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Davide Villella takes first professional win at the Japan Cup

Cannondale-Drapac helped to deliver Davide Villella to his first professional victory at the Japan Cup Cycle Road Race in Utsunomiya on Sunday. Villella attacked on the final lap of the 14-lap circuit race to solo across the line. “I have missed a victory all season, so I’m really happy to get the win here today,” said Villella. “The...

Fabian Cancellara hangs up his wheels at the Japan Cup Criterium

Fabian Cancellara has taken part in his last race of a 16-year professional career, during which time he took multiple classic victories amongst other big wins. Cancellara lined up in the Japan Cup Criterium on Saturday and along with his team-mates Gregory Rast, Bauke Mollema and Jasper Stuyven helped to set up the victory for Fumiyuki Beppu. The Swiss rider tweeted...

An Post Rás na mBan and Fiona Cooke Shortlisted for Prestigious Awards

An Post Rás na mBan and committee member Fiona Cooke have been nominated for Cycling Ireland's Member Awards. The race has been shortlisted in the Best Competitive Event category which it won in 2015 while Fiona Cooke, one of Rás na mBan's key volunteers and an energetic supporter of Kilkenny cycling at a local level as a member of Marble...

Nicolas Roche claims second on the queen stage of the Abu Dhabi Tour (VIDEO)

Nicolas Roche (Team Sky) had a very strong performance on today's queen stage of the Abu Dhabi Tour, as he came home in second place, to move up to second overall on GC. The 150-kilometre stage starting in Al Ain finished on the summit finish of Jebel Hafeet, and being the only non-flat stage of the race, it was always...

Ryan Mullen to line up at Chrono des Nations this weekend

Ryan Mullen (Cannondale-Drapac) will line up at the Chrono des Nations time-trial tomorrow, making his debut at Elite level in the race. The Irish rider has shown that he is in great form, having finished in 5th place at the World Championships in Qatar last week, just eleven seconds behind Spain's Jonathan Castroviejo (Movistar) who took the bronze. Castroviejo will...

Ireland’s Anna Turvey wins bronze in Pursuit at European Track Championships

Ireland’s Anna Turvey has won a bronze medal in the Women’s Individual Pursuit at the 2016 UEC European Track Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome in Paris today. Earlier this afternoon she qualified to the bronze medal final with the 3rd fastest time, pitting her against Ina Savenka. Turvey, who has been part of the Cycling Ireland track programme for just...

Mark Cavendish takes stage win and overall lead at Abu Dhabi Tour

Mark Cavendish sprinted to the win on stage 2 of the Abu Dhabi Tour today and also moved into the overall race leaders jersey, four seconds ahead of previous race leader Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek-Segafredo). It was a short stage that greeted the peloton on stage 2 with only 115 kilometres to be raced around the city streets of Abu Dhabi....

Trek-Segafredo launch new high-visibility team kit to increase detectability

Trek-Segafredo will race in new high-visibility team kit and bikes at the upcoming Japan Cup criterium and road race. According to a statement from the team, the new kits and bikes "carry forward Trek’s safety message regarding the importance of on-road detectability". The new kits will be adopted by the team after the Japan Cup as their standard training kit. The...

Peter Sagan meets with his new team BORA – hansgrohe

The recently-crowned World Champion Peter Sagan has met his new team mates on the BORA - hansgrohe team for the first time at the Lanserhof in Bavaria. Besides several fittings, meetings with the Directeur Sportifs and the new performance team have been on the agenda. In December, the team will have their first training camp. “I’m really excited...

Lance Armstrong withdraws from One Zero Conference in Dublin for ‘legal reasons’

Lance Armstrong has withdrawn from his scheduled appearance at the One Zero conference in Dublin tomorrow citing legal reasons, the organisers have announced. One of the organisers of the conference, Richard Barrett has since confirmed that the conference will still go ahead as he tweeted: "The show goes on. Our goal remains the same and tomorrow @OneZeroCon will put on...

Motorist decides to overtake traffic by using a bike path (VIDEO)

A cyclist has posted a video online of a motorist in Virginia, U.S.A. who decides to overtake traffic by driving past the other motorists on an adjacent bike path. As the cyclist rides onto the Four Mile Run Park Trail near Potomac Yard, the car can be seen facing the opposite direction of the traffic, before the driver decides to...

Giacomo Nizzolo takes the opening stage in the Abu Dhabi Tour

Trek-Segafredo's Giacomo Nizzolo proved fastest at the end of the opening 147-kilometre stage of the Abu Dhabi Tour today, by outsprinting John Degenkolb (Giant-Alpecin) and Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data) to take the win. "This is the best way to start this race," said Nizzolo. "After the Worlds on Sunday I said let's go to Abu Dhabi and see if...

Alejandro Valverde extends contract with Movistar Team through 2019

The Movistar Team have confirmed that Alejandro Valverde has extended his contract with the squad for an additional two seasons (2018 and 2019). Valverde has raced with the team under its different guises since leaving Kelme at the end of the 2004 season. Since joining the team which was then known as Caisse d'Epargne, the Spaniard has won the...

Alberto Contador to lead Tinkoff at their final race – the Abu Dhabi Tour

Alberto Contador will lead the Tinkoff team at its final race of the season, and the final race for the team at the four-day Abu Dhabi Tour. Comprising of four road stages – three flat stages and one mountain-top finish – the race offers different opportunities for late season results, and Tinkoff heads into the event with a roster...

Truck driver pleads not guilty to menacing cyclists (VIDEO)

A truck driver in Australia charged with using a mobile phone while driving, in addition to driving a motor vehicle to menace others with intent has pleaded not guilty to the charges according to 9News. Justin Angus is alleged to have driven through a puddle in the Sydney Airport tunnel while passing a group of cyclists in August and soaking...

Cycling Ireland announce team for European Cyclo-cross Championships

The Cycling Ireland Off-road Commission have announced the team that will compete at this year's European Cyclo-cross Championships. The team consists of one Espoir rider - David Conroy (Scott - Eurocycles) and two Junior riders - Craig McCarthy (XMTB McConvey Cycles) and JB Murphy (Murphy Surveys - Kilcullen CC). Conroy will hope to build on the experience he gained...

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