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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 [...]

MonaVie-Cannondale going bigger!

VeloNews | National marathon and short track champ Jeremiah Bishop finds a home on the Monavie-Cannondale team.

Jeremiah Bishop, the reigning marathon and short-track cross-country national champion, is suiting up in the green and purple kit of Monavie-Cannondale.com for the 2009 season. Bishop, 32, found a home with the Utah-based team after spending four seasons [...]

Oakley's new hideousness ...

VeloNews | The scoop on the new shades being sported by Armstrong and friends.

The original Racing Jacket, introduced in the ’90s, was built for the bad boys of the peloton, those riders who needed something that left more of an impression than the brand’s subdued shield type sunglass of the era, the M-Frame. [...]

Trek-Volkswagen calls it quits

VeloNews | Trek-Volkswagen calls it quits | The Journal of Competitive Cycling. By Fred Dreier Posted Jan. 3, 2009

The list of riders who have suited up for the Trek-Volkswagen professional mountain bike team over the years reads like a who’s who of North American off-road racing: Travis Brown, Alison Sydor, Roland Green, Susan Haywood [...]

Oh, hell no!

Armstrong to return for ’09 Tour – More Sports – SI.com.

Lance Armstrong will end his retirement and hopes to compete in the 2009 Tour de France, according to a cycling journal report.

The 36-year-old seven-time Tour de France champion will compete in five road races with the Astana team in 2009, the cycling journal [...]

Ouch!

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a picture that more accurately or effectively depicted the phrase “oh, shit!”

View the entire sequence at Velonews.com:

http://www.velonews.com/photo/81241 http://www.velonews.com/photo/81242 http://www.velonews.com/photo/81243 http://www.velonews.com/photo/81244

Just looking at the pictures hurts.

Shimano’s electronic Dura-Ace

VeloNews | Shimano’s electronic Dura-Ace

Shimano has formally announced plans to release Dura-Ace Di2, a new electronic shifting option for the all-new 7900 series Dura-Ace, in January.

Composed of dual control shift/brake levers, front derailleur, rear derailleur, a wiring harness and battery pack, the new Dura-Ace Di2 7970 components integrate with components from the upcoming [...]

Bet Richie Rich didn’t consider this!

VeloNews | Drug maker cooperated with WADA

The World Anti-Doping Agency said Wednesday Italian rider Riccardo Riccò tested positive at the Tour de France after a secret molecule was planted in the blood booster EPO during its manufacture.

Riccò, 24, upset the big names of the sport to win two stages of this year’s Tour [...]

Hitchhiking at Cascade

VeloNews | How Chris Horner is spending July

Photographer Heidi Swift was near the summit of the final climb of Saturday’s fifth stage of the Cascade Cycling Classic when a passing race moto driver told her to get her camera ready.

Soon enough, Swift saw a strange sight: Astana rider Chris Horner pounding along, [...]

Reserving judgment

VeloNews | Rock Racing launches fund to help injured bike racers.

Michael Ball, owner of the Rock Racing team, says he and his companies will contribute “hundreds of thousands” of dollars to launch a fund to help elite racers who seriously injured while racing.

“Let’s do the right thing for these guys,” Ball told VeloNews.

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