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UCI, anti-doping experts study suspicious rider profiles

The Union Cycliste International (UCI) has taken issue with published reports that some 30 riders registered in the so-called biological-passport system have come under suspicion. Sports physician Robin Parisotto, an anti-doping expert at the Australian Institute for Sport who analyzes blood tests for the UCI, told German television ARD on Sunday that 30 riders were under suspicion of having doped and that some of those could face bans from competition.

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Webcor announces 2009 squad

Webcor Builders Women’s Professional Cycling has announced its roster for the 2009 racing season. Longtime team leader Christine Thorburn has retired to pursue her career in medicine, but Canadian Olympians Erinne Willock and Gina Grain have returned for another season.

2009 Webcor Builders Women’s Professional Cycling Team Katheryn Curi Matthis (USA) Gina Grain (Can) Alexis Rhodes (Aus) Janel Holcomb (USA) Erinne Willock (Can)

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J.J. Haedo wins final stage of the Tour de San Luis

2009 Tour de San Luis
Stage 7: San Luis circuit
167.1 km (103.8 miles)
Stage Winner: J.J. Haedo (Saxo Bank)
Stage Winner's average speed: 42.7 kph. (26.5 mph)
Final overall winner:Alfredo Lucero (Argentina-A), 1014.5 km in 24:37:52
GC winner's average speed: 40.9 kph (25.4 mph)

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Former tri’ champ Raña racing the road

Former world triathlon champion Ivan Raña will make his road racing debut with Xacobeo Galicia at next month’s Ruta del Sol-Vuelta a Andalucía. Race officials confirmed that Raña will join Xacobeo Galicia teammates David Herrero, Iban Mayoz and David García in the five-day Ruta del Sol, which begins February 18 in Jaén, Spain. Raña, fifth at the Olympic Games in Beijing, signed a one-year deal to race with the Spanish Continental team in what he’s calling a fulfillment of a long-held dream.

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The Italian Olympic Committee slaps Leonardo Piepoli with a two-year ban

The Italian Olympic Committee (Coni) on Monday suspended cyclist Leonardo Piepoli from competition for two years for failing a dope test taken during last year's Tour de France, Ansa news agency reported. The 37-year-old Piepoli won the 10th stage of the race in the Pyrenees, but in October the French Anti-Doping Agency announced that the Italian had tested positive for CERA (Continuous Erythropoiesis Receptor Activator) — the new generation of EPO — in two re-tested samples from the Tour.

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Lewis: Ready for bigger and better things

There’s something different about Craig Lewis going into the 2009 season. Behind his youthful veneer, the 23-year-old is more determined and a whole lot more confident about what lies ahead. The natural-born climber from the hills of South Carolina finished off his first year with Team Columbia with a solid ride at the Giro di Lombardia last October and he’s carrying that momentum into the upcoming racing season.

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Axiom Helix Pro Team Water Bottle Cage

Price: $39.99 Weight: 30 grams Web site: www.axiomgear.com New, in the class of boutique bike parts, the Axiom Helix Pro Team water bottle cage. This elegant and simple cage design is a good fit for your most beloved bicycle. Unlike standard water bottle cages, the Axiom Helix Cage will add to the aesthetics of your bicycle instead of take away from it.

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Garmin’s Will Frischkorn checks in from the team’s Spanish training camp

After a pretty unreal off-season, especially looking back now from afar, all of a sudden the season is on for Garmin-Slipstream. One group of the guys are down in Australia, racing it up in the Tour Down Under. Another crew have been in Silver City, New Mexico, for the looooong U.S. camp at elevation. I’m back over in my adopted seasonal home of Girona, Spain, and already mid-way through a training camp here focused towards the Tour of Quatar. It hardly seems like a week ago that I was at home in Boulder, and while obviously training, still in off-season mode.

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Cuban Luis Amaran wins the stage 6 circuit race at the Tour de San Luis

Colavita-Sutter Home's Luis Amaran won Saturday's sixth stage of the Tour de San Luis in Argentina. The Cuban-born sprinter won by about 39 seconds over a group of three: Saxo Banks' Matti Breschel, Diquigiovanni's Manuel Bellettti and Liquigas's Kjell Carlstrom.

