cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Spanish team Footon-Servetto announced today that it has signed two more riders, Dane Martin Pedersen and 19-year-old Italian Fabio Felline. Pedersen, 26, claimed four race wins this season, including the Rund um Köln in April. He won the Under-23 Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 2005 and a stage and the overall of the 2006 Tour of Britain. He became professional in 2004 with Team PH and...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Team Saxo Bank announced today the contract extension of Jakob Fuglsang. The Danish neo pro had an impressive first season with the team directed by Bjarne Riis, and the two have now committed to a three-year contract. Fuglsang, 24 years old, was happy to remain on the Danish team. "I am enormously grateful for the perspective the extension with Team Saxo Bank offers to my career," he said....
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Bjarne Riis has been pleased with the debut season of Danish phenomenon Jacob Fuglsang; so pleased, in fact, that he’s signed him up for a three-year contract extension. The 24-year-old Dane will stay in a Saxo Bank jersey through the 2012 season, which is good news for Riis, who is always on the hunt for promising Danish talent. Riis was so impressed with Fuglsang, a former mountain bike racer...
Soxiam Wiki RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
i enjoy the strange little signals my body sends out when i’ve pushed it too hard. today it was the inability to hold on to a cup of coffee after a hard ride. my hands were shaking so bad i was spilling it all over the park bench. just then everything kinda slowed down and i felt like i was observing myself sitting on the bench starring at my hands. and for some reason i just couldn’t...
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Kurt-Asle Arvesen will race next season for the new British cycling outfit Team Sky, his Saxo Bank team announced on Sunday. The 34-year-old Norwegian champion has raced for the Danish team run by Bjarne Riis since 2004. Arvesen, who won stage 11 of the Tour de France in 2008, was forced to withdraw from this year's Tour after breaking a collarbone in a heavy crash on stage 10. Arvesen hit the deck...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Swede Marcus Ljungqvist, 34, will retire after tomorrow's Paris-Tours race. He refused contract offers with Lance Armstrong's and Bjarne Riis' teams, according to Dalarnas Tidningar . Retirement "had been in the air for a long time," he said. "I feel it is time for something else. It has not been an easy decision because I still feel I have more to give." Ljungqvist finished 87th...
Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
Love it . The International Cycling Union (UCI) management committee, meeting here at the world road race championships which end Sunday, said they would phase out the use of the two-way radios which link riders to their team cars. Race radios are already banned in junior and under 23 races. Detractors of the radios claim their use renders races more predictable, and thus more boring to watch. Advocates...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 05/09/2009
Belgian Jurgen Van Goolen will leave the Saxo Bank team at the end of the year and switch to the colours of his home country's Silence-Lotto squad, the team announced Saturday. Van Goolen has been with the formation of Bjarne Riis for two years, having gone over to the team after the dissolution of his Discovery Channel team in 2007. He expressed dissatisfaction with his current team after being left...
Euro Peloton - Pro Cycling News (Free subscription) | 21/08/2009
Juan Jose Haedo burst onto the cycling scene back in 2006 at the first ever Amgen Tour of California. Riding for the now extinct Toyota-United team, Haedo upstaged some big names at that 2006 Tour, taking two stages in the event. 2007 saw Haedo sign with Bjarne Riis' powerhouse CSC squad, and the Argentinian's path to International glory seemed paved. Another successful Tour of California in 2007,...
Euro Peloton - Pro Cycling News (Free subscription) | 20/08/2009
Every year just after the Tour de France, wild speculation begins about which riders will leave their current teams and head elsewhere. Although no official new signings are allowed to be discussed until September, still there are always persistent rumors circulating about select riders. 2009 has been particularly rife with these rumors with the newly formed Sky and Radioshack teams joining the highest...
Euro Peloton - Pro Cycling News (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
Jakob Fuglsang , the mountain biker turned road pro of team Saxo Bank, has had a relatively quiet 2009 in his first season with the Danish Pro Tour outfit. He was left off of both the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France teams earlier this season, but perhaps the 24 year old will get his first crack at a grand tour at the upcoming Vuelta a Espana. Already Fuglsang is being looked at as a team leader for...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
Saxo Bank announced Sunday that Frank Høj, Kasper Klostergård and Anders Lund extended their contracts with the team. The three Danish riders agreed to stay with team Saxo Bank through the 2010 season. Saxo Bank says these re-signings are the first of a series of contract extensions for the team. "They have all three been part of our success this year and each in their own way deserve...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 28/07/2009
The Saxo Bank team has denied that its star rider, Andy Schleck, is in talks with Lance Armstrong's new RadioShack team. Spokesman Brian Nygaard told Cyclingnews on Tuesday that the rumour, reported by L'Equipe , was not true. Schleck, who placed second in the Tour de France and stood on the podium as best young rider overall, has a contract with the team of Bjarne Riis through the 2010 season. The...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 22/07/2009
Andy Schleck and his brother Fränk moved up the Tour de France classification in dramatic fashion on Wednesday. The two Luxembourgers attacked to escape with race leader Alberto Contador on the Col de Romme. Fränk won the stage and moved to third overall, Andy second overall. "Bjarne Riis came up with a plan this morning," said Andy. "Fränk had no personal goals and he...
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 21/07/2009
German cyclist Jens Voigt suffered a serious crash today during a descent from the Col du Petit-Saint-Bernard. Although the extent of his injuries is not currently clear, witnesses say the crash was brutal and that Voigt lost consciousness for 3-4 minutes after the fall. Team boss Bjarne Riis was quoted by the Associated Press: “I only saw him [...]
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