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MINAMI SHINSU (JAPAN): Canberra's Michael Matthews has surrended the overall lead in the Tour of Japan but remains on top in the sprinter's points classification. The 19-year-old was unable to match his rivals as they attacked on the ...

SANTA CRUZ (USA): In a stage that exemplified the beautiful scenery and challenging terrain of California that make the state the perfect setting for a professional cycling race, Stage 3 of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California covered 182.3 km of scenic C...

BITONTO (GIRO D'ITALIE): Garmin-Transitions teamwork clicked into gear perfectly resulting in Tyler Farrar winning stage 10 of the Giro d'Italia in a sprint finish in Bitonto, but once again Team HTC-Columbia's much vaunted teamwork cam...

HEUBACH (GERMANY): New Zealand's Rosara Joseph and Nicola Leary continued their European campaigns yesterday at the Heubacher Mountainbike Festival, competing in the Bike the Rock multi-lap Cross Country race at Heubach, Germany. The...

PORT MAQUARIE (NEW SOUTH WALES)-Jenny Triggs: The NSW State Junior Road Titles are being held at Port Macquarie again this year on the week end of August 14th/15th. Together with Natalie Bates and Brett Dutton, I am planning a trainin...

ADELAIDE (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): The Board of Cycling SA is delighted to announce the establishment of a Women's Commission reports CEO Max Stevens. Expressions of interest are now being sought from CSA members to sit on t...

ADELAIDE (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): The Central Districts Cycling Club today announced a three-year partnership with Santos for support of the annual Junior Cycling Tour of Adelaide. Club President Graeme Zucker said  “It is fantastic t...

Congratulations to Illawarra Cycling Club who have won the 2010 Masters Club Shield reports Aleece Longbottom! The Masters Club Shield was introduced by Cycling NSW for the first ti...

Change to Sunday schedule Following on from the announcement of the Herald Sun World Cycling Classic Ballarat, to be held on Sunday, September 26, there has been a change to the programme for the Australian Masters Open Road Championships. On the ...

HEERENVEEN (HOLLAND): West Australian Luke Durbridge has made an impressive international U23 road debut with third place in the prologue of the Olympia's Tour in the Netherlands reports Cycling Australia. The 19-year-old Team Jayco Sk...

NARA (JAPAN): Team Jayco Skins' Michael Matthews has held onto the lead in the Tour of Japan after riding home in second place on the stage into Nara reports Cycling Australia. Stage 2 saw the riders complete 11 laps of a 10km circuit...

SANTA ROSA (USA):  After a challenging day of cycling through stormy conditions on the second stage of the Amgen Tour of california, Brett Lancaster (AUS) of Cervélo TestTeam took the stage win, as well as the overall lead in the General Classificat...

CAVA DE'TIRRENI (ITALY): On the same day that Tasmanian Matt Goss became the third Aussie in four days to win a stage in this year's Giro d'Italie, Columbia-HTC won stages in tours on both sides of the world, surely something of an amazin...

SACRAMENTO (USA): Under sunny skies, the 2010 Amgen Tour of California kicked off to the roaring cheers of cycling fans from around the world in the picturesque town Nevada City. In an exciting sprint to the finish, Ma...

SACRAMENTOI (USA): Mark Cavendish has won the opening stage of the Tour of California after the young Briton out-sprinted Juan José Haedo to the finishing line in Sacramento. Fly V Australia's Jonathon Cantwell kept the...

PERTH (WESTERN AUSTRALIA): Australia's oldest wheelrace, the historic 'Westral Wheelrace" is the feature event in a day of cycling activities in the Perth suburb of Midland, based around the Perth Winter Grand Prix to be held on Sunday, J...

PERTH (WESTERN AUSTRALIA): Without a doubt the last six months for Cycling WA  has been a turbulent and very disruptive, to outsiders uneccessarily so, period of time in the development of the sport, or rather lack of it. Ego's certai...

Amanda Spratt Amanda Spratt - 2010 Team AIS women Photograph:John Veage BEAURAING (BELGIUM): Amanda Spratt, 22, has soloed across the line to take victory in the Grand Prix de Beauraing in Belgium reports Cycling Austr...

WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND): BikeNZ’s national track coach Tim Carswell thought he was attending the BikeNZ Road and Track Awards Dinner to make a presentation about the national track program. Little did he kn...

LONDON (ENGLAND): The Mayor of London's telly-sponsored closed-streets family bike ride wins Euro Sports Participation Event of the Year reports Carlton Reid in the UK industry website, BikeBiz. The Mayor of London's Skyride has be...

MELBOURNE (VICTORIA): The 2010 Victorian Cyclist of the Year Awards is held annually to recognise the achievements of Victorian cyclists, clubs and all those involved in the great sport of cycling in Victoria. This year, it will aga...

ROCKHAMPTON (QUEENSLAND): The Rockhampton Cycling Club in combination with the Australian Sports Commission’s National Talent Identification and Development (NTID) Program is seeking to find and develop talented male and female Rockh...

SYDNEY (NEW SOUTH WALES): NSW Premier, Kristina Keneally in releasing the NSW Bike Plan said, "The NSW BikePlan is a comprehensive plan to transform cycling and to encourage people to ride more often and more safely in...

SYDNEY (NEW SOUTH WALES): Would you like to be involved in educating new cycling coaches in Australia?, is the question being posed in CA's latest email newsletter. Cycling Australia is proud to announce Presenter & Assessor Training, ...

