The Independent Weekly (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
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.
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...
Euro Peloton - Pro Cycling News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
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...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
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...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
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,"...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Alberto Contador is coming down hard in his negotiations with Team Astana, insisting on strict anti-doping measures. He has allegedly called for a contract clause that would allow him to leave the team if there is even one positive doping test for anyone on the team. According to the Spanish website, Nordecastilla.es , the Tour de France winner is re-negotiating his contract with the Kazakh team....
Mockitecture (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
This was the incredible scene from last Sunday's New York City marathon: Michel Bach, of France (did I really need to say where he was from'), runs a marathon with a 10-foot tall plastic replica of the Eiffel Tower. He actually had to duck under balloons along the race course! This all is strangely similar to an old post we published here at the Mockitecture WebLog about a topic we identified as "Personitecture"...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Team Sky has reportedly delayed its final announcement of its 2010 roster as attempts to secure the services of Bradley Wiggins are pursued. According to The Guardian newspaper, Team Sky’s management team is adamant it can get its man, the reigning Olympic individual and team pursuit champion and the first British rider since Robert Millar to finish in the top five overall at the Tour de France....
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
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.
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
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...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
• 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...
Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
[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...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
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...
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
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...
ABC (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
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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The Tour de France, the most prestigious cycle race in the world, will start on 4th July. Around 15 million spectators line the route to watch the race, an occasion like no other in France that seems to unite a whole nation. Countless millions around the globe also watch on their television. The number of television stations covering the event almost outnumber the number of cyclists in it! Source:...
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