Bradley Wiggins News

With its third name in four years, the current Team Garmin-Slipstream squad, which placed Bradley Wiggins and Christian Vande Velde in the top-10 overall standings of the Tour de France, will compete as a ProTour team in 2010 as Garmin-Transitions. Jonathan Vaughters, the team's manager, said: "Our riders are constantly going through different ...

Sign up for Alison Are you angry? I am. Imagine becoming a world champion and then being told your event is in danger of being axed from the Olympics.

The verdict on the fate of pursuiting events at the London Olympic Games will be met with mixed emotions by World Cup gold medal-winning cyclist Lauren Ellis.

Next year Kim Kirchen will ride for the Russian Katusha squad having made the move from Columbia-HTC team of Mark Cavendish.

Many observers believe a deal will be struck to bring Bradley Wiggins, who finished fourth overall in this year's Tour de France, to Team Sky.

Cycling's governing body confirmed Wednesday it will deliver proposals to the IOC for a track race program at the 2012 London Olympics that offers equal gold medal opportunities for men and women and would likely deny American phenom Taylor Phinney a chance to compete in his specialty event.

Who mistimed their holiday, who admired Hitler, and what's Bradley Wiggins shouting about? They're all here in our celebration of sport's stranger moments in 2009 Serena Williams in her titilating T-shirt. Photograph: Neil Tingle/Empics BBC presenter Clare Balding.

Junior male track and road cyclist, Cameron Meyer . Ttrack world champion another year wiser After spending his first year in the professional ranks, talented young Australian Cameron Meyer believes that the confidence gained in his debut season should help him achieve even bigger things in 2010, which will probably include another ride in the Giro ...

Bradley Wiggins described Team Sky as the Manchester United of cycling teams. Photograph: Bryn Lennon/Getty Images Team Sky will delay naming their full line-up with the final roster hingeing on their ongoing last-ditch efforts to sign Bradley Wiggins from the American Garmin-Slipstream team.

Rob Hayles upstaged Great Britain's Olympic cycling heroes at the opening Tour of Britain stage in London yesterday.

Photograph: Tom Jenkins The saga of Bradley Wiggins ' future on the road could be resolved by the end of the week, with Team Sky poised to complete their line-up for the 2010 season.

WORLD champion Cadel Evans is poised to join Garmin-Slipstream, a US team capable of helping the Australian finally win the Tour de France.

Sir Chris Hoy and Geraint Thomas showed Great Britain remain the world's leading nation at Manchester's Velodrome with stunning victories at the Track World Cup.

Surviving success was tough but that is the goal for Team GB cyclist. Photograph: Vladimir Rys/Getty Images A year ago this week, Great Britain's cyclists assembled for the World Cup in Manchester in the euphoric haze that followed the team's domination in Beijing.

Team RadioShack general manager Johan Bruyneel has reflected on a manic season at Astana, the experiened Belgian not mincing his words on a number of topics, including the Kazakh squad and his former star rider, Alberto Contador The man who guided Lance Armstrong, and more recently, Contador, to their Tour de France wins, opened up to Belgian ...

Former American professional Davis Phinney, who in 1986 became the first American to win a Tour de France road stage as part of the groundbreaking 7-Eleven squad, appreciates the challenge Tour director Christian Prudhomme faces in creating a balanced and fresh Tour de France route.

Kazakh cycling team Astana leader Alberto Contador of Spain, left, rides in a training session with teammate, Lance Armstrong of the U.S. on Monday in Sion, Switzerland, on a rest day of the 2009 Tour de France cycling race.

Wiggo's ride: Wiggins is the latest fan of O.Symetrics. Photo: Neal Rogers In the cutthroat pro peloton, Garmin-Slipstream rider Bradley Wiggins is the exception - a non-stop joker with outside interests in music, fashion, Mod-era scooters and when he's not preparing for a race, a pint or two of beer.

There was further compelling evidence of Bradley Wiggins' outstanding form this year when he took the yellow jersey in Australia, after the penultimate stage of the Jayco Herald Sun Tour in Geelong, following an outstanding ride in the individual time-trial. Leading the way: Bradley Wiggins finds himself out in front in Australia Wiggins has kept ...

BRADLEY Wiggins departs Australia today having claimed the first professional stage race of his soaring career after an intriguing criterium in which his Garmin-Slipstream team opted to protect the lead of the British superstar, rather than propel young Australian Chris Sutton to a victory he desperately wanted.