SYDNEY (NEW SOUTH WALES): Cycling Australia's CEO Graham Fredericks, in welcoming the $195 million increase in sports funding, says the focus on a closer integration of sport and school education is a very positive step that will underpi...

SYDNEY (NEW SOUTH WALES): Cycling Australia and BMX Australia are pleased to confirm the Elite & U19 riders selected for the Australian team to contest the UCI BMX World Championships being staged in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, July...

MARIBOR (SLOVENIA): The much anticipated opening round of the UCI Mountainbike World Cup Downhill was contested over the weekend in Maribor, Slovenia reports BikeNZ's website. Relentless rain during the race programme, which started be...

GIRO D'ITALIA (ITALY): Following the overnight stage finish at the end of the first mountain stage in the Giro d'Italia all the Australian and Kiwi riders who had started in Antwerp are still in the tour with Cadel Evans lying second over...

TERMINILLO (ITALY): While Denmark's Chris Anker Sorensen recorded the biggest win of his racing career, to date, in winning the first mountainous stage of the Giro d'Italia at the summit of Terminillo, two Aussies remain in the top ten ...

Jared Graves in fine 4X form Jared Graves on his way to victory in the four cross at the 2009 MTB & Trials World Championships in Canberra Photograph:John Veage MARIBOR (SLOVENIA): Queensland's Jared Graves has increa...

BANKSTOWN (NEW SOUTH WALES): Cycling NSW Chairman Mr. Tony Green said that he was pleased with the turnout of Club Delegates and visitors that attended the 127th Cycling NSW Annual General meeting held at the Bankstown District Sports ...

ADELAIDE (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): Park Myungsoon & David Short Photograph:MS Max Stevens reports, "Since February this year Cycling SA has been playing host to five Korean cyclists as part of a coaching prog...

SAKAI (JAPAN): Canberra teenager, Michael Matthews, has taken the lead in the Tour of Japan after winning the opening 2.65km time trial in Daisen Park in Sakai reports Cycling Australia. The 19-year-old Team Jayco Skins rider clocked a...

(BARCELONA (SPAIN): Mikel Astarloza has been suspended for two years following a positive test for the banned blood-booster erythropoietin (EPO), the Spanish rider said. "I want to publicly announce that I have received a letter from...

(ITALY): Aussie pedalling power made it two wins in successive stages in the Giro d'Italia, when Cadel Evans led home a five man group, powering away from them in the final run to the line to cross the line ahead of Lampre's Damiano Cuneg...

NEVADA CITY (USA): With the start of this year's Tour de France only six weeks away, now is not the time for a thirty nine year old to be worried about his fitness or perhaps the lack of it. Perhaps its also time to start querying statem...

AUGUSTA (USA): A big topic of conversation at this year’s International Mountain Bicycling Association World Summit were bike clubs, and how they can work more closely with retailers and IMBA itself reports BRAIN. The Summit took...

WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND): BikeNZ has named a 35 strong short-list squad to be in contention for final placings in the team to contest the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. The squad will be trimmed to 27 riders to compete on the road ...

LOS ANGELES (USA): Fly V Australia is raring to go on the world scene when this month's Amgen Tour of California starts on Sunday even though a world-class roster of teams and cyclists are scheduled to participate in th...

WHITTLESEA (VICTORIA): Now in its third year, the Challenge - organised by CycleSport Victoria with the support of the City of Whittlesea - has moved dates and will be held on

MIDDELBURG (NETHERLANDS): Tasmanian Richie Porte is lying second but on the same time as race leader Kastana's Alexandre Vinokourov in the Giro d'Italia as Cadel Evans lost time after being held up by another race crash with the 224km sta...

PHILLIP ISLAND (VICTORIA): Daniel Braunsteins (Team Degani) won the 2010 Team Degani Phillip Island Grand Prix today after outclassing break away companions Eric Sheppard (Jayco VIS) and Alex Smyth (Search2Retain-MyTeam2). The trio esc...

SHEPPARTON (VICTORIA) - COPENHAGEN (DENMARK): Sydney's Alex Cameron made a late run to win the elite men's title at the Australian BMX Championships in Shepparton with Adelaide's Anthony Dean finished second with Brian Kirkham third. I...

CHONGMING ISLAND (CHINA): New South Wales rider Rochelle Gilmore has finished third in the Tour of Chongming Island World Cup round in China after the Australian team put in an outstanding performance to set up a bunch sprint. Germany...

BALLARAT (VICTORIA): The world's best road cyclists will descend on Ballarat when it hosts the Herald Sun World Cycling Classic Ballarat as the major lead-up event to the 2010 UCI Road World Championships this September. Victorian...

Criteriums and crashes seem to go hand in hand, sometimes through over enthusiasm going into the last bend before the sprint, sometimes through punctures or equipment failure, but the biggest offender can be the weather. Yesterday's final day of racing i...

STOKER'S SIDING (FAR NORTH COAST NSW): Direct action by Australia’s Road Racing selectors at the weekend put an end to rumours circulating at the U19 Men’s and Women’s Road Championships and Selection races. Prior to the start of th...

SALT (FAR NORTH COAST-NSW): Placegetters in the U19 Men’s and Women’s road selection races were kept waiting for four hours after the end of their races for their presentation ceremony. They were then told before they were finally pr...

