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Monday’s Mailbag: Fairness, equality and the outspoken Mr. Ball

The Mailbag is a regular department on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have read in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to webletters@insideinc.com. Please include your full name, hometown and state or nation. Letters may be edited for length and clarity. Writers are encouraged to limit their submissions to one letter per month.

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Italian doctor given life-time suspension

Italy’s Olympic committee has handed down a life-time ban to Carlo Santuccione, the doctor at the center of the “Oil for Drugs” investigation that has involved several high-profile athletes, including Giro d’Italia winner Danilo Di Luca. A disciplinary panel of Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) on Monday ruled that Santuccione could no longer associate himself with athletes, sporting events or organizations for the remainder of his career because of his involvement in the distribution of performance-enhancing substances. Santuccione had already served a five-year suspension from cycling,

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Pay Day: A conversation with Georgia Gould

It’s been a busy year for Georgia Gould. The 27-year-old swept the National Mountain Bike Series, grabbed her first podium finish at a UCI World Cup, a top-10 at the UCI mountain-bike world championships and won the Crank Brother’s U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross series. And now, the Luna rider is taking on the Union Cycliste International, asking for equal minimum prize money payouts for the top finishers in both women’s and men’s races.

To: Union Cycliste Internationale (U.C.I.)

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Cyclocross Nationals: A Casey Gibson Gallery

The snow stopped, the sun came out, but conditions were still tough on the final day of the 2007 USA Cycling cyclocross national championships. [nid:41624]Mud, wind and cold aside, our man Casey Gibson braved the elements to document events as he saw them.

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Chocolate, Waffles & ‘Cross (’07): Glacial goodness

The sands in the 2007 cyclocross season's hourglass are rapidly sliding to the bottom chamber. With the USA Cycling Cyclocross Nationals Championships in Kansas City on deck there is nothing left to do but wait until start time. All the preparation, training and racing has been completed and there is nothing that can be done over the next few days that will make you any faster. But there are plenty of things that can be done to make you slower, and with the holiday season upon us, it’s very easy to get sucked into the ever-tempting vortex of sweets, treats and libations. Luckily for me,

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Aussies honor Evans

Tour de France runner-up Cadel Evans was named Australian cyclist of the year at an awards ceremony on Friday in Adelaide. Evans won his second-straight Sir Hubert Opperman Medal, which is awarded to the national cyclist of the year. He also was named the men's road cyclist of the year and collected the inaugural people's choice award. Evans had a year of unparalleled success in Australian cycling. He finished second in the Tour de France, the best overall finish by an Australian in cycling's most famous race. Evans was also fourth in the Vuelta a España, fifth at the world

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Friday’s Mailbag: Doping spotlight shifts to baseball; the bombastic Mr. Ball; and a classy Horner

The Mailbag is a regular department on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have read in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to webletters@insideinc.com. Please include your full name, hometown and state or nation. Letters may be edited for length and clarity. Writers are encouraged to limit their submissions to one letter per month. The letters published here contain the opinions of the submitting authors and should not be viewed as reflecting the opinions, policies or positions of VeloNews.com, VeloNews magazine or our parent company,

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Friday’s EuroFile: ’09 Tour to open in Monaco

The 2009 Tour de France will begin July 4 in the principality of Monaco, organizers announced on Friday. This will be the first time the Tour has set out from the principality, though stages have finished there in five editions, including the famous finish between Jacques Anquetil and Raymond Poulidor when the Tour last visited Monaco, in 1964. In 2009, the Grand Départ will be a 15km individual time trial that includes a section of the famous Monaco Grand Prix circuit. Stage two will also begin in Monaco.

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Friday’s News & Notes: USA Cycling names Clubs of Year, lists championships

USA Cycling announced its annual Club of the Year awards on Friday, recognizing nine clubs — one in two different categories — for what the national governing body called “outstanding programs throughout the 2007 season.” The 10 clubs will receive complimentary registration fees for the 2008 racing season. Clubs were judged on several key areas, including race promotion, membership composition, instructional clinics and seminars, club activities and charitable contributions and racing performance. Three primary clubs were recognized based on membership size: Division I, 76 or more members;

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Tilford collects another stars-and-stripes at CX nats

Steve Tilford collected his fifth cyclocross national championship on Friday at wind-whipped, mud-spattered Wyandotte County Park in Kansas City, Kansas. The KCCX-Verge-Eriksen Cycles rider won the masters 45-49 race in 43:03, nearly two minutes ahead of Kevin Hines, with another veteran ’crosser — two-time masters national champion Gunnar Shogren (Fort Factory Team) — taking third at 4:03 back.

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‘Cross Nats: A Casey Gibson Gallery

The intrepid Casey Gibson hadn't planned on filing any pix from Friday's installment of the 2007 USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships, but since he happened to be on hand in Kansas City, and since the eternal Steve Tilford just happened to be racing, he stuck around and clicked the shutter a few times, just for the heck of it.* [nid:41600]* Plus, we pay him. Not as much as he's worth, it's true, but we do pay him.

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