The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
• Garmin-Slipstream unwilling to release Wiggins • Team Sky poised to add Ben Swift to roster Team Sky yesterday announced two new Italian signings, bringing their roster up to 24 ahead of the squad's first training camp in Manchester next week. But while the British-born Dario Cioni and Davide Viganò add strength, neither is the rider that everyone – including the Team Sky...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
After a successful season on both the road and track, Katusha’s Ben Swift is looking forward to 2010. It's a year he hopes will build on a season that saw him take his first pro win and complete his first Grand Tour at the Giro d’Italia in May. Swift won his first race at the Tour of Britain this year, as he finished first on a sprint stage into Yeovil. However, it was the Yorkshireman’s...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Manchester's World Cup was a chance for the young cyclists who are keeping Chris Hoy and Bradley Wiggins on their toes For Great Britain's cyclists, the weekend's World Cup in Manchester was a matter of setting a marker – as the performance director, Dave Brailsford, put it – so the team knows what to look forward to in the five months until the world championship, and in the two years,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
• Top Briton's 'exciting' form brings him best last lap time • Women's team pursuiters finish with a world record Great Britain's cyclists left Manchester tonight with 10 gold medals from the opening World Cup of the winter, four fewer than last year's haul, but it is 22-carat metalware to judge by the flood of records and personal-best times that culminated in a world record for the women's...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
British Cycling has announced a 19-rider squad for the first round of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup at Manchester Velodrome from October 30 to November 1. Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton have been named in a five rider line-up for Team Sky +HD, while Katusha professional Ben Swift has been selected in a 14 strong contingent for Team Great Britain. For Hoy, the Manchester World cup round will be...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
The world champion is prepared to ride in a supporting role if she lacks the strength to win after a difficult season This has not been a straightforward year for the women's world champion, Nicole Cooke, who defends her title here tomorrow. Cooke's new team, Vision One Racing, ran out of cash in early August and in July she was set back by a virus. While last year she came into the world championship...
cafevelo (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Put some oil on your mouse wheel and give your scrolling finger a stretch. Our super snapper has hit the jackpot, so get ready to enjoy a bumper batch of rider photos from Saturday's Tour of Britain sprint showdown. Winner on the day, Michelle Merlo 2006 Luxembourg national road race champion, Kim Kirchen (circled) and Russian king of cool, Vladimir Karpets 48 year old former national jersey wearer,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
• Cavendish failed to shake off respiratory infection • Ian Stannard replaces Columbia-HTC rider in squad Mark Cavendish has withdrawn from the Great Britain team for this week's world road race championship after failing to shake off a respiratory infection. The 24-year-old from the Isle of Man has been in scintillating form, but after clinching his 23rd victory of the season earlier this...
PezCycling News.com (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Message by Edmond Hood He’s been top three in Qatar, Nokere Koerse, the Giro, the Pais Vasco – and now he’s finally stood on the podium step that gives you the best view of all. We spoke to Tour of Britain stage seven winner; 21 year-old Ben Swift (GB & Katyusha) on Monday morning.
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Scot David Millar will be the British team's captain at the World Championships Sunday in Mendrisio, Switzerland. British Cycling announced today ten riders to form its eventual nine-man team. Britain also named Mark Cavendish in the squad, but he will make a decision to participate at the end of this week. Millar will receive support by eight riders to be drawn from Cavendish, Ben Swift, Roger Hammond,...
Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
From British Cycling's website . Still a ten-man squad for the men's road race, presumably because they're waiting to see if Cavendish will be fit after his illness at the Tour of Missouri. A decision will be made by Thursday, so they're cutting it fine in the hope of getting him in there, it appears. Elite Men's Road Race Mark Cavendish Stephen Cummings Russ Downing Chris Froome Roger Hammond Dan...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
Michele Merlo of Italy won the final stage of the Tour of Britain in London, as Edvald Boasson Hagen retained the leader's yellow jersey. The 22-year-old Norwegian was well down the field, in 39th, but in claiming four stages in succession had done more than enough to be crowned winner. Next year he will be part of Team Sky, the new British squad, and it was a future colleague, Geraint Thomas, who...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
Ben Swift's win yesterday in Yeovil at the Tour of Britain is the first of many more to come, said Katusha team manager Andrei Tchmil. "He's deserved it for some time," Tchmil told Cyclingnews. "He's had some great placings in País Vasco and a third in the Giro d'Italia. I am very content for him and how the team worked in yesterday's Britain stage." Experienced teammate...
PezCycling News.com (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
Message by Edmond Hood Like we say; ‘it’s not a proper race if Pez doesn’t have a man on the inside.' Fast rising 21 year-old (Pozzato reckons the young Englishman is going right to the top) Ben Swift last spoke to us during his Giro debut; the first year Katyusha pro started his Tour of Britain with a flourish, grabbing third place on the first stage. We spoke to him at the half...
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Ben Swift (Katusha) took a hugely popular first professional win in Friday's seventh stage to become the first British stage winner in the Tour of Britain since Paul Manning in 2007. The Katusha rider sprinted to victory ahead of teammate Filippo Pozzato, with race leader Edvald Boasson Hagen (Columbia-HTC) in third. Boasson Hagen extended his overall lead ahead of Rabobank’s Kai Reus to 23 seconds...
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