2009 Tour de San Luis
Stage 6: Potrero de Los Funes Circuit

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Jelly Belly readies for 2009

The posh Lake San Marcos Resort in San Marcos, California, set the backdrop for the Jelly Belly professional cycling team’s first training camp of 2009. The January 20-24 camp saw 10 of the 11 team riders spin miles around north San Diego County alongside sponsor partners and the media.

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Nys, Kupfernagel wrap up World Cup series wins

Belgian Sven Nys and German Hanka Kupfernagel wrapped up their World Cup series wins in Milan on Sunday, although it was a more or less a formality for both. [nid:86889] Nys needed only 2 points to secure his fourth World Cup overall. He did that and more — winning the race by outsprinting reigning world champion Lars Boom, signaling he is ready to take the worlds next weekend in the Netherlands.

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A conversation with Tim Duggan at the Tour Down Under

Believe it or not, there are two other Americans racing the Tour Down Under — George Hincapie and Timothy Duggan — though you’d be hard-pressed to know who they are, given the commotion surrounding a certain Lance Armstrong. VeloNews caught up with the diminutive Duggan from Garmin-Slipstream before the start of the queen stage of the TDU, and discovered the 26-year-old Coloradan’s been waging something of a comeback himself. VeloNews: This race, for most, is their first test back into the rhythm of racing — is that the case for you?

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Cadel Evans: Astana wil be the one to beat

Two-time Tour de France runner-up Cadel Evans of Australia says the Astana team of Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong will be his number one threat at this year's event. Evans was beat to the 2007 yellow jersey by Contador, then of Discovery Channel, and last year succumbed to another Spaniard, Carlos Sastre, in the closing stages of the race. The 30-year-old, considered Australia's most successful stage racer, admitted while he has added some firepower to his team, Astana will be tough contenders.

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Rachel Lloyd fifth at Milan cyclocross World Cup, Nys outsprints Boom in the men’s race

American Rachel Lloyd (California Giant Strawberry-Specialized) scored her best cyclocross World Cup result ever on Sunday, coming in fifth in the World Cup finale in Milan, Italy. Daphny Van den Brand won the race, two seconds ahead of Hanka Kupfernagel and 29 seconds ahead of Maryline Salvetat. American Katie Compton skipped the event, since she could not have improved on her third place in World Cup standings. Compton instead used the weekend to prepare for the upcoming world championships in the Netherlands.

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Armstrong returning to U.S. after the Tour Down Under

Lance Armstrong is already heading back to the United States after his successful comeback debut at the Tour Down Under. Armstrong finished 29th overall at 49 seconds behind winner Allan Davis (Quick Step) in his first major stage race since winning the 2005 Tour de France for a record seventh occasion. Next up in Armstrong’s comeback tour is a 10-day training camp in Santa Rosa, California, where he will join up with Astana teammates ahead of the Tour of California (Feb. 14-22).

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José Joaquin Rojas, looking ahead

José Joaquin Rojas is satisfied with third place overall at the Tour Down Under and wants to carry that momentum into the first races on the European calendar.

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Davis wins Tour Down Under, Chicchi takes final stage

He chose not to sprint ? he didn’t have to ? but regardless, Allan Davis’ 33rd place behind stage winner Francesco Chicchi Sunday in Adelaide saw him crowned winner of the 2009 Tour Down Under. It’s been a monumental week for the bull terrier from Bundaberg in Queensland, Australia, who, from this moment onwards, can definitively put the past behind him and move on to what many are predicting bigger and better things. “It’s been a bit of a roller coaster ride,” Davis told VeloNews, in reference to the past two seasons that saw his career in virtual limbo.

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Interview with Floyd Landis

Three seasons after standing atop the Tour de France podium — and subsequently sitting out of competition on suspension — Floyd Landis is back in the pro peloton. He won’t be racing internationally. His return will be overshadowed by returning riders Lance Armstrong and Ivan Basso. But contributing to the designation of 2009 as the “year of the comeback” is the return of Landis, only the third American to stand atop the Tour podium in Paris.

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Xavier Tondo wins at Mirador del Sol in Argentina

Andalucia's Xavier Tondo won the fifth stage of Argentina's Tour de San Luis on Friday, a 205-kilometer route from San Francisco del Montea de Oro to Merlo (Mirador del Sol).

