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Articles: Man jailed over Pantani death

<img border="0" align="left" src=http://d.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com//ng/sp/eurosport/20080114/19/3122682830.jpg> Former disco manager Fabio Carlino has been jailed for four and a half years for dealing drugs and contributing to the death of 1998 Tour De France winner Marco Pantani, the lawyer for the cyclist's family said.

Pantani, who also won the Giro d'Italia in 1998, died of a cocaine overdose on February 14 2004.

... Eurosport

Published: Jan 14, 2008 - 03:30 PM

Articles: Kashechkin case could rock foundations of antidoping efforts

<img border="0" align="left" src=http://www.letour.fr/PHOTOS/FWH/2007/100/live_live_04.jpg> An appeal by a lawyer for disgraced cyclist Andriy Kashechkin over the right to submit athletes to doping tests could threaten to change the face of sport when the case is heard Tuesday.

Kashechkin tested positive for homologous blood doping following the 2007 Tour de France, during which his team, Astana, was thrown out when team leader Alexandre Vinokourov tested positive for blood doping.

... you can read the rest of this article in VeloNews

Published: Nov 06, 2007 - 08:02 AM

International News: Vietnamese take part in Taiwan’s cycling tournament

<img border="0" align="left" src=http://english.vietnamnet.vn/dataimages/200703/original/images1259470_cyclistVN.jpg>VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s long-distance cycling team will take part in the seven-stage Tour de Taiwan to prepare for the up-coming Asian bike championship.

The five-racer team includes Mai Cong Hieu, Dang Trung Hieu, Do Anh Tuan, Ho Van Phuc and Le Van Duan.

According to trainer Tran Van Quyt, the young Vietnamese cyclists will face fierce competition in the 800-kilometre tour, which is a major cycling tournament that runs through many difficult terrains.

The team is expected to leave Vietnam for the tournament later on March

Published: Mar 18, 2007 - 05:05 AM

National News: Germany's Judith Arndt wins the Montreal World Cup cycling race

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MONTREAL (CP) - German Judith Arndt won the Montreal World Cup cycling race Saturday, edging out Briton Nicole Cooke and American Kristin Armstrong.

Arndt completed the 100.7-kilometre race in three hours 11 minutes 52 seconds. Cooke had the same time, three seconds faster than Armstrong.

Published: May 28, 2006 - 10:15 AM
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Event Results: Jake's Corner Road Race

by Glen Iceton

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Looking at this picture makes you want to get on your bike and ride!

Well, it seems that spring has finally sprung in the Yukon as twenty-six riders took to the road under sunny skies and in relatively warm temperatures last Saturday. And if that wasn’t good enough, a tail wind took some of the burden off of the riders’ legs and lungs.

The course started at Jake’s Corner and ran to the top of south access. This was the finish line for the majority of the field, with the exception of the Expert Men who had to suffer through a lap of Mile Canyon Road before calling it a day.

Published: May 28, 2006 - 12:42 AM
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International News: Basso puts icing on the cake

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Ivan Basso stamped his authority on the 2006 Giro D'Italia by winning the race's penultimate stage and holding up a picture of his new-born son as he crossed the finish line on Saturday.

... go to Eurosport for more.

Published: May 28, 2006 - 12:27 AM

International News: The doctor at the centre of Spain's biggest investigation into doping

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Fuentes held on six-figure bail

The doctor at the centre of Spain's biggest investigation into doping in sport spent the night in jail, but is expected to released on bail on Saturday.

Eufemiano Fuentes has been accused of offences against public health after raids by the Spanish Civil Guard on Tuesday found large quantities of anabolic steroids, laboratory equipment used for blood transfusions and more than 100 bags of frozen blood.

... go to Eurosport for the rest.

Published: May 28, 2006 - 12:23 AM

International News: Giro: Breakthrough victory for Horrach

<img border="0" align="right" src=http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2006/giro06/giro0612/fs_004.jpg height=200 width=300> Step three of the Horrach boogie - get your hands in the air - come on!

As he turned his head around metres before the line, making sure no-one would pass him, Joan Horrach Rippoll's strawberry blonde ponytail flicked back softly against his neck, his right arm began swinging in a circular motion as if waving a lasso, before both arms lifted in unison, his index fingers and azure eyes pointing towards the baby blue Ligurian sky.

