Cycling Art Blog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
1948... The ascension back to the throne for the two time Tour champion. Gino Bartali was extremely devoted bikeman and to his Catholic religion. He had the presence bordering a god. That's what Mussolini's sports minister, General Antonelli declared after the Italian won the 1938 Tour. So embraced by his countrymen he stayed true to his Italian roots. Although he battled in the Tour, he never rode...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Lithuania's Diana Ziliute has called to a close her illustrious six-year professional career after she announced her retirement today in Italy. A prolific sprinter, Ziliute's palmares includes stage victories at the Tour of the Ardeche, Giro della Toscana and La Route de France, as well as the Lithuanian road and individual time trial titles. She has also claimed multiple stage wins at the women's...
PezCycling News.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Message by NONE 2009 saw the Giro d’Italia celebrate 100 years of history. Over the course of 10 decades, newspaper journalists and more recently, television/radio/internet personnel have all shared their views on Italy’s most revered sporting event. Aldo Grasso is one such journalist, and in discussing “Un Secolo di Passioni” shared his view on Italy, bicycle racing, and the...
Cycling Art Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The eagle soaring on top of the Col du Tourmalet! This 2010 Tour will re-visit Holland. A long time coming since starting in Amsterdam back in 1954. It was huge as the Tour celebrated it's 51st edition with the new twist of starting for the very first time outside France. A fine publicity feat, too. Frenchman Louison Bobet was back to defend his 1953 victory and it was simplify by the absence of the...
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Gabriele Bosisio pleaded his innocence at a hearing with the Italian Olympic Committee's Anti-doping prosecutor on Monday. The 29-year-old LPR rider underwent an out-of-competition test in September that detected traces of the blood-booster EPO. He denied using the banned substance. "I've never taken EPO and I repeat that I am innocent," said Bosisio. LPR was the team of Italian Danilo Di...
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Cyclist Christian Pfannberger has received a lifetime ban from sport for repeated doping offenses, the Austrian national anti-doping agency announced on Saturday. Pfannberger, 30, tested positive in March for the banned blood booster EPO as he prepared to start in the three-week Giro d’Italia as part of the Russian Katusha cycling team. He was subsequently suspended by the team. The two-time...
TheWashCycle (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
DCist i s now saying that DC could get two stages of the 2011 Giro d'Italia (I had two stages of he Giro d'Italia once, but an ointment cleared it up). Still, right now it's only a proposal by a...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
• Garmin-Slipstream unwilling to release Wiggins • Team Sky poised to add Ben Swift to roster Team Sky yesterday announced two new Italian signings, bringing their roster up to 24 ahead of the squad's first training camp in Manchester next week. But while the British-born Dario Cioni and Davide Viganò add strength, neither is the rider that everyone – including the Team Sky...
Cycling Art Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
A pink Simoni when the hail fell... Two thousand and three was the year for Gilberto Simoni to exonerate his name. You see the previous year, in 2002, he tested positive for cocaine and thrown out of the Giro d'Italia. He ate coca candies bought by his Aunt while in South America. He was later reinstated by the Italian Cycling Federation. I finished watching this entertaining and exciting Giro titled,...
DCist (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Photo by {ryan} When rumors were floated two weeks ago that the District might host an opening stage of the 2011 Giro d'Italia , local cyclists crossed their fingers for what would be one of the few opportunities to see the world's best professional cyclists stateside. Not only did the rumor turn out to be true , but planning for not one, but two stages in the city are underway. CyclingNews is reporting...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Armstrong in Bruyneel's early Tour Down Under team selection Katusha heads for Turkmenistan Baldato to join Ballan at BMC as directeur sportif? Kohl to open bike store in Vienna Elk Haus manager regrets loss of sponsor Fabian Cancellara to attempt hour record Greipel stays busy in off-season Women's Giro del Trentino returns to three-day format
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Specialized to sponsor Astana? Vuelta presses for second summit finish in Asturias Melchers-van Poppel considers her cycling future Uncertain future for Contentpolis-AMPO team Milram to race Tour of Oman in 2010 Bertagnolli renews with Savio's Androni team Bartoli previews Giro d'Italia's gravel roads Ivan Basso to return to the Tour de France?
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Italy's Ivan Basso will decide with team Liquigas in the next month if he will race the Giro d'Italia or Tour de France, or both. "When I saw the Tour route [presented] I said, 'very cool' to myself," Basso said to Cyclingnews . "The Tour is the Tour. I like it all: the pavé, climbs, descents. Like the Giro, when you love something, you love all parts of it." Basso won the...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Former one-day specialist Michele Bartoli previewed Thursday what will likely be one of the first decisive road stages of the 2010 Giro d'Italia, Montalcino. The stage, May 15, tends with three sectors on Siena's white gravel roads. "Whoever wants to win the Giro will have to keep their eyes open," Italy's Bartoli told La Gazzetta dello Sport. Organiser RCS Sport uses the same white, rolling...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Italy's Leonardo Bertagnolli renewed yesterday his contract to continue next season with Gianni Savio's Androni Giocattoli. "With Leonardo Bertagnolli, winner of Giro d'Italia's Faenza stage, we have confirmed all the riders that have helped us be in the top 17 teams of the world rankings," Savio said in a press release. Bertagnolli, 31, joined Savio's team May 6, prior to the Giro d'Italia....
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