More team transfers, more racing, more Lance, and more….

Alexander Vinokourov wants to race again, and he wants to race for Astana. The UCI may have something to say about, as Vino “retired” and is not coming back from a ban.
Juan-Antonio Flecha waited until the end of the year to secure his first win of the [...]

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Here are the latest headlines from across the world of cycling:

At the Tour of Benelux, Edvald Boasson Hagen (Columbia) took stage six, while teammate Andre Greipel holds onto the overall lead. In the Stage 7 team trial, Raivis Belohvosciks (Scott - American Beef) took the win, and José Iván Gutierrez (Caisse d’Epargne) took over the [...]

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I’ve been a little tied up with 2009 bikes lately, but the racing goes on:

Gerolsteiner’s Carlo Westphal took his first professional victory in the fifth stage of the Eneco Tour, but Andre Greipel of the Columbia team still sits in the lead with an 11 second advantage over Jose Ivan Gutierrez of Caisse d’Epargne. Here’s [...]

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Here’s some of the cycling news from around the world:

Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d’Epargne) was the winner of the San Sebastian Classic, winning an 11 man sprint over Alexandr Kolobnev (Team CSC-Saxo Bank) and Davide Rebellin (Gerolsteiner). World and Olympic champion Paolo Bettini (Quick Step) was in fourth.

With this win, Valverde seems to be poised for [...]

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Carlos Sastre is either awash in press conferences or collecting a check at a post-Tour criterium, and the Tour is already fading from our memory.
That doesn’t mean that there’s nothing going on…

News came out late Sunday that Dmitri Fofonov of the Credit Agricole team tested positive for heptaminol, a vasodilator. Fofonov admits that he bought [...]

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