Catching his breakaway companions by surprise with a perfectly-timed move five hundred metres from the line, the 32 year-old Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears rider took the greatest win of his six-year career in the seaside town of Sestri Levante. Until today, no-one had heard too much of this man who hails from Deia on the popular Spanish holiday island of Majorca, who hadn't taken a trick since his two stage wins in the Volta a Portugal four years ago. But now, Horrach had the eyes of the Giro upon him.


... go to Cycling News to read more.

Published: May 19, 2006 - 02:34 PM

International News: A glimpse of the Tour to come?

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Jan Ullrich won a 50-km time-trial, but Ivan Basso strengthened his overall lead as the Tour de France's principal rivals strutted their stuff in Italy. Basso finished 28 seconds behind the T-Mobile leader, but tightened the noose on his principal Giro rivals after Thursday's eleventh stage.

Ullrich has said he is not contending the general classification at this year's Giro D'Italia, but the two men are the early favourites for July's Tour de France.

... click here to read the rest.

Published: May 18, 2006 - 09:46 AM

International News: Cycling: Basso begins well in chase for double

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Reaching the halfway point after 10 days of hard work, the riders in the Giro d'Italia took the day off Wednesday to prepare for tougher times ahead.

They start Thursday with a long individual time trial that should begin deciding who is, and who isn't, still in the running for victory when the race ends May 28 in Milan.

... go to the Herald Tribune for the rest of this story

Published: May 18, 2006 - 07:24 AM

Event Results: VeloNorth / Icycle Sports ITT Series # 2

Date: May 17, 2006
Distance: Novice – 10.9 km, Sport and Expert – 21.8 km
Temperature: 8 degrees
Winds: out of the south gusting to 35 km/hr.

With summer just around the corner (of course we’re not saying which corner) 32 riders showed up in Porter Creek to ride the second in the summer’s series of time trials being sponsored by Icycle Sports.

The Porter Creek course is known as a difficult one with fast descents and tough short steep uphills. However on Wednesday night the section along Range Road going past Takhini Elementary towards Two Mile Hill was no one’s favorite. It’s was a slow grind uphill into a headwind.

Young Daniel Greer had an excellent ride capturing first in the Men’s Expert category. Greer is a multi-talented athlete who is just coming off a very successful cross-country ski season.

Heather Enders continues to show great form and was first in the Expert Women’s class.

The Men’s Sport group was the largest and was highly competitive. John Berryman edged veteran rider Bob Bowerman and new comer Jesse Reams for the win.

While in the Sport Women’s class Christine Todd broke the 40 minute mark by one second for the victory.

The next race on VeloNorth’s schedule is the Jake’s Corner road race being held this coming Saturday (May 20th).

The Club would like to acknowledge the volunteers who made this race possible.

Bill Curtis was the person in charge and he was ably assisted by: Sheri Lynne Himmelsbach , David Knight, Bruce Henry, Bill Greer and Dan Reimer

Published: May 18, 2006 - 06:27 AM
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International News: No Milan for Merckx

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After suffering a disappointing end to stage ten of the Giro d'Italia on Tuesday, Phonak's Axel Merckx's has decided that he will not continue the race all the way to Milan. "The next few stages are guarded, I'm going to pull out," conveyed Merckx.

... to read more about what Axel Merckx (who by the way is married to a Canadian and has a house in Kelowna) had to say go to Eurosport

Published: May 17, 2006 - 08:58 AM

Articles: Bettini in search of win

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Quick Step leader Paolo Bettini will be looking for his first win on this year's Giro d'Italia on Tuesday's stage ten. The Olympic champion got pipped to the top spot for the second time on this Tour on Tuesday and will look for revenge as the riders make the 187km trek from Termoli to Peschici.

... go to Eurosport for more.

Published: May 16, 2006 - 07:39 AM

International News: Basso victory secures Giro lead

<img border="0" align="right" src=http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41407000/jpg/_41407089_basso203.jpg> Basso broke away on Sunday's final climb

Italy's Ivan Basso, riding for CSC, won eighth stage of the Giro d'Italia and took the overall race lead.

Basso attacked 4km from the finish at the summit of the Passo Lanciano to win by 30 seconds from compatriot Damiano Cunego and Spain's Jose Gutierrez.

... BBC Sports has the rest.

Published: May 14, 2006 - 10:33 AM

International News: Verbrugghe holds on for Giro stage win

<img border="0" align="right" src=http://images.velonews.com/images/int/9866.14681.t.jpg> Exhausted, but happy: Verbrugghe holds off a charging peloton.

