Romandie - here led by Liberty's Alberto Contador (now with Discovery) - is a good opportunity for Giro-bound climbers to test their legs.
Cadel Evans took the overall title in 2006
The new XT — plenty of choice for 2008
The new BL-775 brake lever incorporates Servo-Wave technology
The ST-M775 Dual Control lever does as well, both feature radial master brake cylinders.
Shimano’s new RD-772 is called the Shadow rear derailleur for its narrow profile.
Shimano’s new HB-M776 20mm XT hub hub can be purchased alone or in complete wheelset.
The new FC-M770 Hollow Tech II crank has a carbon reinforced steel middle chainring.
The new XT cassette has pins that extend rearward to catch a chain before it damages spokes in the event of an over shift.
The XT PD-M770 pedals look like XTR except for their logo and powder coat.
Savoldelli gets off to a fast start in Romandie
Horner says the legs are coming around
The World Anti-Doping Agency is considering relaxing its regulations to give the US Anti-Doping Agency a stronger voice in the fight against drug abuse in sports. Dick Pound, chairman of WADA, said Monday a proposed amendment to the World Anti-Doping Code's gag rule would make it easier for USADA to respond publicly when it believes athletes are making false or misleading statements about an ongoing probe. "If something is completely nonsense where someone is challenging evidence by saying there is no reliable test for X and there is, then it would be nice to be able to say the test is
Kreuziger races to second on the day
Ivan Basso said Tuesday that he is "at peace" with himself ahead of his Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) hearing on doping allegations that may well decide his future as a cyclist. Basso, last year's Giro d’Italia winner and a pre-race favorite for the 2007 Tour de France, quit Discovery Channel on Monday noting that ongoing suspicions on him were damaging the team and its hunt for a new title sponsor. The decision has ruled him out of defending his Giro title in less than two weeks time, and has likely ruled him out of the Tour de France for the second year running. The 29-year-old
The podium
The Freiburg justice department will investigate charges that two lead doctors from the T-Mobile cycling team gave cyclists performance-enhancing drugs, according to Thursday's edition of Suddeutsche Zeitung. Wolfgang Meier, the Bavarian prosecutor general, said his department was taking very seriously accusations made by a former masseur of the team, Jef d'Hont. D'Hont claimed the two doctors, Andreas Schmid and Lothar Heinrich, supplied the team with EPO during the 1996 Tour de France, which was won by then-team member Bjarne Riis. "The information available to us has
Joe's Ridge
As defending Giro d’Italia champion Ivan Basso awaits a hearing on his alleged involvement in Spain’s Operación Puerto doping affair, news reports on Monday suggest that another 49 cyclists may be implicated in new documents seized in the year-old investigation. According to Gazzetta dello Sport, a new 6000-page dossier from the Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes implicates a new crop of clients in a scandal that has already ensnared several top riders, including Basso and 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich. The Puerto scandal erupted in May of last year when police uncovered an alleged
Beleaguered Italian rider Ivan Basso has removed himself from his two-year contract with the Discovery Channel team at his own request just days ahead of a hearing before the Italian Olympic committee for alleged links to the Operación Puerto doping investigation. Basso requested to meet with sport director Johan Bruyneel and general manager Bill Stapleton on Sunday. In a press release issued Monday, Basso said the decision to leave the American team was his.
Tyler Hamilton will start next month’s Giro d’Italia—at least, that’s what his Tinkoff Credit System management insists in the face of growing pressure to suspend riders linked to the Operación Puerto doping scandal. The names of both Hamilton and new addition Jörg Jaksche showed up in police documents released by Spanish authorities last May, but Tinkoff officials denied reports in the Italian media that the team has sidelined the two riders ahead of the May 12 start of the Giro. “For me, Tyler and Jörg can start the Giro. Stories that they are suspended are not true,” Tinkoff general
Basso has asked for and been granted his release from Discovery
Ramsey takes the overall
Munoz wins the final stage
Danielson: 'Hey, look, man, there goes your race'
World champion Paolo Bettini (Quick Step-Innergetic) said he's recovered from the food poisoning that saw him vomiting from the bike at Fleche.
