Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has announced that he will race for a new U.S.-based team next year.
LE GRAND BORNAND, France -- Worst kept secret at this Tour de France: Astana general manager Johan Bruyneel will announce tomorrow that he intends to start a new team next year, backed by American sponsorship and led by Lance Armstrong.
Alberto Contador has moved closer to his second Tour de France victory in three years after finishing second to Luxembourg's Frank Schleck in the gruelling 169.5km 17th stage of the race from Bourg-Saint-Maurice to Le Grand-Bornand.
British cyclist Mark Cavendish claimed his third stage victory in this year's Tour de France to thwart French hopes of securing a win on Bastille Day, their national holiday.
Thor Hushovd led a mass sprint finish win the sixth stage of the Tour de France in wet conditions on Thursday, while overall leader Fabian Cancellara remained a second ahead of comeback king Lance Armstrong.
Lance Armstrong has failed by under a second to take the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, after the American's Astana team powered to victory in the 39km fourth stage team time-trial around Montpellier.
Lance Armstrong and 2007 champion Alberto Contador will head a strong Astana team for next month's Tour de France.
Top sprinter Mark Cavendish has been named in the Great Britain squad for next week's world track cycling championships in Poland -- six months after becoming the only member of the nation's Olympic squad to return home from Beijing without a medal.
Roman Kreuziger of the Czech Republic claimed overall victory in the Tour of Switzerland on Sunday as home hero Fabian Cancellara won his second stage of the nine-day race.
Roman Kreuziger of the Czech Republic produced a stunning performance in Saturday's 25 kilometer time trial from Altorf to Klausenpass to leave himself in pole position to win the Tour of Switzerland.
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has announced that he will race for a new U.S.-based team next year.
LE GRAND BORNAND, France -- Worst kept secret at this Tour de France: Astana general manager Johan Bruyneel will announce tomorrow that he intends to start a new team next year, backed by American sponsorship and led by Lance Armstrong.
Alberto Contador has moved closer to his second Tour de France victory in three years after finishing second to Luxembourg's Frank Schleck in the gruelling 169.5km 17th stage of the race from Bourg-Saint-Maurice to Le Grand-Bornand.
British cyclist Mark Cavendish claimed his third stage victory in this year's Tour de France to thwart French hopes of securing a win on Bastille Day, their national holiday.
Thor Hushovd led a mass sprint finish win the sixth stage of the Tour de France in wet conditions on Thursday, while overall leader Fabian Cancellara remained a second ahead of comeback king Lance Armstrong.
Lance Armstrong has failed by under a second to take the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, after the American's Astana team powered to victory in the 39km fourth stage team time-trial around Montpellier.
Lance Armstrong and 2007 champion Alberto Contador will head a strong Astana team for next month's Tour de France.
Top sprinter Mark Cavendish has been named in the Great Britain squad for next week's world track cycling championships in Poland -- six months after becoming the only member of the nation's Olympic squad to return home from Beijing without a medal.
Roman Kreuziger of the Czech Republic claimed overall victory in the Tour of Switzerland on Sunday as home hero Fabian Cancellara won his second stage of the nine-day race.
Roman Kreuziger of the Czech Republic produced a stunning performance in Saturday's 25 kilometer time trial from Altorf to Klausenpass to leave himself in pole position to win the Tour of Switzerland.
Italian mountain specialist Emanuele Sella came home alone to win the 14th stage of the Giro d'Italia on the Alpe de Pampeago summit on Saturday.
Gabriele Bosisio won the seventh stage of the Giro d'Italia as defending champion Danilo Di Luca established an early psychological advantage over his main rivals for overall honors.
Slipstream-Chipotle utilized the time trialling ability in their ranks to maximum effect by claiming the opening stage of the 91st Giro-d'Italia in Palermo on Saturday.
Tour de France champion Alberto Contador and his Astana team are facing a hasty scramble to compete in the Giro d'Italia after receiving a late invitation to take part in a race from which they were originally barred.
Astana's Andreas Kloeden showed he will be a major contender at the Giro d'Italia by wrapping up victory in the six-stage Tour de Romandie on Sunday.
The Astana team enjoyed a good day when Andreas Kloeden strengthened his grip on the Tour de Romandie and they were told that they would be allowed to compete in the Giro d'Italia after all.
German Andreas Kloeden won the third stage of the Tour de Romandie and took the overall lead in Sion.
Reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will be unable to defend his title after organizers excluded his new Astana team from competing in cycling's most prestigious race.
The Tour de France continued Wednesday amid a doping scandal that has seen the pre-race favorite sent home in disgrace and doubts over the integrity of the man wearing the coveted yellow jersey.
