Alberto Contador’s stunning Paris-Nice time trial win sent a warning to his rivals four months before the Tour de France but the Spaniard denied it was directed at team mate Lance Armstrong.
Astana manager Johan Bruyneel said earlier this season that the team leader for the Tour would be the best rider come early July and Contador staked his claim on Sunday.
“There is no message to Lance Armstrong… Details
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After more days going up wind than anyone in the Volvo fleet cares to remember, the fleet has finally cracked off and is experience ‘proper’ Southern Ocean conditions as the five boats race onwards towards Cape Horn and the second of two scoring gates on this leg of the course.
‘What a relief. Finally the breeze has swung enough to le us ease sheets and get the good ship going fast in the right direction,’ noted Ericsson 4’s bowman, Ryan Godfrey. ‘It has been days now that our distance to the finish has not budged, so what a pleasure the past 24-hours were, to be doing 20 knots and heading east,’ he said. … Details
Martin Truex is ready to go racing at Atlanta Motor Speedway after a bout with kidney stones.
Truex was taken by ambulance to Spalding Regional Medical Center in nearby Griffin on Saturday after experiencing brief bouts of intense pain during practice. After being examined and given fluids, he was …Â Details
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Lance Armstrong is leaving California and headed to Europe.
Two weeks after a seventh-place finish in the eight-stage Tour of California, Armstrong joined with several hundred riders for a promotional event Saturday night.
The seven-time Tour de France champion, who announced in September he was returning to competitive cycling after a three-year absence, is set begin the next portion of his comeback cycling in Europe.
Armstrong will ride in Italy’s Malin-San Remo race on March 21 and three days later he will participate in the five-stage Vuelta a Castilla y Leon in Spain for the first time in his career…. Details