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We’ve been pumping out the team lists as they were announced, but we finally have a comprehensive, albeit preliminary, start list for tomorrow’s Vuelta a Espana (Tour of Spain) (from lavuelta.com)

Euskaltel’s Mikel Astarloza positive for EPO just before start of Tour, Wiggins releases blood profiles, Voigt to pass on World’s, post-Tour crit results and more…

Welcome to the Weekend Edition. Yesterday was a travel day back from sunny warm California to the Ohio reality of seven inches of snow. It took me half an hour to get the car clear enough to leave the airport parking lot. With that.. the news:
Some unexpected riders to watch for in the Tour of California, European road racing season opens tomorrow, Stam and Schep lead at Copenhagen, Boonen wants postive news, not “positive” news and more….

Tags: Alejandro Valverde, Bicycling Magazine, Bouyges Telecom, California, Copenhagen, cycling, Danny Stam, Fabian …

With the Worlds staring in just two days, there’s quite a bit of interesting background material floating around. We’ll start off today’s entry with four recent interviews:
Katie Compton
Marianne Vos
Lars Boom
Jeremy Powers
And finish with a nice nod to two web sites that are giving a good introduction to the events of the weekend:
CyclingNews.com
including an interesting discussion about who will win:
Podium Cafe
Stay tuned tomorrow for more World Championship news!

Tags: Jeremy Powers, katie compton, Marianne Vos, Podium Cafe

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Tags: andre greipel, Berlin, California, Court of Arbitration for Sport, France, Frank Vandenbrouke, Ivan Basso, michael rasmussen, Podium Cafe, Radsport, Spain, Tour de France News, Track World Cup, united states

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Frank Pipp hopes to suck up the competition at Bissell, teams start to form for ‘Cross World Championships and more. By the way, it’s one week until the Tour Down Under. Check back here for race updates and result, but until then, here are the headlines:

Tags: Alexander
Aeschbach, Andreas Beikirch, cycling, Cyclocross Magazine, Cyclocross National Championships, Erik Zabel, France, Franco Marvulli, Ivan Basso, Kansas City, Leif Lampater, Matt Shriver, Michael Ball, Podium Cafe, Sven Nys, Switzerland, Team Saxo Bank, Tour de France News, World Championships

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Welcome back, race fans! Another day for the trainer here in “The Big O” but race action is heating up in Australia. Michael Rogers (Columbia) won national time trial champs, and race teams are starting to jet their way down under. See more news after the jump.

Tags: Andreas Beikirch, australia, columbia, Erik Zabel, France, Fuji, FUJI CORPORATION, german cycling cup, germany, Leif Lampater, Michael Rogers, Paolo Bettini, Peter Schep, Podium Cafe, Rabobank, Robert Bartko, soccer, Sylvain Chavenel, Tour de France News

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In today’s racing news, a look at Rabobank, Piepoli expresses regret, Milram presents the 2009 squad, Garmin hopes to be on top in Australian Road Championships and (a little) more:

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Chris at Podium Cafe offers a nice overview of the 2009 Saxo Bank team, albeit with a slight diversion into football.
Despite some notable departures from the team (Carlos Sastre, et al), the team still looks very strong for the upcoming season and seems to have the depth to rack up a lot of wins. I read earlier today that Bjarne Riis is looking for Andy Schleck to go all the way in the Tour de France. Some say he would have done a lot better last year had he not …

Pez looks at the Giro, Kiriyenka to Caisse d’Epargne, Gilbert and Ballan win honors, Triple Crown of PA loses its luster and more in today’s headlines:

Tags: astana, Belgium, California, Espana, France, Frankfurt, German Cycling Federation, germany, Italia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Levi Leipheimer, Niels Albert, Podium Cafe, stefan schumacher, tinkoff credit systems, Tour de France News, united states

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