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Skins launches legal claim against UCI chiefs for two million US dollars

by Shane Stokes - Sunday, November 4, 2012
Chairman Fuller repeats calls for resignations

Three days after the journalist Paul Kimmage announced that he had lodgd a criminal complaint against Pat McQuaid and Hein Verbruggen, the current and former presidents of the UCI, the clothing company Skins has revealed that it too is launching lega... → Read More


Sven Nys shows Niels Albert Who’s Mr Superprestige on the dunes of Zonhoven

by Ben Atkins - Sunday, November 4, 2012
Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet-Euphony) defiantly showed Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) who is Mr Superprestige as the Belgian champion won yet another race-long duel with the younger World champion. Despite Nys better skills on the sand-dune course, Alber... → Read More


McEwen turns back the clock with Noosa victory

by VeloNation Press - Sunday, November 4, 2012
Retirement doesn’t stop Australian sprint specialist from taking one more win

Although he officially hung up his racing wheels at the end of the Tour of California in May, Robbie McEwen found himself on top of the podium again yesterday when he won the Noosa Cycling Grand Prix in Australia's Sunshine Coast. Racing as an in... → Read More


Emma Pooley signs for Bigla as Swiss team looks to grow in 2013

by Ben Atkins - Sunday, November 4, 2012
No UCI registration could mean no World Cups or Giro for former World TT champion however

Emma Pooley has ended speculation about her immediate future by signing for the Bigla Cycling Team, making her the last big name from the now-defunct AA Drink-Leontien.nl team to have found a new home for 2013. The move is something of a step down fo... → Read More


Von Hoff secures WorldTour contract with Garmin-Sharp

by VeloNation Press - Saturday, November 3, 2012
Vaughters: ‘He is an exceptional young talent’

After racing for much of the season with the Chipotle First Solar development squad and then having stepped up with a stagiaire slot with its WorldTour sister team, Garmin-Sharp, Steele Von Hoff has been given a pro contract with the latter for 2013 ... → Read More


Niki Terpstra unofficially closes the 2012 season with Amstel Curacao Race victory

by Ben Atkins - Saturday, November 3, 2012
Dutch champion outsprints local champion Marc de Maar in Caribbean race

Niki Terpstra (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) brought the 2012 European road season to its usual unofficial close with victory in the Amstel Curacao Race on the Netherlands Antilles Island of Curacao. The Netherlands champion outsprinted Curacao champion ... → Read More


Helen Wyman wins European cyclocross championships

by Ben Atkins - Saturday, November 3, 2012
British champion outsprints Sanne van Paassen to take the blue and yellow stars jersey

Great Britain’s Helen Wyman added the title of European champion to her national crown as she outsprinted the Netherlands’ Sanne van Paassen on the Ipswich, England, course. Wyman, who won the Koppenbergcross in her adopted home town of Oudenaarde, ... → Read More


Lombardi suggests Sagan could become ‘a future Eddy Merckx’

by VeloNation Press - Saturday, November 3, 2012
Former pro enthuses about rider’s versatility and strength

Already tipped for the top and possibly even for overall Grand Tour success by Sean Kelly, Peter Sagan has received another glowing endorsement. This time, the superlatives are even greater, with former pro Giovanni Lombardi suggesting that the Slova... → Read More


Vinokourov and Kolobnev Liège file sent to the UCI for investigation

by Ben Atkins - Saturday, November 3, 2012
Includes email exchange that allegedly proves payment of €150,000 to secure Monument victory

A file containing an email exchange between Alexandre Vinokourov (Astana) and Alexandr Kolbnev (Katusha), which allegedly proves that the former paid €150,000 to the latter for allowing him to win Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 2010 has been sent to the Int... → Read More


Bradley Wiggins: “It would be hard to live my life as it is for ever.”

by Ben Atkins - Saturday, November 3, 2012
Britain’s first Tour de France winner struggles with the celebrity that his achievement has brought

Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky) is Britain’s first ever Tour de France winner and - after after winning the time trial at the London 2012 Games - is the country’s most successful Olympian, with a total of seven medals. The Gent-born Londoner is strugglin... → Read More


Kimmage makes position clear in relation to defence fund

by Shane Stokes - Saturday, November 3, 2012
Journalist clarifies situation as he prepares to take on UCI chiefs

As his position moves from defence to attack in terms of his legal battle with the current UCI president Pat McQuaid and the former head Hein Verbruggen, Paul Kimmage has received additional support from donors who want to contribute to his case. ... → Read More


Beyer and Schnaidt bolster Champion System racing team for 2013

by VeloNation Press - Saturday, November 3, 2012
Chinese Pro Continental team continues to build

Former BMC Racing Team rider Chad Beyer has fixed his sights on returning to race in Europe once again, and has joined the Champion System team for 2013. The 26 year old American won the points jersey in the 2010 Tour de Romandie, that season mar... → Read More


WADA rules out appeal against six month sanctions for USADA witnesses

by Shane Stokes - Friday, November 2, 2012
“We need to encourage athletes to come forward with information”

Six former US Postal Service riders who provided sworn testimony of systematic doping on the team have received notification that their six month sanctions won’t be lengthened, with the World Anti Doping Agency accepting the penalties previously hand... → Read More


Joaquim Rodríguez negotiating to stay with Katusha through 2014

by Ben Atkins - Friday, November 2, 2012
WorldTour winner wants to keep “Spanish block” together; tired of answering Armstrong questions

Joaquim Rodríguez is in current negotiations that should commit himself, and his Spanish teammates, at the Katusha team until the end of 2014. Despite the team being a “Russian Cycling Project”, most of its top performers have been Spaniards; althou... → Read More


Howman: ‘Zero tolerance just leads to Omerta all over again’

by Shane Stokes - Friday, November 2, 2012
WADA chief says blacklisting those who confess will simply result in more scandals

WADA director general David Howman has spoken out against the current push for zero tolerance in cycling, saying that the practice is counterproductive, encourages silence and will do little to achieve the long-term goal of cleaning up of sport. ... → Read More


UCI confirms first eight WorldTour ProTeams for 2013 season

by Ben Atkins - Friday, November 2, 2012
First wave of Professional Continental teams also named after files received by deadline

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has announced the first eight team to have been registered in the 2013 WorldTour. Along with auditor Ernst & Young, teams with ongoing WorldTour licenses that have submitted files by the required deadline; all ha... → Read More


WADA won’t appeal Armstrong sanction to CAS, seven Tour titles confirmed removed

by Shane Stokes - Friday, November 2, 2012
Agency appears critical of UCI, saying it took USADA’s work to expose vast doping network

The final obstacle to the removal of Lance Armstrong’s seven previous Tour de France titles has evaporated with confirmation from the World Anti-Doping Agency that it does not intend to appeal USADA’s sanction imposed on the rider. WADA has said t... → Read More


Former Rabobank team continuing negotiations with potential new sponsors

by Shane Stokes - Friday, November 2, 2012
More details emerge of financial support pledged by departing backer

Although the existence of the team is guaranteed in the short term due to the agreement between it and the former backer, the squad previously known as Rabobank is continuing to look for a new title sponsor. As things stand the Dutch outfit is due to... → Read More


Cavendish still frustrated by lack of Sky support in Tour

by VeloNation Press - Friday, November 2, 2012
Manx rider rues what might have been

Over three months after the end of the Tour de France, Mark Cavendish is still frustrated by the thoughts of what might have been in the race. The Manxman clocked up three stage wins but was unable to match his haul of previous years: four in 2008, s... → Read More


Clean competition pledge for Australian Olympians?

by Shane Stokes - Friday, November 2, 2012
Athletes and officials could be required to sign declaration under oath

With an increased focus on fighting doping due to the Lance Armstrong/US Postal Service case plus the related sacking of Matt White and review of the Orica GreenEdge team, Australian Olympic chief John Coates has said that athletes may be required to... → Read More

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