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The news of Lance Armstrong’s comeback has left the organizers of Le Tour de France bitter, and devoid of joie de vivre: Tour director leaves door open for Armstrong. PARIS - Tour de France organizers are hardly thrilled at the prospect of Lance Armstrong returning for a shot at ...
Out of retirement, Armstrong eyes 8th Tour de France win. (CNN) — Cyclist Lance Armstrong confirmed Tuesday that he will be returning to road racing and will shoot for an eighth win at the Tour de France. “I have decided to return to professional cycling in order to raise ...
Is the best cyclist of the century going to attempt a comeback? Sources: Lance Armstrong coming back. Lance Armstrong will come out of retirement next year to compete in five road races with the Astana team, according to sources familiar with the developing situation. Armstrong, who turns 37 this ...
Digital technology is on the brink of radically redefining a technology that has existed with only minor changes for more than a hundred years: Shimano Shuns Cables for Full Electronic Shifting. Japanese parts manufacturer Shimano is launching an electronic shifting system for high-end road bikes that it claims will ...
It’s becoming a daily occurrence: VeloNews | Riccardo Ricco tests positive; Saunier Duval team withdraws from Tour de France. French anti-doping authorities and Saunier Duval team officials confirmed Thursday that Italian climbing sensation Ricardo Ricco (Saunier Duval) has tested positive for a new form of the blood booster erythropoietin ...
Congratulations to Australia’s Cadel Evans for holding on to the leader’s yellow jersey, but I have to admit that my enjoyment of the Tour de France has been pretty much destroyed by the continuing drug scandals: Second rider tests positive at Tour. Barloworld’s Moises Duenas has been pulled from ...
Here we go again: Tour rider Beltran tests positive for EPO - official. AURILLAC, France (AFP) - An anti-doping chief at the Tour de France confirmed to AFP on Friday that Spaniard Manuel Beltran, who rides for the Liquigas team, has failed a doping test for blood booster erythropoietin ...
It can be frustrating to try to keep track of the Tour de France over the web, especially if you’re looking for video feeds. The official Tour committee controls the feeds with a Gallic Iron Hand, because they rake in the dough from licensing deals with European media agencies and ...
After years of doping scandals, the Tour de France limped to a start today without a reigning champion: Tour de France looks to emerge from doping cloud. The Lance Armstrong era of the Tour de France couldn’t be more over. After the mighty Texan went seven-for-seven from 1999 through ...
An inside look at the ugly prevalence of high-stakes pharmaceutical cheating in professional cycling, at Der Spiegel Online: Pro-Cyclist Patrik Sinkewitz Revisits Doping Scandal: ‘Your Main Concern Is Not to Get Caught’. SPIEGEL: Mr. Sinkewitz, how did you find out about the positive results of your doping test? Sinkewitz: ...
It wasn’t difficult to see this one coming, after Floyd Landis’ train wreck of an arbitration hearing: Panel: Landis must forfeit cycling title. PARIS - Floyd Landis lost his expensive and explosive doping case Thursday when arbitrators upheld the results of a test that showed the 2006 Tour de ...
Congratulations to Spaniard Alberto Contador, the winner of the Tour de France. However, I’ve gotta be honest—my enjoyment of this event was seriously damaged this year, after two of the best riders, Vinokourov and Rasmussen, were disqualified. And this comes on the heels of the Floyd Landis debacle last year. ...
The Tour de France is now officially in full meltdown mode: Tour leader Rasmussen sacked, out of race. COL D’AUBISQUE, France (Reuters) - Tour de France overall leader Michael Rasmussen was sacked by his team Rabobank on Wednesday. The Dane will not start Thursday’s 17th stage of the race after ...
As someone who loves cycling, this is just hugely depressing: Astana pulls out of Tour de France. I hoped that this Tour would finish without a drug scandal, but it’s not to be. PAU, France - Tour de France rider Alexandre Vinokourov tested positive for a banned blood transfusion after ...
The Tour de France starts today with a time trial prologue in London, and here’s Velonews’ live coverage: 2007 Tour de France Live Race Coverage. I don’t really have any particular favorite this year. If it gets to the end without a drug scandal, I’ll be happy.
Who needs LSD when you have the World Naked Bike Ride 2007 in San Francisco to give you nightmarish hallucinations? Don’t click if nudity offends. I was offended, but not by the nudity.
The Floyd Landis arbitration hearings turned very weird today, with some amazing accusations (and revelations) by Greg LeMond followed by the immediate firing of Landis’ manager: LeMond accuses Landis camp of harassment. MALIBU, Calif. - Floyd Landis’ sleepy, scientific arbitration hearing morphed into a pulp-fiction blockbuster Thursday, replete with revelations ...
Very interesting news tonight in the case of Floyd Landis, last year’s Tour de France winner, accused of using illegal drugs to win a key stage in the race. He says the US Anti-Doping Agency has offered him a deal if he implicates Lance Armstrong: ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — ...
Today was the final day of the Amgen Tour of California, and American Levi Leipheimer of the Discovery team won easily, after two excellent time trial performances earlier in the week. Here’s the sprint finish of Stage 7, in Long Beach, California. In the first part of this clip, the ...
Tour de France winner Floyd Landis may beat the doping charges that threaten to strip him of his title, because the French apparently mishandled his urine samples: Report: Case against Landis in jeopardy. According to a report in the L.A. Times, the anti-doping case against Tour de France champion Floyd ...
Tour de France, Cycling, Fitness, Health, Sports, Floyd Landis
If you read the lefty blogs, I’m supposed to be dressed in sackcloth, rubbing ashes into my hair and wailing, “Oh, how could I have been so wrong! I am worthless! Kill me instead of the noble Jamil Hussein!” Instead I traded the sackcloth for some Pearl Izumi bike clothes ...
One of the joys of a cyclist’s life is riding with a brand new drivetrain. It will never look this way again:
Today’s ride: 41.88 miles, through some highly active air caused by a storm system moving through southern central California. It was a cyclist’s nightmare ride; brutal hobnailed headwinds in all directions. Kind of like last November 7, come to think of it. No real climbing today, just striving against the ...
Today’s ride: 44.63 miles, mostly at a medium pace but with one really hard climb, a 2-mile beast with very steep sections. The weather started out miserable but got warm and sunny around 11:00, just in time to get good and sweaty on the aforementioned steep climb. Average speed: 16.5 ...