Cycling legend Lance Armstrong could return to Australia for the 2010 Tour Down Under, the race's director said Friday, after his appearance this year drew the biggest crowds in its history.The seven-time Tour de France winner made his much-anticipated professional [...]
Kazakh cyclist Alexandre Vinokourov called a press conference at team Astana's hotel coinciding with this year's Grand Depart for the Tour de France in Monaco. Donning a yellow t-shirt with the words "Vino is Back" emblazoned on it, the man [...]
According to his manager Martijn Berkhout, Dutchman Martijn Maaskant will replace Irishman Daniel Martin in the Garmin-Slipstream Tour de France line-up. The 22-year-old is suffering from tendonitis in his knee, and a Tour start is likely to only complicate matters. Martin was [...]
Yellow jersey contender Cadel Evans remains upbeat despite the unwelcome news that Silence teammate Thomas Dekker has been ruled out of the Tour de France due to a positive doping control. Dekker, a two-time Dutch champion, was set to help [...]
Former Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis has thrown the gauntlet down to his team's rivals for the race's yellow jersey, declaring that his Saxo Bank outfit will be hard to beat. Riis, the 1996 Tour winner who two years [...]
L'Equipe, known for their inside track on positive doping results, has said that there could be four to seven more doping cases from samples taken at the Tour of Romandie and the Tour de Suisse.They said they are not biological [...]
Former Tour of Italy winner Ivan Basso on Thursday tipped his great rival Lance Armstrong to challenge for an eighth Tour de France title. Armstrong won the last of his seven yellow jerseys in a row in 2005 but this [...]
Tom Boonen will find out on Friday whether he has been granted a last minute reprieve to compete in the Tour de France which starts in Monaco on Saturday.The former world road race champion from Belgium was barred from the [...]
Thomas Dekker from the Silence-Lotto team has tested positive for the banned blood-booster EPO. The Dutch rider has been caught with a new testing procedure developed to detect the drug from a sample given on December 24, 2007 when he [...]
In the following press release team Quick-Step responds to the doping accusations of former team member Patrik Sinkewitz. In the release they deny any wrong doing, and question the timing of the statements. PRESS RELEASE After having seen the defamatory [...]
