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HTC Highroad Claims 3 Jerseys at USAPCC

American squad HTC Highroad is just eight weeks (or two months) away from their schedule termination from professional men’s cycling, but the American squad is still dominating all over the world with both stage and overall victories. The team pulled off an amazing performance today when two of their riders rode themselves into the top ten general classification at the USA Pro Cycling Challenge... 

Mark Cavendish Exits Vuelta a Espana

HTC Highroad lost their British sprinter Mark Cavendish on the fourth stage of the Vuelta a Espana. Known as the “Manx Missile” exited the 2011 Vuelta a Espana on an extremely sweating day before the Sierra Nevada climb at the end of the day. Over the past several days Cavendish has struggled with the heat and lost more time every stage. The Vuelta a Espana race radio announced approximately... 

Who Has Mark Cavendish For a Sprinter Next?

Now that team HTC Highroad has confirmed that the team will shut down after the 2011 season, all fans and media are beginning to wonder where the cycling world’s best sprinter will go to next. Mark Cavendish from Great Britain is known as the best sprinter in cycling, and now is the most wanted rider for the 2012 cycling season. It is already known that several teams have been biding for Mark... 

Mark Cavendish Leaves Giro d’Italia

Yesterday HTC Highroad’s Mark Cavendish won a stage in Giro d’Italia, after a rest day following the mountain stage that included riding up the vulcano Etna. Yesterday after Cavendish’s stage win two riders accused Cavendish of having held on to a team car when the peloton moved up toward Etna. Francisco Ventoso and Murilo Fisher claimed that Cavendish received motorpace, thereby... 

Jens Zemke New HTC-Columbia Sports Director

Team HTC-Columbia have hired German Jens Zemke as sports director for the coming season. Zemke who himself rode professionally between 1995 and 2001, before starting as a team car driver. Now the American based team can take advantage of the new sports director’s long experience. “After seven years with Equipe Nürnberger’s female team and two years with Cervelo TestTeam, this must... 

Mark Cavendish is OK with Nightly Doping Controls

Mark Cavendish from HTC-Columbia, one of the best sprinters in the world, doesn’t mind giving doping tests during night time as proposed by WADA, who feel it is one of the ways to discover doping users during cycling races. “We have to do anything we can to eliminate doping in cycling, so I agree to nightly doping controls. I know that it may disturb our sleep and through that our race... 

Tony Martin: I Want to Win a Stage in Tour de France

There have been both ups and downs in Tony Martin‘s 2010 season: an injury during preparations, winning the Benelux Tour, a stage win in Tour de Suisse, and even though he won a third place in the World Championships in Australia, Martin is not 100% satisfied with his performances in 2010. He thinks he could have done much better in Tour de France. Martin told the German newspaper Thüringer... 

HTC-Columbia Signs Talented Young Rider

Four Time World Track Champion and talented sprinter from Denmark Alex Rasmussen will join Team HTC-Columbia in 2011 after a successful season on the track and the road in 2010. Rasmussen won his fourth Track World Title earlier in the year and went on to win two stages in Dunkirk, a stage in Ruta del Sol and GP Herning. “I decided to make the move to HTC-Columbia because I still have a lot... 

Team HTC-Columbia’s Vuelta a España Line-up

Team HTC-Columbia is ready for Vuelta a España 2010 with the following riders: Lars Bak (Den); Mark Cavendish (GB); Bernhard Eisel (Aut), Matt Goss (Aus), Hayden Roulston (NZ), Konstantsin Sivtsov (Byl), Tejay Van Garderen (USA); Martin Velits (Svk), Peter Velits (Svk). Mark Cavendish will have Hayden Roulston, Bernhard Eisel and Matt Goss as his possible lead-out riders at the sprinter finishes,... 

HTC-Columbia Eneco Tour Line-up

According to the  HTC – Columbia website the team will try to win victories in stage sprints as well as the general classification in the Eneco Tour which will start today, Tuesday the 17th of August, 2010. HTC – Columbia won the Eneco Tour in 2009, and have had a great season in 2010 so far, and will be favorites with their ace sprinters André Greipel and Mark Renshaw, and their general classification...