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Steve Cummings closes injury hit season in style with final Beijing stage victory

by Ben Atkins - Saturday, October 13, 2012
British rider’s crash-marred year ends with his second WorldTour win

Steve Cummings (BMC Racing) ended his 2012 season in style with a victory in the final stage of the Tour of Beijing, between the Chang Ping Stadium and Ping Gu Centenary Square. The British rider managed to outsprint Giro d’Italia champion Ryder Hes... → Read More


Sunday Times considering legal action against Armstrong

by Shane Stokes - Saturday, October 13, 2012
Paper would seek to recoup settlement paid in 2006 plus pursue rider for fraud

The repercussions of USADA’s thousand page file on doping charges against Lance Armstrong and the US Postal Service team continue to take effect, with the Sunday Times now confirming that it may take legal action against the Texan.The newspaper was f... → Read More


Matt White admits doping at US Postal Service team, apologises

by Shane Stokes - Saturday, October 13, 2012
Australian stands down from current roles with GreenEdge and Cycling Australia

Former Australian professional Matt White has admitted using banned drugs during his racing career and has stood down from his current positions in the sport while an enquiry is carried out. White current works as a directeur sportif with Orica Gr... → Read More


Cummings beats Hesjedal to scoop final stage of Tour of Beijing, Martin wins overall

by Shane Stokes - Saturday, October 13, 2012
Second general classification victory for German Omega Pharma Quick Step rider

British rider Steve Cummings ended a frustrating, injury afflicted season in the perfect fashion when he won the final stage of the Tour of Beijing. The BMC Racing Team was clear in the day’s early move and was the only rider able to stay with Gar... → Read More


Bauer’s Spidertech stops for a season due to financial shortfall

by VeloNation Press - Friday, October 12, 2012
Hopes to return at top level in 2014

Steve Bauer’s Spidertech C10 squad has been working towards becoming the first Canadian team in the Tour de France, but its path to that goal has been jarred by today’s news that it will not be part of the peloton in 2013. The squad’s management c... → Read More


RadioShack Nissan team confirms Bruyneel’s time as general manager has ended

by Shane Stokes - Friday, October 12, 2012
Former US Postal Service team manager removed from top role over doping investigation

Confirming an earlier story suggesting a split had occured, the RadioShack Nissan team has announced that Johan Bruyneel will no longer form any part of the management of the squad as a result of USADA’s investigation into doping in cycling.The team’... → Read More


Report: Johan Bruyneel loses general manager role with RadioShack Nissan

by Shane Stokes - Friday, October 12, 2012
Belgian said to have been fired two days after USADA dossier is published

As a consequence of his serious implication in the doping problems at the US Postal Service, Discovery Channel and Astana cycling teams, it appears that Johan Bruyneel has lost his position as general manager of the RadioShack Nissan squad. Accord... → Read More


Tour de France chief wants years 1999-2005 left blank on the record books

by Ben Atkins - Friday, October 12, 2012
No reassignment of Lance Armstrong’s stripped victories, says Christian Prudhomme

Tour de France director general Christian Prudhomme would like to see the Tour de France roll of honour left blank between the years 1999 and 2005, according to l’Equipe. Those seven Tours were originally won by Lance Armstrong, but the American stan... → Read More


Millar calls for Verbruggen’s resignation, says sport must move forward

by VeloNation Press - Friday, October 12, 2012
“It was under Verbruggen's presidency that it was at its worst, yet there were all these denials from the UCI”

Following on from this week’s publishing of USADA’s explosive files on Lance Armstrong and the US Postal Service team, which revealed a vast doping network which reaped huge success including seven Tour de France titles, British rider David Millar ha... → Read More


Armstrong case: SCA Promotions waiting for UCI response before deciding about legal action

by Shane Stokes - Friday, October 12, 2012
Company paid a total of $12 million to US Postal Service rider in relation to Tour victories

As the dust continues to settle after the upheaval caused by the USADA report into Lance Armstrong’s doping, a Texan insurance company which paid out over ten millions dollars to the rider in performance bonuses and legal fees has said it is closely ... → Read More


