Peter Sagan knew that the Amstel Gold Race course suited him, and knew that he couldn't waste his good form from the cobbled classics. Evidence of this was shown on the Cauberg, the last côte of the Amstel Gold Race: with one burst, Sagan was launched towards the finish but with just meters to the line, Gasparotto and Venendert came around him. Sagan crossed third and took his place on the podium.

After a successful start to the 2012 UCI MTB World Cup, Cannondale Factory Racing proved to be in good form in Houffalize, Belgium by winning the team ranking. A third place by Marco Aurelio Fontana combined with a fifth by Manuel Fumic and Martin Gujan in seventeenth secured the first ever team ranking win for CFR.

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Today was a victorious day for Liquigas-Cannondale in Belgium. Peter Sagan secured another win (his third this season, and number 23 since turning pro) in the first stage of the Three Days of De Panne (201 km from Middelkerke to Oudenaarde) by beating former Liquigas teammate Jacopo Guarnieri, and current teammate Fabio Sabatini over the line in a photo finish. This is the team’s fourteenth win of 2012.

The promising ride by Peter Sagan in Harelbeke was confirmed at Gent-Wevelgem. In the sprint finish that decided the 2012 edition, only Tom Boonen was able to best the young Slovak champion of Liquigas-Cannondale. Matti Breschel finished third. 

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa was the host for the first round of the UCI Mountainbike World Cup. With 2012 being an Olympic season and Pietermaritzburg being the location for 2013 Mountainbike World championships, the pressure was on.

This past weekend the US Pro XCT visited Bonelli Park in southern California for a packed weekend of racing.  The close proximity to Los Angeles ensured a large turnout of racers and spectators and the weekend's action kicked off first thing on Saturday with twenty five racers lining up for the Junior Men's XC.  CFR's Keegan Swenson was the favorite going in to the race and he didn't disappoint, taking the hole shot and leading up the first climb.

Vincenzo Nibali is the winner of the 2012 Tirreno-Adriatico. Thanks to a huge ride in the final time trial in San Benedetto del Tronto, the Sicilian made up the six second gap to overnight leader Chris Horner and the single second to ex-teammate Roman Kreuziger, the rival he most feared. At the finish, Nibali crossed the line in ninth place overall, twenty seconds faster than the American and twenty seven faster than the Czech.

Team Liquigas-Cannondale scored its tenth and eleventh victories over the weekend by winning stages four and five of the Tirreno-Adriatico.

The 2012 edition of the Tour of Reggio Calabria had one rider atop its classification… the dominant Elia Viviani of Liquigas-Cannondale. The young Olympic hopeful on the road as well as the track won both stages and the overall classification this past weekend, bringing his season total to five and making him the winningest rider of the young 2012 season.