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Fabian Cancellara wins the Tour of Flanders for the second time with another awesome display of power and endurance (more…)

Double Victory for Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma – Quick-Step) as he wins final stage and the overall (more…)

Stage 3: Chris Froome few up the final climb to take the stage and overall whilst teammate Richie Porte backed him up with second (more…)

Peter Sagan got his classic win with a solo ride to the finish before a big wheelie to celebrate a stylish victory (more…)

Aussie Simon Gerrans shot out of the final corner to rocket past his rival sprinters to clinch victory on stage six of Volta a Catalunya. Dan Martin continues to lead and Wiggins is still in 4th overall.  (more…)

 Former World Sprint champion Theo Bos (Blanco) powers to an impressive win on stage 1 of the Criterium International  (more…)

The race lead in the Tour de Normandie slipped away from Alex Blain today after a break stayed clear and eluded the chase from Raleigh-GAC but they still have two options for the win over the final two days (more…)

One solid attack on the Oude Kwaremont gave Fabian Cancellara the small gap he needed with 35km to go to win the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen – Harelbeke in Belgium. (more…)

Chris Froome finishes second to Vincenzo Nibali in Tirreno-Adriatico after the final time trial is won by World Champion Tony Martin (more…)

On a brutal stage that saw a load of DNFs, Peter Sagan showed his monster power to get over the climbs with Joaquim Rodriguez and Vincenzo Nibali and then win the sprint for the win (more…)

Chris Froome battled hard on the final ascent to move into the race lead after stage five of Tirreno-Adriatico. (more…)

Richie Porte became the first Australian to win Paris-Nice when he sealed victory in the final time trial on Col d’Eze on Sunday with a dominant display of climbing and time trialing (more…)

Whilst Chris Froome was the stage winner, the leader’s jersey went from Cavendish to teammate Michal Kwiatkowski in Tirreno-Adriatico (more…)

Sylvain Chavanel (Quickstep) displayed determined sprinting power to beat World champion Philippe Gilbert (BMC) on the line and claim his third stage victory in Paris-Nice on Saturday. (more…)

Peter ‘the Hulk’ Sagan denied race leader Mark Cavendish the stage win in another wet and windy stage in Italy (more…)

After Wiggins win in 2012, Sky have a new star of Paris-Nice after Australian Riche Porte attacked his way to victory (more…)

After another wet and windy stage in Italy, Australian winner of Milan-San Remo in 2011 Matt Goss triumphed to make it two major victories for his team on the same day as Albasini’s win in Paris-Nice (more…)

Garmin’s Andrew Talansky won stage 3 of Paris-Nice after making it into select group on the final climbs of the wet and windy stage to Brioude (more…)

Britain’s Mark Cavendish leads Tirreno Adriatico after leading his team Omega Pharma Quickstep across the line after a very wet 10 miles of team time trialing (more…)

Fortunes can change quickly on Paris-Nice as Marcel Kittel (Argos-Shimano) found out when he clinched the second stage in Cerilly while the previous day’s winner Nacer Bouhanni (FDJ) crashed out in an incident-packed 200.5-kms ride from Vimory. (more…)

British riders light up the Le Samyn semi classic in Belgium but the win goes to Alexey Tsatevich of Katusa (more…)

Welshman Geraint Thomas was fourth in the first of the 2013 Classics, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Het Volk) won by Italian Luca Paolini (more…)

Tour of Britain winner Lars Boom won the mountainous stage 2 of Haut Var whilst Frenchman Arthur Vichot won the overall. Aussie  Lachlan Norris is the top rider for Raleigh in their first race of the season. (more…)

World champion time trialist Tony Martin wins the final stage of the Tour of Algarve as well as the overall for the race after a 1-2 by Omega Pharma – Quick-Step (more…)

Sky’s Sergio Henao won the third stage with a late attack in the Volta Algarve, powering to his first victory for Team Sky in emphatic fashion. He now leads the race overall. (more…)

Runner-up in the 2012 Tour de France, Kenyan born Brit Chris Froome started his 2013 season in style, winning the 4th edition of the Tour of Oman (more…)

Tour de France runner up in 2012, Chris Froome went head to head again with Alberto Contador and came out on top winning the stage and extending his lead overall. Contador was second and Joaquim Rodriguez third. (more…)

Mark Cavendish was 6th on stage 1 in the Tour of Algarve won by Blanco rider Paul Martens after roundabout split the leaders in the rush to the line (more…)