Tour of Beijing: Marco Haller takes first professional win on stage four to Chang Ping

by Ben Atkins - Friday, October 12, 2012
21-year-old Austrian blasts past Alessandro Petacchi; overall classification unchanged

Marco Haller (Katusha) burst ahead in the final hundred metres of the fourth stage of the 2012 Tour of Beijing between Yanqing and Chang Ping to take his first ever professional victory. The 21-year-old Austrian managed to find a gap in the front of ... → Read More


Alex Dowsett clarifies earlier comments about Armstrong

by Shane Stokes - Thursday, October 11, 2012
‘I do think what Lance has done is completely unacceptable’

Alex Dowsett has clarified his comments expressed in an earlier BBC report, suggesting that the remarks were taken out of context. In that initial exchange the Team Sky rider referred to Lance Armstrong as ‘a legend of the sport,’ despite the hundred... → Read More


Armstrong case: Yates insists he saw nothing suspicious as rider or directeur sportif

by Shane Stokes - Thursday, October 11, 2012
Sky’s Alex Dowsett says Armstrong is a 'legend of the sport'

Former pro and current Team Sky directeur sportif Sean Yates has insisted that he saw nothing at all that was suspicious during his time working alongside Lance Armstrong, either as a rider or as part of team staff. The 52 year old competed alongs... → Read More


Rabobank ‘disappointed’ by Leipheimer’s confession of doping on the team

by Shane Stokes - Thursday, October 11, 2012
Omega Pharma Quick Step puts rider on non-active status after USADA testimony

Following yesterday’s release of documents by USADA which included an admission by Levi Leipheimer that he used banned products for much of his career, his former Rabobank team and his current employer Omega Pharma Quick Step have both reacted to the... → Read More


No cyclocross World championships for Zdeněk Štybar

by Ben Atkins - Thursday, October 11, 2012
Spring road ambitions mean that double World champion will not seek a third title in Louisville

This winter’s cyclocross World championships, to be held in Louisville, Kentucky, between February 2nd and 3rd, will be without one of the sport’s most charismatic figures, as Zdeněk Štybar (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) will miss the event. The two time... → Read More


Tour of Beijing: Gavazzi outsprints the favourites to take stage three on the Great Wall

by Ben Atkins - Thursday, October 11, 2012
Boasson Hagen attack caught in the final metres; Tony Martin holds on to overall lead

Francesco Gavazzi (Astana) won the Queen stage of the 2012 Tour of Beijing, between Mentougou and Badaling Great Wall as he outsprinted a highly select group at the end of the final climb to the line. The Italian outsprinted Dan Martin (Garmin-Sharp)... → Read More


Read US Anti Doping Agency’s evidence against Lance Armstrong and USPS team

by Shane Stokes - Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Details and rider testimonies available in USADA’s reasoned decision

In the wake of today’s synopsis of the evidence issued by the US Anti Doping Agency plus statements by several riders admitting doping and saying that they testified in the US Postal Service/Lance Armstrong case, USADA has provided a copy of the reas... → Read More


UCI confirms receipt of USADA’s “reasoned decision” on Lance Armstrong case

by Ben Atkins - Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Governing body “will endeavour to provide a timely response” to thousand-page dossier

Having expressed frustration at perceived delays in the production of a “reasoned decision” into its sanctioning of Lance Armstrong - and five others - in the “USPS Conspiracy, the International Cycling Union (UCI) has acknowledged its receipt. The r... → Read More


Levi Leipheimer accepts his part in “the dirty past of cycling”

by Ben Atkins - Wednesday, October 10, 2012
American hopes that next generation of riders won’t be faced with the sam choices

Levi Leipheimer (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) is one of four former teammates of Lance Armstrong, named in the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) “reasoned decision” into its stripping of the Texan of all his results since 1998 and banning him for ... → Read More


Garmin-Sharp and its riders comment on their parts in USADA investigation

by Ben Atkins - Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Danielson, Vande Velde and Zabriskie admit past doping and commitment to clean racing at Slipstream Sports

Of the eleven former teammates of Lance Armstrong named in today’s US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) “reasoned decision” behind its application of a life ban for the Texan, and the stripping of his results since 1998, four are still active members of the... → Read More

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