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25 teams for Giro di Lombardia

RCS Sport announced 25 teams for the Giro di Lombardia, the final race in the UCI's 2010 World Calendar which takes place on October 16. The race will be the last chance for teams to gain important points toward their World Rankings which will determine the automatic selections for the 2011 Tour de France. Footon-Servetto and RadioShack are the only ProTour teams not on the list of invited teams, while Continental squads Acqua& Sapone, Androni Giocattoli, Bbox Bouygues Telecom, Carmiooro NGC, ...

Building an empire: Vaughters reinforces Garmin-Transitions

Heading into his fifth season of the Slipstream sports"experiment" Garmin-Transitions team manager Jonathan Vaughters has to call the project a success. The American has worked towards building one of the sport's top teams while maintaining strict anti-doping ethics. After the dissolution of the Cervelo TestTeam, Vaughters will have a half-dozen of the squad's best riders, including Paris-Roubaix runner-up Thor Hushovd, and Cervelo as his new bike sponsor for 2011. Adding in the points ...

Haussler returns to action at the Tour of Britain

Heinrich Haussler will be back in action for the first time since his July knee surgery when he lines up for the Tour of Britain next Saturday. Haussler has not been selected for the Australian team for the world championships but is looking to get back to racing before the end of the season. He will be part of a strong Cervelo TestTeam line-up that is expected to challenge Team Sky, HTC-Columbia and Saxo Bank for stage victories in the eight-day race. Joining him for the race are Roger Hammond, ...

Transfer news: Vandborg back to Saxo Bank, Stamsnijder on the move

Brian Vandborg is returning”home” to Team Saxo Bank in 2011. The Danish rider previously rode in 2005 and 2006 for the team which will be called Saxo Bank-Sungard next season. He joined Discovery Channel for the 2007 season, before dropping down to Continental Team GLS– Pakke Shop for a year. Since 2009 he has been with the Italian ProTour team Liquigas. Vandborg took his first pro win with a stage of the Tour of Georgia in 2005, but missed much of the rest of the season with ...

Sky's Vuelta withdrawal changes Gerrans' focus

Australia's Simon Gerrans says that Team Sky's recent withdrawal from the Vuelta a España will affect his approach to next month's world championship road race but completely understands the reasons why team principal Dave Brailsford concluded the squad's race prematurely. Speaking to reporters from Vittoria, Spain, where he will be attending the funeral of Txema González today, Gerrans said that the Vuelta was an important part of his preparations for the world championships but he'll ...

Petacchi forced out of Vuelta a Espana

Alessandro Petacchi's difficult 2010 season continued after he was forced out of the Vuelta a Espana by a crash on Saturday. He will return to his home in Italy to face another doping challenge. The Lampre-Farnesi Vini sprinter won Friday's stage, beating Mark Cavendish of HTC-Columbia at the line. It was his 19th career Vuelta stage win, and his eighth victory this season. However things turned sour early in Saturday's seventh stage, as he went down with a number of other riders shortly before ...

Vuelta a Espa?a: Anton, Rodriguez and Nibali fighting for race lead

The Vuelta a España has gone from a wide-open race to a tight battle between three riders divided by only two seconds– and all that after nine stages of intense racing. During Monday's first rest day, the peloton finally had a chance to recover from the exceptionally high temperatures and the testing hilly stages already covered. So far no one rider or team has dominated in Spain. On Sunday evening, after stage nine, Igor Anton of Euskaltel-Euskadi was in the red leader's jersey ...

Vuelta a Espa?a: three riders left in the fight

Pozzato denies tax evasion

Filippo Pozzato is under investigation for tax evasion in Italy but the Katusha rider has insisted he lives in Monaco and denies avoiding paying tax on his contract. According to reports in the Italian press over the weekend, tax officials from Vicenza, near Pozzato’s home town of Sandrigo, suspect the 2006 Milan-San Remo winner has avoided paying tax in Italy since 2008. Italian media has reported that Pozzato could owe up to two million Euro. The classics rider is currently riding the Vuelta ...

Wild weather leaves Worlds course under water

Wild weather over the weekend throughout Victoria, Australia, has left the 2010 UCI Road World Championship organisers with some mopping up to do, as parts of the Geelong course lay under water on Monday. Fortunately the severe weather system that caused the Barwon River to swell occurred three weeks before the cycling world’s attention is focused on Geelong, giving the floods time to subside before the world’s best cyclists start arriving Down Under. The two sections of the course affected ...

