Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 2022 – Stage 1 Preview

By @EchelonsHub The Route The opening stage of the race is a hard one and will make for early fireworks. In the classic rolling hills you find just about anywhere in Spain the riders will have to climb over 3000 meters, the stage should be decided in the final kilometers as most will want to wait…

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Interview: Pirazzi & Zardini: experience and youth for Bardiani at the Giro

By @FXavierVidela Bardiani-CSF arrive at the 98th Giro d’Italia with nine combative cyclists, mixing experience and youth, a combination that already bore fruit last season, when they were done with three sets of the Corsa Rosa, a brilliant achievement With the difficult task to match what was done in 2014, Ciclismointernacional.com contacted two riders directed by Reverberi:…

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Belkin Team is ready for the first race

The Belkin Pro Cycling Team kicks off its 2014 season with the Tour Down Under, January 21 to 26. Robert Gesink leads the team that includes three Australians. Gesink, who has been doing well overseas in recent years with victories in Quebec and Montreal, looks forward to starting his season in Australia for the first…

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Campana and Lacambra Added To Management Team

Team MTN-Qhubeka p/b Samsung is proud to welcome Thomas Campana and Manel Lacambra to its management team. Campana formally joins the team as the General Manager after acting in a consultancy role the past season. Lacambra joins the team as a sports director.  Campana has a wealth of knowledge in professional cycling and spent a…

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George Bennett: “Catalunya is a race I’d love to target”

By @pmpalermo Why you signed for one year with Cannondale? Theres a lot of “unknowns” on both sides, for me it’s hard to know if I will adapt 100% to a completely new culture and team set up, for them it’s the same; how I will fit into their team environment with only 2 other english…

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Tiernan-Locke: “A difficult debut at the team isn’t what I had imagined”

By @pmpalermo 1. What happened?you were listed to race Vuelta España and finally you´re not going.. I basically got to the middle of June absolutely exhausted and knew I needed some time off.  I’d raced a lot and trained a lot in between races and it didn’t work so well for me…it was too much work…

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Brian Cookson: “I am confident that the voting delegates will protect the UCI’s reputation in September”

By @pmpalermo Which was you reaction when you were informed about the proposal of the Malaysian federation? I see this as a clear sign of desperation from the incumbent President, Pat McQuaid. It is no wonder that many in the cycling family, as well as fans and sponsors, have lost faith in the UCI to govern…

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Lasse Norman Hansen: “I chose Garmin because they gave me a possibility of combining track and road”

By @pmpalermo How and when you started in cycling?who helped you? I started riding my bike when I was 12 years old. I had been riding my”school bike” around for some longer and longer rides, when some day my uncle came by and gave me an all new race bike. And that’s how I started. What…

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Dennis Vanendert: “My dream is to win in Flanders, Liege and become world champion”

By @pmpalermo You´re in your second year in Lotto…wich diferences you noted between amateur and pro cycling? The big difference is the style off racing. The pro’s race with more control and all the pro’s have a higher level. Till when do you have contract with the team? I have a contract untill the end of this…

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Tour of Belgium:Tony Martin won the ITT

By @sneaitsab Tony Martin has won the time trail in the Tour of Belgium. The German rider om Omega Pharma Quickstep rode faster than Tom Dumoulin (Argos-Shimano) and Artem Ovechkin (Rusvelo). Martin also has taken the lead in the General classification. The first best time of the day was for Artem Ovechkin. The Russian rider rode…

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Interview Jonathan Tiernan-Locke: “Is significant in a race as hard as Liege that a rider with no doping history won”

By @pmpalermo How was it the first part of the season for you? The first part of this season has been a steep learning curve for me. It has also been a frustrating time as I’ve had a lot of small interruptions to my training, like a virus and a saddle sore etc. I’m mostly happy…

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Dan Martin: “Now I know I can win in the Ardennes”

By @pmpalermo Please tell us why you chosed Ireland as your nation? That’s a really tough question to give reasons for. My mother is irish and I don’t know why but I always felt more irish then british, even though I grew up in england and represented britain in 2 world championships as a junior, ireland…

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TEAM NOVO NORDISK RECEIVES TWO PRESTIGIOUS TOUR INVITES

After a strong showing in its first one-day race at the Italian tour Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali, Team Novo Nordisk, the world’s first all-diabetic professional cycling team, has received invitations to two prestigious tours of the “hors catégorie”. The team has made the list for the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey in April and…

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Cancellara won Paris Roubaix

By @sneaitsab Fabian Cancellara celebrated in the 111th edition of Paris-Roubaix. The Swiss rider of Radioshack-Leopard beat Sep Vanmarcke in a sprint on the Vélodrome of Roubaix. Niki Terpstra arrived 30 seconds later, and finished third. At the beginning of the race four leaders with Gert Steegmans, Mathew Hayman, Stuart O’Grady and Clement Koretsky took a…

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Gavazzi takes leader’s jersey at Vuelta al Pais Vasco

Astana Pro Team rider Francesco Gavazzi is the new leader at the Vuelta al Pais Vasco following a podium sprint finish in Tuesday’s second stage. Gavazzi, from Italy, finished second behind South African rider Daryl Impey in the 170km stage from Elgoibar to Gasteiz, and with placement bonuses now moves into the overall lead at…

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Tejay Van Garderen: “The plan is to help Cadel Evans at the Tour de France”

By  @pmpalermo Tejay Van Garderen is one of the best cyclists in the world, rank he earned with brilliant performances, such as the Tour de France 2012, in which he finished fifth overall and was the Best Young rider. Van Garderen has grown steadily since its debut in Rabobank, always working for others and learning…

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Agnoli 2nd in upside-down sprint at Volta A Catalunya

Astana Pro Team rider Valerio Agnoli finished second on Monday in the opening stage of the Volta A Catalunya, sprinting to a podium spot from a late breakaway that started before the final climb into a flat finish on the Meditterranean coast. Agnoli, from Italy, was not supposed to be there. His job for the…

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Martinelli:Nibali y La Classica Primavera

Milano-Sanremo, Sunday 17 March ( 15 March, 2013 ) Astana Pro Team Manager Giuseppe Martinelli says a forecast for bad weather at Sunday’s 298km Milano-Sanremo may play a fundamental role in shaping the race, but likely rain and possible snow will be welcome in a competition that has so many excellent athletes at the start….

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