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Sep. 3, 2008Coach Dirk Friel examines the power recording from Marco Pinotti's race-winning solo attack on Sunday.
On Sunday, three-time Italian time trial champion Marco Pinotti won the Tour of Ireland with a solo attack in the last 10k of the stage. The textbook attack was setup by his Columbia teammate Michael Barry, who was caught leading into the final circuit in Cork.
Pinotti and ...
Sep. 3, 2008Katusha, Cervelo ... and more: Sastre's career plans subject of widespread speculation
The career plans of Carlos Sastre were the subject of widespread speculation Wednesday, as the reigning Tour de France champion was linked to both the new Russian team Katusha and Canada’s Cervelo squad.
The 33-year-old, whose contract with CSC expires at year's end, was ...
Sep. 3, 2008Astana's Levi Leipheimer takes the lead and the time trial win in Spain.
Back in 2001, Levi Leipheimer became the only American to stand on the Vuelta a España podium with a breakout third-place finish that announced his arrival to the elite levels of the sport.
Flash forward to Wednesday’s 42.5km individual time trial on the flat, wide-open ...
Sep. 3, 2008Up-and-comers spar in Avenir
It’s the “Tour de France” for the Under-23 crowd.
The 45th Tour de l’Avenir clicks into gear Friday with an opening prologue followed by nine days of racing on a course that slices straight south across France toward the Pyrénées.
Nineteen teams of six riders ...
- Sep. 3, 2008Full Start List: Stage 5 Time Trial - 2008 Vuelta a España
1. Aurélien Clerc, Bouygues Telecom, starts at 1:41 p.m.2. Oscar Gatto, Gerolsteiner, starts at 1:42 p.m.3. Stef Clement, Bouygues Telecom, starts at 1:43 p.m.4. Cyril Lemoine, Credit Agricole, starts at 1:44 p.m.5. Kevin Van Impe, Quick Step, starts at ...
- Sep. 2, 20082008 Vuelta a España: Live Updates - Stage 4
12:09 PM: Good day and welcometo VeloNews.com's Live Coverage of the fourth stage of the 2008 Vuelta a Espana, a 170.3-kilometer race from Cordoba to ...
Sep. 2, 2008The Olympics over, coach Neal Henderson is back in the states.
Neal Henderson is the Sport Science Manager at Boulder Center for Sports Medicine. He is a USA Cycling certified coach and works with a diverse clientele at BCSM. He has been Taylor Phinney’s personal coach since 2006 and traveled with Phinney and his family in the lead-up ...
Sep. 2, 2008Readers write on Hamilton, Armstrong and the Summer of Rage
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Sep. 2, 2008Bennati wins stage 4 of the Vuelta a España.
This time there were no late climbs or rising finishes. Tuesday’s flat and treacherous arrival into Puertollano in the fourth stage of the Vuelta a España was a flat, fast and furious finish ideal for the pure sprinters.
So it was no surprise that
- Sep. 2, 2008Ridley signs deal with Katusha
The Belgian bicycle manufacturer Ridley has announced plans to sponsor the new Katusha cycling team, a Russian squad team organized by Tinkoff owner Oleg Tinkov.
Ridley, which has served as the bicycle sponsor of the Silence-Lotto team and its predecessors for the past four ...
- Sep. 2, 2008A source says Manuel Beltran's B-sample from the Tour de France contains EPO.
The second sample provided by Spanish rider Manuel Beltran, who tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO) during the Tour de France, has also tested positive for the blood booster, a source close to
the dossier said Tuesday.
The test on the second sample, known as the "B" ...
Sep. 2, 2008Technical Q and A with Lennard Zinn
I’ve received a lot of mail about our story in the print VeloNews, issue 14, about climbing wheels. It was a great test that revealed a lot about climbing wheels we saw right afterward in the Tour de France. Matt Pacocha rode 50,000 vertical feet on the wheels and performed ...
