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Further boosting the high quality of this year’s field, past race victors Chris Newton and Kristian House will return for another FBD INSURANCE RÁS campaign and spearhead a very strong Britain Team Stena Rapha Condor Recycling.co.uk squad in the big 8 day international cycle race which starts in Navan in a little over two weeks [...]

CYCLING-Pezula’s Ciaran Power was back to winning ways in a 2.1 ranked Union Cycliste Internationale Event when he triumphed in the East Midland Classic at Molten Mambray close to the city of Nottingham yesterday.
The Pezula Boys dominated the ‘Classic’ throughout the 158kms of racing. “The team had their eyes and ears focussed on the big [...]

PHILADELPHIA - April 22, 2008 - In a recent announcement, organizers of the American Eagle Outfitters Tour of Pennsylvania presented by Highmark Healthy High 5®, named PA Lightning as one of twenty national and international six-man teams selected to compete in the six day, 450 mile race across the state from June 24 to 29.  [...]

Putting in a sensational finish, Ren Chengyuan took out her second consecutive win at Houffalize. Even the World Champion, Topeak Ergon rider Erina Kalentieva (2nd) and Marie Helène Prémont (3rd) were powerless in the face of Chengyuan’s fiery finish.
With just four months left until the Beijing Olympic Games, the Chinese contingent once again proved that [...]

The Olympic Champion, Julien Absalon, has won at Houffalize for the first time. It is the French rider’s 13th World Cup win and he logically takes the lead in the overall standings.
Nino Schurter made a big impression with his second place, the best result of his career. Christoph Sauser also put in a great performance [...]

The Kellogg’s ‘Tour of Ireland Cycle Challenge’, takes to the highways and biways next month. Over 300 riders accompanied by 60 support staff will travel over 500 miles through the four provinces of Ireland.The Challenge starts in Lisburn, Co Down on Thursday 9th May and finishes in Lucan, Co Dublin on Monday 12th May. All proceeds from [...]

Returning after a strong showing last year, the line-up of the Dutch national team for the FBD INSURANCE RÁS has been announced. The 2008 selection has a distinct track racing background and, as proven by the British and Recycling.co.uk teams in the past, will have a related turn of speed which could really shake up [...]

A record field of more than 400 competitors will line up at the start of the first leg of the 2008 Nissan UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Olympic Cross Country competition this weekend.
Some 273 men and 130 women are expected on the start line in Houffalize, Belgium, on Sunday April 20. This represents a World [...]

Germany’s Andre Greipel (High Road) still leads the UCI ProTour standings after the Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco but the big-name stage race and classics riders have closed in and are now breathing down his neck.
Greipel scored a total of 62 points thanks to dominating the Tour Down Under in Australia but Tour de France [...]

Two members of Italy’s paralympic cycling team trained at the World Cycling Centre (WCC) in Aigle, Switzerland, this week.
Fabrizio Macchi and Fabio Triboli, who will compete in the individual pursuit at the Paralympic Games in Beijing in September, trained on the WCC’s track on April 9 and 10.
The two athletes have also qualified for the [...]