KINGSCLIFFE (FAR NORTH COAST NSW): For the past 30 years, road racing right around the world has been coming under increasing pressure from road and police authorities over road safety issues. Also the problem of tieing up road infrastru...

The changes brought about by the UCI deciding that U19 World Championship road events will be incorporated in the current world road championships programme will take effect from 2011. The pass on effect and how it will affect the Australian road racin...

TYALGUM (FAR NORTH COAST NSW): Space age technology mingled with Olde Worlde charm in Coolman Street Tyalgum today and both ages got a better appreciation of each other as the day wore on with the occasion being the running of the U19M-U1...

AUBY (FRANCE): Danilo Napolitano of Katusha won stage two of the Quatre Jours de Dunkerque after a sprint finish in Auby. The Italian rider also took the overall lead of the race as time bonuses over the 196.4km trek from Coulogne...

HANMER (NEW ZEALAND): Round 3 of the Benchmark Homes Elite Team Racing series will have some of New Zealand’s top climbers battling the grueling 133km from Hanmer to Kaikoura reports Bike NZ. The classic course features a series of s...

COPENHAGEN (DENMARK): A record number of 180 BMX riders from 22 countries will gather in Copenhagen, Denmark, tomorrow for the second round of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup presented by Swatch. Not only is the World Cup leader’s j...

AIGLE (SWITZERLAND): Further improvements will be made in cycling’s biological passport program and more riders will be exposed as drug cheats, according to the International Cycling Union’s new anti-doping manager. Francesca Rossi...

SYDNEY (NEW SOUTH WALES): This year's Tour de Cure will have its official launch on Channel Seven's Sunrise program on Friday morning before it leaves Martin Place en route to the first night's stop over at Terrigal. One of the activitie...

PINOS ALTOS (NEW MEXICO): On ‘police’ duties Darren rode in the break today in defense of Phil’s GC position, but with 30 kilometers to go sensing that the break would not be caught and his fellow breakaway companions were falter...

AIGLE (SWITZERLAND): The experience of Italian Ivan Basso during his two-year doping suspension should serve as a salutary warning for riders who consider cheating, UCI chief Pat McQuaid has said. The UCI on Monday requested disciplin...

BRAY-DUNES (FRANCE): Saxo Bank's Alex Rasmussen took early control of the Quatre Jours de Dunkerque, by speeding to victory in stage one. Track specialist Rasmussen edged out Milram's Gerald Ciolek and Belgian Kevin Ista to take the ...

AMSTERDAM (NETHERLANDS): Cadel Evans has become a short priced favourite to win this month's Giro d'Italia following the withdrawal of Liquigas' Franco Pellizotti after the UCI said there was suspicious blood data in his biological passpo...

MELBOURNE (VICTORIA): Entries for this year's Victorian Schools Cycling Championships (VSCC) have opened with expectations that approximately 1500 students from over 150 schools from all across Victoria will compete in Australia's large...

WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND) Alison Shanks, 2009 World Champion Pursuit cyclist, is the latest edition to the Beef + Lamb New Zealand dream team.     Joining Sarah Walker, Georgina Earl (nee Evers-Swindell), ...

  WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND): Hayden Roulston is focused on his health and building up to the Tour de France as he has struggled to fight off illness since his top 10 finish in last month’s gruellin...

SHEPPARTON (VICTORIA): Shepparton, like so many country towns, particularly in Victoria, is finding out this week that hosting  a major event such as this week's BMX National Championships, which started today, is a major financial boost...

MELBOURNE (VICTORIA): CycleSport Victoria has announced the establishment of a Masters Time-Trial Series to commence later this month and culminate in the Victorian Championships at Wangaratta on Sunday Sept 12. The five race series will...

HOUFFALIZE (BELGIUM): Queensland's Jared Graves has launched his four cross World Cup series defence in fine style with a win in the opening round of the 2010 series in Belgium reports Cycling Australia. Graves, who also won in Ho...

TYALGUM (FAR NORTH COAST NSW): Space age technology mingled with Olde Worlde charm in Coolman Street Tyalgum today and both ages got a better appreciation of each other as the day wore on with the occasion being the running of the U19M-U1...

(ROMANDY):Speedy Italian Marco Pinotti kept the Tour of Romandie prologue in Team HTC-Columbia's hands when he won the 4.3 km race opener. The 34-year-old stole the show from favourites Alejandro Valverde of Spain and last year's ra...

AIGLE (SWITZERLAND): BMC Racing Team have sacked Thomas Frei following the Swiss rider's positive test for banned substance EPO. The US-based team moved quickly to cut their ties with the 25-year-old after he was officially informed b...

WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND): Now riding into its second year, the RaboPlus sponsorship of BikeNZ was recognised at New Zealand’s Sport and Recreation (SPARC) awards this week in Wellington, winning the commercial partnership award and b...

POKOLBIN (NSW): Cycling NSW has welcomed the news of a new Criterium event being sanctioned for the Hunter Valley Winery region on Saturday evening May 22. Promoter -  Matt Farley (Sling Fitness promotions), who also promotes the G...

MELBOURNE (VICTORIA): Long Serving CycleSport Victoria Board Member and current Finance Director Trevor Wilkie has resigned from his position.  Trevor has been involved with CSV a member of the CSV Board for eight (8) years made signi...

COLERAINE (VICTORIA): In a remarkable display of dominance, Tasmanian Will Clarke (Genysis Wealth Advisers) took out all three stages and overall General Classification in the 2010 Great Doherty Tour of the Southern Grampians. In ...

