cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
While the comebacks of Lance Armstrong, Ivan Basso and Floyd Landis have all been well documented, Michael Rogers has had to endure his own fight back, but with an impressive 2009, the Australian is building for a shot at the Tour de France and Tour of California next year. Rogers spent the majority of 2008 on the sidelines suffering from glandular fever. It was a tough break. The year before he'd...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Vorarlberg-Corratec announces first seven riders for 2010 David Zabriskie's Yield to Life seeks safer roads for cyclists Davide Rebellin to lose Olympic medal Floyd Landis leaves OUCH Pro Cycling Semple gets Bibanese birthday present MSG’s president surprised by Landis exit McQuaid: Kolobnev to get Beijing bronze medal Frank Vandenbroucke's family refuse further tests
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Floyd Landis and Momentum Sports Group (MSG) announced today the early termination of their rider-contract agreement, releasing Landis from OUCH-Maxxis Professional Cycling team before the end of the 2009 season. While slightly surprised by Landis’ departure, MSG President Thierry Attias wished Landis well in his future endeavors when speaking to Cyclingnews. “There was no big climax,”...
Euro Peloton - Pro Cycling News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Floyd Landis and his OUCH team have agreed to mutually part ways as the former stage race front runner plans to take on, according to an official press release, "the longer, tougher stage races offered in Europe and Internationally that better suit his strengths." Rumor has it over the past few months that Landis is headed to Rock Racing. Floyd Landis is a solid domestic pro on the back stretch...
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Floyd Landis and the management company running the OUCH professional cycling team have agreed to end his contract a year early. Landis and the Momentum Sports Group (MSG) announced Tuesday that they have mutually agreed to terminate his contract – originally slated to expire at the end of 2010 – releasing both sides from their respective obligations for the remainder of the 2009 and 2010...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Floyd Landis came to an agreement with his OUCH Pro Cycling team to terminate his contract for the 2010 season, the Momentum Sports Group announced Tuesday. Landis returned to the sport with the team after being disqualified from the 2006 Tour de France for doping and serving a two-year suspension. The team said that Landis wished to ride "the longer, tougher stage races offered in Europe and...
Brainicane (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Will gigantic genetically modified legs become the next performance enhancer for athletes? It’s getting much harder to cheat at sports these days. Urine tests have been re-calibrated to look for the cream and the clear, blood tests check for the presence of excessive oxygen, and you spitballers? Yeah, they’re on to you, too. But a new [...]
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Like most sports organizations, the NFL has a policy on performance-enhancing drugs that works like a fishnet in reverse. It is set up to let the biggest fish - the stars who can afford state-of-the-art "training regimens" - swim freely while snagging enough tiny fish to feed the public perception that the league is actively policing itself.
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...
SI.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- American cyclist Floyd Landis improved six places to 29th overall, more than 12 minutes behind the leader, after the sixth stage on Thursday of the nine-stage Tour of Southland.
Bike Hugger (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Most kids dream of the 9th inning HR, or the last second hoop, or whatever. For the rest of us who make pilgrimages to the Alpine passes or to the Belgian Cobbles - here’s where you need to be...
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Do you want to contribute to Mailbag, a regular feature of VeloNews.com? Here's how: Keep it short. And remember that we reserve the right to edit for grammar, length and clarity. Include your full name, hometown and state or nation. Send it to webletters@insideinc.com. Sometimes there is no shoulder Editor: In a reply to another reader (see the October 30 Mailbag), Jeff Senich writes, "We should...
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
American Floyd Landis, who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France victory after a positive doping test and a public battle to prove his innocence, has told a New Zealand newspaper that he may never compete again in cycling's most important race. Landis, now 34, told the Herald on Sunday newspaper that infighting between cycling's biggest movers and shakers will likely mean he will not be returning...
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Floyd Landis has returned to racing after serving a two-year suspension for doping, but doesn't believe he will ever ride the Tour de France again. “I don't think it's a possibility next year, or ever, for that matter.” In an interview with The New Zealand Herald , Landis said, "I can't foresee what the politics in cycling will possibly lead to but the organisations in control are...
Merced Sun-Star.com -- Local (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
The Amgen Tour of California liked the city of Merced's 2010 stage proposal, but simply couldn't pedal it past the federal government.
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