Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 04/08/2009
Yep, the World Champion, Lampre's Alessandro Ballan, is on the move. This came up during the Poland live thread, but deserves its own space, particularly as CN has done some further reporting. Rabobank ain't buying -- they were among several teams Ballan mentioned to La Gazzetta, but not surprisingly Rabo are not in the market for his services, presumably due to their existing glut of one-day vertically-challenged...
Tour de France Lanterne Rouge (Free subscription) | 16/07/2009
Kenny Robert Van Hummel makes it a solid 7 days as the Lanterne Rouge today as the main peloton finished in a bunch. A very few stragglers across the line today: Jose Luis Arrieta of Ag2R, Mick Rogers of Columbia (though he was probably delayed by a crash since he was given the time of the main group), and Christophe Riblon of Ag2R. Placements at the top and the bottom of the General Classification...
IOL (Free subscription) | 16/07/2009
Frenchman Jerome Coppel of the Fran'aise des Jeux team and Italian Angelo Furlan of Lampre pulled out of the Tour de France during the race's 12th stage.
Tour de France Lanterne Rouge (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Kenny Robert Van Hummel of Skil-Shimano was 172nd and last on the Pyrenean stage today, finishing in a trio with Danilo Napolitano (Katusha) and Angelo Furlan (Lampre) at 34:01 after the stage winner. Van Hummel is also 172nd overall (about 3 minutes behind nearest rider in the General Classification), for his third day as Lanterne Rouge . Unfortunately it does not bode well for him finishing the entire...
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
199. Kenny Robert Van Hummel (NED) Skil-Shimano, departs at 4:00:00 p.m. 189. Peter Wrolich (AUT) Team Milram, departs at 4:01:00 p.m. 174. Brice Feillu (FRA) Agritubel, departs at 4:02:00 p.m. 166. Danilo Napolitano (ITA) Team Katusha, departs at 4:03:00 p.m. 154. Steven De Jongh (NED) Quick Step, departs at 4:04:00 p.m. 145. Saïd Haddou (FRA) Bbox Bouygues Telecom, departs at 4:05:00 p.m. 134....
Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 29/06/2009
Lampre change team to Allesandro Ballan, Marzio Bruseghin, Marco Bandiera, Angelo Furlan, David Loosli, Daniele Righi, Mauro Santambrogio, Marcin Sapa & Simon Spilak. FdJ definite - Sandy Casar (FRA), Jérôme Coppel (FRA), Anthony Geslin (FRA), Sébastien Joly (FRA), Yauheni Hutarovitch (BLR), Christophe Le Mével (FRA), Jérémy Roy (FRA), Benoît Vaugrenard...
Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
This is interesting . Today's stage is another fairly flat one; most likely ending in a bunch sprint. But as we saw yesterday, there's a twist with this year's Dauphine bunch sprints. The twist is this: there's only one true sprinter team present, Quickstep with Tom Boonen, so they have almost all of the responsibility to chase down the breaks and control the race. This is hard for one team to do and...
France24 (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
Italy's Angelo Furlan outpaced rivals in a chaotic sprint to win the second stage of the Dauphiné Libéré, considered one of the key tests before the Tour de France. Cadel Evans retains the yellow jersey after winning the opening time trial.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
The unfancied Angelo Furlan won a sprint finish at the end of the 228km second stage of the Dauphiné Libéré to deny Britain's David Millar.
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
Angelo Furlan (Lampre) upset Tom Boonen (Quick Step) in a mano-a-mano sprint to win the second stage at the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré on Monday while Cadel Evans (Silence-Lotto) retained the overall lead. A five-man breakaway — Iñaki Isasi (Euskaltel), Hector González (Fuji-Servetto), Paul Voss (Milram), Stéphane Augé (Cofidis) and Alexandre...
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