From BikeRadar.com…
by AFP
Riders will now have to tackle the 2744m Col d’Agnel (Tim de Waele)
The threat of tumbling boulders has forced Tour de France organisers into changing the route of one of the stages on the 2008 edition of cycling’s blue riband event.
Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) announced Wednesday that the 15th stage would […]
Hein Verbruggen, vice-president of the
International Cycling Union (UCI), has conceded defeat to Tour
de France organisers in a long and bitter battle for control of
the sport.
by Julien Pretot
PARIS, March 21 (Reuters) - Newcomers Slipstream vowed to bring a fresh breeze to the Tour de France after being invited to cycling’s greatest stage race.
Slipstream, a ProContinental team, will hit the French roads with two other second-division teams that have already competed in the Tour and 17 ProTour teams.
However, team owner Doug Ellis […]
Cycling News Flash… March 21, 2008 By Gregor Brown
The Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) has announced the 20 teams that will partake in the 2008 edition of the Tour de France, July 5 to 27. The organiser of the world’s largest cycling event confirmed its controversial decision to exclude the team of defending champion Alberto […]
The 2008 course looks to be one intended to focus more on individual riders and skills rather than teams and tactics. For the first time since 1967, the race will start with a full road stage — 195 kilometres from Brest to Plumelec in Brittany — instead of an opening individual time-trial race. It appears […]
As was widely anticipated, the International Cycling Union create biological ‘passports’ in an effort to thwart doping.
The passports will be aggregated through a series of blood and urine tests which will act as a baseline for certain biological markers. Changes in those levels may indicate the body’s reaction to doping. The general thought is that […]
The big news coming out of day one of the two day doping and cycling meeting in Paris is a commitment by the International Cycling Union (UCI) to double the number of tests next year. Anner Gripper, UCI’s anti-doping manager, stated 8,000 in-competition tests will be conducted next season as well as 7,000 out-of-competition […]
Hopefully this brings it to an end. The fallout has been huge and cycling needs to heal and rebuild it’s reputation…..
Spanish cyclist Oscar Pereiro will formally be awarded the winner’s yellow jersey for the 2006 Tour de France in a ceremony next Monday in Madrid by Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme.
As you probably know, […]
