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Di Luca suspended after positive doping test – Cycling – Yahoo! Sports AIGLE, Switzerland (AP)—Cycling’s governing body suspended former Giro d’Italia winner Danilo Di Luca on Wednesday after he tested positive for the banned blood-booster CERA. The International Cycling Union told the Italian rider he was provisionally banned until his national federation can have a [...] Fignon facing cancer fight – VeloNews Two-time Tour de France champion Laurent Fignon has confirmed that he has been diagnosed with advanced intestinal cancer. “My cancer is an advanced cancer because it has metastasized,” the 48-year-old Fignon said in an interview to be broadcast on French television on Sunday. “We know for certain it’s in [...] Menchov wins stage 12 time trial at Cinque Terre and takes lead. – VeloNews A spectacular 60km course along Italy’s stunning Cinque Terre lived up to expectations Thursday as Denis Menchov Rabobank pulled the double, winning the stage and snatching away the maglia rosa from Danilo Di Luca LPR. Levi Leipheimer Astana – who had [...] AAARGH!!! I was really hoping for a good result from Vande Velde at the Giro this year; even more so for a good result at the Tour; but this has got to put a serious crimp in his training schedule to get ready for July. US rider Vande Velde falls and withdraws from Giro – [...] VeloNews | Armstrong crashes out of Castilla y León Lance Armstrong crashed hard in Monday’s opening stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y León and was transported by ambulance to a hospital in nearby Palencia, Spain. Race organizers and the Astana team doctor confirmed that the seven-time Tour de France champion had broken his [...] Armstrong parts with Catlin Lance Armstrong has decided to part company with Don Catlin, the doctor intended to conduct an individual anti-doping programme with him during 2009. Consequently, the proposed comprehensive, individual programme will proceed under the guidance of Ramsus Damsgaard, the man responsible for Astana’s internal anti-doping efforts. Bill Stapleton, Armstrong’s long-time agent and [...] Next year’s Tour de France is going to be an interesting one. Bypassing the Normandy and Brittany regions completely, the Tour will mostly be held in central, southern, and eastern France, departing from Monaco, and featuring sojourns into Spain, Andorra, Italy, and Switzerland. The most interesting feature that I’ve been able to glean thus [...] VeloNews | Contador wins the Vuelta With his third grand tour victory in barely a year, Alberto Contador has quickly grown from cycling’s boy wonder to the peloton’s new alpha male. The 25-year-old Spanish climber lived up to expectations to win the 63rd Vuelta a España to complete cycling’s “triple crown” and becomes just the [...] VeloNews | Contador weathers Mortirolo storm Alberto Contador (Astana) is 28.5km from winning a Giro d’Italia he never expected to start. The Spanish climber deflected a flurry of last-gasp attacks from arch-rival Riccardo Riccò (Saunier Duval-Scott) over the Gavia and Mortirolo in Saturday’s 232km mountain shootout to retain the maglia rosa and roll into Sunday’s [...] VeloNews | Andy Hampsten and the 1988 Pink Jersey How do you define an epic? It’s a noun grossly over-used by sportswriters, particularly those who write about cycling. Through the years, European journalists have described heroic deeds by brave athletes on bicycles with gushing prose that was rarely deserved. They even titled road racing’s formative [...] |
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