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07.09.10Tour gallery: Alberto ContadorAlberto Contador is looking to stamp his authority on the Tour de France for a third time in 2010. The Spanish rider is keen to do his talking on the road once more against former teammate Lance Armstrong, after a war of words erupted between the pair at the end of last season. Contador has claimed the last two Tours he’s started and with Armstrong now on a rival team and in his last year as a professional, he would like nothing more than to deny the Radioshack rider an eighth title. It won’t ...
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07.09.10Pro bike: Lance Armstrong’s Team Radioshack Trek Speed Concept UnityTeam Radioshack leader Lance Armstrong may be drawing attention at this year's Tour de France prologue for the wrong reasons at the moment, but at least his bike is being pushed into the limelight for all of the right ones. Trek and Livestrong (Armstrong's cancer awareness organization) have paired up for the 'Unity' campaign, which aims to make things a little more personal – as far as cancer is concerned. Trek is offering customizable 'I Ride For __________' frame decals, water bottles and ...
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07.06.10Thor Hushovd wins cobbled stage at Tour de France, Cancellara back in yellow, Armstrong loses time2010 Tour de France Stage 3 Map Stage 3 details Live coverage of this stage Tour start list Stage profiles Stage maps Tour de France 101 Chris Horner video diaries Brent Bookwalter diaries Thor Hushovd (Cervélo TestTeam), denied a chance to sprint for the victory in the crash-plagued second stage of the 2010 Tour de France, took his vengeance on Tuesday as he won the dreaded cobblestone stage. Hushovd was in a small, select group that had pulled back Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Transitions) in the final kilometers of the tough 213km leg from Wanze to Arenberg Porte du Hainaut. Hesjedal fought to the bitter end for the stage win, leading out the ...
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06.06.10Matteo Carrara takes Tour du Luxembourg as Gorka Izaguirre wins final stageAgence France Presse Matteo Carrara (Vacansoleil) collected the overall victory at the Tour du Luxembourg on Sunday. Gorka Izaguirre (Euskaltel-Euskadi) won the final 135km stage ahead of Serguei Ivanov and Carrara, who both finished in the same time. When the times were tallied, Carrara had locked up the overall by one second over Fränk Schleck (Saxo Bank) and 30 over Lance Armstrong (Team RadioShack). “I am very happy to win the Tour du Luxembourg over such names as Fränk Schleck and as Lance Armstrong,” Carrara said. “This podium, it means everything to me.” Like Schleck and Armstrong, Carrara plans to tackle the Tour of Switzerland ...
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05.19.10California contenders play the pre-race gameAs the Amgen Tour of California gets ready to rumble on Sunday, the event's big names assembled in downtown Sacramento, including Levi Leipheimer, RadioShack teammate Lance Armstrong, Fabian Saxo Bank's Cancellara and Andy Schleck, Dave Zabriskie, Mark Cavendish and George Hincapie. There were the usual jokes, the playing-down of chances and an air of excitement surrounding the race's fifth edition. Arguably the best field in the event's brief history, there will be a star for every occasion during ...
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03.26.10Contador: Criterium start is ‘no message’ for ArmstrongAgence France Presse Astana’s Alberto Contador insisted on Friday that he was not trying to send a message to Lance Armstrong by lining up against him in the Criterium International this weekend. Contador gets ready for a training ride on Friday in Corsica. AFP PHOTO / PASCAL PAVANI Contador announced after his Paris-Nice victory earlier this month that he was changing his schedule and skipping the Tour of Catalonia in order to race in Corsica. Asked whether he wanted to send a message to Armstrong, Contador replied: “No message. I come here only because it’s best for my preparation and I’m not sending any ...
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03.22.10Shack says Cali’ trumps GiroTeam RadioShack won’t be going to the Giro d’Italia this year — but that was the team’s choice rather than a snub by organizers RCS Sport, says Johan Bruyneel. Writing on his blog, Bruyneel confirmed that RadioShack would not be racing the Giro, adding, “but the truth is that we communicated this to the Giro organizers, RCS. I like the Giro, I think it’s a great race, but to be quite honest, we are putting all our focus on the Amgen Tour of California.” Bruyneel said the weeklong American stage race holds more value to its sponsors and thus is key to ...
