The Moment The Race Was Won: Tirreno-Adriatico.

Nairo Quintana rides solo, the “fantastic four” reduced to one. This was the moment the race was won.

The race opened with a prologue instead of the promised team time trial because of the ravages of a storm. Adriano Malori won. Malori means illnesses in Italian but hopefully he’s got a healthy future. The Movistar exile is a time trial expert and, with Tom Dumoulin, one of the few riders to threaten Tony Martin’s hegemony.

Five riders finished within three seconds. Come the final stage, more a test of raw power than handling skills, and Fabian Cancellara was on top. Cancellara’s become a creature of habit and winning the Tirreno-Adriatico time trial usually presages classics podiums.

Tirreno-Adriatico: Quintana wins overall.

Fabian Cancellara won the final time trial of Tirreno-Adriatico in San Benedetto del Tronto while Nairo Quintana sealed overall victory.

Quintana struggled in the closing kilometers and finished 55 seconds down on Cancellara, but he had the comfort of coming into the final, short time trial with a considerable buffer in the overall standings. Bauke Mollema did enough to secure second place overall, 18 seconds down on Quintana, while Rigoberto Uran took third, 31 seconds back.

Cancellara gets revenge in final Tirreno TT.

Fabian Cancellara won the short time trial that closed out Tirreno-Adriatico on Tuesday, as Nairo Quintana confirmed his overall victory in the seven-day race. “I feel a lot of racing kilometers,” said Cancellara, who had been disappointed to lose stage 1 to Adriano Malori last week. “On the end, of course, I had to push like everyone has to do. … I just gave all in, and I’m really happy and satisfied.

I’m looking out for the large and bigger picture, the next two weekends, for the big races.”

Malori was second, and Vasil Kiryienka finished third in San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy.

Views of the Adriatic.

Tirreno Adriatico was supposed to be a magnificent Battle of Four Tour de France contenders in an early preview of what we should expect in July.

In the end Froome got the sniffles and His Nibalishiousness wasn't super-interested. So what we got was young Nairo shooting a massive warning shot across old man Alberto's bow.

The Colombian Kid might just be the one to beat this summer.

2014-15 Races & Results.

Nokere Koerse - Mar 18 (Start List),

Giro d'Italia 2015 - May 9-31 (Stages),

Tour de France 2015 - July 4-26 (Stages),

Vuelta a España 2015 - Aug 22-Sept 13 (Stages),

UCI Road World Championship 2015 - Sept 20-27 (Stages),

Tirreno-Adriatico - Mar 11-17 (Results),

Paris Nice - Mar 8-15 (Results),

Le Tour de Langkawi - Mar 8-15 (Results),

Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen - Mar 6-8 (Results),

Strade Bianche - Mar 7 (Results),

Strade Bianche Women - Mar 7 (Results),

UCI Track World Championships - Feb 18-22 (Results),

UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships - Jan 31-Feb 1 (Results).

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2015 Milan-San Remo LIVE.

2015 Milan-San Remo LIVE Sunday, March 22, Italy.

Race starts at 10:10am CET (5:10am U.S. Eastern)

Finish at around 5:09pm CET (12:09pm U.S. Eastern)

Live video from *1:40pm CET (*8:40am U.S. Eastern).

Volta a Catalunya 2015 Live Dashboard.

Live Video Streaming and TV Coverage starting Monday, March 23rd.

This race is broadcast live. Check back for 2015 live coverage options.

Tirreno-Adriatico: Sagan wins stage 6.

Peter Sagan won his first race of the season on stage 6 of Tirreno-Adriatico from Rieti to Porto Sant'Elpidio. Gerald Ciolek finished in second with Belgian road champion Jens Debusschere in third.

Cancellara saves Mollema after huge scare in Tirreno.

Servais Knaven’s Murky Past.

