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Spain, led by Alberto Contador and Carlos Sastre, dominated another doping-rocked year of cycling but will face a daunting task to retain their status when Lance Armstrong returns from three years in retirement.
Seven-times Tour champion Armstrong, who beat cancer before winning the world’s greatest race from 1999 to 2005, shocked the cycling world when he announced in September that he was getting back on his bike to promote his cancer awareness campaign.
In an amazing year for Spain, Contador, Tour de France winner in 2007, became only the fifth man to …

There will be no cycling action in Beijing until the men’s and women’s time trial events tomorrow, but there is, as usual, plenty going on:

Yes, I’d probably have a panic attack, too: Old news by now, but Maria Isabel Moreno arrived at the Olympics on July 30th, got tested the next day, and pretty much immediately flew home. She said it was a panic attack, but in reality, she had a drug test and knew what was going to happen. This after Spain’s Olympic director said that none of their athletes would be …