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Controversy as French seal World Cup spot

Former champions France flattered to deceive before securing their World Cup spot in controversial fashion here Wednesday after a dramatic 1-1 draw with the Republic of Ireland at the Stade de France. Giovanni Trapattoni's visitors, beaten [...]

Posted On : Nov, 19 2009 | Comments : 0

CAS postpones hearing in Valverde doping case

The Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) said on Monday that it had postponed a hearing into Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde's appeal against a doping ban that sidelined him from this year's Tour de France. The hearing into the two year s [...]

Posted On : Nov, 10 2009 | Comments : 0

Hong Kong's Wong Kam-po wins third National Games road cycli...

JINAN, East China, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Veteran cyclist Wong Kam-po sprinted in the end of a 201-kilometer route and powered home to win Hong Kong's the first gold medal Monday at the 11th Chinese National Games. It is also [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

Police investigators target Astana team

The Astana team of Tour de France winner Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong is the target of a probe after suspicious medical material was seized during this year's race, a source close to the police investigation said. A spokeswoman f [...]

Posted On : Oct, 14 2009 | Comments : 0

De Bonis latest Italian to test positive for doping

A day after it was revealed that Italian Gabriele Bosisio had failed a dope test, his countryman Francesco De Bonis has also been flagged as an EPO user. De Bonis tested positive for the new-generation EPO called Cera during the first stage [...]

Posted On : Oct, 08 2009 | Comments : 0

Columbia cyclists volunteer, support Tour of Missouri

For the same reason that you wouldn’t want to shoot hoops with an NBA star, you definitely wouldn’t want to compete in a bike race with the cyclists of the Tour of Missouri. That is the analogy Joe Silsby uses to explain to his [...]

Posted On : Sep, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

Rotterdam cyclists' haven in Europe's largest port

Cyclists meander past majestic stacks of ship containers, towering cranes and docked oil tankers at one of the Netherlands' novel, and surprising, tourist havens: the Port of Rotterdam. If Europe's largest -- and the world's fourth largest [...]

Posted On : Aug, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

Italy's Ballan wins Tour of Poland

Italy's Alessandro Ballan, of the Lampre team, won the 66th edition of the Tour of Poland here on Saturday after the seventh and final stage. The 136km stage, from Rabka to Krakow, was won by Germany's Andre Greipel of the Columbia squad. [...]

Posted On : Aug, 11 2009 | Comments : 0

Ballan wins Tour of Poland fifth stage

Italy's Alessandro Ballan, of the Lampre team, won a sprint finish for the fifth stage of the Tour of Poland under the rain on Thursday. Ballan's success on the 163km stage from Strzyzow to Krynica Zdroj also gave him possession of the ra [...]

Posted On : Aug, 07 2009 | Comments : 0

Boasson Hagen wins as Greipel DQ'd in Poland

Norwegian ace Edvald Boasson Hagen of the Columbia team won the fourth stage of the Tour of Poland on Wednesday after outshining teammate Andre Greipel in a sprint finish. Greipel, wearing the race leader's jersey, finished second on the 23 [...]