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01.27.104,500 volunteers needed for Amgen Tour of CaliforniaPress Release More Than 4,500 Volunteers Needed for May Event LOS ANGELES (January 27, 2010) – Volunteer opportunities for the 2010 Amgen Tour of California are now posted online at the official race Web site, www.amgentourofcalifornia.com <http://www.amgentourofcalifornia.com> . Anyone wishing to volunteer for an opportunity to participate in the fifth-annual cycling race can apply online for positions, including hospitality, volunteer course marshals, security, and media operations, among others. Considered cycling’s most important and successful road race in the United States, some of America’s most accomplished cyclists, including Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer, Dave Zabriskie and George Hincapie have already committed to participating in the ...
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01.21.10The happy workhorse: A conversation with Jason McCartneyBy Anthony Tan Jason McCartney is consistent if nothing else. An appointed domestique since he was 15 years old, the native Iowan has a developed a sick passion for burying himself into the ground in the service of others. After two years at Saxo Bank, he likens his new life at RadioShack as a return to family. For the 36-year-old, the dream would be part of The Shack’s nine-man squad for the Tour de France, where his team leader Lance Armstrong will be gunning for a record eighth title. After dinner with the man they call ‘The Boss,’ VeloNews caught up with him ...
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01.19.102010 Tour Down Under resultsStage 1 preliminary results Stage: 1. Andre Greipel (THR) 3.15’30 2. Gert Steegmans (RSH) s.t 3. Jurgen Roelandts (OTO) s.t 4. Danilo Wyss (BMC) s.t 5. Greg Henderson (SKY) s.t 6. Baden Cooke (SAX) s.t 7. Graeme Brown (RAB) s.t 8. Robbie McEwen (KAT) s.t 9. Jose Rojas (GCE) s.t 10. Valeriy Dmitriyev (AST) s.t 11. Rene Mandri (ALM) s.t 12. George Hincapie (BMC) s.t 13. Robbie Hunter (GRM) s.t 14. Nikolas Maes (QST) s.t 15. Gorka Izagirre (EUS) s.t 16. Aitor Perez (FOT) s.t 17. Thomas Rohregger (MRM) s.t 18. Martin Elmiger (ALM) s.t 19. Yuriy Krivtsov (ALM) s.t 20. Luke Roberts (MRM) s.t General Classification after Stage 1 Andre Greipel Team Columbia-HTC in 3.15:20 Gert Steegmans RadioShack in 3.15:24 Martin Kohler Bmc Racing ...
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01.17.10Results, 2010 Cancer Council Helpline Classic1. Gregory Henderson (NZ), Team Sky, 1:04:33 2. Christopher Sutton (Aus), Team Sky , s.t. 3. Andre Greipel (G), HTC-Columbia , s.t. 4. Robbie McEwen (Aus), Katusha , s.t. 5. Baden Cooke (Aus), Saxo Bank , s.t. 6. Graeme Brown (Aus), Rabobank , s.t. 7. Allan Davis (Aus), Astana , s.t. 8. Jose Rojas (Sp), Caisse d’Epargne , s.t. 9. Anthony Ravard (F), Ag2r La Mondiale , s.t. 10. Manuel Cardoso (I), Footon-Servetto-Fuji , s.t. 11. Juan Jose Haedo (Arg), Saxo Bank , s.t. 12. Mathew Goss (Aus), HTC-Columbia , s.t. 13. Daryl Impey (RSA), Team RadioShack , s.t. 14. Jonathan Cantwell (Aus), UniSA-Australian National Team , s.t. 15. George Hincapie (USA), BMC , ...
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12.19.09RadioShack’s training camp begins in ArizonaRadioShack have this week come together in Tucson, Arizona for the US squad's first training camp. Former-Astana teammates Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer, Chris Horner, Andreas Klöden, Yaroslav Popovych and Haimar Zubeldia have joined new colleagues including Gert Steegmans, Daryl Impey and Sebastien Rosseler out and about on the roads around Tucson. With their current contracts valid for a few more weeks and RadioShack yet to finalize its uniform for next season, the riders jumped aboard ...
