Random Dauphiné afterthoughts
Chris Frooome really wants to be Wiggo 2.0Is anyone else having weird flashbacks to 2012? Haven't we all seen this before? The one wild and crazy difference between Wiggo -12 and Froome-13 is that...
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Two days of Dennis
A fair number of people were talking about Dennis as one to look out for in the timetrial. He has shown form and his timetrial credentials are superb, both on the road as a U23 and on the track...
The Dolphin so far
It's been an untypical start to the Critérium Du Dauphiné. No predictable prologue and dreary sprint stage to start things off. Instead we saw an aggressive first medium mountain-stage with a...
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UCI fight: Cookson to take on McQuaid
Things just got interesting in Aigle: Brian Cookson (president of British Cycling) has announced he's standing for the UCI presidency against Pat McQuaid. See here: h...
Route to the Tour - who goes where?
June is the buildup month to the Tour de France. Two stageraces who are undoubtedly the best ones after the three Grand Tour both serve as preparation-races for the big show in July. So where are the teams deploying their troops?
Nibali victorious in the snow
Behind the stand-out winner a couple of duels played out as the road got steeper and steeper and the snowfall heavier and heavier. Rigoberto Uran tried his best to keep Nibali in his sights and as...
CONFIRMED: Danilo Di Luca is a moron
After the first blow of the day with the cancellation of stage 19 Danilo Di Luca gives the Giro d'Italia a second swift blow to the genitals by returning a positive for EPO in a test on the 29th of...
Breaking: Basso out of the Giro
The absence of Basso leaves Cannondale mighty thin for the Giro and it's doubtful they can replace him with any firepower at this point. Presumably Cannondale will put in another helper for the...
Romandie: Meersman strikes again
It was a tricky stage for sprinters and GC riders alike in Romandie but in the end the final climb/descent didn't shake too many of the pure sprinters (read: only Cavendish was dropped) and the...
Dan Martin gets Monumental win in Liège
In a race that stayed together for a long time Dan Martin finished off a nice bit of Garmin-Sharp teamwork. Ryder Hesjedal made the big serious attack on the new Colonster climb and as the the...
Amstel Gold Results: Kreuziger Stays Away
Early aggression by Blanco, Saxo-Tinkoff, and ORICA-GreenEDGE put a breakaway group up the road in the final 35 kilometers, breaking up the racing in Amstel Gold earlier than in the past several years. Roman Kreuziger survived the chase to win.
Spartacus conquers Roubaix
It was the end result everyone had been expecting ever since Cancellara won in Oudenaarde last week. But never in our wildest dreams had we imagined the drama that led up to it.
Last minute Roubaix-eve thoughts
S.O.S ! (Save Our Season) Team Sky and Omega Pharma calling Who stands the best chance to pull of a season saver a'la Garmin/Vansummeren in 2011 ? Both Sky and OPQS are in dire need. Both of them...
Stars and Stones: Roubaix preview
The story of Roubaix of course is the cobbled sectors. This year there are 27 of them and as usual ASO have rated them by difficulty on a five star scale with five being the most difficult.The...
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GP Pino Cerami preview
I know, everyone will be watching the Basque race. But I have a moral duty to promote races in my beloved Pays des Collines.
Kittel over Cav on the Schelde
As usual in the Scheldeprijs the final kilometers were hectic with teams trying to establish some sort of trains to give their captains a smooth ride to the sprint. For the most part though, chaos...
Ronde reactions
It's the day after and even in the Easter media stillness there have been reactions to the dominating performance from Fabian yesterday. Here are but a few of the topics as people take stock of Sundays events.
Spartacus Again!
It was the result we were all expecting and there was no stopping Fabian Cancellara when he finally decided to put in the attacks. Peter Sagan came closest to following and he took second place with Lotto's Jürgen Roelandts in third.
So who wins?
✰✰✰✰✰ Fabian CancellaraImpossible not to put Cance as the top favorite after E3. We now know he can drop Wonderboy and if anything the extra 50 km is working in his favor. The only thing...
Driedaagse wrap... and beyond
De Panne is in the books and we now go into countdown mode for Sunday's Tour of Flanders
De Panne, De News
A bit of Driedaagse, at bit of Flanders news
Ronde New Course: Take two
Old course, new course; does it make a difference? What can we expect from the second running of the altered Tour of Flanders course?
Dispatches from De Panne
Preparations for De Ronde went into it's final phase today as the Driedaagse De Panne-Koksijde got underway. For a while this was the "must do" preparation race but these days the statistical...
Power Poll: After Act 1
Three races in. Three races wiser. Three races more confused. Let me give you a stern reminder that this is a poll of team strength, nothing else...yada, yada, yada. Welcome to the Cobbles Power Poll: The One-Man-Show Edition!
Sagan wheelie wins one!
It was a day that started with everyone looking out their bedroom windows with equal parts dread and excitement this morning. The threat of more snow made the race uncertain to go ahead late...
Spartacus is back! Wins E3
Cancellara now once again looks like the big favorite for the monuments ahead as his top opponent Tom Boonen faltered as Cancellara attacked and also slipped out of the chase group. With 35 km to...
