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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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
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
Former USA Cycling National Development Team rider Tyler Farrar (Wenatchee, Wash.), 24, scored one of the biggest wins of his career on Friday, taking stage three of Tirreno-Adriatico, a seven-stage race on the UCI’s world calendar.
In sprinting to victory, Farrar surged past arguably the international peloton’s fastest sprinter…Â
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