ADLAIDE (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): The Federal Minister for Sport Kate Ellis today inspected the Adelaide Superdrome, which is being revamped to improve facilities for Australia’s elite cyclists ahead of the Commonwealth Games. Through the ...

MURWILLUMBAH (NORTHERN NSW): Its the moment of truth for the Junior Road Cycling would be's and could be's as they face the started at the beginning of the Australian U19 road time-trial championships for both men and women. Time-trials ...

AIGLE (SWITZERLAND): Phillipe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) has taken over as the new number one rider in the UCI World Rankings following his fourth place in Liege-Bastogne-Liege. The oldest Classic in cycling was won by Astana’s Ale...

DALBY FOREST (ENGLAND): The reigning World Champions were victorious in the first round of the 2010 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup presented by Shimano in Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire, on Sunday. At the end of their races both Irina Kal...

DARDANUP (WESTERN AUSTRALIA): Last Saturday afternoon a very productive ride leaders workshop was conducted reports John Hanczakowski. Many thanks to attendees Kim Overington, John Hanczakowski, David Kiewiet, Russell Horlin, Dutch Mike,...

ROME (ITALY): Canberra's Michael Matthews, 19, has sprinted home for second place in the Gran Premio della Liberazione in Rome. April 25th for Italy marks the date they celebrated liberation from Nazi fascism but for the Australia...

ROESELARE (BELGIUM): Canberra's Chloe Hosking (HTC-Columbia) has stepped onto the podium in the Grand Prix Stad Roeselare in Belgium reports Cycling Australia. Dutch rider Kirsten Wild (Cervelo Test Team) claimed the win for the sec...

CANBERRA (ACT): Canberra Cycling Club's  Annual General Meeting (AGM) was rewarded with a full committee for the new year writes Club President Jason Parks. We have some new faces on the committee, some job changes and the return of so...

LIEGE (BELGIUM): BMC's world road champion, Cadel Evans was a fighting fifth 64s behind Astana's Alexandre Vinokourov who recorded his most significant victory since his return to cycling by winning Liege-Bastogne-Liege for the second t...

MACKAY (QUEENSLAND): ‘One of the richest Handicap’s in Queensland’ The Mackay will hold its annual $6000 Rodgers O’Meara Queensland Open on the weekend of May 22/23. Around 100 competitors are expected to contend the event for...

ALPE DI PAMPEAGO (ITALY): Alexandre Vinokourov completed victory in the Giro del Trentino, his first stage race victory since returning from suspension. Vinokourov edged out Riccardo Ricco by a mere 12 hundredths of a second followi...

BEIJING (CHINA): Chinese sporting officials have long memories and certainly no intention of returning to the  1990's days when their sports and their athletes were tainted with doping scandals, so when questioned about RadioShack's Li F...

VIENNA (AUSTRIA): Austrian cyclist Christof Kerschbaum will be the first athlete to go on trial since selling doping products became a criminal offense in Austria in 2008. Last year, Kerschbaum was arrested and kept in custody for 11 d...

LIEGE (BELGIUM): Alberto Contador is trying his luck in the classics but do not get the Spaniard wrong - it's still all about the Tour de France for him. The twice Tour de France champion, who also has Giro d'Italia and  Vuelta a ...

ALBUQUERQUE (NEW MEXICO): Lance Armstrong is returning to the Tour of the Gila. The seven-time Tour de France champion competed in the New Mexico event last year and has decided to return for next week’s five-day rac...

TARANAKI (NEW ZEALAND): Retired New Plymouth engineer Chris Beath tries out his specially-built rail bike on the Stratford-Okahukura line. A Taranaki man has come up with an innovative plan to transform the regio...

AIGLE (SWITZERLAND): The global growth of the cycling movement is an extremely pleasing trend reported the UCI's Director of the Road Department, Phillippe Chevallier, to the first meeting for the year of the UCI ProTour Council held in ...

  MANCHESTER (ENGLAND): Team Sky's Bradley Wiggins hopes to prepare for July's Tour de France by donning the leader's pink jersey at the Giro d'Italia next month reports Sky News. Mark Cavendish last year became the first Briton to ...

AIGLE (SWITZERLAND): Team RadioShack cyclist Li Fuyu has landed a provisional suspension from the International Cycling Union (UCI) following a positive doping test. A World Anti-Doping Agency-accredited laboratory in Ghent found th...

  WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND): Cycle Tour Operators New Zealand (CTONZ) are concerned at recent misleading publicity regarding the safety of New Zealand roads for touring cyclists reports the BikeNZ website. CTONZ,...

AUCJKLAND (NEW ZEALAND): // Getting from Bucklands Beach to Half Moon Bay will take little more than a hop, skip and a jump come September writes Matt Bowen in the Eastern Courier. Funding and the required resource consents a...

MUR DE HUY (ARDENNES): A radical change of strategy by world champion Cadel Evans resulted in the Australian winning the Fleche Wallone classic. The BMC rider shadowed double Tour de France winner Alberto Contador unt...

WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND): Need a winter escape? Here’s the opportunity to combine some great bike racing, idyllic scenery and tropical temperatures all into a fantastic holiday… BikeNZ has been invited to send a team to the Tour de...

WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND): The Subway – Avanti Pro Cycling Team had podium finishes in two major events over the weekend and consolidated its lead in the RaboPLus National Points Series reports BikeNZ. S...

  MANCHESTER (ENGLAND): The route has been unveiled for the 2010 Tour of Britain which will give Britain's cycling fans a chance to see Team Sky take on the world's best on British roads reports SkySports. This year's race will t...

LAKE GARDA (ITALY): Astana's Alexandre Vinokourov powered to a convincing time trial victory in the opening stage of the Giro del Trentino at Lake Garda. The Kazakh rider charged round the 12.5km circuit 16 seconds fas...

VIENNA (AUSTRIA): Austrian anti-doping officials have opened new proceedings against cyclist Christian Pfannberger, who has already been banned for life after a second doping offense last year. The 30-year-old Pfannberger, who last rod...

ADELAIDE (SOUTH AUSTRALIA) - PARIS (FRANCE):The McGuinness McDermott and Flinders Medical Centre Foundations offer a unique Tour de France experience Have you ever wanted to ride the Tour de France? And do it for a good cause? The...

MT GAMBIER (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): Entries are now open for the Associated Roof Tiling Alex Roberts 100 Mile Classic and McDonald's Blue Lake Cup on May 8 and 9 reports Gemma Kernich. Alex Roberts 100 mile Classic The Associated Roof...

MONTEREY (USA): Queensland's Jared Graves (Yeti/Fox) has claimed the men's pro downhill race at the Sea Otter Classic in Monterey. But Graves had a long wait after posting his time of 2:04.70 for the run with 120 riders seeded to race...

SYDNEY (NSW): Cycling Australia is pleased to announce the teams to represent Australia at the 2010 UCI Para-cycling Track and Road World Championships. The road Championships are being staged in Baie-Coomeau (Quebec), Canada from 17 to...

ANNISTON (USA): Ben Kersten (Fly V Australia) has scored victory in the Sunny King Criterium in Anniston, Alabama edging out compatriot Hilton Clarke (Bahati Foundation) with Kersten's team mate Alessandro Bazzana third across the lin...

BERGEN If your travel plans have been disrupted by the Icelandic volcano spewing ash across much of Europe, spare a thought for Team Sky's Kurt-Asle Arvesen who was trapped on a North Sea oil rig from Wednesday morning until late on ...

LIEGE (BELGIUM): The ash cloud that has caused so much disruption around the world has had an effect on the current ProTour season with several teams being short of riders and several of the stars were also missing from the first of the A...

COLERAINE (VICTORIA): The Great Doherty Tour of the Southern Grampians ('Tour') enters its seventh consecutive year in 2010 and 246 riders will descend on the small town of Coleraine on the April 24-24. Riders across all grades will ta...

THORNBURY (VICTORIA): The 2010 Rydges-BellCity Australian Masters Track Championships concluded at the weekend with some great racing seen across the final two days of competition at the Darebin International Sports Centre (DISC) repor...

BANKSTOWN (NSW): NSW CEO, Kevin Young has warned that changes to the availability of the Dunc Gray Velodrome are inevitable following the news that the Bankstown District Sports Club is to close the Handle Bar Tavern here at the Dunc Gra...

CANBERRA (ACT): 26th Anniversary Canberra Tour Fri April 30, Sat May 1 & Sun May 2   Race entries for this event close at midn wight tonight (April 19). A grade men and women will have a short race on Friday after...

SYDNEY (NSW): Scott Law has taken out the New South Wales (NSW) State criterium championships. Team Virgin Blue RBS Morgans fielded a small team of three in today’s race that featured a quality field racing for the championship. Sc...

MORUYA (NSW SOUTH COAST): Yes the the NSW Masters Championships are on again in Moruya over the weekend of May 15-16 reports the Eurobodalla website! A record entry list of over 300 riders in 2009 sampled Moruya’s cycling offerings. ...

MONTEREY (USA):   Cameron Cole (Christchurch) and Justin Leov (Dunedin) commenced their 2010 international schedules over the weekend at the Sea Otter Classic in Monterey, California reports the Bike NZ websi...

WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND): Do you want to play your part in Bike NZ's development plans, would be prepared to self fund a trip to Singapore over 18 days in August and have the skills to be team manager, coach, mechanic and general dogsbody...

PERTH (WESTERN AUSTRALIA): Shortly before some of the team headed off to Tasmania for the Mersey Valley Junior Tour weekend, riders and management from the Plan B Racing Team were joined by media and sponsors on the roof of the Central P...

Giovanni Visconti won the Tour of Turkey, with Germany's Andre Greipel winning the final stage to make it four stage wins out of eight as he dominated the points standings. Visconti finished safely in the peloton to record the first professional st...

AVOCA (VICTORIA): Tasmania's Ben Mather and Canberra's Heather Logie have reigned supreme at the 2010 Nemisis Australian Mountain Bike Marathon Championships in Avoca. A last minute entry into the event, Mather made a bold move to go ...

TWEED COAST (NSW): With entries closing less than 12hours ago and some categories even a week earlier, record numbers have registered to be a part of the 2010 Mantra Battle on the Border Cycling Festival. The Mantra Battle on the ...

BASS HILL (NEW SOUTH WALES): Cycling NSW 127th Annual General Meeting Office Bearer Nominations On behalf of the Board of Directors and membership of Cycling NSW we wish to notify members of the following nomin...

