The teams of US cyclists Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer, Christian Vande Velde, David Zabriskie and George Hincapie have all been chosen for the 2009 Tour de France, which starts July 4.
Astana (Armstrong and Leipheimer) was omitted from the Tour de France in 2008 because of the previous years' doping transgressions. Remember Let Levi Ride? He didn't last year.
This year that distinction falls to Fuji-Servetto …
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Reading through Lance Armstrong's quotes from a press release regarding the upcoming Tour de France route, I'd have to say he's looking forward to the upcoming bike race.
Armstrong was busy preparing for the Lance Armstrong Foundation's Ride for the Roses bicycling event in Austin this weekend, so he couldn't appear at the route unveiling in Paris. Who knows. He might not have shown up anyway.
The 7-time Tour winner has had a turbulent relationship with organizers in France and might have cold feet about racing the Tour again if he doesn't feel welcome …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/10/23/lance-armstrong-likes-tour-de-france-route-wants-to-meet-organizers/
The 2009 Tour de France sounds a lot like one of those old-fashioned Cook's tours of Europe — 6 countries in 21 days.
Of course, the racing bicyclists will spend most of their time in France, where the peloton will battle on the legendary Mont Ventoux on the next to last day.
The bike race runs from July 4 – 26, and starts in the Principality of Monaco, before it takes detours into Spain, Andorra, Switzerland, and Italy along its 2,170-mile course through France …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/10/22/2009-tour-de-france-a-climbers-dream/
Austria's Bernhard Kohl is the latest pro cyclist to be accused of doping at the Tour de France after a French lab retested his urine samples taken during the race in July.
Kohl finished in 3rd place overall, wearing the King of the Mountains jersey at the time.
He's the fourth Tour cyclist accused of using CERA, a new form of EPO, and the second one from the Gerolsteiner team to flunk the test …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/10/14/tour-de-france-podium-finisher-bernhard-kohl-fails-test/
For those of you keeping score at home, this year's doping dragnet of the Tour de France has netted a total of 6 cyclists. Book 'em, Danno.
Two suspects — Germany's Stefan Schumacher (Gerolsteiner) and Italy's Leonardo Piepoli (Saunier Duval) — were disclosed Monday after French laboratory technicians retested some urine samples that had originally tested negative.
If the accusations hold true, some rewriting of the record books will be in order. Schumacher won both individual time trials from Fabian Cancellara and spent a few days in the yellow jersey. Piepoli won a mountain stage in the Pyrenees.
Both were alleged to have used a new form of EPO called Continuous Erythropoiesis Receptor Activator, or CERA….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/10/07/tour-de-france-doping-revisited-2-more-cyclists-accused/
Another doping accusation and rumors of a celebration party injury to Cadel Evans (he refutes the rumors) dominate the news after Carlos Sastre collects his yellow jersey at the 2008 Tour de France.
Dimitry Fofonov is the cyclist on Credit Agricole who's been accused of doping. The 31-year-old rider from Khazakhstan was immediately fired by the team. He finished the Tour in 19th place. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/07/28/tour-de-france-ends-action-continues/
Gert Steegmans won the final sprint on the Champs Élysées in Paris on Sunday, giving his QuickStep team its first win in the 2008 Tour de France.
In a picturesque, sunny finish on the streets of Paris, Steegmans was launched by his team and beat Gerald Ciolek of Team Columbia and green jersey Oscar Freire, neither of whom could catch up.
As expected Carlos Sastre of Team CSC finished the race in the yellow jersey, becoming the 7th Spanish cyclist ever, and the second in two years, to win the Tour de France. At 33, Sastre was riding in his 8th Tour….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/07/27/steegmans-wins-tour-de-france-finale-sastre-is-overall-winner/
Forget what all the cycling experts said: Cadel Evans didn't have enough speed to catch Carlos Sastre.
2008 Tour de France favorite Evans picked up only 29 seconds on Sastre, when he needed 94 seconds. From the first time checks on Saturday, it was clear that Sastre wouldn't give up his yellow jersey.
Stefan Schumacher of Gerolsteiner won the 32.9-mile individual time trial on Saturday from Cérilly to Saint Amand Montrond. US cyclist Christian Vande Velde finished in 4th place on the stage, climbing into 5th place in the general classification.
When the Tour de France ends in Paris on Sunday, Sastre will finish in first, Evans in second (for the second straight year), Bernard Kohl in third, Denis Menchov in fourth and Vande Velde in fifth, 1:12 behind Menchov and 3:12 behind Sastre …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/07/26/sastres-amazing-tour-de-france-survives-time-trial-with-105-to-spare/
After competing for eight years at the Tour de France, France's Sylvain Chavanel won the first stage victory in his career over a fellow countryman who was making his first visit to the Tour.
The 29-year-old Cofidis cyclist beat Jérémy Roy of Française des Jeux in a two-man sprint on Stage 19 in Montluçon. The pair had successfully attacked the peloton about 48 miles into the 102-mile stage.
Team Columbia's Gerald Ciolek of Germany beat the mass sprint in the peloton, which came across the line 1:13 later. Yellow jersey wearer Carlos Sastre and all the other leaders finished together, and there was no change in the top 10 on Friday. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/07/25/chavanel-wins-his-1st-tour-de-france-stage-leaders-dont-change/
US-based Team Columbia posted its fifth stage win at the 2008 Tour de France on Thursday as Marcus Burghardt won a breakaway sprint to the finish in Saint Etienne.
It was the first Tour win for the 25-year-old German in what looked more like a sprint in a velodrome than the end of a 122-mile road race across the French countryside.
Meanwhile, Team CSC didn't have to field any threats to the yellow jersey held by Carlos Sastre. There were no changes among the Tour leaders as they conserve energy for the individual time trial on Saturday …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/07/24/columbias-burghardt-wins-stage-17-sastre-leads-tour-de-france/
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