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Cycling: Contador and Froome head to head at Dauphine

April 15, 2013 09:15
Tour de France hopefuls Alberto Contador and Chris Froome will be the two star names at the Grand Boucle's main warm-up event the Criterium de Dauphine in June, organisers said on Monday. The week-long event is often seen as a good marker for Tour form and Briton Bradley Wiggins won last year before going on to triumph in cycling's biggest race. The June 2-9 course will tackle the epic Alpe d'Huez on its penultimate stage. That stage will be seen as a particularly important gauge of form as the famous climb will feature twice during the Tour in July.

Cycling: Czech Kreuziger wins Amstel Gold race

April 14, 2013 13:31
Czech Roman Kreuziger made a solo break for home to win the Amstel Gold race on Sunday after 251.8km from Maastricht to Valkenburg. The Saxo rider broke clear on the final climb from a group of escapees and then held off the chasing pack to win by 20 seconds. Spaniard Alessandro Valverde won a sprint finish for second with Australian Simon Gerrans taking third. It was the first time the 26-year-old Kreuziger, a former winner of the young rider jerseys at both the Tour de France and Tour of Italy, has won a Classic.

Cycling: Amstel Gold race results

April 14, 2013 12:46
Amstel Gold race results on Sunday: 1. Roman Kreuziger (CZE)6 h 35:21, 2. Alejandro Valverde (ESP) at 22, 3. Simon Gerrans (AUS) 22, 4. Michal Kwiatkowski (POL) 22, 5. Philippe Gilbert (BEL) 22, 6. Sergio Henao (COL) 22, 7. Bjorn Leukemans (BEL) 22, 8. Pieter Weening (NED) 22, 9. Enrico Gasparotto (ITA) 22, 10. Bauke Mollema (NED) 22. afp

Cycling: Czech Kreuziger wins Amstel Gold race

April 14, 2013 12:02
Czech Roman Kreuziger made a solo break for home to win the Amstel Gold race on Sunday after 251.8km from Maastricht to Valkenburg. The Saxo rider broke clear on the final climb from a group of escapees and then held off the chasing pack to win by 20 seconds. Spaniard Alessandro Valverde won a sprint finish for second. It was the first time the 26-year-old Kreuziger, a former winner of the young rider jerseys at both the Tour de France and Tour of Italy, has won a Classic. He broke clear with seven kilometres to ride and never looked back.

Cycling: Czech Kreuziger wins Amstel Gold race

April 14, 2013 11:45
Czech Roman Kreuziger made a solo break for home to win the Amstel Gold race on Sunday after 251.8km from Maastricht to Valkenburg. The Saxo rider broke clear on the final climb from a group of escapees and then held off the chasing pack to win by 20 seconds. bc/nr

Cycling: Schleck hoping Amstel Gold heralds return to form

April 12, 2013 20:46
Former Tour de France winner Andy Schleck will be hoping to use the Ardennes classics this month to complete his return to the top. Schleck will line up Sunday at the Amstel Gold race, the first of three Spring Classics in the hilly Ardennes region that will be followed by the Fleche Wallonne and then Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

Sky fail to have it their way in demanding classics

April 8, 2013 09:45
By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - Team Sky prepared in unconventional fashion for the Flanders classic races this season, hoping to crush the competition as they have been doing on stage events, but results let them down. The British team have only Mathew Hayman's third place in the Dwars door Vlaanderen race to boast about while Geraint Thomas managed fourth in the Het Nieuwsblad and the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen-Harelbeke.

Cycling: Cancellara claims third Paris-Roubaix

April 7, 2013 14:01
Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara of RadioShack won the prestigious Paris-Roubaix Spring Classic in a record time on Sunday. The winner from 2006 and 2010 took the gruelling 254km "Queen of the Classics" race in a sprint climax ahead of Belgian Sep Vanmarcke, in the process setting a new record average pace of 44.190 kilometres an hour. "At the end it was like roulette," reflected Cancellara on the dash for the line which he claimed by the length of a bike. The 32-year-old justified his status among the favourites for this 111th edition.

Cycling: Cancellara claims third Paris-Roubaix

April 7, 2013 13:00
Switzerland's Fabian Cancelllara of RadioShack won the prestigious Paris-Roubaix Spring Classic in a record time on Sunday. The winner from 2006 and 2010 took the gruelling 254km "Queen of the Classics" race in a sprint climax ahead of Belgian Sep Vanmarcke, in the process setting a new record average pace of 44.190 kilometres an hour. "At the end it was like roulette," reflected Cancellera on the dash for the line which he claimed by the length of a bike. The 32-year-old justified his status among the favourites for this 111th edition.

Cycling: Cancellara claims third Paris-Roubaix success

April 7, 2013 12:30
Switzerland's Fabian Cancelllara of RadioShack won the prestigious Paris-Roubaix Spring Classic for the third time on Sunday. The winner from 2006 and 2010 took the gruelling 254km "Queen of the Classics" race in a sprint climax ahead of Belgian Sep Vanmarcke. "At the end it was like roulette," reflected Cancellera on the dash for the line which he claimed by the length of a bike. The 32-year-old justified his status among the favourites for this 111th edition.
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