Cycling: The swan song of the Movement for Credible Cycling (MPCC) continues. Two World Tour teams, Katusha and Orica-GreenEDGE, ended their membership in the voluntary anti-doping alliance this week. Only seven top-level racing teams remain MPCC members. The Mouvement Pour un… read more
Cycling: 2015 was a good year for the Italian Lampre-Merida team. Seven stage wins in Grand Tours and numerous other victories earned the team twelfth place in the World Tour rankings. In 2016, the conditions are good to repeat or even improve on this performance. Lampre-Merida - Overview The Italian Lampre-Merida team finished… read more
Cycling: After his contract with Lampre-Merida was not renewed, it seemed as if Chris Horner would hang up his bike. However, it has now been announced that Horner has signed a new one-year contract with an American team. It certainly hasn't been an easy year for Chris Horner. The 43-year-old left with great enthusiasm after his 2013 Vuelta victory... read more
Cycling: Italian Diego Ulissi (Lampre-Merida) will return to competition next week at the Trittico Lombardo. Following the Giro d'Italia, he was initially suspended by his team after testing positive for the asthma medication salbutamol. As his team has now announced, the Italian will once again wear the colors of the... read more
Cycling: A few hours before the team presentation, Team Lampre-Merida announced that it would be competing in the Vuelta a España without defending champion Chris Horner. According to the team, the 42-year-old is suffering from bronchitis, which hasn't really subsided since the Tour de France. The symptoms worsened during the Tour of Utah. This left the team doctors with... read more