Saturday's 236km stage from Cesana to Saltara certainly won't decide the overall winner of the 2006 Giro d'Italia, but it may have revealed some cracks in at least one of the pre-race favorites.

While Belgian Rik Verbrugghe was off the front gunning his way to a hard-fought solo stage win, Italian Danilo Di Luca was noticeably absent from a fast-closing group that included the rest of the Giro's big GC guns - Paolo Savoldelli, Gilberto Simoni and Damiano Cunego.

... gp to VeloNews for more.

Published: May 13, 2006 - 03:34 PM

International News: "The Giro starts now"

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Whether the Giro sees an attack at the Monte Catria on Saturday or at Mailletta on Sunday, as Paolo Savoldelli says, the race starts now.

... Eurosport has the rest

Published: May 13, 2006 - 08:24 AM

International News: Armstrong doping results due soon

Internaional Cycling Union (UCI) president Pat McQuaid has said the results of the independent investigation into allegations that Lance Armstrong tested positive for EPO during the 1999 Tour de France will be announced in the next two weeks.

Published: May 12, 2006 - 06:45 PM
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International News: "Magnifico" McEwen Rides to Giro hat trick in Forli'

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Jan Ullrich (T-Mobile) rides ahead of race leader and teammate Serguei Gonchar

Although he's learned to speak Italian via his trips to the Giro d'Italia, Robbie McEwen has impressed with his post race TV interviews delivered in decent Italian. So far, Robbie Mac is three for three in Italian TV interviews and also three for three in sprint wins at this Giro, where the Aussie pocket rocket is simply schooling the rest of the sprinters - Italians included - at this year's Giro d'Italia.

... go to Cycling News for details

Published: May 12, 2006 - 11:33 AM

Event Results: Wednesday Crit race results

<img border="0" align="left" src=ftp://velonorth:JeYnTvey@ftp.velonorth.ca/httpdocs/picture_library/May%2010%20Crit/DSC00117.JPG height=240 width=320> Travelling at close to light speed this bunch heads into a sweeping turn with little regard to life or limb

Some times called the "lowest form of racing" (generally by those people with absolutely no fast twitch muscle fibers) criteriums offer both the participant and the spectator the anticipated, gut wrenching potential of skin on pavement at 45 km/hr as masses of metal and flesh all hurtle into the same corner at the same time. Each rider hoping that the one in front manages to hold their line and not hook them. At least not on purpose!

On Wednesday, under cloudy skies and cool temperatures 16 riders (all without a mortgage) toed the line for the first of a series of crits being organized this summer.

In the Expert Men class a bold move was put on by Scott Kirby and Ian Parker as they took a flyer off the front early in the race and managed to stay away until the end when Ian made up for being out sprinted last weekend and nipped Scott at the line.

Dan Reimer displayed pure brute strength as he won the Men's Sport class.

Heather Enders continued her winning ways as she won the Women's Expert category and so far this season has two wins.

At "press" time we are still trying to sort out the Men's Sport results - we've had to go to the video - and they will be posted as soon as Glen finds his glasses.

Published: May 12, 2006 - 07:35 AM
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International News: Giro Update: CSC wins stage 5

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The CSC team won the 35-km team time trial, the fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia, from Piacenza to Cremona on Thursday. T-Mobile powered to second place just 1 second back while The Discovery Channel crossed the line third fastest, 39 seconds off the pace.

... go to Eurosport

Published: May 11, 2006 - 09:34 AM

International News: Battle of the Giants

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The Giro d'Italia has a rest day on Wednesday as the riders leave Belgium for Italy ahead of Thursday's 38km team time trial from Piacenza to Cremona. The team time trial makes its long awaited return to the Giro since being dropped in 1989.

... go to Eurosport for more.

Published: May 10, 2006 - 07:50 AM

International News: Giro Update through four stages ...

McEwen grabs another at the Giro

<img border="0" align="right" src=http://images.velonews.com/images/int/9845.14631.t.jpg> McEwen wins No.2

Following his second stage win at the 2006 Giro d'Italia, Robbie McEwen brushed off the idea that he had ascended the crown of world's fastest bike racer.

But there was no denying that the Australian Davitamon-Lotto man has already made an indelible mark on this year's tour of Italy.

... go to VeloNews for a complete update.

