Paolo Bettini is starting his 2007 season close to home, on the roads of southern Italy, near Livorno. His team, Quick-Step has come together for one week to train and use their new bikes from ...

Yesterday, Paolo Bettini admitted to entertaining thoughts of quitting bike racing following the death of his brother, Sauro. He continued only because he felt that Sauro would want him to do his ...

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Italy's Paolo Bettini outsprinted Germany's Jan Ullrich to win the Zurich World Cup race on Sunday. The 248km event came down to a battle between Bettini, Ullrich, Italy's Francesco Casagrande and ...

The Green Fondo Paolo Bettini-Vittoria-La Geotermia becomes an opener for the Giro d’Italia None other than two-time World Champion and Olympic Gold medallist Paolo Bettini will be lining up among all ...

Telekom team rider Erik Zabel of Germany moved back to the top of the International Cycling Union (UCI) world rankings Monday, pipping World Cup champion Paolo Bettini by just five points. Zabel, who ...

VARESE, Italy — Paolo Bettini is fit, in winning form and angry — the ideal combination for winning an unprecedented third straight road race world championship in front of his home fans. While ...

Italy's Paolo Bettini won a three-way sprint to the finish in Saturday's opening stage of the Milan-San Remo race. Bettini, of the Quick Step team, beat Mirko Celestino and teammate Luca Paolini, ...

VARESE, Italy — Paolo Bettini is fit, in winning form and angry — the ideal combination for winning an unprecedented third straight road race world championship in front of his home fans. While ...

VARESE, Italy (Reuters) - Double world champion Paolo Bettini will retire from cycling after Sunday's road race at the world championships, the Italian said on Saturday. "These last few months I have ...

VARESE, Italy (Reuters) - Italy's Paolo Bettini has singled out Oscar Freire as his main rival in his bid for an unprecedented third successive world road race title. Spaniard Freire has been crowned ...