Philippe Gilbert will start next Sunday’s Tour of Flanders on a specially painted Canyon frame. The reason for the special paint job is to recognize the “silver anniversary” between the National Lottery and cycling. Artist Jacques Charlier painted the frame for the leader of...

Like most people this past weekend I was expecting a great showdown at the Criterium International between the two current titans of cycling: Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador. The media built the hype like it was the shootout at the O.K. Corral. However as we know, it was all blanks....

Team Garmin-Transitions started the Volta a Catalunya with a short 3.8km prologue under wet conditions. Director sportif Johnny Weltz has the report: The prologue today turned out to be a tricky affair, on a really technical circuit and on top of that a wet one. The outcome was an unknown...

RadioShack Giro update at bottom of post Every morning for quite a while I have woken up and connected my laptop to watch streaming video of a European race. Sunday, out of habit, I started to hook up my laptop to my big screen when I realized there wasn’t anything to watch. However a...

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will not be able to participate in Milan-Sanremo, the second ProTour event of the 2010 season. The Team RadioShack leader, suffering from acute gastroenteritis, will be replaced by teammate Fumiyuki Beppu. “It would have been good to have...