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Rashid wins eighth stage of Tour de Pakistan

Rashid completed the 178 kilometres in three hours 44 minutes and one second while SSGC’s Farooq stood second by a 10-second margin. Wapda’s Sabir was third, covering the distance in three hours 44 minutes and 21 seconds. The [...]

Posted On : Mar, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Cycle tour centre of attraction

On this day, the annual Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour, countless cyclists throng to his shop, the Culemborg Pharmacy, looking for relief from diarrhoea, medication for tired and strained muscles fluids, cycle tubes and the loo. The ph [...]

Posted On : Mar, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Tour de Pakistan started from Karachi

The 16th edition of the Tour de Pakistan cycle race kicked off from Quaid-e-Azam mausoleum at 9:00 am on Tuesday. 16th Tour de Pakistan Cycle Race kicks off A total of 58 riders from 10 countries including Afghanistan are taking part in [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Contador to test form at Spain's Tour of Murcia

The Tour de France champion has been training on the Balearic island of Majorca and said he had been able to focus on work again after battling to clear his name since he was provisionally suspended in August. "I did good t [...]

Posted On : Mar, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Tour champion Contador reacts to one-year ban

The Spaniard has called a news conference at the luxury Mallorca hotel where his Saxo Bank team have their training base and may indicate whether he plans to follow through on his threat to quit cycling if the preliminary decision to sus [...]

Posted On : Jan, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

McEwen predicts fireworks for Tour Down Under title

Veteran sprinter Robbie McEwen expects a fight to the death for the Tour Down Under title as the lead changed hands again Friday two days before the race finale in Adelaide. Fellow Australian Cameron Meyer, a world track cycling champion [...]

Posted On : Jan, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Tour of the Battenkill loses UCI status for 2011

The murmurs that the Tour of the Battenkill might not end up as a UCI 1.2 event in 2011 have come to fruition. According to race organizer, Dieter Drake, the latest news that Pro Continental squad and ProTeams will be allowed to race in [...]

Posted On : Jan, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Scotland bids to host the Tour de France's Grand Départ

After recent Tour de France starts in England and Ireland, Scotland is preparing an audacious bid to host the Grand Départ of the world's biggest cycle race in either Edinburgh or Glasgow, possibly in 2017, according to the bi [...]

Posted On : Jan, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Canadian cycling team has goal of wearing the Maple Leaf at ...

A Canadian-owned team is knocking on the door to compete at the highest level of professional cycling. For the SpiderTech cycling team, being given a license to race at the Continental Professional level in 2011 is like a baseball player [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Welgemoed wins Die Burger Cycle Tour

The first woman to cross the finish line was Swedish cycling sensation Jennie Stenerhag (Alpha Pharm) who secured her fourth consecutive win at the annual race. Stenerhag clocked 2:41.25 in a comfortable breakaway win, with Cathy Carsten [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2010 | Comments : 0

Armstrong switches to triathlon after Tour Down Under

Armstrong will make his return to triathlon at the Eves Blue Lake Multisport Festival in Rotorua on January 30, a week after the final stage of the 2011 Tour Down Under. Organisers of the event confirmed Armstrong's participation in [...]

Posted On : Nov, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Cavendish to boost tour's sprint status

A YEAR-long bid to lure road cycling's fastest man, Mark Cavendish, to Australia's premier cycling event has succeeded and he may yet be joined by Belgian superstar Tom Boonen on the Tour Down Under start list. Unlike La [...]

Posted On : Nov, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

International Capsules: Beijing to host world cycling tour e...

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Posted On : Nov, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Pantani's 1998 Tour yellow jersey stolen

The Italian cycling museum in Madonna del Ghisallo, which had lent the jersey to nearby Milan's bike and motorbike fair, has appealed for its swift return. Pantani, the last man to win the Giro d'Italia and Tour in the same year, [...]