2009 Tour de San Luis
Stage 5: San Francisco del Monte de Oro to Merlo

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Davis scores a hat-trick

Allan Davis has never felt so good. The only rider to have ridden every edition of the race, the 28-year-old Queenslander now finds himself in the enviable position of becoming the eleventh champion of the Tour Down Under and the sixth Australian to do so. After two seasons he’d probably rather forget, he finally wrenched himself free of the mudded waters of Operación Puerto to start 2009 afresh with a new team, Quick Step, and clear of any wrongdoing.

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Sánchez to debut at Mallorca, Ruta del Sol

Reigning Olympic road champion Samuel Sánchez is keeping his goals close to home in 2009. Instead of making a run at improving on his seventh place performance in last year’s Tour de France (now sixth, following Bernard Kohl’s disqualification), the Euskaltel-Euskadi rider will instead focus on the Vuelta al País Vasco and make a run for overall victory at the Vuelta a España. His lone goal that will take him beyond the friendly roads of Spain will be the world championships on a challenging course in Mendrisio, Switzerland, in late September.

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Quick Step rolls out post-Bettini roster

Belgium’s Quick Step team, which lost its top Italian rider Paolo Bettini to retirement, released a 27-strong roster for the 2009 season on Friday.

Bettini may be missing but Quick Step have been strengthened by the arrival of French rider Sylvain Chavenel, one of 11 fresh faces on Patrick Lefevere's team that picked up 58 wins in 2008.

One rider not among that new intake is German Stefan Shumacher.

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Armstrong applauds Landis’ return

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong on Friday gave the thumbs-up to the imminent return to the peloton of disgraced former teammate Floyd Landis. Landis, who once rode with Armstrong at U.S. Postal, won the 2006 Tour de France but was stripped of that title and suspended for two years after a sample from the race's 17th stage tested positive for testosterone. Next month the 33-year-old will mark his return to road racing at the Tour of California.

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Davis doubles up Down Under

Doubling up on his victory two days before and gaining a valuable 10 second time bonus Friday in Angaston, Quick Step’s Allan Davis has given himself a realistic shot of going one better than last year in his bid to become the sixth Australian winner of the Tour Down Under.

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The 2009 Amgen Tour of California announces its final team selection

2009 Amgen Tour of California teams
Ag2r-La Mondiale (FRA) Astana (KAZ) Bissell Pro Cycling Team (USA) BMC Racing Team (USA) Cervelo Test Team (SUI) Colavita/Sutter Home Presented by Cooking Light (USA) Fly V Australia presented by Successful Living Foundation Team (AUS) Garmin-Slipstream (USA) Jelly Belly Cycling Team (USA) Liquigas (ITA) Ouch Presented by Maxxis (USA) Quick Step (BEL) Rabobank (Netherlands)

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Sastre comfortable in new colors

It hasn’t been all that often in Carlos Sastre’s long and durable career that he was the absolute center of attention. The 33-year-old Spanish climber was typically floating just off center-stage, not quite in the hot glare of the spotlight that beamed down on former CSC captains such as Tyler Hamilton, Ivan Basso or the ascendant Schleck brothers. In Sunday’s team introduction at his new home at Cervélo Test Team, it was the smiling and humble Sastre who was introduced last as the centerpiece of an ambitious new squad.

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Io DuPont Power Cordz

Sizes: 1.2mm Price: $36.95 to $69.00 Web site: www.powercordz.com Power Cordz now offers 1.2mm derailleur cable sets and a complete cable system. The difference between 1.2mm Cordz and traditional 1.2mm steel cables is that Cordz are made from Zylon, a fiber that Io Dupont suggests is as strong as steel yet reduces weight by 75 percent. In terms of compatibility, Derailleur Cordz are just that — fully compatible with Shimano, SRAM, Campagnolo, and any standard 4mm housing.

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Rogers, O’Grady eye Tour Down Under overall

Former winners Michael Rogers and Stuart O'Grady are shaping up to repeat their past triumphs on the Tour Down Under, which ends Sunday. The six-stage race which opens the Pro Tour cycling season has famously been won by both sprinters and stage race specialists in the last 10 years. O'Grady — the winner in 1999 and 2001 — and 2002 champion Rogers have in recent years kept a low profile in the race, or failed to show up at all. But on Thursday they showed their determination to challenge for the ochre jersey.

