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Well, the off season is well along. Training camps have already started for Astana and Garmin Chipotle, and will start soon for a number of other teams. The Tour Down Under starts in 6 weeks. The UCI is finalizng teams for 2009 and there is no shortage of news:

The future of the Teltek-H20 team is uncertain as they failed to provide the UCI with the necessary deposit to register the team. This article says that the filing deadline has passed but it seems that the UCI is saying that they …

Lots of news today, so let’s get started.

Alberto Contador has confirmed that he’ll stay with Astana for 2009. He and Lance Armstrong will each formulate their own calendars for next season and focus on the races that they want to win. (This will only be a problem if Contador wants to repeat at the Giro, which Lance has said that he wants to win.)

Contador is also happy to have Alexandre Vinokourov back on the team, but the UCI is not ready for a group hug quite yet – they were …

Lance, doping, transfers, hurt feelings and a little more today:

Depeche du Midi groups Lance Armstrong in with cycling’s worst culprits, including Michael Rasmussen, Ibin Mayo, Ivan Basso, Patrick Sinkewitz, Matthias Kessler, Floyd Landis, Ricardo Ricco, Andrei Kashechkin and Alexander Vinokourov. Of course, with the exception of Lance, all of those listed either doped, said that they intended to doped, or tried to elude doping tests. You can always count on the French media for fair and balanced reporting.
The 2009 Tour de France route announcement will be on October 22nd. It’s …