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DIEGO TUSON/AFP/Getty Images A move to new Russian team Katusha next season did not get in the way of Filippo Pozzato’s teams on the Liquigas cycling team as they help propel him to the first Golden Jersey of the Vuelta. Perhaps the power of the new mustache helped get the win, but the margin as (…)

JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images The four musketeers were giving French cycling renewed hope in today’s stage 2 in the Tour de France. You could not get a better mix to please the French public than Thomas Voekler, Sylvain Cavanal, David Le Lay and Christophe Moreau in a long breakaway. It’s been a long time since the (…)

FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images Filippo Pozzato took a very fast sprint finish into Autun on Stage 5 of the Tour de France. The final slightly uphill finish was so fast that speeds reached up to 50mph. That is some fast turning of the pedals. The stage was being billed as a hilly challenge that would disrupt (…)

(Alessandro Petacchi of Fassa Bortolo wins in 2005) Scroll to the end for the full start list for Milan-San Remo from tuttobiciweb.com Filippo Pozzato gets the number one for being defending champ. Danilo DiLuca will not be lining up at the start due to the flu. Liquigas have a strong lineup featureing Enrico Gasparotto and (…)

Filippo Pozzato’s switch from the talent laden Quick-Step team to the Liquigas team for 2007 was a sign that the 25 year old Italian was ready to be his own man in the Classics. The winner of Milan San-Remo in 2006 was a new talent in a talent rich team twhose goals all seemed to (…)

Tom Boonen is going to rest up for the next month. He will make his return in time for the Tour of Belgium May 23rd with an eye to preparing for the Tour de France. With the focus of the Classics moving to the hillier Ardennes region, Quick Step will now be under Italian leadership, (…)

Some in my local once thought that Ghent Wevelgem was some sort of Viking holiday. The response to the name was “ok let’s wear our viking helmets…”. Surpirsingly no Norwegian has ever won this race that takes the heartiness of a Viking to win. With only two climbs versus the 17 of Flanders, Ghent Wevelgem (…)

Seven classics victories in twelve months, the Squadrone of Patrick Lefevre showed incredible domination in the Tour of Flanders. World Champion Tom Boonen had Belgian champ Serge Baguet, Olympic Champion Paolo Bettini and Milan San Remo winner Fillipo Pozzato guiding the elite riders in the final kilometers of the Tour of Flanders. The control that (…)

Quick Step played their cards perfectly in an exciting finish to Milano San Remo. I wanted to actually see the finish before commenting on it. So far, I have watched the OLN coverage which was not bad. Next I will be watching taped coverage of the from RAI Sport. The finish was as described in (…)