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Rasmussen’s appeal rejected

The International Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected Michael Rasmussen’s challenge that his two-year suspension for a doping-related offense was too severe. The sporting world’s final court of appeals ruled that a two-year ban originally handed down by Monaco’s national cycling federation was appropriate and that Rasmussen’s request that it be lessened was not justified.

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Cañada aims for return to pro peloton

David Cañada said Thursday he is aiming for a return to competitive cycling in 2009, his recovery from melanoma permitting. "I'm feeling much better than I ever imagined and I would like to be able to ride at the end of the season if I feel that I'm well enough physically," the Spanish cyclist told a press conference in Zaragoza, Spain. Cañada was treated for a melanoma in 2007 and had cancerous growths removed from his left arm last October, since when he has undergone a course of treatment.

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Stage 3 takes a toll: The injury report

German sprinter André Greipel will likely face three months on the sidelines after a dramatic crash in the third stage of Australia’s Tour Down Under on Thursday. Greipel, the defending champion who won four stages last year, dramatically crashed into a motorbike parked on the side of the road early in the 136km stage from Unley to Victor Harbor. As he hit the ground, his bike flew back into the peloton, taking down more riders.

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Museeuw admits he doped

Johan Museeuw has finally fessed up to taking the banned blood booster EPO during the final year of his career. The Belgian classics specialist has revealed details of his doping ways in a new book, entitled, “Museeuw Speaks,” released this week which covers the period from September 4, 2003, when his home was raided by Belgian authorities, to December 16, 2008, with a decision by the courts that led to a 10-month suspended sentence and a 2500-euro fine.

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Brown gets wild and windy win at Tour Down Under

What appeared to be a relatively innocuous stage was turned on its head Thursday in Victor Harbor. Courtesy of a howling westerly wind and some of the world’s best riders, a star-studded break created havoc in the Tour Down Under and threatened to leave no more than a dozen riders in contention to win the race overall.

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Cañada battling cancer

Spanish rider David Cañada is the latest professional rider fending off a brush with melanoma, but his case has taken a turn for the worse. While riders such Magnus Backstedt and world time trial champion Amber Neben caught the aggressive form of skin cancer in its early stages, the Fuji-Servetto rider is being forced to postpone his 2009 debut after undergoing more aggressive treatment.

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CAS extends O’Neill suspension

The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority announced Wednesday that the International Court of Arbitration for Sport has ordered an increase in an earlier suspension handed down to Nathan O’Neill. Following a hearing in June of last year, O’Neill received a 15-month suspension for testing positive for the stimulant Phentermine at the 2007 Tour of Elk Grove, in Illinois. A hearing panel had found that O’Neill had not intentionally used the drug for competition and gave him a sentence lighter than the usual two-year ban for a first-time offense.

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Stars sign on for Spain’s early races

Scores of top names are heading to Spain in February and March to log some early season race miles ahead of the season’s first major races. Officials at the Mallorca Challenge (February 8-12) and the Vuelta al Castilla y León (March 23-27) announced that some of cycling’s biggest stars are expected to attend their respective races. Among the top names heading to Mallorca include Robbie McEwen (Katusha), Beijing Olympic gold medalist Samuel Sánchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) and 2006 Tour de France winner Oscar Pereiro and Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d’Epargne).

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McQuaid welcomes revived Puerto probe

Cycling chief Pat McQuaid on Wednesday welcomed a Spanish judge's decision to reopen the Operación Puerto inquiry into blood doping. Operación Puerto, Spain's most far-reaching doping investigation, was put on ice last September but a Madrid court ordered it to be restarted this month. Public prosecutors, the Spanish Sports Council, the Spanish cycling federation, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and the World Anti-Doping Agency were among those calling for the probe to be re-opened.

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What’s up with the lettering on Lance Armstrong’s bike?

Australian journalist Benjamin Fitzmaurice got a look at the underside of Lance Armstrong's Trek Madone at the Tour Down Under this week, and saw something unexpected: "The bike has some letters and numbers on the bottom bracket," Fitzmaurice said. "The guy from Trek said that he would show us but could not tell us what they meant. When we shot the bottom bracket a guy from Astana staff came rushing over to question what we were doing ..."

