TV SCHEDULE UNITED STATES:The Giro d’Italia starts May 4, and will be broadcast starting at 9:45 AM on beIN Sport US. Last year, the Giro was won by by Canada’s Ryder Hesjedal of Garmin-Barracuda, becoming the first Canadian rider to win a Grand Tour event and the second non-European rider to win the Giro (the first being Andrew Hampsten in 1988) according to...
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Cadel Evans, 2011 Tour de France winner is alleged to have consulted Dr. Michele Ferrari, the now tainted doctor in the doping allegation scandals rocking the world cycling scene. The consultation is alleged to have taken place in 2000, and no discussion was entered about utilizing banned substances, according to the Aussie rider. The...
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Canadian Ryder Hesjedal, the winner of the Giro d’Italia last week showed the world that it can be done without doping. Hesjedal’s team, Garmin-Barracuda which was started by Jonathan Vaughters, prides itself on its anti-doping stance, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal about the team published today. Hesjedal put in a...
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Carly Hibberd was involved in a fatal crash while training in Italy yesterday. The 26-year-old from Sherwood in Queensland was on a training ride north of Milan on Wednesday morning Italian time when she was struck by a car. Emergency services flew to the scene by helicopter but were unable to save her and...
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Reforms being Proposed while Stage Four is Neutralized Leopard Trek Team to Stay in Race May 10, 2011 Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt crashed in stage three of the Giro yesterday and died from his injuries. The Leopard Trek team member was only 15 miles from the finish of the 107.5 mile stage in a...
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Photo: Reuters Eight cyclists were killed by a driver on drugs in southern Italy yesterday, according to international news reports. A speeding motorist high on marijuana driving with his son in the car plowed through a group of riders on their Sunday ride in the area of Marinella a Sant’Eufemia. Following the carnage, twisted bicycles...
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