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A Tour de France guide, with links, news, and comments. The Tour de France, also referred to as La Grande Boucle, Le Tour or The Tour, is a long-distance road bicycle competition held in July in France and nearby countries.
Check out this article from The Australian Online Newspaper. It is entitled "Peddlers Lead the Peloton" by Patrick Smith. Is it just me or can you sense the Cadel love/Schleck hate coming through here? "Schleck, from Luxembourg, finished sixth in this year's tour- he had the yellow jersey after stage 15 and held it for 3 days- and along with his brother, Andy, hassled Australian Cadel Evans so intensely that he was unable to withstand eventual winner Carlos Sastre. The agency report said...
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Here is another one from the Canadian Press, this one I can't say I thought would ever happen 1 day ago PARIS — Kazakh cyclist Alexandre Vinokourov is making a comeback because he wants to clear his name following a doping ban. In an interview in Tuesday's editions of French sports daily L'Equipe, Vinokourov said he has lived with a sense of "enormous injustice" since he was kicked out of the 2007 Tour de France after testing positive for a banned blood transfusion. "With time, I...
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Via The Canadian Press LUXEMBOURG — Luxembourg's anti-doping agency has expanded its investigation of cyclist Frank Schleck, who was provisionally suspended by his team last week. Schleck, who finished sixth overall in the Tour de France and led the July race for three days, told the agency last week that he transferred money to a Swiss bank account held by a Spanish doctor at the heart of a major doping scandal. The agency ruled on Tuesday that his statements denying that he doped or had...
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Alberto Contador said he might leave the Astana cycling team if it would hire returning champion Lance Armstrong for the 2009 Tour de France. Contador, who won this year’s Vuelta a Espana to complete a rare grand slam win of all of the three Grand Tours, said Astana could be facing difficult situations if it would have him and Armstrong as the team’s top riders. “It would be quite complicated (to have Armstrong in the team),” Contador said after reports came out that Astana was working...
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Here's a scenario to understand. Imagine working your way to the top of your company, dodging allegations of cheating, winning the employee of the year award by default because the real winner was caught shtupping the board of director's wife and then having a old timer return to the ranks after three years of retirement and getting your award. Fucked up, right? Well that's the scenario Alberto Contador faces when Lance Armstrong joins the ranks of Astana racing team sometime this year...
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Lance Armstrong will come out of retirement next year to compete in five road races with the Astana team, according to sources familiar with the developing situation.
Armstrong, who turns 37 this month, will compete in the Amgen Tour of California, Paris-Nice, the Tour de Georgia, the Dauphiné Libéré and the Tour de France — and will race for neither salary nor bonuses, the sources, who asked to remain anonymous, told VeloNews.
Armstrong’s manager, Mark Higgins, did not respond to questions...
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Lance Armstrong will end his retirement and hopes to compete in the 2009 Tour de France, according to a Velonews 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 VeloNews reported on its Web site Monday, citing anonymous sources. Armstrong's manager Mark Higgins did not immediately respond to a voice mail left by The Associated Press. The move would reunite Armstrong with Johan...
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Former three-time yellow jersey champion Greg Lemond has played down the anti-doping efficiency of self-policing by cycling teams - and says Lance Armstrong must do more if he is to prove he is 100% clean. Lemond, the first American to win the Tour de
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Former three-time yellow jersey champion Greg Lemond has played down the anti-doping efficiency of self-policing by cycling teams - and says Lance Armstrong must do more if he is to prove he is 100 percent clean. Lemond, the first American to win the
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Former three-time yellow jersey champion Greg Lemond has played down the anti-doping efficiency of self-policing by cycling teams - and says Lance Armstrong must do more if he is to prove he is 100 percent clean. Lemond, the first American to win the
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Email Normal font Large font Stuart O'Grady (left) and Brad McGee.Photo: Craig Abraham Samantha LaneOctober 11, 2008 THE decision by the UCI to relax its anti-doping rules for Lance Armstrong has been supported by two of Australia's top cyclists.
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LUXEMBOURG - Luxembourgs anti-doping agency has expanded its investigation of cyclist Frank Schleck, who was provisionally suspended by his team last week.Schleck, who finished sixth overall in the Tour de France and led the July race for three days,
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DRID Lance Armstrong was cleared to make his cycling comeback in Australia in Janua ry after the sports ruling body shortened the time he had to sit out to comply with anti-doping rules. The seven-time Tour de France winner can return for the Tour Down
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SEVEN-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has hit back at insinuations he sullied cycling's premier event, saying he reigned over the race when the sport's popularity was at a peak. The last time I checked, I won the Tour seven straight years and
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Lance Armstrong can make his comeback in January's Tour Down Under despite a breach of the rules. The seven-times Tour de France winner has been cleared to race in four months' time despite riders needing to be in the UCI's doping control programme for
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TOUR de France legend Lance Armstrong has thanked world cycling officials for clearing him to race in the Tour Down Under in January. Race officials declared the ruling a commonsense decision after concerns were raised that anti-doping regulations might
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Cyclings governing body is relaxing its own rules to allow Lance Armstrong to make his road race comeback in Australia in January. The International Cycling Union said the seven-time Tour de France champion can compete in the Jan 20-25 Tour Down Under,
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