Bike World News

Linus Gerdemann (Milram) won the first stage of Tirreno-Adriatico, outsprinting Pablo Lastras (Caisse d’Epargne) and Matti Breschel (Saxo Bank) to claim victory. With the time bonus he takes a six second advantage over Lastras in the GC.

Team Sky notches another win with New Zealand’s Gregory Henderson attacking with 1 km to go to take today’s stage.

The Belgian neo-pro Jens Keukeleire (Cofidis) has won the Three Days of West Flanders (Cat. 2.1), and thus celebrated his third victory in five days.

Lars Boom (Rabobank) showed he’s at home on the road as he won the opening time trial by three seconds over Jens Voigt (Saxo Bank).

Provisional rosters have been released for Saturday’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, the opener to the Belgian classics season.

Fabian Cancellara won the race 28 seconds ahead of Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Sky).

The Middle East is adding another jewel to its sporting crown at the start of 2010, the Tour of Oman.

Team Saxo Bank’s favorites, Michael Morkov and Alex Rasmussen demonstrated great power throughout the night , and Michael Morkov convincingly took the sprint ahead of the Swiss legend Bruno Risi.

In today’s cycling news, squad announcements for upcoming races from Quick Step, Ceramica Flaminia and Ag2R ; Gert Steegmans wants to get paid; David Kopp returns; Steve Bauer aiming for Canada-based Pro Tour team and more….

The teams have been announced for the 2010 edition of Paris-Nice.