PAU, France -- No matter who wins this race, it seems destined to go down as the Tour dominated by talk of Alexandre Vinokourov's blood.
Denmark's Michael Rasmussen strengthened his grip on the Tour de France yellow jersey after finishing second in a drama-filled 14th stage, won by Spaniard Alberto Contador on Sunday.
ALBI, France -- I was among the score or so of reporters skulking around the lobby of the Novotel in Montpellier on Friday, hoping extract a quote from embattled race leader Michael Rasmussen of Rabobank. (The crafty Dane gave us the dodge; officials of the Danish Cycling Union, apparently, can relate). Sharing the hotel with the Rabos was Team Astana. While we loitered on the lookout for Rasmussen, Alexandre Vinokourov emerged from the dining room. With a total of 30 stitches in his knees, he made his way across the lobby with the stiff-legged gait of a man with advanced arthritis. It was clear that the podium was beyond his reach.
Alexander Vinokourov put his injury woes behind him to revive his Tour de France hopes with an outstanding victory in the individual time trial 13th stage on Saturday.
Dane Michael Rasmussen, of Rabobank, won the eighth stage of the Tour de France on Sunday, a 165km run from Le Grand-Bornand to Tignes, and also took over the yellow jersey.
Germany's Linus Gerdemann of the T-Mobile team won the seventh stage of the Tour de France and claimed the race leader's yellow jersey after a dramatic first day in the Alps on Saturday.
Friday's flat 200-km Stage 6 through wine country came down to another riotous mass sprint taken, surprisingly, by Tom Boonen, a Belgian of Quickstep-Innergetic who much prefers to be escorted toward the finish with a more orderly lead-out than he was provided. But Boonen ham-and-egged it, Robbie McEwen-style, for his 10th win of the season, his first of this Tour. Say goodbye to the sprinters for a while. On Saturday the boys must get over a serrated colossus called the Col de la Colombiere. Boonen, Thor Hushovd and their ilk will be more concerned with making the time cut than winning the stage.
A late burst of speed gave overall leader Fabian Cancellara a dazzling victory in the third stage of the Tour de France on Tuesday.
Australian Robbie McEwen shrugged off a mid-race crash to score a stunning victory on the opening stage of the Tour de France in Canterbury on Sunday.
Russian Vladimir Gusev of the Discovery Channel team won the seventh stage of the Tour of Switzerland from Ulrichen to the summit of the Grimselpass on Friday.
Germany's Andreas Kloeden won the Tirreno-Adriatico cycling race on Tuesday and said his main target for the year is a Tour de France triumph.
Italy's Riccardo Ricco of the Saunier Duval team is the new leader of the Tirreno-Adriatico race after taking his second consecutive stage victory.
Mobile phone operator T-Mobile will continue as the main sponsor of the German cycling team until 2010.
German Andreas Kloeden, third in this year's Tour de France, has confirmed he will join the Astana team next season from T-Mobile.
American Floyd Landis was crowned Tour de France champion after Sunday's parade on the Champs-Elysees ended in a sprint won by Norway's Thor Hushovd.
American Floyd Landis will go into the final stage of the Tour de France in the race leader's yellow jersey after finishing third in the crucial 57-km time trial stage at Macon on Saturday.
American Floyd Landis lost the Tour de France when he cracked on the last ascent of Wednesday's mountain stage, won by Denmark's Michael Rasmussen.
Luxemburg's Frank Schleck won the 15th stage of the Tour de France over 187 km from Gap to L'Alpe d'Huez on Tuesday and called it a "dream come true."
Germany's former Tour de France runner-up Andreas Kloden is confident he will be back in training soon after undergoing a successful shoulder operation.
Giro d'Italia winner Paolo Savoldelli completed a near-perfect Tour de France for Lance Armstrong's Discovery Channel team when he won the race's longest stage into Revel.
Kazakh rider Alexandre Vinokourov has dropped a bombshell on his T-Mobile team by announcing that he will leave them at the end of the season.
Lance Armstrong held on to the race leader's yellow jersey in the face of repeated attacks by Jan Ullrich's T-Mobile squad as the riders contested the first major climbs of this year's Tour de France.
Lance Armstrong seized total control of the Tour de France on Wednesday with an awesome display of power cycling to win the 16th stage, a 15.5 km individual time trial.
Former Tour de France champion Jan Ullrich is giving carte blanche to his compatriot and T-Mobile team mate Andreas Kloeden in this year's race.
Lance Armstrong grabbed the Tour de France by the scruff of the neck on Friday, outdistancing his main rivals and charging from sixth into second place.
An inspired Richard Virenque snatched his annual Tour de France win on the longest stage of this year's race from Limoges to St Flour.
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