NEWCASTLE (NEW SOUTH WALES): Vale - Mick Chapman, Hunter Districts CC 5/10/1942 – 14/4/2010 Last Monday morning 12th April 2010 Mick Chapman was doing what he loved; going out to have a ride on his bike, someth...

THORNBURY (VICTORIA): NSW teams filled the podium placings in the Masters Mens 750m Team Sprint with the NSW 1 team of geoff Stoker, DFavid Willmott and Gaving White recording a provisional new Australian Championship Rec...

CANBERRA (ACT): Applications closed last Friday for Canberra Cycling Club's riders wanting to be considered as part of the CCC's Development Squad for the winter 2010 program. The aim of the CCC Development Program is to support riders...

HOKITIKA (NEW ZEALAND):Hokitika’s classic Blue Spur and Mahinapua loop circuit provided excellent racing conditions on a fine day for round two of the Benchmark Homes Elite Team Racing Series reports BikeNZ. 17 teams and 117 ...

20100418 // VALKENBERG (NETHERLANDS): Belgian Philippe Gilbert has a chance to take the a double in the Ardennes Classics on Wednesday following his strong win in the Amstel Gold race overnight with the Fleche Wallonne to be ru...

SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (SPAIN): Spain's Alberto Contador won his third Vuelta de Castilla and Leon title by finishing safely in the pack in the race’s fifth and final stage overnight. Portuguese rider Sergio Ribeiro won the 171.6-kil...

PARRAMATTA - SYDNEY (NSW): Athletes from the past and present will join prominent members of the community during the Parramatta and Sydney legs of the Delhi 2010 Queen’s Baton Relay this Monday, 19 April, reports Cycling Austral...

MONTEREY (USA): Queensland's Mick Hannah has claimed victory in the men's dual slalom at the Sea Otter Classic in Monterey, California. Hannah defeated American training partner Aaron Gwin in the final to claim his third dual slalo...

APELDOORN (NETHERLANDS): Rochelle Gilmore (Lotto) and Kirsty Broun (Australian National Team) have finished second and third behind American Kirsten Wild (Cervelo Test Team) in the Ronde van Gelderland in the Netherlands reports Cyclin...

20100417 MAASTRICHT (NETHERLANDS): Iceland's volcano has had a major impact on world air travel and even the ProTour has been directly affected with riders ready to race in Sunday night's (our time) opening classic race having a mad...

EDINBURGH (SCOTLAND): Olympic cycling champion Sir Chris Hoy and his fiancee Sarra Kemp have married in Edinburgh. Sir Chris, 34, won three gold medals at the Beijing Olympics and is Scotland's most successful-ever Olympian. He had b...

ANTALYA (TURKEY): Elia Viviani of Liquigas won stage seven of the Tour of Turkey after a major crash at the end of the 114km stage in Antalya. Viviani crossed the line ahead of race leader Giovanni Visconti of ISD-Neri...

PONFERRADA (SPAIN): Alberto Contador not only won the fourth stage of the Vuelta de Castilla and Leon he took the overall lead following his win. The Astana rider completed the 9.4-mile time-trial around Ponferrada in 20 minutes, 30 se...

AIGLE (SWITZERLAND): With the second leg of the UCI BMX Supercross just three weeks away, the Supercross track at the World Cycling Centre (WCC) in Aigle, Switzerland, is in high demand.   Once repair work on the WCC track after the ...

AIGLE (SWITZERLAND): The President of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, has appointed Vittorio Adorni,who is already a member of the UCI's Management Committee and President of the UCI ProTour Council, as a member of t...

WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND): BikeNZ are excited to announce the appointment of Christchurch’s Paul Dahl to the role of BikeNZ Road & Track (BRT) Relationship Manager. Paul is a vastly experienced candidate with senior management experie...

BRUNNER (NEW ZEALAND): Shane Archbold had his biggest win on New Zealand soil winning round five of the elite RaboPlus National Points series race at Around Brunner today. The Timaru rider proved to be the fastest over 400 metres winni...

BRISBANE (QUEENSLAND): Cycling Queensland has just launched its brand new Facebook and Twitter pages writes Richard Smith.  "These pages will offer subscribers up to date news and information on future cycling related events and w...

ROUBAIX (BELGIUM): Having equalled the Belgian record for the most rides in the Paris-Roubaix, Milram veteran Servais Knaven has announced he will retire in August. The 39-year-old will ride his last race on August 15 in ...

FINIKE (TURKEY):Germany's Andre Greipel won his fourth stage at this year's Tour of Turkey in Finike after a heroic breakaway by Christophe Kern and Frederik Wilmann was foiled in the final kilometre. A five-man escap...

PONFERRADA (SPAIN): Igor Anton of Spain won the third stage of the Vuelta de Castilla and Leon to take the overall race lead. The Euskaltel-Euskadi rider finished the 159-km mountain stage from Leon to Ponferrada in 4 hours, 7 minutes,...

THORNBURY (VICTORIA): CycleSport Victoria is announcing a series of Junior Development Days, aimed at the novice and second year junior cyclist. The focus of the days is to make the riders, and their parents, aware of the skills requ...

THORNBURY (VICTORIA): Martin Peeters (Carnegie Caulfield CC/VIC) and Michelle Crawford (Bicisport CC/NSW) scorched around the DISC velodrome today to set new world records in the individual pursuit. Using wheels borrowed from Shane P...

