Today’s stage from Potenza to Peschici starts and ends with climbing, with a fairly long, flat section in the middle. The race organizers listened to the riders and shortened today’s stage by removing the Circuito del Gargano. This will allow the riders to get back to their hotels earlier for meals and massages. The organizers also moved the start of [...]

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Here are some of the latest headlines from around the web:

Rock Racing has announced plans to implement an aggressive anti-doping program.

Specific details have yet to be released, but sources close to the team say that team owner Michael Ball will hire the re-animated corpse of Ronald Reagan to urge his racers to “Just Say No.”

After [...]

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

Alberto Contador will travel to Italy to testify about his (lack of?) participation in the Operation Puerto affair. I’m sure that he’d like you to think that he’s doing this out of the goodness of his heart, but since the Tour de France dips into [...]

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Alberto Contador was coming down with something at the finish of the Tour, and states that he “was no longer the strongest rider on the team.” We also learned today that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has opened an investigation against Contador related to his alleged involvement with the Operation Puerto affair. This overturns the [...]

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