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Source: rootv World Headlines The Tour de France 2007 champion, Alberto Contador, played down any rivalry with seven time Tour winner Lance Armstrong who joins the Spaniard on the Astana team. Contador told journalists that he welcomed Armstrong's participation and said he was motiva...

By rss@youtube.com (vicioussid88) Time Trial footage from 2009 Amgen Tour of California featuring: LANCE ARMSTRONG, Levi Leipheimer, Ivan Basso, Floyd Landis, Johan Bruyneel, Tom Boonen, Dave Zabriskie Yaroslav Popovych. See the Astana team bus, start ramp footage, finish of many top stars. Filmed in Solvang Californ...

By rss@youtube.com (edmundjenks) Author: edmundjenks Keywords: Amgen Astana Astana Cycling Team Dave Zabriskie George Hincapie Lance Armstrong Levi Leipheimer Michael Rogers Syringe Man Tour of California The EDJE TOPIX Costume TOC Tour Of California Added: February 24, 2009

By rss@youtube.com (Confusciously) http://www.cynthialou.com Lance Armstrong leaving the start house at the 2009 Amgen Tour of California Time Trial. Author: Confusciously Keywords: Lance Armstrong time trial Astana cycling team bike racing tt ttbike start house amgen tour of california 2009 stage

By rss@youtube.com (lepiota1950) Near the finish at Santa Cruz... Lance Armstrong is in this mix ... Team Astana colors ... Author: lepiota1950 Keywords: FILE0037 Added: February 16, 2009

Source: AOL Video Lance Armstrong will return to competitive cycling with Team Astana in Australia in January. The seven time Tour de France winner also announced he would compete in the 2009 Tour.

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Astana riders went without some paychecks last season when Contador and Lance Armstrong were teammates. Armstrong rode without pay and has since started his ... Cycling: Sky licence confirmedTeleText More Than The Games -The Associated Press -Bike World News (blog)

By editor PARIS, Oct 30, 2009 (AFP) – The International Cycling Union (UCI) on Thursday reopened a war of words with the French anti-doping agency AFLD in blasting an AFLD report which suggested the Union had favored the Astana team in the Tour de France.

By Gene Bisbee The text message that Astana team manager Johan Bruyneel sent to Lance Armstrong after the American cyclist broke his collarbone at the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon bike race in March. Bruyneel told a Belgian magazine that Armstrong considered abandoning his comeback at the time.

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By editor Lance Armstrong There will be only 60 K individual time trial but the only thing that is unfortunate for us, is that there will be no team time trial. The race will technically and tactically be much different than this year. You will have more guys who will be factors in the race because of the l...

By editor “These media reports are the first we as a team have heard of an investigation. According to the press articles, the investigation involves a number of cycling teams having participated in the 2009 Tour de France,” said the statement.

By editor French anti-doping chiefs (AFLD) said Wednesday they were surprised at the lack of positive doping tests at this year’s Tour de France and said they won’t collaborate with world cycling’s ruling body next year. And the AFLD maintained its claims that the Astana team of Lance Armstrong an...

By editor PARIS, Oct 5, 2009 (AFP) – The Astana team of Tour de France winner Alberto Contador and third placed Lance Armstrong were given an easy ride during dope tests at the 2009 event, two leading French newspapers said Monday. They quoted a report by the French anti-doping agency AFLD accusing [......

By cpelkey The Astana team of Tour de France winner Alberto Contador and third placed Lance Armstrong were given an easy ride during dope tests at the 2009 event, two leading French newspapers said Monday. Both Le Monde and Le Figaro published stories on Monday quoting a report by the French anti-dop...

By maddog Chris Horner has signed with Team RadioShack for the next two seasons, according to an Oregon newspaper. Horner told The Oregonian that he had talked with other teams, “but wanted to stay here” — that being alongside Astana teammates Lance Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer. It’s been a tough s...

By editor Frenchman Geoffroy Lequatre, the 2008 Tour of Britain champion, has signed for Radio Shack cycling team that will be spearheaded by Lance Armstrong in 2010, the team said Sunday. Armstrong raced in the same Astana team as Contador in 2009, the American finishing third on the Tour de Franc...

By editor The cycling future of the Astana team, whose star rider is Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, could be in doubt, UCI chief Pat McQuaid said Saturday. The Kazakh-backed team have had a torrid year prior to Contador’s Tour de France triumph in July.

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.

By Gene Bisbee The Schleck brothers tried a one-two punch to knock Alberto Contador out of the yellow jersey on Tuesday as Stage 16 of the Tour de France continued through the Alps. The effort didn't phase the Spanish cyclist on Team Astana, but it briefly put Lance Armstrong on the mat. He valiantly battle...

