Building foundations for success at first training camp of 2014 The whole organisation, including the World Tour, women’s and development teams, have convened at the teams base in Altea hills, Spain for the first training camp of the new 2014 season. In total there are over 60-people, included trainers, coaches, […]
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Michael Rogers Provisionally Suspended
Michael Rogers was notified by the UCI of a positive resullt for clenbuterol from October 20, 2013 at the Tour of Japan. He has been provisionally suspended by the team while they await the results of the B sample testing.
Gaggioli Claims Armstrong and Others Paid to Win 1993 Triple Crown
Just Keeps Getting Worse for Armstrong He’s been on a sort of “goodwill” tour, making amends to numerous people he hurt during his heyday. Now, retired Italian cyclist Roberto Gaggioli, is claiming his Coors Light Team had made an agreement with the Motorola team to let Armstrong win the Triple […]
New Bianchi Café and Cycles launched in Sweden
Bianchi owner Salvatore Grimaldi celebrated the opening of a new Bianchi Cafè and Cycles in Malmo (Sweden) on Thursday, November 28th. Three years after the unveiling of the first Bianchi concept store in Stockholm, Malmo’s café is now the third in Sweden, while another Bianchi Café and Cycles is set […]
Jeannie Longo Suing AFLD
Jeannie Longo is suing the AFLD, the French Anti-Doping Agency. She’s asking over 1 million euros, both for being included in a list of targeted athletes of 2012 and 2013 as well as the 2011 claims about not providing her whereabouts three times. She had been able to prove that […]
Riis Gives Up Riis Cycling
Following a lot of problems between Bjarne Riss and Team Saxo-Tinkoff team owner Tinkoff, a surprising announcement came this week. Riis is giving up his company, Riis Cycling, to Oleg Tinkov. The team name was changed to Tinkov-Saxo. The partnership wasn’t expected to last much longer but handing over his […]
Possible New Doping Detection
An article on Cycling News has interviewed a Spanish doctor who is a famous cancer specialist. He says that the way some cancers are detected could be used to also detect doping. Some doping products disappear quickly, in a few hours, but they leave a genetic footprint which could still […]
ORICA-GreenEDGE Statement on Allegations Made Against Pieter Weening
Basso, Rasmussen, Armstrong, Leipheimer, Mancebo, Ullrich in the 2005 Tour de France ORICA-GreenEDGE is aware that Pieter Weening has made himself fully available to the Dutch NADO for their ongoing, comprehensive investigations into doping of Dutch cyclists. The team has received documentation that based on information the Dutch NADO have […]
Michael Rasmussen Tell All Book
Former Danish cyclist and almost Tour de France winner Michael Rasmussen has written a new book, “Yellow Fever” due to be out next week. In his book he claims that the entire Rabobank team was doping as well as at CSC. He also claims to have shown Ryder Hesjedal […]
Third Crocodile Trophy stage win for Australian Mark Frendo
The Australian Mark Frendo wins his third Crocodile Trophy stage at this year’s event in Laura today. Cory Wallace comes in second in a finish sprint, unable to shake off the race leader who still firmly holds onto an 11 minute lead. Jiri Krivanek is third, completing the podium of […]