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Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador will compete in the Criterium International, their first race together since the Tour de France last year.

Contador announced Tuesday that he had changed his  …  Details

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One year after cracking in the penultimate stage, Alberto Contador showed how much he has matured by mastering a treacherous finale in the Paris-Nice race on Sunday.

As Caisse d’Epargne riders Alejandro Valverde and Luis Leon Sanchez, second and third overall, plotted to trap him, Contador avoided any mistakes and was rewarded with a second overall win.

The cool performance was in stark contrast to   …  Details

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Sydney is one of the developed world’s most hostile cities for cycling, according to a US academic who spent a sabbatical year researching ways to boost bike-riding levels in the city.

”I did not cycle that often because I almost got killed several times – people cutting me off, squeezing me off the road and not stopping,” John Pucher said of his efforts to ride to Sydney University from his Stanmore home  …  Details

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AIX EN PROVENCE, France, March 12 (Reuters) – Cycling’s new phenomenon Peter Sagan has already dropped seven-times Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong on a climb and bagged a couple of stage wins in Paris-Nice.

The 20-year-old Slovakian caught everyone off guard on Wednesday to sprint to victory in Aurillac and an audacious move gave him another win in Aix en Provence on Friday.

No rider since German Jan Ullrich, who won the Tour de France aged 23, has made such an impression at such a young age.

“Now Slovakia lives with cycling …  Details

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