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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...
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...
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...
Megan Guarnier and Peter Sagan among the award winners at 2016 UCI Cycling Gala
The second UCI Cycling Gala, which took place yesterday in Abu Dhabi, celebrated this year’s greatest achievements in professional road cycling. The newly-crowned Elite UCI Road World Champions Amalie Dideriksen and Peter Sagan were among 24 award winners that included stand-out riders, teams and nations from the UCI WorldTour, the UCI Women's WorldTour, the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, and the...
“It’s a nice route and suits me even better than the one of 2016” – Dan Martin
The route of the 2017 Tour de France was announced today and Irish rider Dan Martin has said that he feels the route could suit him more than this year's did and that he thinks there will be chances for him and his team-mate Julian Alaphilippe. The route was announced at a press conference in Paris and for the first...
2017 L’Étape du Tour to finish on the Col d’Izoard
In addition to the route of the 2017 Tour de France being revealed today, the stage which will be used for the 27th edition of L'Étape du Tour was also announced. The 18th stage of the Tour from Briançon to Col d'Izoard will be used as the route for the cyclosportive which takes place on July 16th. The riders in...
Watch the 2017 Tour de France presentation live from 10.30am (GMT) today
The presentation of the route of the 2017 Tour de France takes place today in Paris and you can watch it live in the link below. The press conference will start with an opening speech by Jean-Etienne Amaury, President of the Amaury Sport Organisation before then showing a film of the best of the 2016 Tour de France. Next year's route...
Yoann Offredo signs for Wanty-Groupe Gobert
Yoann Offredo will join Wanty-Groupe Gobert next season, the Belgian team have announced. The Frenchman has signed a two-year contract with the pro-continental team. "I am happy to sign with the ambitious team Wanty-Groupe Gobert. It is my first experience abroad. No other country is as cycling-mad as Belgium. Wanty-Groupe Gobert is a familial team where I will develop myself...