Here’s the latest bicycle racing news for the day: Lingering health problems in the pro peloton, Lance Armstrong responds to Alberto Contador’s difficulties, more athletes heap criticism upon German Cycling leadership, Astana names team for Milan-San Remo and Vuelta a Castilla y Leon, Mark Cavendish back on the boards for track world champiuonships, Ivan Basso to recon Vesuvius climb, Sanchez moves up in UCI rankings and more… Details
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Landis is trying to decide whether to follow fellow American Lance Armstrong‘s example and ride again in the Tour de France.
Landis, whose 2006 Tour title was taken from him after he failed a dope test, says he will decide soon whether to take aim at the 2010 Tour.
“I will take a few weeks of peace and quiet to assess what I want to do with the next years of my life, if it leads me to want to do the Tour de France again and all the chaos that surrounds a bicycle race,” he told Reuters in a telephone interview.
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SEVERAL “fashion police” yesterday stifled the naked intentions of 14 protesters trying to raise awareness of the damage cars do to cyclists and the environment.
Riding from Sydney Park in St Peters to Bicentennial Parkin Glebe, those who had planned to be nude for the World Naked Bike Ride had to …Â Details
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Alberto Contador cannot win the Paris-Nice race after his collapse following a gruelling stage seven, said his Astana team’s sports director Alain Gallopin.
Spaniard Contador, who has won all the stage races he has entered since winning Paris-Nice in 2007, tired dramatically 4-km from the finish in Saturday’s 191-km trek from Manosque to Fayence and dropped to fourth overall with one stage remaining.
“The stage started at a high pace, I had to work from the start and I forgot to … Details