Thor Hushovd News

Ever since next year's Tour route was announced and probably well before, Mark Cavendish has proclaimed his intentions of winning the Green Jersey that Thor Hushovd won last year.

As we found out some six weeks ago, the Midweek Classic, a/k/a the Sprinters' Classic, will cease to be either in 2010, as the venerable cobbled event Gent-Wevelgem has bagged itself a more prestigious Sunday spot on the race calendar -- March 28, a week before the Tour of Flanders -- and celebrated by tacking another 50km onto the race.

Romance Blooms in Curacao Frank Schleck Pops the Question! Frank Schleck asked his girlfriend Martine yesterday evening in Curacao to marry him.

Alberto Contador once again proved too strong for his rivals and took the win in the 8th edition of the Amstel Curacao race repeating his victory in 2007 finishing alone The two time winner of the Tour de France escaped just before the finish at the Lions Dive & Beach Resort.

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 ...

With Cadel Evans signing onto the team, BMC is virtually guaranteed a spot in the 2010 Tour de France.

The 2010 Amgen Tour of California, May 16 to 23, was announced Thursday with the race consisting of eight stages across America's sunshine state.

Castelli unveiled its new "Dress Like a Pro" program at this year's Interbike show whereby regular consumers will now have access to exact same custom clothing pieces as supplied to the Cervelo Test Team - instead of diluted pieces that only look like the real thing.

The 2010 Tour de France will skip many of the climbs in the southern Alps and instead spend more time in the northern Alps, including the towns of Morzine-Avoriaz, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and Chambry.

It was the first time Heinrich Haussler attended the official Tour de France route presentation in Paris' Palis des Congrs yesterday, and the German-Australian rider was impressed.

The race kicks off in Rotterdam with an 8 kilometre prologue, something that Hushovd believes he is capable of winning.

The Tour de France celebrates 100 years since it first ventured into the Pyrenees mountains by including several legendary climbs in the 2010 race.

Theo Bos will ride for Cervlo TestTeam through 2011, the Swiss Professional Continental team announced Friday.

Andre Greipel has succeeded where his Columbia-HTC colleague and rival Mark Cavendish failed earlier this season by winning the green points jersey on a grand tour after he sprinted to victory on the final stage of the Tour of Spain in Madrid to secure his position as leader in the points classification.

Carlos Sastre has indicated that in 2010 he'll again ride two grand tours in one season - although he hasn't yet decided whether he'll supplement his Tour de France appearance with one at the Giro d'Italia or Vuelta a Espaa.

Tour of Missouri winner Dave Zabriskie of Garmin-Slipstream is ready to come back.

Chicchi nosed out Norway's Thor Hushovd of Norway and Argentine Lucas Sebastian Heado to win the 177.4 kilometre Chillicothe to St Joseph stage in three hours, 41 minutes and 41 seconds at an average speed of 47.85 kph , the fastest of the week-long event.

Garmin-Slipstream rider Dave Zabriskie caps an amazing week for his team by winning the overall title at the 2009 Tour of Missouri.

Score one for the little guys and one for the big guys Sunday. Martin Gilbert of Planet Energy capitalized on a disorganized sprint to take first place in the final stage for the last team invited to the Tour of Missouri, and Garmin-Slipstream's Dave Zabriskie upheld the honor of the large Pro Tour teams and the hometown of his sponsor, sewing up ...

The Garmin-Slipstream cycling team held off a steady stream of attacks on Saturday to protect Dave Zabriskie's overall lead in the 2009 Tour of Missouri bike race.