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Tour of Qatar adds women’s race

The Gulf state of Qatar will launch a women's tour next month, bringing together 15 teams, including six national squads, and 90 riders. The women's Tour of Qatar will run February 8-10, following the men's tour, which runs from February 1-6. Although 90 riders from 14 countries on five continents will gather for the three-stage race, there will be no local riders competing. "We hope to gradually develop women's sport in Qatar," said Sheikh Khalid Bin Ali Abdulla al-Thani, head of the Qatari cycling federation.

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Aussie battler Davis takes control; a glimpse of the old Armstrong

Following a difficult year that saw his career aspirations go off the boil, Quick Step’s Queenslander Allan Davis found his form at exactly the right time, flying up the final 500 meters in Wednesday’s finish in Stirling to capture both the second stage and race lead in the 2009 Tour Down Under.

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Cycling training logs for the Macintosh – Part 2

Editor's Note: Drew Geer is an endurance mountain bike racer who has been using a computer training log since 1998 and has hand-written training logs going back to 1972. He's been an Apple Mac user since 1984. Geer paid retail for each of the products he reviewed in this article.

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Greipel rediscovers himself, Lance feels the heat

He said last year Australia was where he found himself. Facing sponsorship uncertainties, Columbia-High Road’s André Greipel went on to a stellar 12-win season that was only topped by his teammate Mark Cavendish. And Tuesday in Mawson Lakes, Germany’s ‘Gorilla’ picked up where he left off, the defending champion sailing straight down the middle of the road to capture the opening road stage of the 2009 Tour Down Under and find himself in familiar surroundings in the leader’s ochre jersey.

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Injured cyclist shares some of his stretches

Editor's Note: Tom LeCarner, VeloNews' copy editor, is an avid cyclist who has been unable to ride and train for most of 2008 because of knee pain. He is being treated at the Boulder Center for Sports Medicine and using Specialized Body Geometry equipment and services at Specialized's expense, and reporting on his progress in regular columns. You can read LeCarner's previous columns here.

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Panaracer Extreme Duro

Sizes: 23c or 25c x 700c Weight: 240 or 280 grams Price: $45.99 Web site: www.panaracer.com Panaracer now sells a tire that is intended to be ideal for heavy training and racing on less than ideal surfaces. On the scale of durability versus speed, the new Extreme Duro is aimed right in the middle.

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Spain to reopen Operación Puerto case

Spanish justice is to re-open the Operación Puerto probe into blood doping in cycling, Spain's biggest doping investigation, which a judge had left on file last September, a judicial source said Monday. A provincial court in Madrid on January 12 revoked its September decision to shelve the case because it said there were indications that an offense against public health laws had taken place, the source told AFP.

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Resurgent Rogers ready to race

Australian Michael Rogers is ready to put the pain of the past two seasons firmly behind him as he saddles up for the Tour Down Under with renewed dreams of success in 2009. A three-time world time-trial champion by the time he was 25, Rogers was hailed early in his career as a potential Tour de France winner. But in a dramatic 2007, a year after losing his coveted world crown to Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara, his career came to a shuddering halt. Injury, illness and a controversial career decision tested Rogers' morale.

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Remember when? Armstrong in Oz, circa 2000

It’s been almost nine years since Lance Armstrong made a journey this far south. Following a second Tour de France title that surprised no one after his ’99 comeback victory a year earlier, the Texan decided to skip the world road championships, a title he’d precociously won as a second-year pro way back in 1993, in favor of claiming a scalp he’d never taken but very much desired: an Olympic gold medal.

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Rock around the clock

Despite earlier fears that the Rock Racing team would not meet the deadline to satisfy the requirements of its UCI Continental status, USA Cycling officials said that team has secured its license for 2009. “It went down to the wire but Rock Racing finally fulfilled all of its obligations for registering as a UCI Continental Team in 2009,” USA Cycling chief operating officer Sean Petty confirmed in an email to VeloNews.

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Finish Line Extreme Fluoro

Sizes: 20 gram syringe Price: $14.95 Web site: www.finishlineusa.com Chances are you paid top dollar for your bike and bike parts, and if not, it’s still valuable stuff. One way to extend the life of your bike and components is to keep them greased.

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Lance Armstrong takes the pressure off Aussie riders

Lance Armstrong's participation at the Tour Down Under this week may have stolen the limelight from the local challengers, but he has also proved a welcome distraction. Armstrong's arrival in Australia following his decision in September to come out of a three-year retirement has prompted huge media interest across the country. The 37-year-old seven-time Tour de France winner will saddle up with 132 other riders for the first stage race of the season on Tuesday.