Two weekends in a row British newspaper The Mail on Sunday has delivered up court documents from an old trial in France to embarrass Team Sky with allegations about directeur sportif Servais Knaven’s past.

1998 might rhyme with Festina and Pantani but Dutch team TVM had a torrid time too following police investigations that began in March. A truck was stopped by customs police near the city of Reims and vials of EPO were found. The case was reheated when the TVM team was raided in the 1998 Tour de France and various substances were found, some banned and others legal but questionable.

The court suggested several riders were using EPO including Servais Knaven but at the time no approved test existed.

Kwiatkowski recons Milan San Remo with Via Roma in mind.

Fresh from finishing second overall to Australian Richie Porte at Paris-Nice, Etixx-QuickStep's Michal Kwiatkowski travelled straight to Italy to check out 70km of the nearly 300km Milan-San Remo course.

Also known as "La Primavera", the Sunday 22nd of March Milano-San Remo is the fourth UCI WorldTour race of the season, and the first of the major Spring monuments along with the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix.

With team-mate Michal Golas as his wingman, Kwiatkowski rode several of the key later climbs of the race, including the Capo Mele, Capo Cervo, Capo Berta, and the Cipressa. He also traversed the Poggio twice and checked out the Via Roma finish, which has returned for 2015.

US cyclist Meredith Miller sails over barriers to extend racing career.

In September 2014, Meredith Miller launched her new cyclocross team, Noosa CX, by sprinting to victory at CrossVegas, one of the highest profile races in the discipline. If the 41-year-old hadn’t been willing to make her own opportunities, her professional racing life could well have been over before she had the chance to deliver her biggest off-road win.

When the 2009 United States road champion retired from road racing one-and-a-half years ago she always hoped that it wasn’t actually the end of her 15-year cycling career. She had been jumping from the road straight into the dust and mud of the cyclocross field for six seasons, and this was where she hoped to stay.

Giro boss confident Astana case will be settled before May.

Race director Mauro Vegni does not want Astana to spoil his Giro d’Italia race this May as Alberto Contador did when he raced and won in 2011.

Contador tested positive for banned substance clenbuterol in the 2010 Tour de France, but was able to race while the case continued, only to see his Giro title stripped after his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) failed.

Vegni met with Brian Cookson last week to express his concern over Astana’s license situation. After five doping cases – two from the professional team – the UCI requested to its License Commission in February that Astana be withdrawn from the WorldTour.

Dan Martin aiming for Volta a Catalunya podium.

The Cannondale-Garmin team remains winless after Tirreno-Adriatico and Paris-Nice, but Irishman Daniel Martin thinks the work done in the races will help them as they head into the Volta a Catalunya on the team's home turf next week. The 2013 winner of the race is aiming for an overall podium finish for himself or teammate Andre Cardoso, but knows it will be a fight every day.

"We have a really strong team going to Catalunya, we're going for a team result and one of us on the podium at least with me or Andre. It's a stellar field there, maybe even stronger than here - it's everyone here and from Paris-Nice together. It's going to be a great race."

Tour of Britain 2015 route revealed.

The Tour of Britain will start in Wales for the first time after organizers confirmed the route for the 2015 race, which rolls out of Anglesey on Sunday September 6.

The eight-stage race will also visit Edinburgh for the first time in its modern incarnation, and return to Lancashire, Northumberland and East Anglia.

The route also features a summit finish on Hartside Fell in Cumbria – dubbed the hardest ever by Tour of Britain organizers and, with no time trial, the pivotal stage in the race – and a revamped London stage, which will pass through Regent Street and Piccadilly Circus.

Curve 38mm carbon clincher review.

"Curve’s road range offers three carbon clincher rim profiles—24mm, 38mm and 50mm—that are tubeless compatible with a retail price of $2,179-$2,229 for a stock build. For this review, I spent a few weeks riding a set of Curve’s stock 38mm carbon clinchers.

