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Landis appeal set for March
Floyd Landis's appeal of the doping ban that cost him the 2006 Tour de France title is scheduled to be heard by a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) panel in New York on March 19. "We are really looking forward to appealing the (U.S.) decision and optimistic the CAS panel will view favorably for Floyd," Landis attorney Maurice Suh told Reuters. The hearing represents Landis’s final opportunity to overturn a two-year doping ban. Last year, a U.S. arbitration panel upheld findings by a French laboratory that Landis had used synthetic testosterone in winning the 2006 Tour.
Boom takes World Cup race in France
Dutchman Lars Boom (Rabobank) won the seventh and penultimate round of the UCI World Cup of cyclocross on Sunday, scoring his second win of this year’s series in a race in Léivin, France. Last year’s winner of the world under-23 cyclo-cross and road championships has enjoyed a solid year in his first year in the elite ranks, winning a World Cup round in Pijnacker, in the Netherlands, in November. Boom said the win puts him in solid position for a podium spot at the world’s in Treviso, Italy, later in the month.
Chocolate, waffles and ‘cross – Road trip!
Just when you thought it was safe to start clearing your mind of tubulars, tire pressure, mud, sand, dismounts, remounts, clipping in, clipping out and all things ‘cross, I’m back. That’s right, now you can waste more time at work while reading Chocolate, Waffles and ‘Cross in the next few days coming straight at you from the motherland of cyclocross. I’m back in Belgium to get my butt kicked again. I can feel the pain – and taste the beer – already. [nid:71232]For the past year, Greg Keller, a buddy of mine and the brain child of
Cipo’ ordered to pay back taxes
Former world champion Mario Cipollini has been ordered to pay 1.1 million euros in back taxes for the years 1998 and 1999, the Italian news agency Ansa reported on Sunday. An Italian tax court found that Cipollini owed taxes despite claims that he was a resident of Monaco for the years in question. Cipollini, whose 42 stage wins at the Giro d’Italia appears to be an almost unassailable record, won the world championship in 2002 and retired in 2005.
Kessler gets two years
Former Astana rider Matthias Kessler has been handed a two-year ban after testing positive for testosterone, the Swiss Olympic authorities said Friday. The 28-year-old German will be suspended until July 26, 2009 following the positive test for the banned male sex hormone during a random doping control in April 2007. The day after the test Kessler finished fourth in the Belgian one-day classic Fleche Wallonne. In 2006 Kessler won a stage on the Tour de France while racing for T-Mobile, which has since pulled out of sponsoring cycling due to a series of doping cases.
Gullickson joins USA Cycling
Marc Gullickson has been named program manager for USA Cycling’s mountain bike and cyclocross programs effective January 14, the national governing body announced Saturday. Gullickson replaces Matt Cramer, who left USA Cycling late last year. Before his retirement in 2002, Gullickson raced for 13 seasons on the domestic and international mountain-bike and cyclocross circuits. He represented the United States at 10 world championships during his racing career — five times as a mountain biker and five as a cyclocrosser.
Friday’s Mailbag: Landis and Johnson
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Performance Management Chart
A Performance Management Chart from a pro rider showing the months of January-March, ‘07. The blue line is his Fitness (Chronic Training Load), the Pink line tracks Fatigue (Acute Training Load), and the Yellow bar graph is Form (Training Stress).
Year-end review: Power analysis tips
Happy New Year! 2008 is here and it’s time to capitalize upon your 2007 training files and training log entries. For those of you who didn’t keep a training log in 2007, this is your chance to get started.
Boonen eyes team pursuit
Former world road race champion Tom Boonen is reported to be launching an audacious bid for an Olympic medal as part of a new Belgian team-pursuit squad in Beijing this summer. According to La Derniere Heure newspaper, the one-day specialist, one of cycling's best-known faces, will team up with Gert Steegmans, Sebastien Rosseler and Wouter Weylandt in a bid to score what would be a major upset. Australia holds the Olympic team-pursuit title, having won gold in Athens ahead of Great Britain and Spain.
