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Shriver, one of ‘Trek’s fast guys’ at Leadville, says he’ll do more than work for Armstrong
Matt Shriver, one of the Trek-sponsored riders expected to ride in support of Lance Armstrong at Saturday's Leadville Trail 100, says he has his own goals, too. Armstrong told VeloNews Thursday that while he did not recruit a team of domestiques or pacers for the race, his sponsor Trek was "sending some fast guys" who could drive the pace in the first half of the race, making it more likely that Armstrong could break the course record.
Chris Horner says he’s still weighing team offers
American Chris Horner is not yet signed for 2010, with Lance Armstrong’s RadioShack squad or any other team, he told VeloNews Friday. Horner said that while he was in discussions with Armstrong, he’s also in discussions with “at least four English-speaking” ProTour teams, adding that reports that riders have signed when they in fact have not can be damaging to their contract negotiations.
Columbia-HTC’s Anderson wins Route de France
Columbia-HTC’s Kim Anderson claimed overall victory of the Route de France Friday. The American rider and her teammates celebrated the win after the 132km stage from Blanzat to Chatelguyon.
Levi strikes back at Lance: the Leadville trash talk continues
Back in June, Levi Leipheimer and his Astana teammate Lance Armstrong were joking about using the Tour de France as training for the Leadville 100. But things got sideways when Leipheimer crashed and broke his wrist on stage 12. Still in a cast, Leipheimer will not be racing the 100-mile mountain bike race high in the Colorado mountains Saturday. But that hasn’t stopped him from talking some friendly smack. VeloNews asked Leipheimer how he would have expected the race to play out if he had been able to compete.
Leipheimer signs with RadioShack team, source tells VeloNews
Levi Leipheimer signed yesterday to ride with RadioShack in 2010, a source close to the team told VeloNews. “It’s not 100 percent, but it looks pretty likely on (Chris) Horner as well,” the source said. (Horner later told VeloNews that he is still weighing offers from several teams.) The two American riders were widely expected to follow Lance Armstrong from Astana to his new team. Contacted Friday, Leipheimer said he wasn’t at liberty to discuss his team situation for next year.
Too Coolio: Pedro's New 'Tülio' Skewer Tool
Pedro's new portable tool does many things, including paying tribute to one of cycling's early innovators by being, well, innovative. Singletrack.com talks to the guy who brought it to life.
Tech Gallery: Travis Brown’s Leadville bike — 2010 Trek Top Fuel
As we've already reported, several Trek-supported riders are on hand in the high country of central Colorado to keep the pace high as Lance Armstrong takes his second stab at the Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race.
Voigt might make come back at Tour of Missouri
Jens Voigt is one tough customer and the German all-rounder is determined to return to racing following his harrowing accident at this year’s Tour de France. Recovering nicely from his high-speed fall, the hugely popular Voigt could mark his return to competition at next month’s Tour of Missouri, where his Saxo Bank team is among the starting teams.
Three-time world cyclocross champ Erwin Vervecken will line up at CrossVegas next month
Three-time cyclocross world champion Erwin Vervecken of Belgium will race the CrossVegas in Las Vegas next month, race organizers announced Friday. Vervecken won the world title in 2001, 2006 and 2007 and, at 37 won the Roubaix World Cup last winter. He has announced that he will retire at the end of this season. Vervecken's teammate Ben Berden also will race in the September 23 event.
Contador mulls his options
Alberto Contador doesn’t have a home for 2010, but he’s not worried about it, at least not yet. The two-time Tour de France champ says he methodically considering his options as he looks to secure his future following a tension-filled run at Astana this season. “I have various possibilities, and some of them are quite attractive, and I am analyzing them with without a great deal of stress at this point,” Contador told the Spanish wire service EFE. “The offers might be abundant, but firm offers there aren’t so many.”
Tech Gallery – Lance Armstrong’s Leadville mountain bike: 2010 Trek Top Fuel
“Lance in Leadville” has a nice ring to it. The high altitude, 100-mile fire-road-heavy mountain bike race looks like an MTB event made in heaven for the Aspen-dwelling Texan. But seeing the man himself astride a mountain bike is still a touch odd, after his chiseled visage has been photographed for so long on road bikes.
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Top crit’ riders head to Downers Grove
Other than the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, few countries award a national championship jersey for criterium racing. The UCI does not even recognize it as an event and, therefore, does not recognize the national championship, but at least it kindly looks the other way, because criteriums are the most popular form of racing in these countries. In the U.S., criteriums dominate the racing calendar over road racing, culminating in the middle of August for the past 17 years in the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove for the U.S. national criteirum championships.
Kohl levels more allegations
Former Gerolsteiner rider Bernard Kohl said Friday that scientists working in laboratories accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) were bribed by his former manager, the alleged head of a doping network. Austrian Stefan Matschiner, who managed the careers of several top Austrian athletes including Kohl, is accused of organising an elaborate doping network which helped top athletes in Europe to cheat by using performance-enhancing drugs and methods.