Sinkewitz extends with ISD and takes first season win

Patrik Sinkewitz secured his first victory of the season on Sunday and only his second win since completing his doping ban, by beating Domenico Pozzovivo (Colnago– CSF) to win the Giro della Romagna. The ISD-Neri rider subsequently announced that he would stay with the team in 2011. The Giro della Romagna also saw the return to racing of Stefan Schumacher after his two-year doping ban, as well as Riccardo Ricco's debut with Vacansoleil. Ricco' finished 25th, in the chase group ...

Eurobike 2010: Cyclingnews' complete coverage

With Eurobike now firmly cementing its status as the world's most important bicycle trade show, this year's 19th running will bring a record-setting 1,090 exhibitors, 35,000 dealers, and 1,500 journalists into a massive 100,000m2 (1.08m ft2) exhibition space in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Kicking things off will be a one-day demo event in nearby Austria where we'll be able to ride firsthand some of the coming season's newest gear, followed by three days indoors and even a public day on Saturday. While ...

Reactions from the Vuelta's ninth stage

David Lopez-Garcia (Caisse d'Epargne) - stage winner, 21st overall @ 3:31:"In the final kilometres, many attacks occurred. I was scared of riders as strong as Roman Kreuziger and Giampaolo Caruso. I found the right time to go solo and I suffered a lot to maintain my advantage until the finishing line but it was worth it. In the last kilometre I realised I couldn't lose. It was a lot of suffering but the emotion this win generates is indescribable. I didn't imagine it could be so intense. People ...

Luis Le?n S?nchez signs with Rabobank

Luis León Sánchez announced today that he has signed a two year contract with Rabobank. The 26-year-old Spaniard has spent the previous four seasons with Caisse d'Epargne, but has opted to not continue with the Spanish ProTour squad. Movistar, a major telephone brand owned by Telefonica, will replace Caisse d'Epargne in 2011 as title sponsor of Usebio Unzue's team."I make public the fact that I came to an agreement for two seasons with the team Rabobank," said Sánchez. ...

A day of glory for David Lopez

It’s party time for the cyclists from the province of Biscaia. On the day that the Euskaltel-Euskadi team intelligently defended the lead of Igor Anton against the twin threats of Olympic mountain biking silver medallist Jean-Christophe Péraud ,who was virtual leader for part of the stage, and Joaquin“Purito” Rodriguez, who tried to gain a second at the very end, David Lopez (Caisse d'Epargne) found glory with the stage win in Alcoy. It’s the first time that the 29-year-old ...

Moncouti? makes his mark at the Vuelta

David Moncoutié (Cofidis) has taken the monkey off his back as he claimed a third stage win at the Vuelta a España in three years and three participations. He was full of remorse in July when he watched the Tour de France he chose not to ride this year. The 35-year-old Frenchman realized how much he loves the world's biggest race about which he said he would never come back. During the 2009 Vuelta a España he decided to ride again in 2010 in what was supposed to be the final ...

Boonen resumes full training

Tom Boonen (Quick Step) is optimistic that he will return to competitive action before the end of this season. The former world champion underwent knee surgery in July, forcing him out of the Tour de France, Vuelta a España and world championships but he has since resumed training. Speaking to Het Laatste Nieuws at the Eurobike trade show in Friedrichshafen, Germany, Boonen was upbeat about his chances of a late-season return ahead that will help him return to top form in time for next year’s ...

Ricc? returns in Romagna

Riccardo Riccò will make his debut in Vacansoleil colours today at the Giro della Romagna and has affirmed that there is“very little romanticism in cycling.” It is the Italian’s first competitive outing since the GP Camaiore on August 7. In the intervening period, he bought out his contract with Ceramica Flaminia and after negotiations with QuickStep and Vacansoleil, he opted to switch to the Dutch team. This is Riccò’s first season back in the professional ...

Rodriguez disappointed to miss out on red jersey

Joaquin Rodriguez (Katusha) has voiced his dismay at missing out on taking the red jersey at the Vuelta a España yesterday. The Spanish rider thought he had done enough to claim the overall lead, first by taking a time bonus at the first intermediate sprint and then by appearing to open a gap over Igor Anton (Euskaltel-Euskadi) in the closing metres of the stage. Instead, the results of the opening intermediate sprint were nullified due to a large crash in the peloton which took place just ...

Gomez Marchante hopes to put bad luck behind him

After seven stages of the Vuelta a España, José Angel Gomez Marchante lies in 50th position overall, more than 13 minutes down. At the start in Seville he no longer seemed to figure among the potential GC contenders even though he is still just 30 years old. But the rider from Andalucia-Cajasur hasn’t said his last word.“We felt great support for our team in the streets of Seville and during the first days of the race on Andalucian roads,” Gomez Marchante told Cyclingnews ...