Di Luca decides it's now or never
Riding in his last LBL, Rabobank's Michael Boogerd is hoping for a good result.
Anthony nails the sprint
CSC rider Frank Schleck learned Saturday that he broke a vertebra in his fall at last Sunday's Amstel Gold Race, but he's riding anyway.
left to right: Christopher Jones, Javier Zapata, Nathan Bowman
Kabush takes his pull.... when it counts.
Cruz readying up for Paris-Roubaix
SWEEEEP! Luna does it again
A healthy gap. Di Luca has time to relish his win
Kiriyenka leads the day's early break
Floyd Landis claimed Sunday that electronically stored data from disputed dope tests conducted on his 2006 Tour de France stage 17 samples had been destroyed at a French laboratory. Simon Davis, a technical consultant for Landis, told the cyclist that "critical evidence stored as electronic data files had been erased from the hard drive and the original data destroyed at the Laboratoire National de Depistage du Dopage (LNDD)," according to a release issued by Landis spokesman Michael Henson on Sunday. "The existing data bears indication of alteration," the release said. Davis was at the
Often called the greatest of the one-day classics, Liege is marked by a series of tough, narrow climbs like the Cote St. Roche
The Future of the NMBS: A Conversation with Jeff Frost
Vinokourov was here to test his legs for his biggest goal of the year.
Gilberto Simoni is well suited to the roads of Liège-Bastogne-Liège .
Gerolsteiner gives chase on the Haute Levee
Amstel Gold winner, Stefan Schumacher
The big names began to appear at the front on the Stockeu and Redoute
Horner loves this race
Horner puts the pressure on
Rabobank's three-time world champion Oscar Freire was relaxed at the start.
Schumacher gets a gap
Liège-Bastogne-Liège - A view from the start
Liquigas and Quick Step remember last week and put on a big chase.
Liège-Bastogne-Liège - A view from the start
Schumacher finally bridges to the leaders
DiLuca has to be among the favorites
His gamble paid off
JHK astride his 29-er
Gould has had an amazing early season
The men's break charges back to Bisbee
Holt, all alone out front and loving it
Zajicek driving the break
Nash, Plaxton score wins at Santa Ynez short-track
Nash, Plaxton score wins at Santa Ynez short-track
A former trainer who once worked with now-retired Jan Ullrich has claimed that the 1997 Tour de France winner was injected with erythropoietin during the 1996 edition of the race. Jeff d' Hont, a Belgian soigneur employed by the Telekom team from 1992 till 1996, claimed in the German weekly newspaper Der Spiegel that Ullrich took the banned blood booster in 1996. He also claims the German team's medical supervisors, who coninue to work for the team under its current name T-Mobile, encouraged use of EPO. D'Hont accused two doctors, Lothar Heinrich and Andreas Schmid, of having
Valverde won in 2006, taking a race that favors all-around talents
Liège-Bastogne-Liège - The Classic closer of the Ardennes
Horner calls La Doyenne 'the best one-day race in cycling.'
Bettini says he's recovered from the stomach problems that ailed him at Flèche
Bettini's right when he calls Liège 'the hardest classic by far.'
Evans says he may be riding in support of Horner
The Santa Ynez Classic is drawing more attention this year
Barry Wicks
Will Basso be in a position to defend his Giro trophy?
Basso's future may hang by a strand - so to speak.
Last September, Basso was elated after his last appearance before CONI investigators.
Holt starts her ride in downtown Bisbee
Collier climbs to the top of Mule Pass
GC leader Javier Zapata is congratulated by Staunton police chief Jim Williams.
(From left to right) Alejandro Borrajo, Jonathan Cantwell, Ben Raby.
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