Astana's team captain, Alderto Contador has been riding his  new bike – a colorful tribute to his career – at this week’s Vuelta Castilla y Leon Alberto Contador will ride his new custom-painted Specialized Tarmac SL3 for the first time ...

THORNBURY (VICTORIA): The 2010 Rydges-BellCity Australian Masters Track Championships have begun at DISC with some great racing seen across all categories during day one's time-trials. Two Australian Championships records were broken...

SILVER CITY NEW MEXICO): Lance Armstrong’s Team RadioShack has added the Tour of the Gila in southern New Mexico to its race calendar, but there is no word, yet, on whether the Texan will be taking part, however as he has missed so muc...

BERN SWITZERLAND): Swiss cyclist Fabian Cancellara will skip this Sunday’s Amstel Gold Race to rest rather than try to continue his impressive winning streak. Cancellara said on his Web site Thursday that his next race will be the e...

MELBOURNE (VICTORIA): Former world junior cycling champion Mark French is suing an Australian newspaper for labeling him a disgraced drug cheat. The 25-year-old was banned for two years in 2004 for doping offenses, but was cleared on a...

LA PORTE DE HAINAUT (FRANCE): Frenchman Denis Flahaut won the Grand Prix of Denain-La Porte du Hainaut, the fourth round of the Coupe de France. The 31-year-old ISD Continental Team rider took his second victory of the...

FETHIYE (TURKEY): In the Santos Tour Down Under, Andre Greipel's sprinting prowess came to the fore with several sprints wins and the overall winner prize, that form has obviously set him up for the early part of the European ProTour seas...

CARRION DE LOS CONDES (SPAIN): Graeme Brown was beaten into second place in as many stages by arch rival Theo Bos at the end of the second stage in the Vuelta Castilla y Lyon. The Cervelo Test Team rider won the 209.9km between Burgos a...

WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND): Former world Champion Hayden Godfrey is the latest big name to enter the Around Brunner elite road race this weekend reports BikeNZ. The 2008 Omnium World Champion was knocked off his bike in Christchu...

PAMUKKALE (TURKEY): Giovanni Visconti won his second successive stage at the Tour of Turkey beating his breakaway companions  to take the overall lead in the eight-day race. The ISD-Neri rider won a five-man sprint at the end of t...

ALBERT PARK (VICTORIA): One of the common debates among Melbourne cyclists after Saturday morning rides is around who has claim to being the weekend world champion. On Saturday, May 22 the inaugural Teschner Grand Prix will be run ...

MELBOURNE (VICTORIA): Blackburn CC's Andrew Moffat is the inaugural chair of the newly formed CycleSport Victoria's Development and Coaching Commission. The Commission will provide support and advice for the CSV Development departme...

The Whittlesea Challenge is fast becoming one of Victoria’s most scenic and challenging recreational rides, reports Amy McCann. Now in its third year, the event organised by Cycle Sport Victoria with the support of the City of Whittlesea, has ...

BURGOS (SPAIN): Theo Bos of the Cervelo Test Team took the opening stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon after a sprint finish in Burgos, northern Spain. The Dutch former track rider edged Graeme Brown (Rabobank) and Pablo Urtasun (Eu...

OVERISJE (BELGIUM): Sebastian Rosseler of Team RadioShack took the honours after a three-man sprint finish in the Fleche Branconne in Overijse, Belgium. The 28-year-old Belgian rider formed part of a breakaway with Jurgen Van De Walle...

ROUBAIX (BELGIUM): Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara stormed to victory in Paris-Roubaix, a week after his Tour of Flanders win to become just the 10th man in history to win both of the cobbled classics in the same year. The 2...

LAUSANNE SWITZERLAND): Italian cyclist Davide Rebellin will go to sport’s highest court on June 17 to overturn his disqualification from the Beijing Olympics for doping and win back his silver medal. The Court of Arbitration for Spor...

BASQUE COUNTRY (SPAIN): American Chris Horner upset Spanish favourite Alejandro Valverde to win the Tour of the Basque Country to give Lance Armstrong's Radio Shack team their biggest stage race victory. Horner triumphed in the sixth ...

HUSTON (TEXAS): Lance Armstrong's preparations for the Tour de France were interrupted on Wednesday when the American was forced out of a low-key race in western France. Seven-times Tour champion Armstrong pulled out of the Circuit de...

PARIS (FRANCE): SBS is showing this weekend's Paris Roubaix live, fantastic to watch as the ProTour's unique race, the Race to Hell, if you want to see cycling at its must brutal and bloody travel to Flanders and northern France every S...

Former cycling world champion Alessandro Ballan has confirmed he is being probed as part of an investigation into doping in northern Italy. "I have received notification of a request to extend the preliminary investigation by six month...

SALT (NORTHERN NSW): Generally when you think of a battle of the states you think of the Rugby League ‘State of Origin’, however on the first weekend in May it is the cyclists that will be fighting for that winning position at the ...

MELBOURNE (VICTORIA): Victorian business lobby group VECCI whose latest subject is the old chestnut about cyclists should be licensed and their bikes registered, has suddenly found out that its bitten off more than it can chew as their...

CANBERRA (ACT): Entries for this year's ninth Australian Bicycling Achievement Awards close on Monday, April 12 and a number of last minute entries are currently being finalised, entries already in are showing the high standard evident in...

BATHURST (NEW SOUTH WALES): The Bicycle will be King, or Queen, in the Bathurst region this weekend as the area is host to the annual NAB B2B bicycle festivities weekend. Mt Panorama is normally associated with the raw boned power of the...

