Filippo Pozzato maintains that he and the rest of the Italian team raced united behind leader Damiano Cunego at the World Championship road race on Sunday in Mendrisio, Switzerland, despite criticism from two-time winner Gianni Bugno. Bugno led a round of criticism yesterday in Italy’s leading sports paper, La Gazzetta dello Sport . He suggested that the team’s captain, Damiano Cunego, may have lacked the strength to win the Worlds in spite of the hard work carried out by Italy during the race. …
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Triple Cyclo-cross world champion Erwin Vervecken recently announced his retirement from a sport that gave him nearly a lifetime of achievements and the famed Belgian waved goodbye to his American fans at the Planet Bike Cup held in Madison, Wisconsin on Sunday – his final race on American soil before starting the next chapter in his life. “I’m 37 at this moment and it’s my last season,” said Vervecken, who donned his rainbow skinsuit in the USA for the first time in 2001. “Three …
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Australia’s Simon Gerrans has expressed his satisfaction with Cadel Evans’ victory at the road race World Championship on Sunday in Mendrisio, Switzerland. Gerrans said the win would help to make up for disappointments throughout his compatriot’s season. “It’s huge, it is a massive result for him and a consolation for his disappointing Tour de France,” Gerrans told Cyclingnews . Evans had never finished the Tour de France outside of the top ten until this July. He placed 30th at 45:24 …
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Terry Precision Bicycles announced this week that it inked a license agreement with Advanced Sports, Inc. (ASI) to distribute an expanded line of women’s bikes. Once the pioneer of women’s-specific geometries, the company has been more successful with its clothing line in recent years than with its bicycles. New owner and CEO Liz Roberts is looking to change that, and believes the agreement with ASI will put the company back into a leadership role for women’s bikes while maintaining Georgena Terry’s …
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After fighting it out for the medals in Sunday’s world championship road race in Mendrisio, Switzerland, Cadel Evans and Joaquin Rodriguez will resume their battle in the Giro di Lombardia in Italy on October 17. While the world title went to Evans, Rodriguez is confident of a good showing and aims to carry the momentum of finishing third in Mendrisio through to the season’s finale. “I’ve begun every day ‘on the bike’ because I have a month full of races and don’t want to lose the form I have …
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Alison Shanks’ preparations for the upcoming track season have been put back on track following the return of her customised track bike. The New Zealand track star’s bike had been stolen from NZ Outdoor Adventure Expo at Pioneer Leisure Centre last Friday, but showed up in an alley beside a local cycling store on Tuesday. “I was extremely upset when it was stolen,” Shanks said. “It had thrown my whole campaign into turmoil. “I am so happy with the news that the …
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Triple Cyclo-cross world champion Erwin Vervecken recently announced his retirement from a sport that gave him nearly a lifetime of achievements and the famed Belgian waved goodbye to his American fans at the Planet Bike Cup held in Madison, Wisconsin on Sunday – his final race on American soil before starting the next chapter in his life. “I’m 37 at this moment and it’s my last season,” said Vervecken, who donned his rainbow skinsuit in the USA for the first time in 2001. “Three …
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International Cycling Union (UCI) ProTour manager Alain Rumpf has commented on yesterday’s ruling that Cofidis and BBox Bouygues Telecom were unsuccessful in their bid to apply for new ProTour licences, confirming that the major consideration was about their ability to compete at the required standard. The two teams concerned are currently sitting 19th and 20th in the UCI World Ranking, below Professional Continental teams Cerv
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Moritz Milatz ended his 2009 race season on a high note this Sunday in Belgium. The Multivan Merida racer won the GP Roel Paulissen, the final round of the Benelux Cup, ahead of the race’s namesake. “I can’t think of a better way to finish this season,” said the 27-year-old Milatz. “Next I’m onto a couple of relaxing and bike-free weeks of vacation.” The almost two-hour race ultimately proved to be a battle between Paulissen (Cannondale) and Milatz after the two disposed of the …
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