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Euro Peloton - Pro Cycling News (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
It's one of the most mythical accomplishments in all of cycling: the Giro d'Italia-Tour de France double. Many have attempted it, but few have been so lucky to accomplish it in the modern era of cycling. The last to succeed, a drug-riddled Marco Pantani, did so behind unbelievable climbing in the high mountains and solid time trialing. Since Pantani, only one rider has even claimed he'd like to attempt...
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Cycling Art Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The artisan... Where framebuilding equals art the cycling world can look and marvel at Dario Pegoretti. He was well schooled in the seventies learning framebuilding from none other than the great Luigino Milani. He actually continue building in the Milani shop in Verona until 1999. his art... During the nineties pro teams sought out Pegoretti for his functional frames and badged them under different...
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Euro Peloton - Pro Cycling News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Over the course of the 2009 cycling season, names like Menchov, Contador, Gilbert and Cavendish were synonymous with big time performance. These riders, and others came to the fore for their respective teams and delivered as trusted team leaders at some of the biggest bike races in the world. But other high profile riders fell short as team leaders. EP examines three riders who should be sent back...
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cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Laurent Fignon has continued his fight against digestive tract cancer and remains confident that he will beat the illness. The winner of the 1983 and 1984 editions of the Tour de France told L'Equipe TV that the chemotherapy treatment he is currently undergoing has so far proven to be a success. "We started a new chemotherapy which works well, it has made the tumors shrink by 17 percent,"...
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cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Andreas Klöden has settled an investigation by German prosecutors into alleged sporting fraud during his time with Team Telekom/T-Mobile. Klöden has agreed to pay an unspecified sum to a foundation for handicapped children. The German rider was under investigation for suspected involvement in blood doping at the University of Freiburg Clinic. Former teammate Patrik Sinkewitz was claimed...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
WORLD road cycling champion Cadel Evans is confident a combination of his rainbow jersey and a new team will earn him a wildcard to next year's Tour de France.
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The Independent Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
World road cycling champion Cadel Evans is confident a combination of his rainbow jersey and several high-profile teammates will be enough to earn his new BMC Racing Team a wildcard to next year's Tour de France.
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cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The 8th Amstel Curaçao Race will take place November 7 on the island of Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles, attracting several of the European peloton's stars to the Caribbean for their final competition of the 2009 season. Highlighting the start list of the 80-kilometre race will be two-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador (Astana), a winner of the Amstel Curaçao Race...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
• British cycling team delays naming final roster • Wiggins said to be keen to join Team Sky Team Sky will delay naming their full line-up with the final roster hingeing on their ongoing last-ditch efforts to sign Bradley Wiggins from the American Garmin-Slipstream team. With 19 riders signed up for the new British team, it had been hoped that the remaining seven, including Wiggins who is...
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Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
[And yes, this is a VDS matter...] It was only somewhat surprising that in my chat with Tyler Farrar the other day he didn't know he was fourth in the world in wins. He referred to UCI points, presumably using the World Calendar, which is a nice list of races but kind of skimming off the top. I was referring to CQRanking.com tallies (and editorializing by crossing Jose Rujano off the list), which cover...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Santiago de Compostela, Spain - Former Tour de France winner Oscar Pereiro was forced to undergo a doping control while on his way to the toilet in a restaurant. The 2006 Tour winner was stopped in view of other customers and subsequently required to...
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VeloNews (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
BMC Racing Team and its new star, Cadel Evans, will be awarded a wild card invitation to ride in Santos Tour Down Under in January, the race organizers said Wednesday. Evans, the world road race champion, has said recently that he might skip his home country's largest race because it was difficult to be in top form in January when July's Tour de France was his primary objective for the season. Australian...
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ABC (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
World road race champion Cadel Evans has confirmed he will take on seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong in January's Tour Down Under in Adelaide.
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Euro Peloton - Pro Cycling News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
In this past year's Tour de France, Cadel Evans sank far down the overall classification, completely off form and without the legs to follow the other leaders at the Tour de France. Meanwhile, his teammate Jurgen Van den Broeck was having the ride of his life, at the front of the peloton on some of the toughest stages and fighting for the top 20 in the overall GC battle. By the time the Tour arrived...
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DCist (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Photo by {ryan} As a competitive cyclist who mourned the postponement of this year's only professional race in the District, I was ecstatic, though slightly skeptical, to stumble acros the news this morning that organizers of the Giro d'Italia, one of the three grand tours of international cycling, were thinking of bringing the opening stages of the race to D.C. . According to quotes allegedly made...
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nancycrouch2009 | 10/16/2009
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ineedmyfix | 08/26/2009
If you doubted the power of Twitter , doubt no more. Tour de France legend Lance Armstrong was in Dublin, Ireland (he’s on his way home as we speak) and posted on his Twitter page that he was headed for a bike ride to Phoenix Park . Much to his surprise he was met with over 1000 cyclists who thought they would join him for a bike ride. Pictures here
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sharma5jid4 | 08/26/2009
GLASGOW, Scotland – Lance Armstrong brought traffic to a standstill Tuesday after issuing a Twitter invitation for Scottish cyclists to join him on a casual bike ride. "Hey Glasgow, Scotland! I'm coming your way," Armstrong wrote. "Who wants to go for a bike ride?" More than 200 rode in pouring rain when the seven-time Tour de France winner turned up in the Paisley district of Glasgow. "It's a chance...
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