Published: May 09, 2006 - 11:50 AM

Articles: Armstrong: ‘I’ve got no regrets’

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Lance Armstrong joined Johan Bruyneel in the Discovery Channel team car for today's Giro stage, but beforehand he revealed that he's not missing cycling, that he will be returning to the Tour de France, but won't be having coffee with Jean-Marie Leblanc.

... go to Procycling to read more

Published: May 09, 2006 - 11:35 AM

Articles: More Pictures from the North Klondike Road Race

Big thanks to Glen Iceton's brother-in- law and to Lara Melnik for these pictures:

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Tom Ulyett at Shallow bay

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Women's Expert winner, Heather Enders powering her way along

Published: May 07, 2006 - 08:29 PM
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Articles: Teams on the roll FENIXS - COLNAGO

<img border="0" align="left" src=http://www.ladiescycling.net/files/fenix/img_0833.jpg height=133 width=175> The leading lady of the squad is the former world champion Svetlana Bubnenkova, last year winner of the Giro del Trentino and the green jersey in the Giro d'Italia.

... go to theLadies Cycling website to read the rest.

Published: May 07, 2006 - 06:06 AM

International News: 89th Giro d'Italia: Il Falco flies fastest in Seraing

<img border=0" align="right" src=http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2006/giro06/giro061/_TM_7563.jpg> Paolo Savoldelli (Discovery Channel) rockets to a win

Today in Seraing, 2005 Giro champion Paolo Savoldelli began his title defence in the best way possible, blitzing the entire field in a short but tough opening stage of the 89th Giro d'Italia. The only rider to go under the eight-minute mark with a time of 7'50, Il Falco's average speed was an incredible 47.489 km/h - eleven seconds faster than his closest rival, Australian prologue specialist Bradley McGee, and thirteen quicker than Phonak's Jose Enrique Gutierrez.

... go to Cycling News for a compete report on Stage 1

Published: May 06, 2006 - 02:44 PM

Articles: Descente Athletic Unveils Project AX Time Trial Suit at Giro d'Italia

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MAY 05, 2006 -- BOULDER, CA (BRAIN)—This weekend at the 89th running of the Giro d’Italia, Descente Athletic will unveil the secret weapon this it hopes will vault Ivan Basso and Team CSC to the top of the general classification, the Project AX Time Trial Suit.

... click here for the rest.

Published: May 06, 2006 - 07:31 AM

International News: EuroFile: Bettini eyes maglia rosa; Petacchi agrees; McGee uncertain

<img border="0" align="left" src=http://images.velonews.com/images/int/9829.14595.t.jpg> Bettini chats with reporters at a Thursday press conference.

Paolo Bettini has it all planned out. The Olympic champion likes to give as well as take; give to his fans, that is, after what he is hoping will be a day in pink after taking a stage in Belgium and grabbing the maglia rosa.

... VeloNews has a complete look at the upcoming Giro

Published: May 05, 2006 - 11:00 AM

International News: EuroFile: Liberty hopes for Giro surprise; Milram wants sprint wins; Euskaltel r

<img border="0" align="right" src=http://images.velonews.com/images/int/9824.14591.t.jpg> Liberty Seguros for the Giro: (left to right) Dariusz Baranowski, Koen De Kort, Javier R. Abeja, Dani Navarro, Michele Scarponi, Marcos Serrano, Gianpaolo Caruso, Sergey Yakovlev and Unai Osa

Liberty Seguros isn't among the favored teams for the upcoming Giro d'Italia, but that suits the Spanish outfit just fine.

With the likes of Alexandre Vinokourov focusing on the Tour de France, Liberty is bringing a mix of young and experienced riders with eyes of surprising the Giro heavyweights.

"The team has a little of everything, riders that are young and riders with experience," said sport director Marino Lejarreta in a team release. "We don't have a clear leader to challenge for victory, but instead we have several riders with possibilities. For Scarponi, Unai Osa and Caruso, it's a goal to challenge for the podium. It will be complicated, but they are going with a lot of motivation."

... click here and go to VeloNews for the rest

Published: May 04, 2006 - 07:47 AM

National News: Zach Bell wins Stage 7 of the Tour of Shenadoah

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Zach Bell, in the sprint leader's jersey, holds off a challenge from Brent Bookwalter (right) in the green race leader's jersey as they drive for the line

... to read more please click here and go to the Canadian Cyclist website and a report by the Organizer

Published: May 02, 2006 - 09:31 AM