Katusha’s Joaquim Rodriguez wins the battle of the climbers for the stage but Chris Froome now leads the overall in the Tour of Oman (more…)

Tour de France hero from 2012, Peter Sagan won stage 2 of the Tour of Oman and now leads the race overall. Chris Froome was sixth and occupies that place overall. (more…)

Saturday’s stage 4 in the Tour Méditerranéen brought the leader’s jersey to Maxime Monfort of Radioshack-Leopard-Trek. (more…)

Moving to a new team in 2013 has certainly provided Britain’s Mark Cavendish with the platform for a winning start to the season as grabs four stages and the overall for Quickstep (more…)

Germany’s André Greipel, (Lotto-Belisol) carried on his winning streak from the Tour Down Under in the Tour of the Mediterranean and leads the race won by Jon Locke in 2012. (more…)

Ben Swift 5th & Ian Bibby 10th in race three of the Challenge Majorca, the mountainous Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana (more…)

Former World Champion Mark Cavendish, Omega Pharma-Quick Step has won his second race of 2013 on stage 3 of the Tour of Qatar, UCI 2.1 between Al Wakra and Mesaieed, 143 km (more…)

The BMC Racing Team with Stephen Cummings and Adam Blythe win the 14-kilometre team time trial on stage 2 of the Tour of Qatar. (more…)

The  Netherlands were the big winners at the 2013 World Cyclo-Cross championships, taking three out of four titles, including Marianne Vos winning her fifth consecutive rainbow jersey. (more…)

There was another victory in 2013 for the Lotto Belisol team, this time in Trofeo Palma where Kenny Dehaes beat Tyler Farrar and Britain’s Ben Swift to the top step of the podium (more…)

The Netherland’s Kirsten Wild conquered a third Ladies Tour of Qatar after triumphing on the final stage of the 5th edition. (more…)

Vic Barnett of the Welland Valley Cycling Club, successfully defended his World Masters Cyclo-cross title for the 65 to 69 years old in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. (more…)

Stage 3 of the Ladies Tour of Qatar was as fast as it was eventful with an impressive average speed of over 45km/h climaxed by Kirsten Wild capturing her second consecutive stage win and taking command of the overall standings. (more…)

Kirsten Wild captures her first success of the year, claiming a record fourth stage victory on stage 2 of the Ladies Tour of Qatar after a windy day in the desert. (more…)

In their first race together as a team, Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Rochelle Gilmore and Lauren Kitchen both finished safely in the main group whilst British rider Katie Colclough was 17th, also in that front group. (more…)

Win number 100 for Andre Greipel on the final stage of the Tour Down Under while ‘Unknown’ Tom Jelte Slagter wins the overall for former Rabobank team (Blanco) (more…)

Simon Gerrans (Orica-GreenEDGE) chose a fitting day to put Australia on top of the podium for the first time in this year’s Santos Tour Down Under winning the ‘Queen’ stage of the race atop Old Wilunga Hill in McLaren Vale on Australia Day. (more…)

GreenEdge’s Canadian Svein Tuft won the Time Trial stage in the UCI 2.1 Tour de San Luis while Kwiatkowski leads overall for Quickstep (more…)

Whilst Geraint Thomas retained the overall lead in the race, Andre Greipel entered the record books today as the most prolific stage winner in the 15 year history of the Santos Tour Down Under. The German powerhouse thundered across the line to notch win number thirteen in the town of Tanunda. (more…)

Olympic track champion Gerraint Thomas of Sky Procycling has snatched the lead in the Santos Tour Down Under after an impressive win on the second stage of the six day UCI WorldTour event. (more…)

It’s the time of year for the Australian National Road Race Championships and in the time trial, Luke Durbridge and Shara Gillow won for Orica GreenEdge (more…)

In brutal conditions that soared past 40 degrees and found the British rider struggling in the heat, Aussie Aaron Donnelly put four years of misery behind him to take victory in the opening road stage of the Jayco Herald Sun Tour and with it a 14 second overall tour lead. (more…)

Raleigh’s Graham Briggs was 4th in the first of the Bay Crits in Australia on New Years day with Simon Yates 8th. (more…)

Roubaix played host to the latest round of the Cyclo-Cross Word Cup where the weather was glorious (more…)

Whilst race leader Joaquim Rodríguez of Katusha won stage six of the Vuelta a España, it was the second place by Chris Froome ahead of some of his biggest rivals that was telling. (more…)

