Tour runner up Andy Schleck is switching teams for 2011, from long term home Saxo bank, to the newly formed (and as yet unnamed) Luxembourg Pro Cycling team.  On Wednesday it was announced that the team will be riding Trek road and TT bikes along with Bontrager components wheels and helmets.  Trek already sponsor American based Radioshack [...]

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In a shock move Team Garmin-Transitions have announced a merger with the Cervelo Test Team.  The new team will be known as Garmin-Cervélo but there is no announcement yet as to who will form the teams roster.  Both have full squads currently so doubtless some riders will be looking for a new home.  Full press [...]

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Top tier road racing squad Cervelo Test Team announced that they will fold at the end of the current racing year late last night.  Speculation was beginning to surface concerning the team who had been noticeably absent from the usual team signings that are announced around this time.
The only exception was former Tour de France [...]

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Over 1,800 cyclists took part in Ireland’s first ever closed road mass participation cycling event in County Clare on Sunday.

The inaugural Sky Ride Etape Hibernia attracted cyclists from all over Ireland and the UK, as well as from throughout Europe and USA. Participants cycled 82 miles of traffic free roads in some of West of [...]

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Irish rider Daniel Martin (Garmin Transitions) won the first mountain stage of the Tour de Pologne yesterday in a move launched with 4 kilometres to go.

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Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has moved to Team Saxo Bank for 2011 Bjarne Riis confirmed today Tuesday.  Speaking at a press conference he announced his big signing commenting - “I think I can contribute to polishing this diamond (Contador) even further.”

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After three weeks of one of the toughest Tours in history, Alberto Contador rode into Paris with the yellow jersey on his back for the third time.
It has been a Tour of many different faces with drama and controversy a feature from start to finish.  The opening prologue when Armstrong beat Contador, the big crash [...]

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After yesterdays rest day and several days of high drama the Tour takes on its toughest day with the Pyreneean climb to the top of the Tourmalet on today’s final mountain stage.  With Contador in yellow and a furious Schleck in second vowing to attack, attack, attack this will be the day that should decide [...]

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Stage 9 of the Tour de France saw a major shake up on GC again as the yellow jersey cracked and the two main contenders for the overall showed they are head and shoulders above the rest.
Following the rest day the peloton headed further into the Alps with a fearsome stage taking in several tough [...]

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One week in and the riders have ridden a time trial, flats, mountains and cobbles and we know a lot about who is in form and who is not.
Saturday and Sunday saw the peloton into the mountains for the first time and disaster for one rider in particular.  Lance Armstrong has seemed on form but [...]

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Stages 3 & 4 of the Tour de France are behind us and after a breakneck day on Tuesday the riders had a break on Wednesday as they cruised into Reims.

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Yesterdays stage into Spa was marred by a multitude of crashes that saw many of the favourites on the deck and a change in the yellow jersey.

Garmin-Transitions Christian VandeVelde limps to the finish in Spa

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And we’re off…  The 2010 Tour de France has started and what a start!
The Prologue was held amid heavy rain on the streets of Rotterdam.

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We are just hours away from the start of the 2010 Tour de France with the prologue stage around the streets of Rotterdam.  Tour fever is at its peak as we await one of the most hotly contested Tours in years - or is it?  Lets take a look at the teams and favourites for [...]

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The makers of two classic MTB films - 24 Solo and Off road to Athens - are back with a new film Chasing Legends.  This film shifts tack to road racing following the HTC-Columbia team in the 2009 Tour de France.

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Lance Armstrong’s bid for an 8th Tour de France title was announced in earnest today as the team released details of the riders on his squad.

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Icebreaker, the New Zealand company that pioneered the outdoor merino wool apparel category, will be taking part in this year’s epic 3,000-mile Race Across America (RAAM) bike race, June 12-21, 2010.

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Team Radioshack has been denied entry to the 2010 Vuelta Espana in an unprecdented move by the organisers Unipublic.  Team manager Johan Bruyneel was so surprised by the news when told by journalists that he called the event director immediately only to have the news confirmed.
A press release from Radioshack included quotes from Bruyneel - [...]

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Cervélo TestTeam rider Philip Deignam is on the short list of potential riders for the Tour de France the team revealed today.  The Irish rider has impressed since joining the team with a stage win at last years Vuelta and countless other good performances.  With Carlos Sastre a doubt due to a bad crash at [...]

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It seems that the appearance of superstars such as Lance Armstrong and Mark Cavendish are not enough to ensure a races survival as the organisers of the Tour of Ireland have announced that the race will not take place in 2010.  However they have stated that they believe that it will go ahead in 2011.  [...]

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Controversial cyclist Alejandro Valverde was handed a two year world wide ban by the Court of Arbitration for Sport yesterday, Monday. 

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Checking in after the finish of the 2010 RAS, Ryan gives us his final video after finishing as second Irish rider.

You can follow Ryans posts on his blog at http://ryansherlock.blogspot.com/

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Four years after pulling on the maglia rosa as Giro champion, a jubilant Ivan Basso repeated the feat following one of the most eventful races in years.  With multiple leaders across the three weeks and a GC that was turned on its head the Liquigas rider rode into the Roman arena in Verona as victor.

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Ryan checks in with us after an eventful day on stage 5 of the RAS.

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Irish MTB rider Ryan Sherlock checks in from the Ras after yesterdays stage.  Ryan is having a fantastic race showing good form and attacking well although his speciality is climbing which hasn’t been a big feature of the race yet.  In the interest of continuity we won’t talk about todays stage other than to say [...]

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Our man in the RAS, Ryan Sherlock, checks in following a tough stage 3…

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Stage 2 of the RAS was marred by a large crash that took down a size-able group of riders.  A jeep pulled out from a side road into the path of the race just as the lead peloton riders came around a corner at speed.  Three riders  suffered some quite serious injuries such as broken [...]

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Top Irish MTB racer Ryan Sherlock is racing the RAS as part of the Eurocycles Team.  Here is a video blog from Ryan immediately after the first stage.

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