Team Saxo-Tinkoff's Roman Kreuziger soloes to a premium-grade victory in Amstel Gold Race 2013. Movistar's Alejandro Valverde wins group sprint to take 2nd and Simon Gerrans rounds out the podium for Team GreenEdge.

Team Sky Pro Cycling's Christopher Froome climbed to victory in today's fifth stage of this year's Tour of Oman when he beat Team Saxo-Tinkoff's Alberto Contador and yesterday's stage winner Joaquin Rodriguez (Team Katusha) in a sprint to the finish line.

Alberto Contador, a two-time winner of the Tour de France who was stripped of a third title for using a banned substance, says cycling needs to take something positive from the Lance Armstrong scandal.

We analyze possible motives behind the UCI's exclusion of Katusha Team from the 2013 WorldTour, which has left Katusha in a cold and bleak midwinter of discontent. We look at possible effects of the exclusion of Team Katusha and the inclusion of Argos-Shimano and Saxo-Tinkoff.

Just when you think the off-season news cycle might slow down, it kicks into overdrive.

Twice Tour de France champion Alberto Contador’s Team Saxo-Tinkoff was surprisingly granted an automatic spot for the top pro road cycling races of the 2013 season, at the expense of world number one Joaquim Rodriguez’s Katusha team earlier today.

Earlier today Team Saxo-Tinkoff announced that Australian rider Michael Rogers is joining the team starting with the 2013 season.

The Spanish cycling federation (RFEC) has elected Jose Luis Lopez Cerron, the man who delivered the beef to Alberto Contador that the rider said led to him testing positive for clenbuterol in 2010, as its new president.

Alberto Contador has asked Tour de France organizer A.S.O. if his Saxo-Tinkoff team will be invited to compete in the 2013 Tour de France.

It takes more than points to make it to the WorldTour.