The second stage of the day was an individual time trial, 23 km long around Bedum. Great Britain's Chris Newton won in 28.40" (48.134 km/h), and Jan van Velzen (Bankgiroloterij) remained the leader.

Australia's Michael Rogers, the de facto world champion after David Millar's confession of EPO use, spoke with Cyclingnews' Athens correspondent Rob Jones for a few minutes Monday evening after his ...

Australian World Champion Anna Meares has broken the World Record for the 500m Time Trial to win the gold medal in Athens. The 21 year old Queenslander broke the two year old record of Yonghua Jiang ...

Polish rider Przemslaw Niemec (Miche) surprised the favourites to win the first stage of the Giro del Trentino, which finished in the rain atop a Cat. 1 climb in Ronzo Chienis. Niemec accelerated away ...

Team Giant's Carl Decker and Kelli Emmett won the opening mountain bike event of the weekend, the elite men's and women's Super D on Friday afternoon. The race was held in sunny conditions on a dry ...

The second Hors Categorie Tour of the year commences in Bergara, Guipuzkoa, with confirmation that Joseba Beloki would be riding and seeking to do something special for his home town of Lazkao, the ...

Two of Australia's great hopes in tomorrow's individual time trial will be aboard machines built by Coff's Harbour, Australia frame builder Peter Teschner. As well as constructing bikes under his own ...

After clinching the second stage this morning, Ivan Basso confirmed he is slowly reaching top form after taking overall honours in this year's Critérium International. Once again, the 28 year-old ...

Joaquin Sobrino of the Burgos Monumental-Castilla y Leon team chalked up a victory for the local boys by taking the sprint victory over Rock Racing's David Vitoria and fellow Spaniard Jose Joaquin ...

David Zabriskie has taken over the lead in the Settimana Ciclistica Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali after his CSC team won the afternoon's team time trial in Misano. Team CSC clocked 12'49 for the ...

Italian Francesco Chicchi won the final stage of the 43rd Tirreno-Adriatico, 176 kilometres starting and ending in San Benedetto del Tronto. The 27 year-old of Team Liquigas out-sprinted Italy's ...

Well, first let me note that I've had to rewrite the rest of today's journal entry, because what I originally penned was too strong and not appropriate for posting to Cyclingnews.com. Basically, I am ...