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By editor “My advisers are still looking into it,” said Contador, who won the Tour de France in 2007 and 2009 and both the Giro d’Italia and the Vuelta a Espana in 2008. Contador added that his choice of team will be shaped by his desire to compete in the 2010 Tour de France, which Astana are not currently...

By sfrothingham Carlos Sastre insists he still hasn’t made up his mind on his 2010 calendar. The 2008 Tour de France champion was dismayed to see media reports that he was going to skip the Tour in favor of racing the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España. “My surprise was in capital letters, because I never said wh...

By editor Kazakh cycling team Astana, still awaiting their ProTour license, insisted Friday they are hopeful of keeping Tour de France champion Alberto Contador among their riders. Astana and four other teams – Caisse d’Epargne, Euskaltel, Saxo Bank and Sky – were on Thursday found lacking by th...

By Rant Robert D. Blackledge, Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), Retired, will be hosting ‘Bad Science: The Floyd Landis Case’, a presentation on the post-2006 Tour de France win by Floyd Landis and the subsequent handling of his allegedly tainted samples.

By Gene Bisbee The return of Lance Armstrong to the Tour de France has brought out at least one book -- "Lance: The Making of the World's Greatest Champion." The Tour was a bit of a joke this year. I’ve got nothing against Sastre . . . or Christian Vande Velde. ... Christian’s a nice guy, but finishing fifth in the Tour d...

By By JULIET MACUR Carlos Sastre of Spain, the defending champion, and Denis Menchov of Russia, the winner of the Giro d’Italia, are among the leading contenders in the Tour de France.

By By JULIET MACUR Lance Armstrong led a protest over course conditions at the Giro d’Italia. After a slow start, he finished 12th over all.

Armstron made his comeback earlier this year after retiring from professional cycling in 2006. Most expect him to compete - and do so well - in this year’s Giro d’Italia (the tour of Italy) rather than in the Tour de France. He fell 20 kilometers from ...

Race recap video of stage 17 of the 2008 Tour de France L’Alpe d’Huez.

 CO - Aug 29, 2008 After being snubbed for the Tour de France and managing to win the Giro d’Italia back in May with an eight-day notice, Contador has been able to preview the ...

 - Aug 28, 2008 Better still, the king stage is on Kohl's home soil, Austria, so if the race is going to blow up right away, expect the local Tour de France hero to be ...

 South Africa - Jun 10, 2008 Having just completed their first Giro d’Italia, Team Barloworld is deep into preparations for the Tour de France. While 2007 Tour de France King of the ...

 South Africa - Jun 10, 2008 Having just completed their first Giro d’Italia, Team Barloworld is deep into preparations for the Tour de France. While 2007 Tour de France King of the ...

Cycling Weekly Contador will not have a chance to defend his Tour de France title; Astana has been excluded from the race because of a team doping scandal before his ... What Contador’s Giro victory means for the Tour de France St. Louis Post-Dispatch

RIDING HIGH: Tour de France riders climb the Iseran pass between Val d’Isere and Briancon in the French Alps this year. Scotland is interested in hosting the prologue and first stage of the event, but the soonest the Scots could be ...

By big jonny Rudy Pevenage has indicated that Jan Ullrich may have been using doping products when he won the Tour de France in 1997. Focus magazine reported Monday that in a secretly-taped conversation between ex-Team Telekom soigneur Jef d’Hont ...

By Andrew Tour de France, Stage 19 — Le Creusot - Montceau-les-Mines (ITT), 57 kilometres The Mennonite Meteorite Floyd Landis (Phonak) is just 24 hours from winning the 2006 Tour de France, after he regained the yellow jersey at the end of today’s 57 kilometre time trial.

By Andrew Tour de France, Stage 16 — Bourg-d’Oisans - La Toussuire, 182 kilometres In what has been a most unpredictable Tour de France, there was another huge shock today as yellow jersey holder Floyd Landis (Phonak) cracked spectacularly on stage 16’s final climb to La Toussuire, handing the je...

By Andrew Tour de France, Stage 13 — Béziers - Montélimar, 231 kilometres German rider Jens Voigt (CSC) went on one of his trademark long breakaways today and ended up winning stage 13 of the Tour de France. In a two-up sprint, Voigt beat Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d’Epargne), who ended up taking the yello...

By Andrew General Classification after Stage 8 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) T-Mobile Team - 34h38m53sFloyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems - at 1m00sMichael Rogers (Aus) T-Mobile Team - at 1m08sPatrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile Team - at 1m45sMarcus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner - at 1m50sAndreas Kl...