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11.17.09Race Across the Sky movie not just about Lance ArmstrongPlenty of cycling documentaries have managed to show the power of the human spirit - the force that drives us to push our bodies beyond what our limited imaginations may think is possible - but few have done so more effectively than the beautifully shot film "Race Across the Sky". Unlike documentaries on professional races like Paris-Roubaix or the Tour de France, which focus only on the superhuman feats of the world's elite cyclists, "Race Across The Sky" shows the real struggles ...
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10.31.09Bruyneel’s year of living stressfullyIt's been quite a year for Johan Bruyneel. The man who guided Lance Armstrong, and more recently, Alberto Contador, to their Tour de France wins, opened up to Belgian lifestyle magazine Humo at home in Spain, talking about a season that included Armstrong's comeback, the death of Frank Vandenbroucke and strained relations with Contador, Alexandre Vinokourov and the man behind the Astana team. An obvious highlight of Bruyneel's season was Armstrong's comeback, the Tour-winning pair reunited in France ...
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10.13.09Epic Tucson the Newest Release in epicRIDES Virtual Ride Video SeriesEpic Tucson, the newest in the epicRIDES virtual cycling video series has been released by epicPLANET.tv.Epic Tucson includes virtual bicycle rides of two of Tucson, Arizona’s most scenic and challenging cycling routes: the climb of Mt. Lemmon and the loop road in Saguaro National Park - East. This epicRIDES release will be the first ever two ride, two disk release in the virtual ride video market and offer riders almost two hours of total training time. It sets a new standard for virtual ride DVD releases.The climb of Mt. Lemmon virtual ride follows three female competitive riders from the Summit ...
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10.13.09French open Tour investigationProsecutors in Paris said Tuesday that they have launched an investigation into doping at this year's Tour de France after the discovery of suspicious medical equipment, including "syringes and drips," disposed of by teams in July. According to French daily Le Monde, the investigation involves a number of teams including the Astana squad of Tour winner Alberto Contador and his soon-to-be-former teammate Lance Armstrong. Prosecutors, however, noted they are reviewing materials from several ...read more
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09.12.09Analysis: Armstrong’s Tour blood levels debatedThere’s been a varied reaction to questions raised by a Danish anti-doping researcher about the blood values that Lance Armstrong exhibited during this year’s Tour de France. The scientist Jakob Mørkeberg and his supervisor Bo Belhage have elaborated on their details, the International Cycling Union (UCI) and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has largely declined to comment, and Astana anti-doping monitor Rasmus Damsgaard has said that it is up to an expert panel to assess whether ...
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08.15.09Leadville 100 Mountain Bike Race UpdateAugust 15 update: Lance Armstrong is the 2009 winner of the Leadville 100 Mountain Bike Race. Armstrong set a new course record despite finishing the ride with a flat tire. Lance Armstrong raced the 2008 and 2009 Leadville 100 Mountain Bike Race. This photo was distributed by SingleTrack & YFrog. Almost one thousand bikers will take part in the Leadville 100 Mountain Bike Race today, including famed rider Lance Armstrong. The Leadville race is a premiere 100-mile marathon mountain bike race. The annual event started in 1994 and has since become one of the best known marathon ...
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07.25.09‘Old Fart’ Armstrong secures his spot on the podiumMaybe Lance Armstrong will like Mont Ventoux a little more now. Armstrong hung tough on the mountain that’s always given him trouble to fend off attacks from the Schleck brothers and secure a podium spot with third place going into Sunday’s finale at the 2009 Tour de France. “I cannot complain for an old fart coming here,” Armstrong said after the stage. “Getting third on these young guys is not so bad.” During his seven-year Tour reign, Mont Ventoux proved elusive. In ...read more
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07.23.09Lance Armstrong to race for Team RadioShack in 2010Lance Armstrong’s new team will be Team RadioShack for the 2010 season and beyond. RadioShack Corporation form an American ProTour team, and, beginning next year, Lance Armstrong will compete for Team RadioShack "as a cyclist, runner and triathlete," the company announced in a press release. Armstrong will continue to promote his LiveStrong foundation with RadioShack. “Utilizing the massive media attention that the sport receives has been the perfect vehicle to help spread the ...read more
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