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Tour de France: Cadel Evans Wins on the Mûr de Bretagne in Photo-Finish
Cadel Evans of BMC Racing Team won today's stage of the Tour de France in a photo finish sprint Alberto Contador of Saxo Bank. The two riders crossed the line together after a tense battle on the slopes of the Mûr de Bretagne. Alexandre Vinokourov of Astana finished third. Yellow Jersey...
Memo To Teams: Looking At Their 2010 To Do Lists
It's late August; the transfer silly season is in full swing. But still the teams have their agendas, what they want to accomplish this year-and there's still some major items to tick off: the Vuelta, Worlds, and Lombardia. Paris-Tours, Emilia, and a whole bunch of smaller regionally focused...
2010 PdC World Team Rankings At The Two-Thirds Poll
Time to take a minute to see how our favorite teams are doing this year. And what better way to do this than with numbers! The table below has two columns: 1) The left hand column is where the teams ranked after the first third of the season-after the Frankfurt race. At that point the spring's one...
Astana May Have Violated French Anti-Doping Laws
Le Monde reports today that the Astana team of Armstrong and Contador may have violated criminal anti-doping laws in France during the 2009 Tour. According to sources close to the investigation, authorities from the Oclaesp, the institution charged with public health investigations in France,...
Astana for the Giro
No big surprises... just a stellar lineup: Lance Armstrong Jani Brajkovic Chris Horner Levi Leipheimer Steve Morabito Daniel Navarro Yaroslav Popovych Jose Luis Rubiera Andrey Zeits In the VN writeup Lance talks of no pressure, helping Levi win, etc. I still see three potential GC...
Interview: Astana's Jani Brajkovic
In his Back Pocket Preview of the Astana Team, Chris said: "Brajkovic, meanwhile, is perhaps just coming into his own: 26 years old, coming off his best season with a late-season peak that got him second at Lombardia, arguably the best result of his career. His early glory at the Vuelta, when he...
Pais Vasco aka Tour of the Basque Country, Stage One... Live!
First, Let's talk about viewing options Cycling Fans has the full story and probably umwolverine will provide a couple direct links. For non-US viewers (and possibly US viewers as well): ETB supposedly will start at 15:55 CET or 9:55 am Eastern. There may well should be other links as...
Season Long Power Poll #3: Eve of Flanders Edition
Sunday night. Got my popcorn. Got my nutritional yeast on it. Got my Full Sail ale. Might need a couple Full Sail's because how does one balance Brabant Arrow results with Castilla y Leon? Milan-Sanremo with Criterium International? E3 with Coppi and Bartali and DDV? Enough dithering. Here's the...
Power Poll #2- Pre-MSR/Cobbles Edition!
Not only that but this is the annual drink your kool-aid here! edition. So okay, since the last time we met, we've seen the 1st weekend in Belgium (and Switzerland), Eroica, and the 1st three week-long stage races. What tends to happen now is that certain Story Lines get set. You know: a certain...
Interview: Astana's Levi Leipheimer
[ED] Reposted. Get to know your 2007 2008 2009 Tour of California winner... The current leader of the Amgen Tour of California American Levi Leipheimer (Astana) is hoping to make it a three-peat as he goes into the decisive stage, the 15-mile (24-km) time trial in Solvang. Last year,...
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