Among the first wave of witnesses set to appear in the case against Alberto Contador is the Spanish butcher who allegedly sold the infamous steaks that the three-time Tour de France champ blames for his clenbuterol positive.
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Jan Ullrich is back on the bike and enjoying life as a recreational cyclist — and he's not particularly interested in how the Court of Arbitration for Sport rules on his years-old case.
Alberto Contador on Monday will fight a bid by cycling's world governing body to impose a doping ban that could strip him of his 2010 Tour de France victory.
Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor) exploded out of a lead group with just over two laps remaining to win round four of the Superprestige series on Sunday in Gavere.
While most locals were probably not finished with breakfast, Dutchwoman Sanne Van Paassen was busy winning another of the crown jewels of Belgian cyclocross, the famously difficult — for its hills and mud —fourth round of the Superprestige series in Asper-Gavere.
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Oscar Pereiro took it to journalists on a Spanish talk show when he vehemently defended cycling against media bias that he says favors soccer.
Chris Horner says that retirement is not on the horizon as he prepares for the 2012 season with RadioShack-Nissan-Trek.
Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor) edges Zdenek Stybar (Quick Step) to win the GVA Trofee Hasselt and confirm his overall lead in the series.
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Michael Diamond, a 63-year-old racer from St. Augustine, Florida, has accepted a two-year doping suspension after refusing to submit a sample during an out of competition test.
BOULDER, Colo. (VN) — Tom Danielson broke through a glass ceiling at the Tour de France in 2011 and will return to the Tour de Langkawi in 2012 looking to recapture the taste for winning that he said he lacked in recent years.
Mark Cavendish's Team Sky debut won't be at the Tour Down Under.
Matt Lloyd has landed with Lampre for next season after a rough year that saw him kicked off the Lotto team, while German rider Stefan Schumacher will join up with Michael Rasmussen at Christina Watches.
BOULDER, Colo. (VN) — Four years after the squad was first introduced to the pro racing community as a new, world-class American team, the Garmin-Cervélo team returned to its roots Thursday night, presenting its 2012 squad to a sold-out crowd at Colorado’s Boulder Theater.
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The Danish sorts doping tribunal has dismissed charges against Alex Rasmussen, who was accused of violating whereabouts rules, because the UCI did not meet its deadline in informing the rider of his offense.
Leif Hoste — the three-time runner-up at the Tour of Flanders — is set to return to a Belgian team.
A look at Campagnolo's 20-year effort to bring electric shifting to market
Cleat lube, dream wheels, fixie conversions and more.
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Viatcheslav Ekimov, the Olympic champion and super-domestique who spent much of his career helping Lance Armstrong, is heading back to Russia in a new job for the 2012 season.
Saxo Bank will be lone sponsor of Bjarne Riis's team next year after the Danish investment house exercised an option to take over as the lead sponsor.
ASO's ever-growing empire saw a new addition Wednesday as officials confirmed the World Ports Classic set for 2012.
The Schleck brothers will headline the 2012 Mallorca Challenge next February.
Michael Rasmussen admitted that he did indeed lie during the traumatic 2007 Tour de France, but says he did it to cover his tracks with his wife.
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José Ivan Gutiérrez — the three-time Spanish national time trial champion on Movistar — says he wants to forget his winless 2011 season as soon as possible.
Cycling teams and sponsors make strange bedfellows sometimes, but perhaps none is stranger than the final-hour quest by the ill-fated Geox-TMC team managers to save its squad for next season.
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The UCI has scuttled a scheduled presentation of Alejandro Valverde as a new member of Movistar next season.
I’m on the way back from the last race of the year, for me, and for Kenda–5 Hr-Geargrinder (as always, sorry for the mouthful, but the sponsors paid for it, so it’s the least I can do).
The long-running Alberto Contador clenbuterol case likely won't see final resolution until early 2012.
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Jeremy Powers (Rapha-Focus) did the double at Derby City on Sunday, winning back-to-back in Louisville, Kentucky.
Katie Compton (Rabobank-Giant) won her second Derby City Cup on Sunday, sweeping the weekend's racing in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Pros Closet is auctioning off one of Edvald Boasson Hagen's spare Tour de France bikes to help a family with a child suffering from leukemia.
Romain Sicard, the promising French rider on Euskaltel-Euskadi, has published an online apology after getting a DUI this week in Toulouse.
World champion Zdenek Stybar (Quick Step) rode a huge group of favorites off his wheel and soloed to victory in the Superprestige Hamme-Zogge on Sunday.
Kristin Gavin (Team CF) and Weston Schempf (C3-Athletes Serving Athletes) soloed to victory on Saturday in round 10 of the Mid-Atlantic Cyclocross Series.
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Team managers from the doomed Geox-TMC team are traveling to Venezuela in a final-hour bid to save their team for next season.
Jeremy Powers (Rapha-Focus) won a thrilling two-man battle with Ryan Trebon (LTS-Felt) to claim the Derby City Cup on Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky.
Katie Compton (Rabobank-Giant) overpowered the field to claim the Derby City Cup on Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky.
Francis Mourey (FdJ) and Lucie Chainel-Lefevre (CC Etupes) won the 34th Nommay Cyclocross on Friday in France.
Valverde had maintained close links to Movistar throughout his ban and was expected to welcomed back to the team.
With everyone talking that the 2012 Tour de France is a route ideal for time trialists who can climb, there's one name that's missing from the early hype: Fabian Cancellara.
The VeloNews tech crew and the Selle Italia saddles they like
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Team tactics, chain lengths, choosing a new bike and more
Still riding the vapors of its most successful Tour de France ever, Garmin-Cervélo will take on next year's grande boucle with even higher ambitions.
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The new GreenEdge team is eager to be the first Australian cycling team to compete at the elite level. In addition, GreenEdge is committed to helping put medals around Australian necks in the Olympics. The final two recruits will help the team achieve its goals.
Patrick Lefevere — team manager at newly branded OmegaPharma-Quick Step — says he expects big things from his Belgian squad in 2012.
Ukrainian Volodymir Gustov will stay with Saxo Bank-SunGard through the 2012 season.
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Inside and out. On the road and on the workstand: Lennard's in-depth look at Campy's electric groups.
Bradley Wiggins says he will only be more confident going into next year's Tour de France after a breakthrough 2011 campaign that saw him win the Criterium du Dauphiné and finish third at the Vuelta a España.
Tainted Italian star Danilo Di Luca is poised to join Acqua e Sapone next season.
Team Type 1 - SANOFI reports that the squad completed required paperwork to qualify for a UCI Pro Continental license for next season in time to meet a UCI deadline.
Veteran sprinter Robbie McEwen is looking at a few early season racing goals before retiring for good to become a stage scout for GreenEdge later next season.
Stefan Rothe riding for Tulsa Tough and partner Wes Jerman of Alchemy Racing took the win at the 28th annual Tour de Gruene two-man time trial.
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Campy surprises with two electric groups, with one-push cassette sweep.
Matthew Busche, who enjoyed a fine season in his second year in Europe, will be riding with the new-look RadioShack-Nissan-Trek team next season.
Nick shares his favorite handlebars for various shift lever designs.
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