BATHURST (NEW SOUTH WALES): WITH more than 1000 entries for this Sunday’s Blayney to Bathurst, the scene looks set for another mighty battle among the top cycling teams for the prestigious long course title reports the Blaney Chronicl...

ROME (ITALY): The Italian Olympic Committee has recommended that cyclist Eddy Ratti be suspended for two years after testing positive for EPO. Ratti failed an out-of-competition urine test by cycling’s governing body on Jan. 21. T...

MILAN (ITALY): As expected, Giro d’Italia defending champion Denis Menchov is not on a preliminary list of riders for the race, Menchov, a Russian with the Rabobank team, has said he plans to focus on the Tour de France. Runner-up ...

PRAGUE (CZECHOSLOVAKIA): Carmaker Skoda Auto AS, a unit of Germany’s Volkswagen AG, has extended its sponsorship of the Tour de France by two years. The company said in a statement Friday it has agreed to the deal with the Tour’s o...

AIGLE, SWITZERLAND): The International Cycling Union has given Lampre Farnese Vini a full registration for the season after the Italian team showed it could fulfill all its racing obligations. The UCI said Thursday that Lampre now comp...

WANGANUI (NEW ZEALAND): From the Wanganui Chronical: http://www.wanganuichronicle.co.nz/sport/news/dayles-our-sportsperson-of-the-year/3911823 David Ogilvie | 29th March 2010 Dayle Cheatley had a coupl...

WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND): Olympian Cath Cheatley will lead a six-strong New Zealand women’s road team to compete in China next month. The team has received a late invitation to compete in the Tour of Chongming Island and the UCI Wo...

WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND) BikeNZ has named an 11-strong track team to contest August’s UCI Junior Cycling World Championships in Italy. After some promising performances at the New Zealand National Championships, Bike NZ have...

Briton Mark Cavendish will skip the Giro d'Italia and ride the Tour of California instead, according to his HTC-Columbia team. Cavendish, who won four stages in last year's Giro and six in the Tour de France, has had the start of his season hampered...

CALCINATO (ITALY): Polish rider Bartosz Huzarski mastered horrendous weather to win the opening stage of the Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda. The ISD-Neri rider won a sprint for the line against Sweden's Michael Stevenson and Italy'...

DE PANNE (BELGIUM): Britain's David Millar won the Three Days of De Panne in Belgium after capturing victory in the concluding time-trial. The Scot riding for Garmin-Transitions posted a time of 18 minutes and 44 seconds on the 14...

MANCHESTER (ENGLAND): 70 years after British Road Racing started to gain prominence on the roads around Britain despite the complaints of motoring associations and drivers, the sport is under serious attack again and this time the threat ...

WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND): Over the past year, BikeNZ Road and Track has been establishing a programme to help create development pathways for riders who are aspiring to become a Road High Performance athlete reports the BikeNZ website. ...

CHRISTCHURCH (NEW ZEALAND): Michael Vink’s breaking of Brian Fowlers 16 year old time-trial record was a highlight of the Christchurch Time Trial association’s summer season that ended last night. A number of age group records...

Cycling - Classement UCI at 19/10/2009 - Team Pos Team Country Points Change (1) ASTANA KAZ 1100.00 (1) (2) CAISSE D'EPARGNE ESP 1048.00 (2) 3 TEAM COLUMBIA USA 957.00 3 4 TEAM SAXO BANK DAN ...

Pos Rider Country Team Points Change (1) Luis-Leon SANCHEZ ESP GCE 222.00 1 (2) Joaquin RODRIGUEZ ESP KAT 142.00 23 3 André GREIPEL ALL THR 119.00 (2) 4 Cadel EVANS AUS BMC 116.00 3 5...

AIGLE (SWITZERLAND) - MANCHESTER (ENGLAND): Ed Clancy, the latest British cyclist to strike major international gold, insists Great Britain's success will not dry up should cycling's governing body strip them of their state-of-the-art ...

OUDENAARDE (BELGIUM): France's Steve Chainel won the opening stage of the Dreidaagse van de Panne-Koksijde in Belgium The Bouygues Telecom rider took a surprise win after coming out on top of a seven-man sprint at the end of the 198km...

ROME (ITALY): The decision by an Italian Cycling Federation tribunal to award damages to Liquigas plus costs against one of their riders who tested positive to EPO two years ago has taken the question of doping and its effect on the sport...

PARIS (FRANCE): Cadel Evans's gamble to sign with BMC paid off as the world champion's team were picked by organisers to take part in this year's Tour de France. BMC are one of 22 teams that will start the race on July 3 in Rotterdam,...

SHEFFIELD (TASMANIA): Rick Fulcher had a smile on his face at the end of the Mersey Valley Junior Tour, the first of two junior selection races for the world junior road cycling championships in Italy, as he had been able to watch an arra...

LEVIN (NEW ZEALAND): Nelson’s Reuben Olorenshaw proved fastest when the downhill titles were decided at the RaboPlus New Zealand Secondary School Mountain Bike Championship in Levin yesterday. Olorenshaw easily won the under-19 boys�...

COPENHAGEN (DENMARK): New Zealand completed their most successful ever campaign when Lauren Ellis won a silver in the points race on the final night of the UCI Wold Track Cycling championships in Copenhagen. Lauren...