Lance Armstrong will compete in next year’s Tour of California, which will feature route changes and be moved from February to May to avoid the rainy season.
The 16 host cities for the May 16-23 road race were announced Thursday via a Twitter exchange between Armstrong, three-time Tour of California champion Levi Leipheimer, Dave Zabriskie and George Hincapie, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The four riders said they will …Â Details
Portugal’s cycling federation has suspended a Spanish doctor for 10 years after finding him guilty of providing illegal substances to riders in the country’s biggest doping case.
The federation says Marcos Marino Maynar provided prohibited substances, including performance-enhancing drugs and materials to mask control samples, to members of the LA-MSS team during the 2008 season …Â Details
There is something fishy about France’s latest probe into the former team of seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong.
Leaving no stones—or in this case, syringes—unturned in the battle against doping is commendable. Unless, of course, the investigation proves to be little more than a vendetta against the cyclist some French love to hate, convinced as they are that the cancer-survivor can only have triumphed through doping.
The facts: After this year’s Tour, French police descended on a waste management firm, Cosmolys, that many teams use to dispose of their medical trash … Details
Lance Armstrong considers the 2010 Tour de France course “tough†because of the cobblestones sections and three punishing summit finishes in the Pyrenees.
The seven-time Tour champion attended the unveiling of the route and had lunch with French president Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday.
He also said more cyclists will have a chance to win thanks to the elimination of the team time trial.
“I think it will be much more open than last year because … Details