Setting themselves up for a clash with the UCI, the Spanish cycling federation has decided against sanctioning Iban Mayo despite a positive result on his “B” sample from this year’s Tour de France.
The federation had already made the decision to close Mayo’s case after a laboratory in Ghent, Belgium found the “B” sample inconclusive.
Eugenio Bermudez, […]

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Colorado Springs, Colo. (December 19, 2007)—USA Cycling announced today its first lot of nominations to the U.S. National Team for the 2008 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Treviso, Italy, Jan. 26-27.
Sixteen athletes were nominated to the squad in the elite women’s, U23 men’s and junior men’s categories based on their competitive performance over the course […]

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Will Iban Mayo race in 2008? Most likely “no” as his B-sample from the Tour de France has come back positive for EPO. The always reliable French doping lab in Chatenay-Malabry carried out both tests after a library in Ghent, Belgium found the B sample inconclusive. There’s some good, fair and impartial testing for you.�
How […]

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Ah, if watching cyclocross were only this way in States. While we may not have Belgian beer, which as a whole in my beer snob opinion is the best in the world, and freiten en mayonnaise (french fries with mayo - once you’ve had it, you’ll never go back to ketchup), we do have great racing action.
The U.S. cyclocross […]

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It’s not dead yet!
 Aqu, Inc., the organizers of the coast-to-coast Tour of America stage race announced revised dates and routes for their inaugural event.
You may remember than when the race was first announced at Interbike, it’s ambitious course (27 stages, 4000 miles) and dates than conflicted with other ProTour events was met with a healthy dose of […]

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After a couple of months of speculation, it was recently announced that Trek Bicycles would be providing the Astana team with bicycles for the next several seasons.  After the shutdown of the Discovery Team, Trek was ready to focus efforts on some of their other bicycle lines, but now they find themselves scrambling to ramp […]

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Busy, not busy, busy, not busy…

Alexandre Vinokourov has received a one year ban for blood doping. His ban would be completed by July 2008, so he could potentially compete at the Beijing Olympics, but he has since announed that he is retiring from racing.

Some other racers are trying to understand how he slipped by with only […]

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See the introduction to this thread here.
After a little break, I have gotten back into acquiring parts for the big upgrade. In the past week, I’ve obtained some Force shifters and a 2008 S950 compact carbon crankset.
I was previously considering going with Red shifters to get the additional trim option, but further research revealed that much […]

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