Colombia - Selle Italia News

Mauricio Soler has returned to Europe, and made a point of visiting the Hospital Sankt Gallen, where he lay in the intensive care unit for 20 days after a crash in the Tour de Suisse.

Vincenzo Nibali is set to ride both the time trial and road race at the London 2012 Olympics and lead the Italian team at the world championships in Valkenburg, according to Gazzetta dello Sport .

We also have the Tour of Belgium and the Bayern-Rundfahrt to catch up with, along with some other news and lots of video action.

Up to four riders are said to have been disqualified from the penultimate stage of the Giro d'Italia for holding on to the team cars on the stage climbs.

As a new Grand Tour promoter, the Giro d'Italia 's general director Michele Acquarone inaugurated a previously unseen way of communicating about the wild-cards, giving total transparency about the identity of the candidates , the panel of selectors and the reasons of their choices for teams invited to Milan-San Remo, Tirreno-Adriatico, Giro ... (more)

Mark Cavendish crossed the finishing line with rage as he lost stage 18 of the Giro d'Italia in Vedelago, arriving runner-up to second year pro Andrea Guardini , 22, from Farnese Vini-Selle Italia .

The Amgen Tour of California hit the finish line in Los Angeles Sunday at LA Live/Staples Center.

With three very hard mountain stages to come at the Giro d'Italia , Team Sky is in an interesting position with Colombian climbers Sergio Henao and Rigoberto Uran positioned eighth and eleventh overall, 1:55 and 2:56 back respectively behind leader Joaquim Rodriguez .

FALL BEFORE A WIN: Italian Matteo Rabottini recovered from a downhill spill to win his first ever stage on the Giro d'Italia. A spectacular solo 150km mountain breakaway netted Italy's Matteo Rabottini the first Giro stage win of his career despite a dangerous downhill crash.

PEZ's Darrell Parks captured all the action here... Batman & Robin let me shoot the 1st KOM from the roof of their Bat Mobile .

Colombia-Coldeportes' Duarte had his Bianchi shifted into the 28-tooth cog before the race even started.

Dutchman Robert Gesink won the difficult seventh stage of the Tour of California on Saturday to take a 46-second lead in the overall standings into the largely ceremonial final leg.

Part of every time trial day's routine is running bikes to the start to pre-check the UCI's position on a given position.

One of the most eagerly awaited debutants at this year's Giro d'Italia , Andrea Guardini has failed to make an impact in the frenetic bunch sprints thus far, but he is determined to draw lessons from his first taste of the corsa rosa.

Matthias Brandle leads an escape on stage ten of the 2012 Giro d'Italia. He broke along with Martijn Keizer , Guillaume Bonnafond , Miguel Minguez , Francesco Failli .

Filippo Pozzato has fallen victim to the crash he caused in the finale of Monday's ninth Giro d'Italia stage.

It's been nine years since Victor Hugo Pea Grisales wore the yellow jersey in the Tour de France , but Lance Armstrong's former domestique is still fit and racing as well as ever.

Two years ago, Italian cyclist Adriano Malori earned the unwanted honor of the laterne rouge by finishing last at the Tour de France.

Androni Giocattoli-Venezuela was making headlines for all the wrong reasons the past few days in the wake of Roberto Ferrari's disastrous sprint in Monday's third stage at the Giro d'Italia. The scrappy Italian team, captained by flamboyant team manager Gianni Savio, is hoping to be earning some positive ink later in the Giro when the GC battle ... (more)