By sampurn Hollywood star Ben Stiller paid a visit to seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong before yesterday’s third stage of the Tour de France. The Night at the Museum actor went into the Astana team bus in Marseille just before the start of the race and was thrilled by his chat with the T...

By Gene Bisbee Team Astana delivered Lance Armstrong to the finish line for Tuesday's team time trial in the exact time that he trailed Tour de France leader Fabian Cancellara -- 40 seconds -- and not a second faster. Cancellara certainly earned the honor of wearing the yellow again. His Saxo Bank team fin...

By Gene Bisbee Includes updates] Sometimes just showing up to work is enough for a routine stage of the Tour de France, but sometimes you have to pay attention. Astana is favored to win the Stage 4 team time trial on Tuesday. As the top-placed rider on Astana, there's a chance that Armstrong could be in the ye...

By IANS Paris, June 30 (DPA) Kicked out of the 2007 Tour de France and then banned from the 2008 edition because of doping, Kazakhstan’s Astana team are looking to redeem themselves with a resounding victory in this year’s race. They certainly have the weapons, because the team roster includes se...

By Gene Bisbee It's only 1-1/2 weeks until the beginning of this year's Tour de France in Monaco on July 4, and it's still unclear whether Astana will start the race with an absolute team leader. If you were in charge of Astana and facing this decision, who would you pick? See the poll at right. ...

By Gene Bisbee Team Astana suffered more disappointment as their favorite to win the Giro, American Levi Leipheimer, crossed the finish line nearly 3 minutes behind the winner and fell three places to 6th, 3:21 behind Menchov. He was pulled across the finish line at Monte Petrano by teammate Lance Arms...

INNSBRUCK, Austria (AFP) — American Lance Armstrong's Astana team admitted Friday they have been forced into desperate measures in a bid to publicise a never-ending financial dispute with their key sponsors. Seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong ...

INNSBRUCK, Austria (AFP) — American Lance Armstrong's Astana team admitted Friday they have been forced into desperate measures in a bid to publicise a never-ending financial dispute with their key sponsors. Seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong ... SI.com - Cycling Weekly

Di Luca thinks that Lance Armstrong will still aim for a stage win sometime during the race. Speeds apparently reached over 117 km/h on the descent into Mayrhofen today. Everyone is anticipating changes in the Astana team jersey by the weekend. ... CNN - The Times

By Gene Bisbee No one could match Russian cyclist Denis Menchov's burst of speed inside the last mile on the way to winning Stage 5's mountaintop finish at the Giro d'Italia on Wednesday. The most well-known Astana team member, comeback cyclist Lance Armstrong, failed to hang on ...

By editor Vinokourov was kicked out of the 2007 Tour de France after being found guilty of blood doping and he was also hit with a two-year suspension from competition. Vinokourov indicated that he would be keen to rejoin the Astana team that he helped establish in 2006 which would put him alongside c...

By editor VENICE, Italy, May 7, 2009 (AFP) - Lance Armstrong insisted again on Thursday that there will be no miracle Tour of Italy victory, preferring to concentrate on helping his Astana team out of their worrying financial crisis. The seven-time Tour de France winner makes his comeback this wee...

 OH Here's today's cycling news from the Giro and beyond. Hundreds of cycling fans greated Lance Armstrong at the Astana team presentation in St. Mark's Square in Venice. Bookmaker Unibet has named Ivan Basso and Levi Leipheimer as their favorites for the ...

By editor The American cyclist even suggested his Livestrong cancer foundation might be able step in and bail out the team, but that seemed to be a long shot. “It could be a combination of people that have a shared interest in Livestrong and want to see Livestrong promoted around the world and believe...

By editor The Astana cycling team on Tuesday named an international line-up to support Americans Lance Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer in the Tour of Italy, which starts in Venice on Saturday. Six nations are represented in the group containing Leipheimer and seven-time Tour de France champion Ar...

By editor Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong is regaining the form he showed before breaking his collarbone last month in a crash in Spain, Astana team manager Johan Bruyneel Friday’s stage ended with Armstrong taking 3rd in the time trial, making it his first podium since his ret...

 MO Then, they added the team with the defending Tour de France champion, Cervelo, and announced the return of Liquigas. A couple weeks later, they added Astana, the team of Lance Armstrong, Alberto Contador and Levi Leipheimer. Last month, the organizers ...

