Here’s the latest from around the web:

France has stiffened their anti-doping laws. The news laws state a one year sentence for being in possession of doping products and stiffer penalties (5 to 7 years) for trafficking. When will one of their own be found guilty?
The UCI delivered the Cyclocross World Cup trophies to Sven Nys and Daphny […]

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Lars boom took the momentum from winning the last two races of the UCI Cyclocross World Cup to ride into the lead in Treviso, Italy.
Boom took charge early in the race, hitting the first turn in the lead, but hewas not able to jump away for a solo ride to the finish. Boom fought hard […]

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Racing News:

Italian Elia Rigotto (Team Milram) got thrown of off the TDU  after an altercation which left Australia’s Mathew Hayman (Rabobank) with a fractured left collarbone.
 Belgian police stopped by the house of Tom Boonen’s parents as the result of an drug investigation related to his training partner Tom Vannoppen. Police asked Boonen a couple of questions, […]

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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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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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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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My apologies to the 2 or 3 regular readers of this blog.
Between a death in the family and work commitments, the last month has been crazy. Things are down to a low roar now, and I expect that I will be posting more often.
I don’t expect that I’ll be trying to catch up with everything […]

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Damiano Cungeo captured his second Giro di Lombardia on Saturday, where he held off Samuel Sanchez, Davide Rebellin and Cadel Evans in the final sprint. Evans finished close enough to the top to take the overall ProTour classification.
Young Czech rider Zdenek Stybar won the World Cup cyclocross event Sunday in Kalmthout, Belgium.
Australian Matt Wilson of […]

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Here are some news headlines from road and cyclocross racing:

Expect Cadel Evans to be gunning for a finish near the top of this weekend’s Tour of Lombardy. With Danilo DiLuca out of the picture, a finish of 6th or better will put him at the top of the Pro Tour ranks for 2007. If Vinokourov’s win […]

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Fall is coming to Europe, and that means that it’s time for some of the classic end of season races.
The Paris-Tours race was yesterday, and three time winner Erik Zabel of Milram led out teammate Alessandro Petacchi for the final sprint. Robbie McEwen got clipped by a spectator in the final 100 metres and nearly […]

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