Cycling Art Blog (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
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) | yesterday
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) | 21/11/2009
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) | 21/11/2009
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) | 19/11/2009
• 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) | 18/11/2009
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) | 17/11/2009
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) | 15/11/2009
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
Puglia2010 (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
...or "The Slow Movement" which has nothing to do with a difficult bowel situation and everything to do with walking and cycling. A nice concept for a "movement". There have been a few people visiting this website via the website of " Il Movimento Lento" so I went to discover what it is all about and to my delight they have linked to Puglia 2010! More than that, they have...
Euro Peloton - Pro Cycling News (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Stijn Devolder has more than earned his salary over the past two seasons for his Quick Step team by winning the Tour of Flanders. The Belgian took top honors two years in a row at the Flemish monument, and for doing so he has become a legend not only in his home country, but worldwide. However, Devolder has been an also-ran throughout much of the rest of the cycling season. Despite having two monuments...
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Spanish rider Pedro Horrillo survived one of the most harrowing crashes in cycling history, but he’s still holding out hope that he can return to the professional peloton in 2010. In May’s Giro d’Italia, Horrillo was tremendously lucky to survive a 180-foot fall into a ravine during stage 8 in the mountains of northern Italy. Horrillo cannot recall what caused the accident; others...
Best Italy (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Flight Centre's Miriam Cloutier travels on a Trafalgar Tour of Italy and blogs from Rome, Vatican City, Pompeii, Isle of Capri, Venice, Milan and Florence.
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Italian Giampaolo Caruso renewed with Ceramica Flaminia for two more years. The team confirmed yesterday Caruso's decision and its hope to take him to the Giro d'Italia next year. "I am thankful that I had the interest of a ProTour team for next year, but I've always felt well at Ceramica Flaminia," said Caruso in a press release. Caruso won two stages and the overall of the Brixia Tour...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Gilberto Simoni will not continue with Gianni Savio's Androni team and could be at the end of his career. Savio named the riders for next season yesterday, but there was no mention of Simoni, a two-time winner of the Giro d'Italia. "In 25 years I've had a lot of great wins, but the biggest win is that every year everyone, riders and staff, are always paid," Savio told Cyclingnews . "The...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Milan's Velodromo Vigorelli may now be almost derelict but to the trained eye it still houses some of cycling's greatest memories Bathed in autumn sunlight, the Velodromo Comunale Vigorelli looks much as it must have done in 1935: a monument to the rakish optimism of futurist architecture. Standing in the north-western suburbs of Milan, not far from the elegant Ippodromo and the majestic San Siro,...
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