Italian Damiano Cunego renewed his contract with Lampre-NGC yesterday for the 2010 season. Team Manager Giuseppe Saronni said Cunego will continue the contract he started with the team in 2005, according to RCD . Cunego finished second at the World Championships, won Amstel Gold and his third Giro di Lombardia last year. He won the 2004 Giro d’Italia and the young rider classification at the 2006 Tour de France. This season, he won two stages and the overall of Coppe & Bartali and finished in …
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Gerald Ciolek’s won his first Grand Tour victory in yesterday’s Vuelta a Espa
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World Champion Alessandro Ballan will ride for USA’s BMC Racing Team in 2010. He leaves top division Lampre after six years and, according to La Gazzetta dello Sport , will join second division BMC. “I want to go abroad to learn English and see a new world,” Ballan told La Gazzetta dello Sport. Italy’s Ballan, 29, became professional with Giuseppe Saronni’s Italy-based Lampre team in 2004. “I will not stay with Saronni because I want to better myself. It has been good in this team, …
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The 2009 season hasn’t gone as Team Milram general manager Gerry van Gerwen had hoped, but Gerald Ciolek’s stage win in the Vuelta a Espa
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While it was hardly a surprise to see heavy favourites David Zabriskie (Garmin-Slipstream) and Tom Zirbel (Bissell Pro Cycling) claim the top two steps of the podium at Saturday’s US professional time trial championships, Kelly Benefit Strategies’ Scott Zwizanski’s bronze medal ride, coupled with a fourth place by teammate Reid Mumford, may have been unexpected. The underdog role, however, is one that Zwizanski and his teammates have revelled in throughout their 2009 season. “I’m pretty pleased …
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Spaniard Alejandro Valverde finished ninth in Vuelta a Espa
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Ruled out of the Tour de France due to tendonitis, Ireland’s Daniel Martin fortunately avoided a premature end to another Grand Tour campaign yesterday. Martin (Garmin-Slipstream) made his Grand Tour debut yesterday, but crashed shortly after the start of the 4.8-kilometre time trial on the motor circuit in Assen, Netherlands. “I felt really good and just got unlucky with the weather,” he told Cyclingnews . “My front wheel slid out at the third corner. I tried to pick it up on my …
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Filippo Pozzato (Katusha) is nearly assured of a spot in Italy’s team for the World Championships, September 27. The Italian Champion won yesterday’s Giro del Veneto in front of national director Franco Ballerini, 16 days before the team selection is finalised. “I had made an appointment here with Ballerini, and I was punctual,” Pozzato told La Gazzetta dello Sport . Pozzato formed a winning move with three other riders by attacking on the Valico climb, 15.6 kilometres to race. The four …
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Ted King goes into the USPro Championships road race on Sunday as a lone gun, competing without team-mates against a tide of Garmin-Slipstream riders and other domestic opposition. However the 26-year-old American believes that despite the numerical disadvantage he can pull off a fairly-tale win in the national championship in Greenville, North Carolina. King has been back in the United States for little over a week after completing his first full season on the European circuit, a highlight of which …
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