Sinkewitz will appeal
Disgraced German cyclist Patrik Sinkewitz intends to appeal a one-year ban for testing positive for testosterone, the German cycling federation (BDR) said on Friday. Sinkewitz crashed out of the Tour de France in 2007, and days later it was disclosed that he had tested positive for the banned male sex hormone during a test taken in June. In November the BDR's disciplinary commission banned Sinkewitz, formerly of T-Mobile, for the reduced sentence of one year because of his tell-all confession about doping methods.
Facing ban, Kash’ still seeks team
Disgraced Kazakh cyclist Andrey Kashechkin has pleaded for a team to sign him despite facing a ban over a positive test for blood doping following the Tour de France. Kashechkin was sacked from the drug-tainted Astana team after he tested positive for homologous blood doping at an out-of-competition control in Turkey last August. Although he has contested the validity of that test, Kashechkin is facing a ban from the sport, a fate that seems likely to befall his former teammate, compatriot Alexander Vinokourov, after he too tested positive for blood doping.
CONI to investigate Puerto allegations
After more than a year of waiting for Spanish authorities to complete their work, Italy's anti-doping authority announced this week that it intends to take action against suspected offenders in the Operación Puerto doping scandal. Spanish judicial officials dropped charges against several riders in October of 2006, noting that use of performance-enhancing drugs was not illegal at the time of the alleged infractions. Other riders, including Alejandro Valverde and 2007 Tour de France winner Alberto Contador were cleared after a review of documents in the case.
This Week in Pro Cycling – January 11, 2008
Dear Readers,
Welcome to the latest edition of The Prologue, the weekly summary of news from the staff and editors at VeloNews.com.
Despite it being the off-season, it's been an interesting week in cycling. Our own Neal Rogers had an unusual set of interviews this week, triggered in part by last week's report on Frankie Andreu's decision to leave his director's position at Rock Racing.
Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood: Landis and Johnson talk
Earlier this week, I wrote a piece about controversial domestic team Rock Racing, discussing the departure of Frankie Andreu, the signings of Oscar Sevilla and the relationship between team owner Michael Ball and suspended 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis.
Friday’s Foaming Rant: Rockin’ out
There’s probably no truth to the rumor that Rock Racing has signed Frank Vandenbroucke, Roger Clemens, Mike Tyson, Britney Spears, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Amy Winehouse, Dr. Evil, Keith Richards, Dick Cheney, Rodan the Flying Monster, the Hound of the Baskervilles, the ghosts of Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson and Norman Mailer, and all the bad guys from the WWE.
My my, hey hey Rock and roll is here to stay It's better to burn out Than to fade away My my, hey hey. — Neil Young, “My My, Hey Hey”
This is wheelie FUN!!!
This is wheelie FUN!!!
Henk Lubberding at Tour de Trump Atlantic City TT start
Henk Lubberding at Tour de Trump Atlantic City TT start
Putting My Son In Harm’s Way
Putting My Son In Harm's Way
So, Brody, do you think I have a chance with that hot babe? Maybe if I stick my chest out a little more?
So, Brody, do you think I have a chance with that hot babe? Maybe if I stick my chest out a little more?
MTB News & Notes: Decker, Diablo and more
Few current professional mountain-bike racers can say they raced in the first-ever UCI world mountain-bike championships, held in Durango back in 1990. Carl Decker can. The now-32-year-old Oregonian lined up in the junior ranks that year. Unfortunately, the brake cable on his Bridgestone bike snapped a few minutes before the gun, and Decker had to race on his dad’s bike. In 2007, 17 years later, Decker again hit the world’s, this time as an elite. The cables on his Giant didn’t snap, and Decker finished 69th.
Interbike to Host Inaugural Interbike Outdoor Demo East
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. - Jan. 10, 2007- In an effort to better support retailers in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, Interbike announced it will host its first annual Interbike Outdoor Demo East Tuesday, October 21 to Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Roger Williams Park in Providence, R.I.
Zabel: ‘2008 season could be my last’
German sprint ace, Erik Zabel, said Thursday the 2008 season could very well be his last in the professional peloton. Zabel, a record six-time consecutive winner of the Tour de France's green jersey, discussed his future plans as his Milram team unveiled a significantly restructured squad for the upcoming season. The 37-year-old German, who hit the headlines last year when he admitted to having "briefly" used the banned blood booster EPO early in his career while he raced with Deutsche Telekom, said he is already thinking about life away from the bike.