Orica-GreenEdge won the Eneco Tour stage two team time trial in Sittard on Tuesday covering the 18.9 kilometre course in 21:08. (more…)

BMC’s Taylor Phinney and Adam Blythe avoided a crash in the final two kilometers of Monday’s opening stage of the Eneco Tour of Benelux to finish third and fifth, respectively. (more…)

BMC Racing Team’s Adam Blythe from Sheffield sprinted to his first victory of the season on Wednesday in the opening stage of Paris-Corrèze. (more…)

GreenEdge rider Linda Villumsen wins the overall at the Giro Del Trentino stage race in Italy. Emma Pooley is 3rd  (more…)

Despite his haul of stage and single day road race victories, winning the Ster ZLM Toer was Mark Cavendish’s first stage race victory. (more…)

Paris-Nice, Tour of Romandy and now Critérium Du Dauphiné – Bradley Wiggins making history as he marches on to Tour de France as favourite (more…)

Stage 5 – Team Sky’s Bradley Wiggins retained his overall lead at the Criterium du Dauphine after he withstood an attack from Cadel Evans (BMC) on the fifth stage won by 23 year old Arthur Vichot of FDJ-BigMat. (more…)

Team Sky’s Edvald Boasson Hagen has the bunch kick on stage 3 of the Criterium du Dauphine – Bradley Wiggins continues to lead overall (more…)

Britain’s Bradley Wiggins continues to lead the Criterium du Dauphine after stage 2 won by Daniel Moreno (Katusha). (more…)

Defending champion in the Criterium du Dauphine Bradley Wiggins now leads the Dauphine after stage 1 won by BMC’s Cadel Evans. (more…)

Russ Downing won today’s fifth and final stage of the Glava Tour of Norway (UCI 2.1) today in Hønefoss, taking the bunch sprint from Simon Clarke (Orica-GreenEDGE) and Tosh van der Sande (Lotto-Belisol) with Zak Dempster fourth. (more…)

Astana’s Paolo Tiralongo won stage 7 from Recanati to Rocca di Cambio (205km) while Ryder Hesjedal leads overall (more…)

Colombian rider Miguel Ángel Rubiano (Androni Giocattoli-Venezuela) claimed an impressive breakaway victory on the sixth stage of the Giro d’Italia as the race hit the mountains. (more…)

With his wife and daughter Delilah watching from the finish, Mark Cavendish was given an armchair ride by his Sky teammates and he never let them down with yet another victory (more…)

World champion Mark Cavendish sprinted to an emphatic win on the second stage of the Giro d’Italia while Taylor Phinney holds on to Pink jersey (more…)

In what will be one of the year’s stand out performances, Omega Pharma Quickstep rider, Tom Boonen won his fourth Paris-Roubaix (2005, 2008, 2009, 2012) on Sunday, after riding solo for 50km out of 257.5km (more…)

Endura Racing’s Russell Downing was 4th today on stage 2 of the 38th Circuit des Ardennes International in France, losing the yellow jersey but retaining the Points one. (more…)

Tom Boonen joins the likes of Eddy Merckx, Mario Cipollini, Robert Van Eenaeme, and Rik Van Looy who have won the race three times to his teammates at  Omega Pharma – Quick-Step  (more…)

Break stays clear for Jérôme Cousin to win the stage and take leader’s jersey. Alex Blain 9th on stage but all but three now over two minutes down (more…)

Simon Gerrans of GreenEdge has won the first big race of 2012 when he outsprinted Fabian Cancellera and Vincenzo Nibali. It was the second year in a row that an Australian has won the race (Matt Goss win in 2011) and the first major victory for the new team, GreenEdge. (more…)

Win number 22 in 2012 for Omega Pharma – QuickStep came at Nokere Koerse where the hard work during the race and an impressive leadout helped Francesco Chicchi sprint to an impressive victory helped by Britain’s Andy Fenn. (more…)

Vincenzo Nibali won a solo victory at the summit of the Prato di Tivo climb 16 seconds clear of Roman Kreuziger (Astana) and race leader Chris Horner (RadioShack-Nissan-trek) who continues in the leader’s jersey. (more…)

Stage 7 – Thomas De Gendt takes third stage win for Vacansoleil-DCM in  the 2012 Paris-Nice as Wiggins holds on to lead ready for the battle on stage 8 in the Time Trial (more…)

Bradley Wiggins ably helped by Riche Porte on the final climb, defended the Yellow jersey in style and continues to lead the race after a stage victory by Lieuwe Westra of Vacansoleil. (more…)

