Tour de France last year. Contador announced Tuesday that he had changed his plans and will compete in the March 27-28 [...]

Posted On : Mar, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

Ignatiev wins Tirreno stage as Scarponi clings on

Russia's Mikhail Ignatiev of the Katusha team won the sixth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico on Monday as race leader Michele Scarponi held a narrow advantage heading into the final day. Stefano Garzelli, second on the [...]

Posted On : Mar, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Contador signals intent with Paris-Nice triumph

Two-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador of Astana won the Paris-Nice race Sunday for his second win in the event, three years after his first. Frenchman Amael Moinard of Cofidis won the final stage, a 119km ride around Nice. Co [...]

Posted On : Mar, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Boonen wins Tirreno-Adriatico second stage

Belgian Tom Boonen of Quick Step won the second stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico on Thursday after a 165-kilometre ride from Rosignano to Montecatini Terme. Boonen saw off German Paul Martens of Rabobank and Italian Daniele Bennati of [...]

Posted On : Mar, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Sagan speeds to Paris-Nice third stage

Slovakian youngster Peter Sagan of the Liquigas team won the shortened third stage of the Paris-Nice race in central France here on Wednesday. Sagan, 20, moved up to second place in the overall standings but Germany's Jens Voigt [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Driver held after cyclists die

A motorist suspected of smashing into a group of cyclists outside Oudtshoorn three days ago, killing three of them and injuring another, has been charged with culpable homicide.George Aspenaal, 62, was arrested early yesterday and appear [...]

Posted On : Mar, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

The Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour is more than a race

Take to the streets on a Sunday morning in any city in South Africa in the first few months of the year and you will meet hundreds of cyclists out in full force, riding solo or training in packs. They call it cycle race fever, and it' [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Tour de Pakistan cycle race: Afghanistan’s Emtaiz wins Lahor...

LAHORE: The visiting Afghanistan cycling outfit made their presence felt in the Tour de Pakistan cycle race when their promising rider Emtaiz Hasan won the fourth stage – Lahore to Sahiwal – on Friday. It was Emtaiz’s b [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

South Africa's Hunter wins again in Murcia

South Africa's Robert Hunter won his second consecutive stage of the Tour of Murcia in southeastern Spain on Thursday, with seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong five seconds back in 35th place. Hunter, who ride [...]