Bike World News

It’s already the second month of the year, another stage race is underway and the European race season is opening as well. Plenty of cyclocross news on the site as well, but here’s the news in road and track cycling:

Bradley Wiggins and Team Garmin-Slipstream won the opening Team Time Trial stage of the Tour of Qatar. (BBC Sport)
Dutchmen Danny Stam and Peter Schep still lead after the third day of the Six of Copenhagen. (Sportwereld.be)
Qatar’s cycling federation has made a request to hold a stage or two of the Tour …

Heading for sunny California tomorrow morning, so the next report will come from there. Here’s the news for today…

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Leogrande gets two year ban, IT Factory exits stage left leaving Saxo Bank sole sponsor of team, Lance to ride both Giro and TdF, and more. Check out the headlines after the jump:

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It’s coming up on Turkey Day here in the states. It’s the “off season”, but several teams have already had get-togethers for their riders, and training camps could start as soon as early December. It won’t be long until we’re back to full blown race coverage. Here’s the headlines for now.:

Spaniard Manuel Beltran has been banned from competing in France for the next two years by the French Anti Doping Agency (AFLD). Beltran was caught using EPO during the Tour de France. The AFLD is also planning hearing with Ricardo …

Leonardo Piepoli’s B-sample from the Tour de France has also been found to be positive for CERA. The 37 year old racer will likely face a career ending 2 year suspension from the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) (Sportwereld.be)
Jan Ullrich will not follow former DS Rudy Penvenage to Rock Racing (cyclingnews.com)
Former Cyclocross World Champion Erwin Vervecken is once again in the spotlight at the third round of the Gazet van Antwerpen trophy series this weekend in Hasselt. Niels Albert is out for the season and Lars Boom is out with …

Light news day today. Here’s the latest:

The Grand Depart for the 2010 Tour de France will be in Rotterdam (Sportwereld.be)
Cristina Perez, the wife of the Spanish doping doctor Eufemiano Fuentes says, “I know what happened during the Olympic Games in Barcelona 1992 and thereafter. I am a Pandora’s box. If it is ever opened, the sport is ruined. When I speak, it would help to destroy some people in this world. ” (sportwereld.be) Maybe at this point, it would be better if she did talk. It’s time to air out …

It’s amazing how much we rely on quick Internet access nowadays. Here are the headlines:

Iljo Keisse and Robert Bartko are the leaders after the first day of the Six Days of Ghent. Tosh Van der Sande and Stijn Steels lead the U23 competition.
The contract has not been signed, but fomer T-Mobile DS Rudy Penvenage is expected to be the new directeur sportif for Rock Racing. There are now rumors that Jan Ullrich may follow him to the team. (sportwereld.be)
Christophe Rinero has retired after 13 years in the pro peloton. (sport.be)
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Here’s some headlines for today. More later. Look for a new Six Day Race page sometime this week.

On the eve of the Ghent Six Day race, Sportwereld features an interview with Iljo Keiss. He feels he has more track wins ahead of him and wants to be the (unofficial) World Champion of the Six Day.
Erwin Vervecken finished fourth in Sunday’s cross race at Gavere and now finds himself invited to the GP of Hasselt/ Gazet van Antwerpen Trophy Cyclo-cross, as well as the next round of the Super Nissan Topsport …