Tirreno – Adriatico starts today. It’s a six day stage race that crosses Italy from west to east, from the Tyrrhenian sea to the Adriatic sea, hence the name. Click on the image above for the great symbolic poster. Like Paris-Nice it’s an essential race for different riders. Classics specialists and grand tour riders alike … Read more
Greg Henderson’s win in Paris-Nice yesterday was a real result for Team Sky. Looking at their roster in the past I thought the one thing missing was a sprinter. Edwald Boasson Hagen is much more than sprinter. For me Henderson seems to come from the Kiwi factory of lead out specialists, just like Hayden Roulston … Read more
Congratulations to Greg Henderson for his win but the story of the day was how the race was split by the Caisse d’Epargne team. What’s with these Spaniards? First Flecha wins the Het Nieuwsblad and today several Spaniards behaved like a well-drilled Peter Post squad when they ripped up Stage 1 of Paris – Nice. … Read more
– Ah, I know who you are, you’re the man who lost the Tour de France by 8 seconds!– No, I’m the man who won two Tours So begins the biography about Laurent Fignon. Best known for losing the epic battle with Greg LeMond during July 1989, Fignon won the Tour de France in 1983. … Read more
The image above is a screen grab from the RadioShack.com website, click on it to enlarge it. When I use the website’s search function for “team radio shack” and use the “entire site” field, I get a vaguely relevant wristband and then the second option is a game for the Nintendo Wii. In fact if … Read more
A surprise winner of the prologue in Paris-Nice today. But it was 2°C and windy, the sort of conditions you’d expect a Dutch cyclo-cross rider to “enjoy”, even if Boom is much more than a cross rider, he’s long been mentioned as a real talent. He’s only 24 but has already won the Tour of … Read more
This weekend is always a great one for cycling fans. Why? Well because we get to see almost every top rider in the sport competing. In the south of Spain we’ll see Wiggins, Armstrong, Menchov and the fast-improving František Raboň going head to head in the Vuelta a Murcia’s TT stage. Over in Italy it’s … Read more
The 2010 season is barely underway but there’s already speculation about riders moving teams for 2011. La Gazzetta Dello Sport has the rumour mill in full flow already. Here’s the lowdown: Schleck BrosThe Schleck brothers are looking at a new team for 2011 and La Gazzetta says they are working with Marc Biver, the dual … Read more
Yesterday saw Robbie Hunter (Garmin-Transitions) winning the second stage of the Vuelta a Murcia. The South African beat Rabobank’s Aussie Graeme Brown. Soon after crossing the line Hunter twittered: So another good day in the office!I’m pretty happy.Brown not happy after the stage said I put him in the barriers.what a joke!!! Maybe that’s why … Read more
Gianni Bugno was one of the best riders from the early 1990s. A grand tour contender, his misfortune was to come up against Miguel Indurain, otherwise he would have probably won the Tour de France. He was also competitive in one-day races, for example he was world champion twice.After retiring from the bunch he became … Read more