Flanders News

Tom Boonen has ruled out riding the 100th Tour de France this July, despite the wishes of team boss Patrick Lefevere.

Green is the color Peter Sagan of Cannondale Pro Cycling seems to covet the most.

I had the occasion to speak to Ted King of the Cannondale team this weekend, just before the start of the Tour of California.

Team Cannondale domestique Ted King is always quick with a wisecrack, this time in response to how thin and fit he's looking.

Taylor Phinney is pushing through illness and knee pain during the first week of the Giro d'Italia after leading the race one year ago.

Fabian Cancellara will return to racing at the Tour of Belgium. The RadioShack-Leopard rider has had a racing break after his successful Spring Classics campaign.

In early August 2012, German John Degenkolb had never won a stage of a grand tour.

Arnaud Dmare proved he is more than just a promising sprinter by winning the 4 Jours de Dunkerque race .

Sky's young Italian Salvatore Puccio will wear the pink jersey in stage 3 of the Giro d'Italia, but won't bear the pressure that ordinarily comes with it, as he and his teammates remain committed to race for Bradley Wiggins.

After winning five stages at last year's Vuelta a EspaA a, German John Degenkolb comes to his first Giro d'Italia with one objective in mind - winning stages.

They didn't factor in Saturday's stage 1 sprint finish, but Saxo-Tinkoff's Daniele Bennati and Matti Breschel come to the Giro d'Italia as a two-man hit squad, hoping to catch some of the peloton's bigger sprint trains off their game.

A late but perfectly calculated acceleration netted Mark Cavendish everything he could ask for from Naples: an 11th Giro d'Italia stage win, his 37th Grand Tour stage victory and a third spell - after 2009 and 2011 - in the Giro lead.

John Degenkolb has one clear goal at his first Giro d'Italia : to win at least one stage.

Pro cyclist George Hincapie completed the Tour de France a record 16 times. Now he's turning his focus to a new South Carolina hotel.

PARIS: Chinese cyclist Ji Cheng will embark on his second major Tour this Saturday after he was selected in the Argos team for the Giro d'Italia on Monday.

After spending much of his time on the ground and in the hospital during the 2013 spring classics season, Tom Boonen will return to action in May at the Amgen Tour of California.