A winner of the Halfords Tour Series in Chester and former member of the Rapha Condor Sharp team, Australian Darren Lapthorne, jumped from third to first overall in the Tour de Langkawi today, riding superbly on the toughest stage thus far and grabbing hold of the yellow jersey. (more…)

Ian Wilkinson was second and Alex Blain third for Endura Racing in the 175 kilometre Beverbeek Classic (UCI 1.2) in Belgium. (more…)

Three time road race world champion, Oscar Freire, has won the Bupa Stage 4 of the Santos Tour Down Under in a frenetic sprint into Tanunda, in South Australia’s Barossa wine growing region. (more…)

German sprint star Andre Greipel has sailed to victory in the Down Under Classic to kick off a week of world class cycling , in front of 112 thousand fans in Adelaide’s East End. (more…)

Jayco Bay Crits (Australia, Jan 2): Podium for Raleigh’s Bernie Sulzberger in Bay Crits as he moves up to second in the series. Endura Racing’s Zak Dempster 5th and Dean Windsor 7th on the night (more…)

Liquigas dominate finale in a show of strength with Peter Sagan winning but Nibili fails to take advantage and Chavanel still leads. Bradley Wiggins finishes in the peloton with teammate Chris Froome. (more…)

BMC Racing Team’s George Hincapie out-sprinted Tejay Van Garderen on the rain-soaked streets of Aspen, Colorado, to win Wednesday’s stage of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge. (more…)

The first big mountain stage sees Mark Cavendish abandon and Daniel Moreno of Katusha win on top of Sierra Nevada.  Sylvain Chavanel is the new race leader. (more…)

Photo Album & Report: HTC-Highroad’s Patrick Gretsch kicked off the USA Pro Cycling Challenge with a win today at the prologue’s individual time trial in Colorado Springs (more…)

The race previously known as Veenendaal-Veenendaal, was won by former World Sprint Champion Theo Bos. Endura Racing’s best rider was Dutchman  Maarten De Jonge in 14th place. Here are some photos from Thomas van Bracht. (more…)

Eamonn Deane Writes … Chasing points for London 2012 and looking for form ahead of the World Para-Cycling Championships in September. (more…)

Team Time Trial Win in Czech Cycling Tour and 4th overall for British team (more…)

US on top in Junior Tour of Ireland with Sam Boast best Brit in 8th after six stages (more…)

Stage 15: Mark Cavendish has won his fourth stage in this year’s Tour de France with Ben Swift sixth (more…)

Stage 13 – Pau to Lourdes – The World Champion, Thor Hushovd, more known for his sprinting than climbing, astounded everyone including himself by winning a mountain stage in the Tour de France and close the gap on Cavendish in the Green Jersey competition. (more…)

Fresh from his Silver medal in the British Road Race Championships, Welshman Geraint Thomas was sixth on the first stage of the Tour de France (more…)

Bradley Wiggins with stands the attacks from his rivals to win the very prestigous stage race, Critérium du Dauphiné. (more…)

Olympic champion Geraint Thomas wins first pro race in Germany (more…)

Marcin Bialoblocki of the Motorpoint team has won stage 6 of the An Post RAS. (more…)

Rapha’s Dean Downing showed he has the good form ahead of the Halfords Tour Series when he won the first stage of the AN Post RAS. (more…)

Team Sky’s Ben Swift from Rotherham was third on stage 5 of the Tour of California. (more…)

On one of the few stages made for the sprinters in this years race, Britain’s Mark Cavendish showed he’s coming back to his best with victory on stage 10 of the Tour of Italy. (more…)

Ben Swift sprinted to his fourth victory of the season as Team Sky rounded off the Tour de Romandie in perfect style on Sunday. (more…)

Win for Ben Swift in Spain, 3rd for Ed Clancy in Korea and 2nd for Mark McNally in a Belgian UCI 1.2 (more…)

Welsh rider, Luke Rowe, has won for the second time, the Under 23 World Cup event, the ZLM Tour. (more…)

Jon Miles writes … There are times in cycling, admittedly rare, where something extraordinary and exciting happens and then we know why we chose this sport above others. (more…)

Photos added: Hargroves Cycles rider, Jon Dibben, finished 4th in the Junior version of Paris Roubaix on Sunday. (more…)

A British women’s team, Squadra Donne, competed in Malta last weekend with Iona Sewell finishing in 3rd place overall and Steph Magri winning the first Maltese rider competition. (more…)