Twenty teams will compete at this summer’s Tour de France, with Lance Armstrong returning to the race he won seven times and the former Saunier Duval-Scott team excluded from cycling’s premier event.
Armstrong is riding with Astana in a comeback bid after 3 1/2 years of retirement. Ivan Basso, who served a doping ban, could also make his return to the Tour with Liquigas.
France will enter five teams, the only country with more than two. The two U.S. teams are…Â Details
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has criticized 2007 winner Alberto Contador, telling a French sports daily that his Astana teammate still has “a lot to learn†about racing.
Armstrong’s comments followed Contador’s fourth-place finish at last week’s Paris-Nice cycling race. The pre-race favorite lost three minutes and the yellow jersey on the penultimate day of racing. Contador said he had … Details
Montana Senators Jon Tester and Rep. Denny Rehberg are each proposing legislation to undo a ban on sales of mini-bikes and parts for them.
The off-road motorcycles and ATVs were unwittingly banned as a result a new national limit on lead in children’s products. It has left dealers holding thousands of the machines and even forced the cancellation of some motocross racing.
Dealers say it is silly to think children will eat their mini-bike parts.
Tester says his bill will also exempt …Â Details
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.
“I would have to make a decision by …Â Details