The wheelset sent for review weighed 1,482g (677g front, 805g rear) with rim tape but without skewers. Recommended retail is $2,199 and buyers have a choice of Shimano/SRAM or Campagnolo freehub bodies. Titanium skewers and carbon-specific brakepads are included."

Uran realistic about Tirreno TT, enthusiastic about Giro’s.

After Tirreno-Adriatico stage 6 victory, is Sagan under pressure to win more?

Daily Distractions.

Legally Speaking with Bob Mionske: Riding with video cameras.

Paul Kimmage: The UCI failed to apply its own rules when it came to dealing with Lance Armstrong.

"I understand that the UCI is currently asking all of the professional trade teams to make a donation in support of further out-of-competition drug testing. In an effort to speed up this process along and to show my commitment to this effort, I enclose my personal donation to the cause in the amount of $25,000.

"Please use these funds in any way you deem appropriate to continue the fight for drug-free sport and to eradicate those who cheat from within our ranks. While we both agree that the underlying science is very encouraging, I am not confident that the (EPO) test has gone through the rigorous clinical analysis that is necessary to ensure it is 100% accurate.

"I stand with you in support of more and more out-of-competition testing. And, I stand ready to help in any way I can. I am confident that you will put my donation to furthering our parallel goals."

Cookson opposed to Armstrong's participation in Tour de France charity ride.

UCI president Brian Cookson has voiced his opposition to Lance Armstrong’s participation in a charity ride on the route of this year’s Tour de France, stating that it would be “completely inappropriate and disrespectful.”

Armstrong has been invited by former England and Crystal Palace footballer Geoff Thomas to join him on part of his fund-raising ride for the Cure Leukaemia charity in France this July. Thomas, who cited Armstrong as an inspiration during his recovery from leukaemia a decade ago, is set to ride the entire route of the 2015 Tour one day ahead of the race.

The Daily Mail has reported that Armstrong will join him for two stages.

Nokere Koerse: More Cobbles Hors d'Oevres.

Ah, Wednesday racing. And not just some quiet little country romp. Real racing. Cobbles Racing.

The subject is Nokere Koerse, one of the older and more unjustly overlooked races on the calendar. Begun in 1944, the race was staged as a tribute to Jules Lowie, a Nokerian who had won distinction by taking the Paris-Nice title six years earlier. He never won his hometown race... but he did ride it at least twice, and is credited with 8th in the first running and fifth in 1946, his last year as a pro.

Mo Bruno Roy, American Elite Cyclocross Racer, Announces Her Retirement.

The Nationals in Austin Texas marked Mo Bruno Roy’s 301st career cyclocross race. When we caught up to her husband, Matt, he disclosed an interesting fact about all of these races: She DNF’d in only two. Bruno Roy has made a career out of not quitting what she sets out to begin.

Just as astonishing, she took a career 41 wins and stood on over 100 podiums: over a third of all the races she entered.

For the racer who doesn’t know the meaning of the word quit, her announcement today detailing her retirement must have been a hard decision to arrive at.

PowerTap releases new pedal and chainring powermeters.

PowerTap, highly regarded as one of the pioneers of powermeter technology, has released two new powermeters into the company’s portfolio at the Taipei Cycle Show today: the P1 pedal and the C1 chainring.

With the introduction of these new products, PowerTap strengthens its market position with a complete portfolio of powermeter products for multiple locations on the bike: hub, chainring, and pedals.

Video: Caleb Ewan - “It’s a dream to one day, hopefully, win the green jersey.”

Hearts, minds and eyes: Mara Abbott on the equality and visibility of women’s cycling.

"As much as a race victory means to the riders and staff who contribute to it, there is generally a small problem with its economic value: it doesn’t really have one. In 2008, as a wide-eyed neo-pro on Columbia-High Road, I was initially shocked by the galling salary discrepancy between the male and female riders, even within the same organization. Here is the real bummer about it – the chasm was actually absolutely fair."