 South Africa Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong is regaining the form he showed before breaking his collarbone last month in a crash in Spain, Astana team manager Johan Bruyneel said on Thursday. "He needs to get some speed in the legs for the start ...

By editor Linden, NJ (May 1, 2009) — Sebastian Haedo secured a big win for the Colavita/Sutter Home Men’s Cycling Team presented by Cooking Light at the second stage of the Tour of the Gila on April 30th in Silver City, New Mexico. Before throngs of spectators cheering for the peloton that included se...

By Gene Bisbee Although he's a member of the ProTour team Astana, he and teammates Lance Armstrong and Chris Horner had to wear the "neutral" jerseys to compete in national-level race, according to UCI rules. Armstrong has been on the mend from a crash during a bike race in Spain last month in which he brok...

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 OH The UCI initially applied a little used rule against Lance Armstrong and the Astana team and prohibited them from participating in the Tour of the Gila, but due to an exception in the rule, Lance and two others will kit up as the “Mellow Johnny's” team ...

By editor France’s anti-doping authority (AFLD) was criticized Friday by cycling chief Pat McQuaid over its handling of the Lance Armstrong ’shower’ case. Any sanction would only apply to French territory, which could effect Armstrong’s intended participation in the Tour de France.

LONDON (AFP) — Lance Armstrong's Astana team expressed optimism Wednesday over his prospects of recovering from his broken collarbone in time to line up for next month's Tour of Italy. The seven-time Tour de France winner's participation in the Giro ...

LONDON (AFP) — Lance Armstrong's Astana team expressed optimism Wednesday over his prospects of recovering from his broken collarbone in time to line up for next month's Tour of Italy. The seven-time Tour de France winner's participation in the Giro ...

LONDON (AFP) — Lance Armstrong's Astana team expressed optimism Wednesday over his prospects of recovering from his broken collarbone in time to line up for next month's Tour of Italy. The seven-time Tour de France winner's participation in the Giro ...

LONDON (AFP) — Lance Armstrong's Astana team expressed optimism Wednesday over his prospects of recovering from his broken collarbone in time to line up for next month's Tour of Italy. The seven-time Tour de France winner's participation in the Giro ...

By editor Armstrong, a cancer survivor who went on to claim a record seven Tour de France crowns, ended a three-and-a-half year retirement at the Tour Down Under in Australia in January. Armstrong has also been dogged by unproven doping allegations in his career.

By bumpshack American cyclist Lance Armstrong was rushed to a hospital in Spain today after crashing during a cycling race there.  Armstrong was taken to the hospital by ambulance and likely broke his collar bone. This update just made by CNN: Armstrong reportedly fell around 20 kilometers from the fi...

FOXSports.com  Canada PARIS -- Twenty teams will compete at this summer's Tour de France, with Lance Armstrong returning to the race he won seven times and the former Saunier Duval-Scott team excluded from cycling's premier event. Armstrong is riding with Astana in a ...

The tean gas published an "alternative" collection, in the form of video, about the best articles published in 2008 and the beginning of 2009, representing our champions. www.lampre-ngc.com The Astana Cycling team confirms today that Lance Armstrong ...

The tean gas published an "alternative" collection, in the form of video, about the best articles published in 2008 and the beginning of 2009, representing our champions. www.lampre-ngc.com The Astana Cycling team confirms today that Lance Armstrong ...

Lance Armstrong fears he could be attacked by spectators if he returns to the Tour de France next year. Armstrong announced his comeback in September and joined the Astana team. He is reunited with Astana team leader Johanna Bruyneel, who teamed with Armstrong for all seven Tour de France w...

By editor BREST, France, July 4, 2008 (AFP) - Australia’s Cadel Evans said he is unlikely to rely on his time trialling powers alone in his bid to win the yellow jersey on this year’s Tour de France. In the end, Rasmussen was thrown out for suspected doping, and after Contador was handed the yellow jers...

The former team manager of Lance Armstrong added: "Many people may not realize that riders schedule their season-long training programs around these ... Cycling team Astana invited to Giro d'Italia - report AFP Astana given place in Giro field BBC Sport

Tour de France champion Alberto Contador signs for new Astana team  France - Oct 23, 2007 Bruyneel, who also coached Lance Armstrong to seven straight Tour titles from 1999-2005, had said he was retiring last month after Discovery Channel failed ...

By Cara de Pescado So Americans are daft and don't really get into cycling much. When Lance Armstrong was setting records for how many Tour de France wins in a row he had after overcoming cancer, they'd show recaps on the news and that made cycling at least more known than previously in the US. While I certainly a...