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Carlos Saste confirms Giro d’Italia run

Tour de France champion Carlos Sastre wants more than to defend his yellow jersey in 2009. The 33-year-old Spanish climber revealed an ambitious racing calendar that includes taking aim at the Giro d’Italia podium and the world championships as well as a defense of the Tour along the way. First up will be the Giro, where Sastre said he has some unfinished business with the season’s first grand tour.

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Christian Knees leads Milram team at Tour Down Under

The German Milram team will start the 2009 ProTour by sending a seven man team to the Tour Down Under. "It will be a difficult race,“ said MILRAM's Christian Knees.  "The profile is challenging, there are a lot of highly-motivated riders and let's not forget Lance Armstrong's comeback.  We have prepared ourselves well and will have a strong team at the start.“ The team's sprinters and all rounders use the first stage race of the year as a test.  Knees will lead the team, supported by a misture of classics riders and sprinters. Team MILRAM for the Tour Down Under:

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Lance Armstrong confirms Milan-San Remo start

Tour de France icon Lance Armstrong has caused a surprise by including the Milan SanRemo one-day classic in his racing plans this season. As the 37-year-old gears up for a tilt at a possible Giro d'Italia/Tour de France double this summer, he also intends competing in some races to which, during his yellow jersey reign in 1999-2005, he paid scant attention. Milan-San Remo is Italy's biggest one-day classic and one of the five "monuments" of one-day racing alongside Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Paris-Roubaix, the Tour of Flanders and the Tour of Lombardy.

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Lance Armstrong the Comeback King: A new man?

He may be residing at the Hilton this week, but besides being American, that’s all Lance Armstrong has in common with the party-going daughter of the famous hotel empire, who, on her recent New Year’s trip Down Under, had sand thrown in her face when she took a stroll on the sands of Bondi Beach.

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McEwen rockets to Adelaide win

The number 13 may not be so unlucky after all. Why? Because just after 8 p.m. Sunday evening in Adelaide, Australia, Katusha’s sprinting pocket rocket Robbie McEwen notched his thirteenth stage victory in the race by winning the Cancer Council Classic criterium, outsprinting Milram’s Wim Stroetinga and Graeme Brown of Rabobank.

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Cancer Council Classic

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Garmin-Slipstream releases its 2009 team kit

Garmin-Slipstream has released pictures of its 2009 team kit, which continues with the team's trademark argyle styling, but removes restaurant chain Chipotle. Chipotle remains a team sponsor, but not a title sponsor. "We are still powered by Chipotle burritos, as we always have been. Chipotle is our secret training weapon," team director Jonathan Vaughters said. The Slipstream name returns to the title to emphasize the team owners' "focus on ethical sporting and developing the next generation of American champions," according to a team release.

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China wins the team competition at the track World Cup held in Beijing

China won the fourth leg of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classic series in Beijing on Sunday. The hosts claimed the team title after clinching three more silver medals on the third and final day of the competition. China hauled in a total of 108 points, boosting them to joint third place in the nation world cup standings on 210 points, behind Britain on 216 and leaders Germany on 262.

UCI Track World Cup

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Armstrong launches personal anti-doping program

Lance Armstrong will publicize the results of the drug tests he has undergone since coming out of retirement last year, he said in Adelaide Saturday. Armstrong will release his recent test results with the support and endorsement of anti-doping scientist Don Catlin, Armstrong said. Later, Armstrong and his Astana team released a press release on the subject.

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Boonen: California dreamin’ again

Tom Boonen liked his West Coast adventure so much last year he’s heading back for a second crack at the Tour of California. The Quick Step star told VeloNews that the hard week of racing at California last year helped pave the way for his second career Paris-Roubaix victory two months later. “(Organizers) didn’t even have to ask. I want to go back to California,” Boonen said during an interview Friday. “I really liked the race last year. The quality of racing and the fans were great.”

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Tchmil: ‘Katusha safe from crisis’

New Russian super-team Katusha and its eye-popping 15 million euro annual budget are safe from the broiling world economy – at least for now. That’s what Katusha team president Andrei Tchmil assured VeloNews during an interview Friday. “The situation is difficult right now in the world economy, but nothing has changed,” Tchmil said. “We have the support of our sponsors. We are moving forward with confidence.”

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