Cycling Central

Time-trial world champion Tony Martin headlines the Omega Pharma-Quick-Step team named for the Tour of Belgium starting on Wednesday.

Sky's Edvald Boasson Hagen finished safely in the bunch on the final day of the Glava Tour of Norway, to snag himself the final general classification win over Australian Orica-GreenEDGE rider, Simon Clarke.

Australian cycling star Robbie McEwen retired today after the final stage of the Amgen Tour of California, concluding a 17-year professional career that saw him capture 12 Tour de France stage victories, three maillot verts, and two Australian national road championships. 

Will Clarke (Champion System) took his team's first win of the 2012 season at the Tour of Japan on Sunday, topping the short 2.65 kilometre prologue course fastest, narrowly ahead of Australian team-mate Cameron Wurf.

RadioShack-Nissan's Frank Schleck on Sunday pulled out of the 15th stage of the Giro d'Italia between Busto Arsizio and Lecco Piani dei Resinelli.

Peter Sagan made it a handful of stage victories at the Amgen Tour of California winning the final stage of the race in Los Angeles.

Peter Sagan made it a handful of victories at the Amgen Tour of California winning the final stage of the race in Los Angeles.

Peter Sagan made it a handful of victories at the Amgen Tour of California winning the final stage of the race in Los Angeles.

Matteo Rabottini's stage long 150km breakaway ride was rewarded with victory in the 172km, 15th stage of the Giro d'Italia.

After a handful of top-10 finishes in the past week in the Royal Smilde Olympia's Tour, Steele Von Hoff (Chipotle-First Solar) finally broke his hoodoo to take out the final stage, his second win of his European campaign.

It was the turn of the U23 Men and women in La Bresse, France for round four of the cross-country series of the RockyRoads UCI Mountain Bike World Cup presented by Shimano.

Robert Gesink (Rabobank) made a statement on the slopes of the final climb of Stage 7 of the Amgen Tour of California, Mount Baldy, to take the stage win, and the overall.

Ryder Hesjedal re-claimed the overall leader's pink jersey after Andrey Amador narrowly won the 14th stage of the Giro d'Italia.

Round three of the cross-country Eliminator at the RockyRoads UCI Mountain Bike World Cup presented by Shimano once again saw new faces on the top step of the podium.

Dutchman Robert Gesink says he feels back to his scintillating best at the Amgen Tour of California, and hopes to confirm his comeback with a strong ride on tomorrow's queen stage to Mount Baldy.

Matt Goss has pulled up stumps on his Giro d'Italia campaign, hoping to keep himself as fresh as possible for his maillot vert ambitions at the Tour de France.

Michael Freiberg (Jayco-AIS) ran second on Stage 4 of the prestigious Dutch event, the Olympia's Tour, enough to fire himself into the overall lead with two stages remaining.

Andy Blair continued his unbroken streak of stage wins in the Ingkerreke Commercial Mountain Bike Enduro in Alice Springs, NT, taking line honours in the final 40km stage.

A crash during the 12th stage of the Giro d'Italia has Australian workhorse Adam Hansen in pain but surviving after the 13th stage.

Sylvain Georges (AG2R) rode the final 35 kilometres of Amgen Tour of California's sixth stage to Big Bear Lake solo, to take a gutsy victory denying the chase of the Liquigas-Cannondale and Garmin-Barracuda teams, which were led home by Peter Sagan some 30 seconds later.