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Cycling superstar Lance Armstrong pledged 250,000 US dollars for victims of the Haiti earthquake on Thursday and urged the public to come forward with further donations. Armstrong, visiting Australia for next week’s Tour Down Under, said the 7.0 magnitude earthquake, […]

Day two of the Alejandro Valverde CAS appeal in Lausanne saw the rider deny all suggestions of using banned substances, while former Kelme team-mate Jesus Manzano contradicted this when he confirmed that a systematic doping programme was in existence. Valverde […]

Allan Davis is determined to get his time with the Astana team off to the best start possible, and is aiming to win the first ProTour event of the year. The Australian rider will shortly line out in the Santos […]

Gerben de Knegt (Rabobank) and Marianne Vos (Nederland Bloeit) – both silver medallists in the Dutch National Championships last weekend – both put their disappointment behind them to win the Centrumcross at Surhuisterveen, Netherlands ahead of Sunday’s World Cup round […]

German rider Stefan Schumacher has expressed dissatisfaction with further delays to his appeal against a two-year ban for doping, according to French sports paper l’Equipe. The Court for Arbitration in Sport (CAS) was originally meant to have reached a decision […]

With the start of the first race in the 2010 UCI World Calendar – the Santos Tour Down Under – set to begin this weekend, the International Cycling Union (UCI) has proposed a solution to the UCI ProTour Council (CUPT) […]

The immediate future team of Fumiyuki Beppu continues to be in doubt as he failed to turn up to the Skil-Shimano team photoshoot on Monday. The Japanese rider has signed a contract for 2010 with Lance Armstrong’s RadioShack team, but […]

RadioShack recruit Haimar Zubeldia says he’s looking forward to his debut with the new American team, and has opted for a later start this year after a long 2009 season. “Last year I finished a little tired at the Vuelta […]

Seeking to guarantee that Mark Cavendish wins the Maillot Vert in the Tour de France this year, the HTC Columbia team has suggested that it will put general classification ambitions on hold in July 2010. If implemented, the goal would […]

The chances of former Tour de France race leader Michael Rasmussen coming back to pro cycling this year look increasingly unlikely, ex-professional Rolf Sorensen has stated. “I fear that Michael Rasmussen will be hard-pressed to find a new team at […]